The Ukraine-Russia-USA Conflict, Part 9: Zelensky, the “Servant” of Ukrainian Far Right Nationalists and US Interests
After presenting a lot of strong evidence for the conclusion that Ukraine does have a massive neonazi problem (part 3) and after refuting the “But Zelensky is Jewish” excuse for the supposed non-existence of that problem in several ways (part 4), I will now proceed to go through the evidence for how and why the Ukrainian President Zelensky — touted as the “Servant of the People” — actually serves as a fig leaf and puppet for Ukrainian far right nationalists or neonazis as well as US interests. [see part 1 for sections 1 & 2; part 2 for sections 3 & 4; part 3 for section 5; part 4 for section 6; part 5 for section 7; part 6 for section 8; part 7 for section 9; part 8 for section 10]
11.1 Zelensky Becomes Subservient to Ukrainian Neonazis
Ukrainian far right nationalists and neonazis were part of Ukraine’s political scene even before the current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky(y)/ij was born and will most likely still be there after Zelensky is gone (unless a nuclear World War 3, which is currently still in the cards, makes all of that and many other things such as human civilization quite irrelevant).
The question consequently is not how Ukrainian neonazis are supposed to fit into the Jewish and primarily Russophone president Zelensky picture. The question instead is how the Jewish and primarily Russophone president Zelensky fits into the more fundamental Ukrainian neonazi picture. Why, for instance, did Zelensky bring an Azov fighter in front of the Greek parliament and against the protests of parliamentarians there?
“The speech of members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in the Greek Parliament is a provocation. The absolute responsibility lies with the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He talked about a historic day, but it is a historic shame. The solidarity with the Ukrainian people is a given. But the Nazis cannot have a say in Parliament,” Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras posted on Facebook.
Similarly, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said allowing this video to be broadcast in the Greek House was a “big mistake”.
“The Greek government irresponsibly undermined the struggle of the Ukrainian people, by giving the floor to a Nazi. The responsibilities are heavy. The government should publish a detailed report of preparation and contacts for the event,” commented former foreign affairs minister Nikos Kotzias.
The socialists issued a statement asking why Greek lawmakers had not been informed about the video intervention of an Azov Battalion member and called on the president of the Greek Parliament to bear responsibility.
The following article answers that question of Zelensky’s subservience to Ukrainian neonazis rather satisfactorily:
To quote from the beginning of the article:
Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of extreme right paramilitary units keeping up the fight against separatists just a few miles away.
Elected on a platform of de-escalation of hostilities with Russia, Zelensky was determined to enforce the so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by then-German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier which called for elections in the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
In a face-to-face confrontation with militants from the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who had launched a campaign to sabotage the peace initiative called “No to Capitulation,” Zelensky encountered a wall of obstinacy.
With appeals for disengagement from the frontlines firmly rejected, Zelensky melted down on camera. “I’m the president of this country. I’m 41 years old. I’m not a loser. I came to you and told you: remove the weapons,” Zelensky implored the fighters.
Here is the footage of that October 2019 Zolote incident:
The conversation which took an unexpected turn was also filmed by the Zelensky team, as shown by Jake Morphonios in his likewise very enlightening thread on how an initially peace-aspiring Zelensky quickly became subservient to violent Ukrainian far right and neonazi militias:
The body language says: ‘Who the fuck does this Zelensky guy think he is?’
Oleksiy Arestovych, the Zelenskiy advisor/handler who I already reported on in the previous part 8, apparently also enjoys friendly relationships with Ukrainian Nazis or Banderites:
It is worth noting that Arestovych also belongs to the circle of those who understood that closeness to NATO would likely cause Russia to take military countermeasures. But NatSec goons like himself went ahead with that anyway in total indifference to the suffering that this would bring to ordinary Ukrainians:
Arestovych: “With a probability of 99.9%, our price for joining NATO is a big war with Russia. And if we do not join NATO, it’s absorption by Russia within 10 to 12 years. Here’s the fork we’re facing now.”
Interviewer: “But… wait… if we put it on the scales, what’s better in this case!?
Arestovych: “Of course large-scale war with Russia and joining NATO as a result of defeat of Russia. The coolest thing.
[…] full-scale war. And it’s probability is 99%.”
Interviewer: “When?”
Arestovych: “[…] 2020–22 are the most critical.”
Hence the collision course with Russia, hence the threats by nationalists, including to Zelensky who consequently went against the wishes of the majority of Ukrainians and against his election promises:
To quote from this article:
Biletsky responded by publicly threatening Zelenskyy. His armed grouping would not stand down. If Zelenskyy tried to remove them, Zolote would see armed irregulars by the “thousands there instead of several dozen.” The Kyiv Post coverage includes the video of the confrontation between Zelenskyy and Yantar. Of course, the Kyiv Post refers to the armed irregulars simply as Army veterans, to whom Zelenskyy spoke without proper respect.
The education of Zelenskyy, as to who ran things in Ukraine, did not stop there. The farthest that he would ever get toward fulfilling his election mandate was a couple of months later, when he attempted to put forward his first piece of legislation related to the Minsk Agreements on the Donbas. Even though it watered down the Agreement’s mandatory provision for full amnesty, it still allowed one element, whereby Donetsk and Luhansk could vote as to whether they should keep the Russian language. (Over half of Ukraine’s population speak Russian, and both languages had been used in schools and government until the 2014 coup.) Yet, this proved too much.
Sergey Sivokho, an adviser to the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, whom Zelenskyy had assigned to create a National Platform for Reconciliation and Unity, was physically assaulted at the initial public conference, March 12, 2020, on the reintegration of Donetsk and Luhansk. Sivokho, an older man with white hair, was cursed, surrounded, pressed against a wall, and finally shoved to the ground by Azov Battalion members. A short video shows the last few seconds of the assault. Apparently, that was the first and last time that even a hint of the Minsk Accords was promoted by the Kiev government.
Note that the Banderites had already undermined peace negotiations under the Poroshenko government. From Aaron Maté’s article:
The fascists have blocked peace in the Donbas at every turn. When the Ukrainian government voted on a “special law” advancing the Minsk accords in August 2015, the Svoboda party and other far-right groups led violent clashes that killed three Ukrainian soldiers and left dozens wounded. Then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who had signed Minsk at a time when President Obama was resisting heavy bipartisan pressure to arm Ukraine, got the message and refused to uphold Ukraine’s end of the bargain.
And the rabid Banderites did the same thing with Zelenskiy in 2019:
In April 2019, Zelensky was elected with an overwhelming 73% of the vote on a promise to turn the tide. In his inaugural address the next month, Zelensky declared that he was “not afraid to lose my own popularity, my ratings,” and was “prepared to give up my own position — as long as peace arrives.”
But Ukraine’s powerful far-right and neo-Nazi militias made clear to Zelensky that reaching peace in the Donbas would have a much higher cost.
“No, he would lose his life,” Right Sector co-founder Dmytro Anatoliyovych Yarosh, then the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, responded one week after Zelensky’s inaugural speech. “He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk — if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War.”
When Zelensky’s press secretary, Iuliia Mendel, “drew attention to the prevalence of civilian casualties” in the Donbas, “which she blamed on government forces’ injudicious use of return fire,” she was greeted instead with “a prosecutorial summons,” Katharine Quinn-Judge of the International Crisis Group reported in April 2020, one year after Zelensky’s election. Mendel’s recognition of the suffering in the Donbas, Quinn-Judge observed, resulted from “Zelensky’s campaign pledge to treat residents of Russia-backed enclaves more like full-fledged Ukrainians,” — a non-starter for the US-favored far-right nationalists, who harbored no such interest in Ukrainians’ equality.
Although Zelensky dithered on Minsk, he nonetheless continued talks on its implementation. The far-right continued to express its violent opposition at every turn, such as in August 2021, when at least eight police officers were wounded in armed protests outside the presidential offices.
The far-right threats to Zelensky undoubtedly thwarted a peace agreement that could have prevented the Russian invasion. Just two weeks before Russia troops entered Ukraine, the New York Times noted that Zelensky “would be taking extreme political risks even to entertain a peace deal” with Russia, as his government “could be rocked and possibly overthrown” by far-right groups if he “agrees to a peace deal that in their minds gives too much to Moscow.”
Yuri Hudymenko, leader of the far-right Democratic Ax, even threatened Zelensky with an outright coup: “If anybody from the Ukrainian government tries to sign such a document, a million people will take to the streets and that government will cease being the government.”
Zelensky has clearly gotten the message. Instead of pursuing the peace platform that he was elected on, the Ukrainian President has instead made alliances with the Ukrainian far-right that violently opposed it. As recently as late January, amid last-chance talks to salvage the Minsk accords, Zelensky-appointed Ukrainian security chief Oleksiy Danilov instead pronounced that “the fulfillment of the Minsk agreement means the country’s destruction.” At the final round of Minsk talks in February, just two weeks before Russia’s invasion, a “key obstacle,” the Washington Post reported, “was Kyiv’s opposition to negotiating with the pro-Russian separatists.”
This assessment is also shared by the US experts Stephen Cohen and John Mearsheimer whose analyses on the dangers of NATO expansion I already outlined in part 1, section 2:
“Zelensky ran as a peace candidate,” Cohen explained. “He won an enormous mandate to make peace. So, that means he has to negotiate with Vladimir Putin.” But there was a major obstacle. Ukrainian fascists “have said that they will remove and kill Zelensky if he continues along this line of negotiating with Putin… His life is being threatened literally by a quasi-fascist movement in Ukraine.”
Peace could only come, Cohen stressed, on one condition. “[Zelensky] can’t go forward with full peace negotiations with Russia, with Putin, unless America has his back,” he said. “Maybe that won’t be enough, but unless the White House encourages this diplomacy, Zelensky has no chance of negotiating an end to the war. So the stakes are enormously high.”
From Mearsheimer:
“I think Zelensky found out very quickly that because of the Ukrainian right, it was impossible to implement Minsk II,” John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago professor who has warned for years that US policies were pushing Ukraine into a conflict with Russia, said in a public event the same day. “…Zelensky understands that he cannot take the Ukrainian right on by himself. So basically we have a situation where Zelensky is stymied.”
Echoing his late friend and colleague Stephen F. Cohen, Mearsheimer stressed the centrality of the US role.
“The Americans will side with the Ukrainian right,” Mearsheimer said. “Because the Americans, and the Ukrainian right, both do not want Zelensky cutting a deal with the Russians that makes it look like the Russians won. So this is the principal reason I’m very pessimistic about Ukraine’s ability to help shut this one down.”
Like others, I consequently have to arrive at the conclusion that Zelensky is essentially controlled by Ukrainian neonazis and that Russia and Putin are fundamentally correct when they say that Ukraine needs to be de-nazified:
Note that Zelensky is Russian/primarily Russophone and Jewish, so not/never properly Ukrainian in the eyes of Ukrainian ultranationalists and hence only tolerated for as long as he is a useful puppet for them and their agenda. If he is no longer useful, there is a good chance that he will get killed and turned into a ‘hero of Ukraine.’ Zelensky is most likely aware of this threat to his life — the Banderites after all already murdered negotiators and politicians such as Denis Kireev and Volodymyr Struk — and consequently playing along like a good boy.
11.2 Zelensky Is Implementing the Ukrainian Neonazi’s and the USA’s Pro-War Agenda
The presidential puppet Zelensky has been implementing the Ukrainian neonazis’ but also the USA’s pro-conflict and pro-war agenda ever since. For the USA, that is a given in any situation since their parasitic elites and the system that they set up thrives on conflict and war:
The Biden administration has never shown much interest in negotiations, insisting from the beginning of the war that Russia be punished, then that war crimes charges be pursued and even suggesting regime change, a Joe Biden ad-lib this week that the White House (and NATO allies) quickly walked back. Experts say that though Washington is no longer in a position to broker negotiations, it could speak to Russia via a backchannel and it could use the intelligence it possesses, beyond tactical information, to arm Ukraine with assessments of Putin’s mindset. It is doing neither of those things.
The combatants are moving forward without U.S. help. Russia and Ukraine held more than three hours of talks at the Turkish presidential offices in Istanbul Tuesday, both sides describing a potential path towards ending the war. Ukraine abandoned membership in NATO and offered a security guarantee for Russia.
So it is not just the Ukrainian ultranationalists but also the USA who are pushing Zelensky and Ukraine into conflict and war and away from a peaceful solution.
Zelensky is clearly not doing what he would need to do if he actually did want peace, which is to make Ukraine neutral and to offer respective guarantees (see part 1, section 2.5, for an identical take by John Mearsheimer):
Also remember that part about a World War III sparking no fly zone, as discussed in part 1, section 2.7b? The ‘peace dove’ Zelensky, that would give Ukrainian neonazis their total war, repeatedly called for such a likely to be catastrophic measure:
A translation from Zelenskyian propaganda-speak into English:
The reactions of the of the Western establishment are even more insane: For effectively proposing World War 3, Zelensky received standing ovations in the US Congress with a few notable exceptions:
Like other war happy ignobles such as Kissinger or Obama who actually got it, Zelensky was even suggested for the Nobel Peace Prize in March — and never mind that the nominations officially ended on January 31:
Such is the amazingness of our Western and Orwellian “rules-based (dis)order”:
Other totally idiotic and undeserved hero warship of Zelensky also ensued:
A much more fitting picture, however, is the following:
How Zelensky tries to get us there is, for instance, absurd fearmongering that the Ukraine-Russia-USA conflict and US-Russian proxy war in Ukraine could easily spill over into — yes, you probably might have guessed it — Australia(!!!):
“Whatever is happening in our region because of the Russian aggression, what is destroying the lives of people, has become a real threat to your country and to your people as well,[!] because this is the nature of the evil, it can instantly cross any distance.” [!!]
I wonder if we have have heard similar (but not quite as outrageously stupid and metaphysically impossible) fearmongering Western war propaganda before and how that turned out:
Also note that Zelensky has totally unrealistic and hence war-continuing negotiation views which just happen to be in line with those of Ukrainian ultranationalists:
11.3 Parallels to the Rise of Nazis in Germany
In his earlier mentioned article, Morphonius draws an apt comparison between the rise of German Nazis and the rise of an equally “despised minority” of Ukrainian ultranationalists and fascists who likewise “use violence to impose their will on the majority” (also see Erica Chenoweth’s “3.5% rule” about how “a small minority can change the world” that I already discussed in part 4, section 6.2.5):
11.3.1 Political Undesirables Get Killed, Imprisoned, Tortured
And the parallels are indeed noticeable, for instance in regard to the elimination of political opponents on, especially, the left:
Gonzalo Lira dropped a few names, and research into those people indeed turned out to be fruitful:
From the wikipedia page of Volodymyr Struk:
Career
He graduated from Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs.
A member of the Party of Regions and later the Opposition Platform — For Life, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014.[2]
From this Grayzone article on the murder of Strok by Ukrainian neonazis:
Kiev officially endorses assassinating Ukrainian mayors for negotiating with Russia
Since Russia launched its military operation inside Ukraine, the SBU has hunted down local officials that decided to accept humanitarian supplies from Russia or negotiated with Russian forces to arrange corridors for civilian evacuations.
On March 1, for example, Volodymyr Strok, the mayor of the eastern city of Kreminna in the Ukrainian-controlled side of Lugansk, was kidnapped by men in military uniform, according to his wife, and shot in the heart.
On March 3, pictures of Strok’s visibly tortured body appeared. A day before his murder, Struk had reportedly urged his Ukrainian colleagues to negotiate with pro-Russian officials.
Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, celebrated the mayor’s murder, declaring on his Telegram page (see below): “There is one less traitor in Ukraine. The mayor of Kreminna in Luhansk region, former deputy of Luhansk parliament was found killed.”
According to Geraschenko, Strok had been judged by the “court of the people’s tribunal.”
The Ukrainian official therefore delivered a chilling message to anyone choosing to seek cooperation with Russia: do so and lose your life.
On March 7, the mayor of Gostomel, Yuri Prylipko, was found murdered. Prylipko had reportedly entered into negotiations with the Russian military to organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of his city’s residents — a red line for Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who had long been in conflict with the mayor’s office.
Next, on March 24, Gennady Matsegora, the mayor of Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine, released a video (below) appealing to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration for the release of his daughter, who had been held hostage by agents of the Ukrainian SBU intelligence agency.
As of today, eleven mayors from various towns in Ukraine are missing. Western media outlets have been following the Kiev line without exception, claiming that all mayors been arrested by the Russian military. The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied the charge, however, and little evidence exists to corroborate Kiev’s line about the missing mayors.
The aforementioned Anton Gerashchenko operates a quasi death list:
For his part, Shariy has been placed on the notorious Myrotvorets public blacklist of “enemies of the state” founded by Anton Gerashchenko — the Ministry of Internal Affairs advisor who endorsed the assassination of Ukrainian lawmakers accused of Russian sympathies. Several journalists and Ukrainian dissidents, including the prominent columnist Oles Buzina, were murdered by state-backed death squads after their names appeared on the list.
Denis Kireev in turn was part of the Ukrainian negotation team and murdered by the Ukrainian state on March 5 (see part 3, section 5.5), most likely for similar reasons such as being opposed to a Ukrainian total war. I will once again bring the blurred foto:
About the Kononovich brothers:
From this March 7, 2022, article:
The Kononovich brothers were most recently known to have participated in a demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kiev demanding that the U.S. stop its military expansionism in Europe via NATO.
The government that took power in Ukraine in the wake of the U.S.-backed “Euro-Maidan” coup of 2014 outlawed the Communist Party and banned it from running candidates in elections. The party’s youth group was also made illegal and its members subjected to political persecution by the police and in the courts.
Across the country, the government enforced a so-called “de-communization” law that not only outlawed the CPU, but also forbid the use of any Communist names or symbols in public, mandated the destruction of Soviet war memorials, and prevented any teaching about the positive aspects of Soviet history in schools.
The Ukrainian government stepped up its persecution of the Communists even further following the outbreak of civil war in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in 2014–15. The party had been warning that the state’s nationalistic policies would lead to conflict in the east and said it feared the establishment of a fascist dictatorship — given the growing power of armed neo-Nazi elements.
Instead of listening to the CPU’s pleas for negotiation, the government executed a war in the east that took an estimated 15,000 lives from 2014 to 2022. CPU leader Petro Symonenko was branded a traitor by the Ukrainian government for repeatedly urging ceasefires and direct negotiations to stop the fighting.
Nestor Shufrych is another Ukrainian politician, parliamentarian and member of the Opposition Platform — For Life who was violently attacked on Ukrainian live television by a journalist in February 2022:
Shufrych was then arrested on March 4, 2022, and can here be seen being intimidated by some Ukrainian military or security personell:
Yan Taksyur is a religious Ukrainian journalist and publisher — the host of the “First Kossak” channel — who is not fond of Ukrainian Banderite neonazis and fascists:
He is apparently also suffering from cancer, was arrested by Ukrainian authorities on March 10 and is held in conditions where he does not receive the medical treatment that he needs or access to a lawyer:
Benjamin Norton names more such names at the end of his article:
And speaking of the SBU: How very strange that their intelligence officers are openly wearing Nazi insignia. But yeah, I am sure that this also means something else entirely, it is probably just a pro-democracy sign or something.
The journalist Gonzalo Lira who helped raise awareness to these crimes of Ukrainian neonazis and who already considered out loud that he might be next at some point went missing too on April 15 in the Northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Ironically, this happened just after raising awareness about more likely Ukrainian war crimes by sharing the work of Patrick Lancaster on his Telegram channel with 83.1k followers which has been totally and suspiciously inactive since then:
Update: Gonzalo Lira is back and reported that he was arrested by the SBU:
More recently, it was not just politicians but even civilians who were not doing enough ‘Slava Ukrainiis’ and Ukrainian flag-shagging on social media who the SBU would collect, likely torture and potentially disappear:
Nearly 400 people have been arrested under a recently enacted law in Kharkiv alone.
“You are not speaking very nicely about the Ukrainian flag, are you?”(!)
[…]
“Get your things and get dressed.”
Coincidentally, the head of the pro-nazi leaning SBU is one Ivan Hennadiyovych Bakanov (2019-) who
was born in Kryvyi Rih [and who] is a childhood friend of Volodymyr Zelensky.[7][8] They studied together and later worked over different projects, in particular, LLC Kvartal 95 Studio.[7]
[…]
He was the Head of LLC Kvartal 95 from January 2013 and LLC Kvartal 95 Studio since December 2013.[9]
Ivan Bakanov was part of Volodymyr Zelensky’s team during 2019 presidential campaign.[10] He was the leader of the Servant of the People party from 2017 to 2019.[6]
Coincidentally, Bakanov also comes from the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast just like the oligarch and Zelenskiy producer and backer Ihor Kolomoiskiy and has “Zelenskiy handler” written over him just like the already mentioned Oleksiy Arestovych (see parts 8 and 12 for more on Arestovych).
11.3.2 Opposition Parties Get Banned
The persecution and elimination of political opponents goes hand in hand with the elimination of especially left opposition parties by the liberal hero and puppet president Zelensky — actions that once again just so happen to benefit Ukraine’s far right:
From the March 21, 2022, Benjamin Norton article in Multipolarista:
These measures go all the way back to the 2014 Maidan coup which already set the stage for a military conflict with Russia:
After the US-backed “Maidan” coup in 2014, the Ukrainian regime effectively declared war on the left. Kiev banned all communist parties and launched a far-right “decommunization” campaign that made it illegal to be a communist.
Simultaneously, the Western-backed Ukrainian government gave state honors to Ukrainian fascists who had collaborated with Nazi Germany in the Holocaust.
Britain’s establishment newspaper The Guardian admitted this in a 2015 article titled “Ukraine bans Soviet symbols and criminalises sympathy for communism.”
[…]
The use of all Marxist symbols is illegal in Ukraine, including the hammer and sickle or even Soviet-era souvenirs and memorabilia.
After the Western-backed 2014 coup, it was made illegal in Ukraine to sing The Internationale, the anthem of the global socialist movement.
Any individual caught violating Ukraine’s far-right “decommunization” laws faces up to five years in prison, and members of left-wing organizations face up to 10 years behind bars.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s post-Maidan coup regime made it a crime to criticize ultra-nationalist Nazi collaborators, including the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Leaders of these far-right Ukrainian death squads, including Hitler collaborator Stepan Bandera, have become state heroes.
In June, a Ukrainian court upheld the ban on one party:
11.3.3 Ukrainian Media Consolidation and Censorship
In a move that former Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels would have approved and that will once again benefit the far right, Zelensky also unified television ‘information’ — i.e. war propaganda:
Most disconcertingly, it very much looks like the torture-happy SBU in the Zelenskiy regime took steps to assassinate the prominent youtuber (close to 3 million subscribers in a Ukrainian channel!), journalist, politician and former Zelenskiy ally-turned-opponent Anatoliy Shariy whose Party of Shariy was also conveniently prohibited by the Zelenskiy regime:
I would strongly suggest everyone to read this article in full. Here are some key passages:
Shariy has lived in exile since 2012, having fled during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych and received political asylum in the EU. His opposition to the 2014 Maidan coup d’etat grew his profile and made him a target of Petro Poroshenko, who came to power in its wake. The neo-Nazi movements he had exposed in prior years had gained serious political power and intensified their aggression against him. In 2015, Lithuanian media branded Shariy as a “favorite friend of Putin,” and the Lithuanian government soon revoked his asylum. Shariy, meanwhile, had sought protection elsewhere and relocated to Spain, where he has continued to grow into one of the most popular critics of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
However, his predicament has hardly improved. In 2019, Alexander Zoloytkhin, a former soldier of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, published the address and photos of the house where Shariy, his wife Olga Shariy and young child live, as well as photos of Olga’s car. Ukrainian neo-Nazis demonstrated outside his house and he received numerous death threats.
Today, he is a top target of the Kiev government, neo-Nazi paramilitaries, and the SBU.
About his former support of Zelenskiy and becoming opponents after Zelenskiy’s broken campaign promises:
Shariy actively supported Zelensky during the campaign, attacking the incumbent Poroshenko. “I thought he [Zelensky] was determined to follow up on his election promises. I helped him to become the president. It’s true me and my team did anything for him to get the post,” Shariy told m
Shariy’s activists were effective in disrupting Poroshenko’s campaign events.
“We were following Poroshenko everywhere we went with his pre-election tour. There were so many people in each city and town organizing themselves in groups and asking Poroshenko hard questions,” Shariy recalled.
[…]
“When I realized he was not intending to change anything, the corruption was the same or even worse, we changed our mind,” Shariy said.
Following Zelensky’s victory, he proceeded to eliminate state funding for parties that received under 5% of the vote in the elections. Shariy’s party, having received only 2.23%, was among those that were cut off.
Spurned by the new president who he helped get elected, Shariy publicly denounced Zelensky, remarking that he should “curtail their state funding and shove it up their ass.”
Zelensky betrayed his campaign promises of reform and meaningful progress in the Donbass stalemate, leading to a rapid decline in popular support. This left a niche open which was quickly filled by the Party of Shariy. While older voters traditionally supported Viktor Medvedchuk’s “Opposition Platform — For Life”, Shariy’s online presence and style appealed to younger generations.
On the ground, Party of Shariy activists began to protest Zelensky with the same tactics they had wielded in his favor against Poroshenko, appearing at his events and demanding his resignation.
Neonazi attacks began to intensify then:
At a June 2020 demonstration in which Party of Shariy members demanded an investigation into the politically motivated attacks on their members, neo-Nazi groups attacked using smoke bombs and tear gas, followed by brawls inside the subway. Afterward, these groups announced a political “safari,” offering rewards for attacks on Party of Shariy members. This marked the escalation of violence meted out against the political opposition, especially targeting the Party of Shariy and its supporters.
In one incident, masked men beat a young man in Kharkiv, leaving him severely injured and hospitalized. In Vinnytsia, men from the neo-fascist group Edelweiss beat a party member in broad daylight, breaking his ribs and puncturing a lung. In another incident, a member of the U.S.-trained neo-Nazi Azov Battalion attacked a member inside their party office.
While members of his party were beaten in the streets and inside their offices, Shariy was under threat. On July 8, 2020, he accused Zelensky of ordering his assassination, publishing a confession given to Catalan Police by Zoloytkhin, the man who had published his address the year before. Zoloytkhin was wanted in Ukraine for numerous serious crimes, including participation in the 2016 kidnapping and beating of journalist Vladislav Bovtruk. Zoloytkhin confessed to police that top figures in the Zelensky government had instructed him to murder Shariy, and Shariy published a video confession from Zoloytkhin.
About the SBU’s CIA connections and use of torture:
In fact, the SBU is a project of the CIA. Following the 2014 coup, the security service was headed by Valentin Nalyvaichenko, who was recruited by the CIA when he was the Consul General of Ukraine in the United States. The CIA reportedly has an entire floor in the SBU headquarters.
In November 2021, Zelensky appointed Oleksandr Poklad to head the SBU’s counterintelligence. A former lawyer and cop with ties to organized crime, Poklad is nicknamed “The Strangler” — a reference to his favorite method of obtaining testimony from his victims. One article describes another torture method known as ‘The Elephant:’
“A gas mask is put on the victim of torture, and pepper tear gas from a spray can or a poisonous aerosol such as dichlorvos is launched into the gas mask hose. After such torture, an ordinary person confesses at least to the murder of John F. Kennedy.”
About ‘Igor,’ a contact of Shariy who was forced by the SBU to cough up information about and elicit information from Shariy:
After another interrogation, they instructed him to travel to Spain, where Shariy is taking refuge. “Their main intention was that I would stay at Shariy’s side, assist him in preparing materials, and report to the officers what he is working on, what his status is, what his family is doing, what foods he eats, and where he shops. They were very interested in his daily routine, his movements, and people close to him. They wanted me to be as close as possible to him and at his side as often as possible.”
It was then that Igor realized Shariy’s life was in danger.
“As far as I understood, based on the information that I had to convey, the liquidation of Anatoly Shariy was being prepared, since he poses a danger to the government of Ukraine and criticizes the actions of the SBU, the government, and President Zelensky,” he told me.
11.3.4 “De-Russification”: A War Against Russian Language and Culture
This is being done on top of an already existing culture war against the Russian language which is totally non-reminiscent of the Nazi’s culture war against everything Jewish. Some respective basics from a 2019 Guardian article:
In March [2019], the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology published findings that 28.1% of Ukrainians spoke mostly or only Russian with their families, including 15.8% who exclusively spoke Russian. That compared with 46% who spoke mostly or only Ukrainian with their families, and 24.9% who spoke the two languages in equal proportion.
So in all of Ukraine, more than half the population speaks at least as much Russian as Ukrainian with their families if not more.
Moreso and to quote from this Wikipedia entry:
Russian is the most common first language in the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine and the city of Kharkiv, and the predominant language in large cities in the eastern and southern portions of the country. […] Russian is a widely used language in Ukraine in pop culture and in informal and business communication.
Russian is by far the preferred language on websites in Ukraine (80.1%), followed by English (10.1%), then Ukrainian (9.5%). The Russian language version of Wikipedia is five times more popular within Ukraine than the Ukrainian one, with these numbers matching those for the 2008 Gallup poll cited above (in which 83% of Ukrainians preferred to take the survey in Russian and 17% in Ukrainian.)[80]
So the use of Russian in Ukraine is even more prevalent than one would have thought as an outsider. It consequently made sense that Russian was at least officially recognized as a regional language (the other option would have been a second official state language):
In 2006, the Kharkiv City Rada was the first to declare Russian to be a regional language.[45] Following that, almost all southern and eastern oblasts (Luhansk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts), and many major southern and eastern cities (Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Yalta, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih, Odessa) followed suit.
But since the 2014 Maidan coup that was largely facilitated by right-wing Ukrainian extremists, that fairly sensible arrangement began to change:
The 2017 law on education provides that Ukrainian language is the language of education at all levels except for one or more subjects that are allowed to be taught in two or more languages, namely English or one of the other official languages of the European Union (i.e. excluding Russian).[19] […]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed concern with this measure and with the lack of “real consultation” with the representatives of national minorities.[20] In July 2018, The Mykolaiv Okrug Administrative Court liquidated the status of Russian as a regional language, on the suit (bringing to the norms of the national legislation due to the recognition of the law “On the principles of the state language policy” by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine as unconstitutional) of the First Deputy Prosecutor of the Mykolaiv Oblast.[21] In October and December 2018, parliaments of the city of Kherson and of Kharkiv Oblast also abolished the status of the Russian language as a regional one.[22]
This happened against the background of “the most common first language” “in the city of Kharkiv” being Russian. And it just gets worse and worse — as in less inclusive and more discriminatory — from there and under the Zelensky puppet presidency:
In January 2022, a law requiring all print media to be published in Ukrainian came into force. It did not ban publication in Russian, however it stipulated that a Ukrainian version of equivalent circulation and scope must be published — which is not a profitable option for publishers. Critics argue that the law could disenfranchise the country’s Russian-speakers.
And it’s funny how the puppet president Zelenskiy did a complete 180° turn on this compared to his earlier views about Russians and the Russian language, almost as if a) someone was pointing a gun to his or his family’s heads, as if b) he was lying from the get go or as if c) he was bribed really well:
“In the East and in Crimea, people just want to speak Russian. Leave them alone… just leave them alone. Legally, provide them with the right to speak Russian. Language should never divide our country. I’m of Jewish heritage, I speak Russian, and I am a citizen of Ukraine. […] Russia and Ukraine are brotherly people. […] We are one color, one blood, we understand each other, irrespective of language”
After his 180° turn though, it’s all of a sudden de-russification time which is reminiscent of the German Nazis’ “aryanisation” or ‘de-jewification’:
Aryanization (German: Arisierung) was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into “Aryan” or non-Jewish, hands.
One law will forbid the printing of books by Russian citizens, unless they renounce their Russian passport and take Ukrainian citizenship.
A thread on the enforcement of those laws and concerns raised by human rights NGOs from 2019 to 2022:
Conclusions
Ever since the beginning of his presidency, there was increasingly more obvious evidence that a) it is not Zelensky but rather the Ukrainian far right that is in control and that b) a likely threatened Jewish and primarily Russophone Zelensky just serves as a fig leaf and puppet for them — as well as US interests — and for as long as he is useful to them (otherwise ‘Ukrainian heroicism’ beckons).
Due to his war-perpetuating activities, Zelensky is consequently less than popular among the many Ukrainians whose hopes for peace he severely disappointed, such as this man in destroyed Mariupol: “Zelensky? I would strangle him, honestly.”
And there are essentially no signs that Zelensky is capable of any pushback against the Ukrainian neonazi hordes and NatSec psychos from Ukraine and the USA. There was a very brief glimmer of hope when Zelensky fired two generals:
But there is nothing to suggest that he fired the evildoers among his ranks. Quite on the contrary: The content of his speech and the power dynamics outlined earlier rather suggest that Zelensky was made to fire two Ukrainians with a conscience who, for instance, were not ok with the torture of prisoners or war (see part 5) or with the likely Ukrainian false flag attack in Bucha (see part 8, section 10.3.3).
This also explains why Zelensky “did not go into further detail on why the generals had been fired” — because it is most likely just more nazi-propagandistic nonsense about ‘traitors exposing the country to danger,’ a strategy already outlined by Hermann Goering in the 1940s:
“Now, I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished,” Zelensky said in his address.
“That is why the ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine, Naumov Andriy Olehovych, and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region, Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych are no longer generals.”
“Those servicemen among senior officers who have not decided where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people in regards to the protection of our state, to its freedom and independence, will inevitably be deprived of senior military ranks.
“Random generals don’t belong here.”
Zelensky, who more generally communicates to praise his forces, did not go into further detail on why the two generals had been fired.
More high-ranking ‘treasonous traitors’ were fired by Zelensky in July:
A realistic and sarcastic explanation:
An explanation from a US-Ukrainian propagandist and court stenographer:
Another person who would be considered a traitor by January 2023 is the now former Zelenskiy advisor Arestovych:
And what else does Zelensky do/allow being done aside from imprisoning and eliminating ‘traitors’? Getting (right-wing) criminals out of prison, for instance:
That is your great ‘democratic leader’ and your great Ukrainian ‘democracy’ — both fig leafs for the ascendence of Ukrainian neonazis and an increasingly fascist Ukrainian state.
That this is the case can also easily be inferred from the symbols that Zelenskiy and official Ukraine is using. Many of you will have noticed the trident symbol that Zelenskiy is wearing on his t-shirts, that can be found in the background picture of his Twitter account
as well as in the center of the somewhat Nazi-reminiscent and Iron Cross-resembling official symbol of Ukraine’s Armed Forces which Zelenskiy is also wearing:
Well, it turns out that the form of that trident symbol just so happens to be identical with that of Banderite Tryzub (“trident”) organization (1993-) that has been headed by the far-right Banderite Dmytro Yarosh since 2005, a person who has apparently been appointed as advisor to the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2021:
But yeah, I am sure that these are all just very strange coincidences and that Ukraine is a perfectly fine and fascist-free democracy despite all the out in the open evidence to the contrary.
