Posted on 04/24/2014 8:30:18 AM PDT by wetphoenix
As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded over the past few weeks, it’s hard for Americans not to see Vladimir Putin as the big villain. But the history of the region is a history of competing villains vying against one another; and one school of villains—the Nazis—have a long history of engagement with the United States, mostly below the radar, but occasionally exposed, as they were by Russ Bellant in his book Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party (South End Press, 1991). Bellant's exposure of émigré Nazi leaders from Germany's World War II allies in the 1988 Bush presidential campaign was the driving force in the announced resignation of nine individuals, two of them from Ukraine, which is why he was the logical choice to illuminate the scattered mentions of Nazi and fascist elements among the Ukrainian nationalists, which somehow never seems to warrant further comment or explanation. Of course most Ukrainians aren’t Nazis or fascists—all the more reason to illuminate those who would hide their true natures in the shadows…or even behind the momentary glare of the spotlight.
Your book, Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, exposed the deep involvement in the Republican Party of Nazi elements from Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukrainians, dating back to World War II and even before. As the Ukrainian crisis unfolded in the last few weeks, there have been scattered mentions of a fascist or neo-fascist element, but somehow that never seems to warrant further comment or explanation. I can’t think of anyone better to shed light on what’s not being said about that element. The danger of Russian belligerence is increasingly obvious, but this unexamined fascist element poses dangers of its own. What can you tell us about this element and those dangers?
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
A Nation article, material for the circular file.
Huh? I thought it was the Obama admin, Nuland et al who supported the Nazi-like separatist protestors?
Now this is all Bush I’s fault?
Seriously, everyone knows Joe Kennedy was an anti-Semite, I’m sure connections can be shown with the Democrat party if need be to investigate.
Big deal.
If my rulers had been Lenin and Stalin, I might have collaborated with the Nazis, too.
nUTZ, next book, “How Republicans are aliens from Venus”
I see, proudly waving the Russian flag on your profile page, eh?
This article posting appears to be one of Putin’s KGB (or FSB) if you prefer, psy-ops.
Svoboda (compromising 1/4 of the Ukraine interim gov’t), Pravy Sektor and others in Ukraine who helped in the EuroMaidan movement are anti-Fascist?
Huh?
The American Spectator magazine (that dirty, leftist rag - sarc) has an article about Svoboda that you might want to read.
One thing Gorbechev deserves credit for...when the excrement starting hitting the fan in the USSR he didn't fire on his own people.IIRC some of the generals wanted him to but there was no Tienanmen Square repeat in Moscow...or elsewhere.Vlad Putin,OTOH,dreams of having the same "courage" as did the Butchers of Beijing...and this is his big chance.
Oh, Really?
I actually checked because I thought you were joking. He really has the Russian flag waving on his profile page. WTF?
Sniff...
Precisely. The USA made a hero out of a Nazi - Von Brown. If we want to point fingers.....
Yeah, I trust The Nation on this.
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I guess that the Nazi collaborator George Soros’s involvement in the Democratic Party is not worth mentioning.
People forget that Ukraine and Russia/USSR had history before Hitler came on the scene.
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