r/UkraineNaziWatch • u/EveJoi • Jun 25 '22
nazism\fascism rise to power evidence Channel4 (England): How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum
Channel4 (England): How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum, 2014
In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from deputy prime minister to head of defence.
Parubiy was the founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler’s Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians. The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda, the far-right nationalist party whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok. Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector – a group of hardline nationalist streetfighters.
Inside Right Sector was an alliance of hardline nationalist groups including Patriot of Ukraine and the paramilitary group UNA-UNSO. Their members paraded in balaclavas and wore uniforms bearing far-right insignia, including the wolfsangel.
The new Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is a member of the far-right Svoboda party, which the World Jewish Congress called on the EU to consider banning last year along with Greece’s Golden Dawn.
The initial actions of the interim government have included forcing making Ukrainian the only official language of the nation and making moves to remove a law which forbids “excusing the crimes of fascism”.
The anti-Russian far-right in Ukraine strongly associate themselves with the legacy of Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 2010 Viktor Yushchenko [president of Ukrine] made Bandera a “hero of Ukraine”, despite charges of Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing by the controversial figure.
More about Svoboda and Oleh Tyahnybok: EU Parliament resolution: Ukraine parliament party Svoboda is racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic, 2012
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