Neo-Nazi Uniate thugs in Lvov riot on Victory Day… they beat and attacked elderly Red Army veterans… what worthless scummers! By the way… SVS, Vassa Larina, the Blunder, JP, Freddie M-G, and all the rest of the konvertsy, kiss the naked bums of the Uniates, and expect us to applaud them for it. When will our bishops step in to stop their blasphemy?
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Once again, the Ukraine finds itself divided over its wartime history. A bitter row erupted in its western regions over the Soviet Red banner… an exact replica of the one that flew above the Reichstag in May 1945 after the Nazi defeat. When the Ukrainian parliament passed a law to allow the Soviet red banner to fly on Victory Day this year along with the country’s national flag, it sparked uproar among some who view the Soviet epoch as an oppressive era. “Those who initiated this law are against our country. They must hand over their passports and go elsewhere, to where the Soviet red banner is a symbol of good”, claimed Arseny Yatsenuk, a deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, the Rada. The bill eventually passed, and, on Monday, when the former Soviet Union commemorates the Nazi defeat, both the state and Red victory flags will adorn most Ukrainian cities.
They will fly in most cities, but not in the Western Ukrainian city of Lvov, which is in a region where, during the war, some nationalist and anti-Soviet elements collaborated with the invading Nazis. Lvov’s local council said it won’t obey the new federal law and chose not to celebrate Victory Day at all. There has been a furious response from anti-fascist groups, who say the government should dismiss the council for failing to celebrate a holiday marking the Nazi defeat. “We have a law that states that we must celebrate Victory Day everywhere, all over the Ukraine”, noted Aleksandr Kalinok, a prominent Lvov anti-fascist activist. “So, what they’re doing is a violation of the constitution, which says that local counties must obey the federal law. I have every legal right to urge the parliament to dissolve the Lvov City Council”.
Moreover, a decision of a Lvov court banned any marches on 9 May, making it even harder for Red Army veterans here to hold their own Victory Day commemorations. Lvov has a monument to the Red Army soldiers, and, every year, local Great Patriotic War veterans come here to commemorate those who died liberating their homeland from the fascists. However, since the collapse of the USSR, every trip here is a risky adventure. Timofei Mahonek, a Great Patriotic War veteran, told RT he’s afraid to put on his medals on Victory Day for fear of attacks by nationalists. The former artilleryman fought in Lvov’s liberation from fascism, but, now, he feels disillusioned. “It’s upsetting that we can’t march in a Victory Day parade in a so-called democratic city. It’s upsetting that they don’t give us the right to remember the dead. Is this the Ukraine that I fought for? Definitely not!” Mahonek said in expressing his sorrow.
There were incidents last year, when Lvov nationalists wiped their feet on the Red banner… a sacred symbol for those who fought against the Nazis. “These people want to prove that their alliance with Hitler against the Soviet Union was the right thing to do”, claimed Pyotr Simonenko, the head of the KPU (Communist Party of the Ukraine). “We must stop this slander. With my own eyes, I saw how bulldozers destroyed the graves of Red Army soldiers in Lvov”.
Many people in the Western Ukraine don’t celebrate the 9 May holiday; some claim that Soviet rule was as bad as the Nazi occupation. Violence has spilled onto the streets over the issue in the past. This year, despite local government and court bans on Victory Day marches, and hostility from nationalists, Crimean activists plan a Red Banner march through the streets of Lvov. What millions see as a day of glory and solemn commemoration elsewhere, is still a source of division here, for it seems that the scars of the war seem not fully healed in this place.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich sharply criticised the Lvov municipal authorities for their announced decision not to take part in the Victory Day celebrations commemorating the end of World War II. At a press conference on Monday, President Yanukovich said that the decision was a display of disrespect towards a whole generation of people. “I think that this is disrespectful towards the generation that accomplished their mission in regards to our generation. This is a very bad decision”, Viktor Fyodrovich said. He asked the Lvov Oblast legislature and all residents of the region to give more thought to the subject. “I support the idea that we should never forget those who created this day for us”, he said. In May 2010, the Lvov Oblast Council decided to call the traditional celebrations on 9 May “the Day of Memory of the Victims of the Second World War”, not “Victory Day”. The council also ordered the abolition of the term “Great Patriotic War” in official documents, replacing it with “Second World War”.
Lvov Oblast was part of Poland before the Second World War, and the Hapsburg Empire took it during the Polish Partitions of the 18th century. Ukrainian nationalism is strongest in this part of the country, and, traditionally, the Western Ukraine has opposed the industrial regions in the East, which had more influences from Russia and the Soviet Union. President Yanukovich won the 2010 presidential election thanks to support from the industrial East, whilst his main opponent, former Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko, built her campaign on Ukrainian nationalism and enjoyed support in the Western regions.
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Fr Vsevolod Chaplin and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) condemned violent attempts by Ukrainian nationalists in Lvov on Monday to disrupt Victory Day events. Russia and other CIS countries observe 9 May as a holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. “It’s obvious that what happened is a crime, it involves encroaching on the right of the people to express their decent feelings about those who died in the war”, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the chairman of the MP Department for Church and Society, told our Interfax-Religion correspondent. Crimes of this kind “require constraint, using political, moral, and legal means”, he said. “It’s a well-known fact that there were many victims of both the Nazis and the Stalinists in the regions that today make up the Western Ukraine, and, for that matter, some were victims of actions by some other European countries as well {Fr Vsevolod is referring here to Operation Wisła, run by the Poles in 1947 against Uniate UPA terrorists: editor}. However, different interpretations of history, and different orientations of historical memories doesn’t give anyone the right to use illegal force against their political opponents”, Fr Vsevolod said. He went on to say, “I wish that no historical disputes would end in pogroms, which we must completely remove from our life, if we consider ourselves civilised people and heirs to Christian culture”.
The FEOR also slammed Monday’s nationalist riots in Ukraine and voiced fears of “a complete rehabilitation of Nazism in Europe and in the world as a whole. We’re extremely concerned about the fact that, on that day, Ukrainian nationalists used violence in a bid to torpedo Victory Day celebrations”, Aleksandr Boroda, the chief executive of the FEOR, said in a statement sent to Interfax-Religion. Ukrainian nationalists tore St George ribbons (a Russian symbol of military valour) and decorations off veterans’ chests and attacked Russian Consulate staff, “seizing and stamping on a wreath that the diplomats were carrying to the graves of the soldier-liberators”, Boroda said. “It’s obvious that the revisionist policy of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators pursued in the Ukraine over the past few years finally asserted itself in the shape of yesterday’s events. It essentially amounts to an acceptance of and a practical implementation of an extremist and terrorist ideology in Ukrainian radical nationalism”, he said. Boroda said that, earlier, Ukrainian nationalists had limited themselves to hostile statements about World War II veterans. Today, however, “those groups have gone over from words to fists and violence. We demand that the Ukrainian leadership, the United Nations, and other major international organisations make proper judgement of the events in the Ukraine on 9 May 2011. If there are no statements to that effect from the Ukraine or the United Nations, one will be able to confidently speak of the complete rehabilitation of Nazism in Europe and in the world as a whole”, he said.
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Fights between nationalists and veterans in the western city of Lvov dampened the usually jubilant atmosphere at World War II Victory Day celebrations in the Ukraine. Members of the Svoboda (Freedom) nationalist organisation stomped on a wreath that the Russian Consul General in Lvov planned to lay on soldiers’ graves from World War II. Victory Day, celebrated on 9 May, marks the final defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union in World War II, known in Russia and the CIS as the Great Patriotic War. Ukrainian nationalists say Soviet wartime leader Iosif Stalin imposed just as much suffering on the Ukraine as Nazi Germany did. On Monday, the Ukrainian capital of Kiev put on a victory parade. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, speaking at a rally in downtown Kiev, said, “The victory over fascism is our festival; it unites the Ukrainian people”. He warned nationalists against attempts to sow discord in society. He said, “For the sake of cheap popularity, some activists are again trying to split Ukrainians”, adding that the government would “respond properly” to such actions.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich ordered General Procurator Viktor Pshonka to create a working group to investigate the events that took place on 9 May 2011 in Lvov during the Victory Day celebrations. According to President Yanukovich, it would be reasonable to ask delegates from the Security Service and Ministry of Interior Affairs to join the group’s work, which is to give a legal judgement of the revealed violations of human rights and freedoms. After reviewing the results of the working group’s investigation, the General Procurator shall “take whatever measures legislation requires”, the President said.
8-11 May 2011
Russia Today
Interfax, as quoted by the Kiev Post
RIA-Novosti
Official Website of President Viktor Yanukovich
http://rt.com/news/victory-day-lvov-nationalism/
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/104031/
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110510/163947623.html
http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/20041.html
Editor’s Note:
These Uniate creeps acted like fiendish imps, not like normal decent people, for they assaulted elderly UKRAINIAN veterans, trampled on and urinated on the Red Flag, and deliberately spread pandemonium. They held viciously racist and hateful signs slandering/threatening Orthodox Christians, Great Russians, and Ukrainians who identify as “Russians” (their slur for such people is “Moskal”). This was Uniatism unmasked! It’s interesting that all the rest of the CIS countries celebrate Victory Day with solemnity, but not the Uniate Western Ukraine.
This is nothing but crackbrained nationalism, just like the fable about the so-called Golodomor (the supposed genocide against Ukrainians in the 30s… all reasonable historians reject the Uniate claims)! Let’s see… what about the Galicians who willingly fought in the SS? For that matter, what about the thousands of Polish Roman Catholics and Roma murdered by the UPA? That’s why Poland had to launch Operation Wisła in the late ‘40s against the UPA Uniate terrorists. The Uniate population was resettled en masse in the Recovered Territories in the west and northeast, which deprived the Uniate terrorists (truly, they were a European equivalent of the Taliban, only worse) of their base of support and their supply sources. This led to the defeat of the UPA bandits by the Polish forces… they fled to Western Europe and the USA, where they became the darlings of the neoliberals (“conservatives”), just as the Cubans in Miami and the Vietnamese on the Gulf Coast would later become. That is, they became rabid right-wingers of the most troglodyte variety… much like the Vlasovtsy Russians.
Note well who supports the Uniate scummers amongst us… and complain to the bishops about them! Vassa Larina and Andrei Psaryov, in particular, owe everyone an apology for their incestuous intellectual dalliance with the Uniate Jesuit pig Taft. JP attends their conferences and reads papers (legitimating them), Freddy M-G gloats over them (and her son may be a Uniate deacon… such is the tale, anyway, I can’t confirm it), SVS allows Uniate crud to attack the Holy Mountain on its premises (and they laughed along with Taft, by the way), and the Blunder kissed the bums of the Uniate bishops when he came to the USA (it wasn’t reported on patriarchia.ru… I wonder why?). These people support our sworn enemies. To be sure, rank-and-file Uniates are guiltless. Their leadership is not… emphatically not. Be wary of a fellow who runs a website entitled Byzantine Texas, who calls himself “Josephus Flavius”… the konvertsy just slobber over him.
The Uniate filth attacked our elderly VOV veterans… I am LIVID. I am OUTRAGED. For young men to strike their elders so is indecent, offensive, and shocking. The Orthodox collaborators of the Uniates should be ashamed of their perfidy. Reflect well on the fact that they’re not, and that they intend to keep up relations with our enemies, no matter what happens. None dare call it treason…
BMD
Editor’s Postscript:
A correspondent sent me the following:
What many do not know is that the CIA funded the Western Ukrainian nationalist separatists from 1947 to 1954, until they were wiped out by the Red Army.
That’s true… the American special services support the worst elements in many countries due to rightwing anti-communist émigré elements brought into US service in the Cold War. They’re all the same… UPA Galicians… Ustaše Croats… Vlasovtsy Russians… former “South” Vietnamese from Texas… Batista Cubans from Miami… they’re all equally nutters and they’re all equally bloodthirsty. The Republican Party and Interventionist Democrats slobber over the unhinged maunderings of this trash (the former much more so than the latter, as the GOP is the émigré party of choice), and insert it into US policy, which leads to an barmy hatred in Foggy Bottom of Cuba, Vietnam, Russia, and Serbia, in particular. This is the true face of the USA… and it’s ugly in the extreme. It’s not the America of FDR… it’s not the America that stood tall against Hitler… think soberly on that.
BMD
