Denazification References

All the evidence you need from prominent Western entities, politicians, and scholars that Ukraine needs to be denazified as neo-Nazis hold power there since 2014

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Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness^[+] and spirit to the modes^[+] of neutrality^[*^], decency, respectfulness, wisdom^[*^], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we^[*^] designed it, which is listed in the CONTENTS. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please. With this article we continue the “Meeting the Demands for Ending the War” segment with a focus on Why Should Ukraine Denazify.

In the previous and the first article^[*^] in this segment on Russian demand or goal to denazify Ukraine, we explained the Russian rationale for this demand, and with this article, we start the series of articles with plenty evidence that support the Russian allegation about neo-Nazis being in power in Ukraine.

When Russian authorities started to talk about “denazification of Ukraine” as their goal or demand, the overall reaction from the international community was a blatant dismissal because the public at large knew nothing about it, whereas all political insiders knew it very well. For many uninformed people, this accusation comes as absurd because in their naivety, they can't imagine this could be possible but among well-informed people, this is a reality for which they stand by Putin or declare themselves as Putinversteher^[+] (Putin sympathizers and defenders) as they recognize a need to deter the rise of offensive neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

That the claim of the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine is not merely Putin's or Russia's propaganda, here are just some instances of prominent Western entities, politicians, and scholars making claims about Nazis in Ukraine, as well as journalists reporting it:

➡ 1.  European Parliament resolution^[+] of 25 February 2010 on the situation in Ukraine deplored the decision by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, posthumously to award Stepan Bandera¹^[+], a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) which collaborated with Nazi Germany, the title of ‘National Hero of Ukraine’…” In other words, the EU authorities knew very well that the Ukrainian government glorifies a convicted murderer Nazi collaborator and still has been supporting such a regime that continues to glorify Bandera.

➡ 2.  Harvard Law School alumni, American professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, and human rights lawyer Francis Boyle pointed to the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv on many occasions such as in a February 2014 interview^[+]: “in Ukraine right now there is no government, there is just a gang of neo-Nazis, fascists, rightist thugs, and whatever in charge of Kyiv” and in another interview in March 2022^[+]: “put into power a gang of Neo-Nazi thugs that are still there today”.

➡ 3.  In May 2014, under investigation by the US Foreign Affairs Committee on the US involvement in the 2014 Ukrainian protests that resulted in regime change, Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland admitted^[»] that neo-Nazis were involved in the US-backed violent protests that ousted Ukraine's president (thus, by supporting protesters, the US was on the same side as neo-Nazis in Ukraine).

Also, on Nuland’s leaked phone call^[+][»] with the then US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt² on 27 January 2014, Pyatt mentioned they were working with leader of neo-Nazi Svoboda Party Oleh Tyahnybok^[»] and there are also photos of them with him^[+], including US Senator McCain^[+][+]. Tyahnybok was a well-known neo-Nazi^{[ꚛ][+][+][+][»]} who called Jews “scum”^[+].

Nazi salute by neo-Nazi politician and Maidan revolution co-leader Tyahnybok

➡ 4.  Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (now serving his third term as PM) warned^[»] about fascist neo-Nazi Bandera followers such as Azov brigade serving within the ranks of the Ukrainian army, which is why he stopped arming Ukraine after he was re-elected in October 2023 (after a five-year break)

➡ 5.  on 6 March 2014, CNN reported^[+]: “the leader of Svoboda, Oleh Tyahnybok, is on record saying that Kiev³ is governed by ‘a Jewish-Russian mafia’ and has said Ukrainians bravely fought Muscovites, Germans, Jews ‘and other scum’ in WWII.”

➡ 6.    in March 2014, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the French political party La France Insoumise, legitimized the Russian annexation of Crimea as "a security measure against an adventurous Putschist regime in which neo-Nazis have a despicable influence."^[+]

➡ 7.  in 2015-2017^[+], 2018^[+][+][+], and 2019^[+], with the Department of Defense Appropriations Act^[+], the US Congress banned funding and providing arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis, the Azov Battalion^[+], which was part of the Ukrainian National Guard since 2014. The US authorities were very well aware of neo-Nazis being legalized and allowed to fight in the Ukrainian army against the Russian ethnic minorities but did nothing to condemn Ukraine for it and instead further supported the Ukrainian army (including Azov) with military aid^[»] rather than protecting the victims. In 2021, under the Trump administration, the US lifted the ban on the grounds that it was redundant as funding of the Azov Battalion was supposedly already generally prohibited by the Leahy Law^[+] (banning not Azov but in general all units in the commission of gross violations of human rights) but this then allowed providing weapons^[+] to neo-Nazi Azov just because the evidence of “gross violations of human rights” was not presented but kept secret. A cunning way to circumvent the law to use neo-Nazis to do their dirty work of killing the Russians living in Ukraine. The fact that thousands of Russian ethnic minorities were dying at their hands was somehow not enough for the US Congress. Who else could have killed them?! Since the US blames everything on Russians, probably they would have blamed that too, if anyone bothered to ask.

➡ 8.  A 2016 report^[+] by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment^[+] of being neo-Nazi and violating international humanitarian law^[+].

➡ 9.  On 19 March 2018, British Reuters reported about Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem^[+]

➡ 10.  In May 2018, Defending History warned^[+] about “America’s USAID Program Financing Glorification of Fascist Groups that Took Part in the Holocaust” – the US was allegedly funding the Ukrainian Government’s far-reaching project to whitewash and glorify the Hitlerist World War II era Nazi OUN and UPA^[+] organizations, whose hordes were responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jewish, Polish, and Soviet civilians.

➡ 11.  In December 2018, the Jewish media outlet Forward published an article with the headline “Why Does No One Care That Neo-Nazis Are Gaining Power in Ukraine?”^[+]

➡ 12.  Many Western renowned newspapers have been writing articles^{[+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+]} on the neo-Nazi battalions fighting pro-Russian “separatists” but obscuring the facts about them murdering innocent civilians. They only alerted about Ukrainian soldiers featuring Nazi insignia^[ꚛ][ꚛ] but didn't report on their crimes.

Despite the Western media’s best efforts to whitewash the issue^[»][»][+], the phenomenon of Swastika tattoos and Nazi patch-toting fighters^[»][ꚛ] is so profuse that when the seal of secrecy could no longer cover it up, those neo-Nazi apologetics felt a need to downplay it and even sugarcoat it by highlighting how all that somehow doesn't justify Putin's 'denazification' effort in form of SMO⁴. What they are telling us is, neo-Nazis have the right to kill but Russians don't.

➡ 13.  There were many reports about Ukrainian neo-Nazis in Western mainstream media before the Russian intervention in February 2022 but they were suppressed and stopped then so as not to risk public solidarity for Ukraine. In 2014, German and Norwegian TV (ZDF and TV2) showed Nazi symbols on the helmets of Ukraine soldiers and NBC News reported it^[+]. In June 2016, the Mirror from the UK published an article about Ukraine football fans with swastika tattoos^[+]. In 2017, the Hill reported about “The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine…”^[+]

➡ 14.  Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress^[+] and the Simon Wiesenthal Center^[+], as well as a joint 2018 report^[+] issued by watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, warned that Kyiv was losing the power in the country to far-right gangs that operated with impunity.

➡ 15.  Many prominent Western experts blamed Ukrainian neo-Nazis for the Ukrainian crisis: Seumas Milne^[+], John Pilger^[+][+], John Mearsheimer^[+], Stephen F. Cohen, and others.

➡ 16.  Legendary Australian journalist John Pilger^[+][+] wrote in the Guardian article^[+] way back in the spring of 2014, “We in the West are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler”. In another article in February 2015^[+], he wrote “the Kiev regime turned on the ethnic Russian population in the east with the ferocity of ethnic cleansing. Deploying neo-Nazi militias in the manner of the Waffen-SS, they bombed and laid to siege cities and towns. They used mass starvation as a weapon, cutting off electricity, freezing bank accounts, and stopping social security and pensions. More than a million refugees fled across the border into Russia.”

➡ 17.  an American investigative journalist Robert Parry^[+] published an article^[+] in July 2015 on the US-engineered Ukraine’s “regime change” in early 2014 where he wrote: “To sell this latest neocon-driven ‘regime change’ to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor… So, for nearly a year and a half, the West’s mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new regime in Kyiv was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without ethnic Russians. Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed ‘Russian propaganda’ and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a ‘stooge of Moscow.’ It wasn’t until 7 July 2015 that the Times admitted^[+] the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east… Though the Times sought to spin this remarkable military alliance neo-Nazi militias and Islamic jihadists as a positive, the reality had to be jarring for readers who had bought into the Western propaganda about noble ‘pro-democracy’ forces resisting evil ‘Russian aggression’. Perhaps the Times sensed that it could no longer keep the lid on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Right Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have been warning the civilian government in Kiev that they might turn on it and create a new order more to their liking.” Read the whole article here^[+].

➡ 18.  In January 2016, Canadian scholar Mark-David Mandel^[+] (Professor in the Political Science department at Universite du Quebec a Montreal) wrote^[+] about “the strength of the fascist threat”, claiming “it is, without doubt, a real factor in Ukrainian politics” “And neo-fascists have secured top positions within the security apparatus itself.”

➡ 19.  In September 2016, Ukrainian Canadian political scientist and political science professor at the Ottawa University (Canada) Ivan Katchanovski⁵^{[»][+][+][+]} did research and wrote a study^[+] analyzing the involvement of Ukrainian radical nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations in the “Euromaidan,” the Odesa massacre, and the war in Donbas^[+][+][+], their performance in the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2014 and the 2015 local elections in Ukraine. Using much undeniable evidence, he exposed^[+][+] a false flag operation conducted by the Maidan opposition to seize power in Ukraine and identified the culprits – major Ukrainian far-right organizations, such as Svoboda, the Right Sector, the Social-National Assembly, the White Hammer, the UNA-UNSO, Bratstvo, and C14, and paramilitary formations or special police and National Guard units organized and controlled to various extents by them, such as the Azov regiment^[+], Dnipro, Donbas, Aidar, Sich, and St. Mary’s battalions, and the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (not volunteers but mercenaries because they are fighting for money, not charity).

➡ 20.  Myriad of other scholars has written countless articles and studies on the issue of Ukrainian neo-Nazis or fascists^{[+][+][+][+][+][+]}.

➡ 21.  in 2019, the European Parliament stated^[+] that “Ukrainian police officers have recently openly stated* that they are ‘Banderites’. Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who worked with the Nazis and, as leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945.” In other words, the EU authorities knew very well that the Ukrainian government recruited the followers of a convicted murderer Nazi collaborator and still has been supporting such a regime rather than the victims.

* Ukrainian Police Declare Admiration For Nazi Collaborators To Make A Point^[+] – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 13 February 2019

➡ 22.  On 1 January 2022, Jewish media, The Times Of Israel, reported^[+] that “Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator.”

➡ 23.  In May 2022, US Marine Corps veteran and former police officer turned investigative reporter John Mark Dougan (who was forced to seek political asylum in Russia after exposing corruption in the Florida sheriff's department, prosecutor's office, the Obama FBI, DOJ, and Department of Homeland Security), published a video^[»] of “Azov Battalion Mariupol Headquarters Walkthrough” after it was captured by Russians in the spring of 2022 showing all kinds of Nazi insignia^[ꚛ] in Ukrainian Azov HQ.

➡ 24.  Russians released video footage^{[»][+][»][»]} of the Ukrainian POWs⁶ with various Nazi tattoos (with swastikas, Third Reich eagles, SS death heads, Bandera, and even one giant inking of Adolf Hitler) after they surrendered from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in May 2022. Every Russian news program showed this footage. No Western news channel did. Not CNN. Not NBC. Not CBS. Not the BBC. Not Fox… And this is just one of many such pieces of evidence from POWs.

➡ 25.  In June and July 2023, Member of the US House of Representatives, Republican Party member Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted^[+] on financing the Zelensky regime: "Just stop. You voted to send $113 Billion to the white people and white Nazi army of Ukraine” and referred^[+] to Zelensky as “the actor wearing army green everyday, fully funded by US warmongers, and who just recently canceled elections, controls his state media, and has a Nazi army.” The context is told by The New York Post.^[+]

➡ 26.  In July 2023, “I’m from Ukraine … there's a large amount of Nazis in Ukraine, and they actually killed my whole family”^[»] – Roseanne Barr, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, comedian, writer, and producer who gained fame through her role in Roseanne

➡ 27.  Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his Defense Minister, General Benny Gantz, have repeatedly stated that Ukraine must comply with Moscow’s injunctions at least on this point: Kyiv must destroy all Nazi symbols it displays. It is because Kyiv refuses to do so that Israel does not deliver weapons to it: no Israeli weapons will be handed over to the successors and glorifiers of the mass murderers of Jews.

➡ 28.  American encyclopedia Conservapedia lists Ukraine's Neo-Nazi groups^[+]

➡ 29.  Volodymyr Ishchenko, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, wrote an article: Denial of the Obvious: Far Right in Maidan Protests and Their Danger Today^[+]

➡ 30.  Geopolitics article titled “Why is the West Silent About Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Movements, Azov Battalion, & Bandera Legacy?”^[+]

➡ 31.  Liberation News article titled “Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing through the fog of the information war”^[+]

➡ 32.  British defense secretary Shapps came to Ukraine in March 2024 and shot a video in which he was seen in front of Ukrainian military vehicles adorned with neo-Nazi insignia^[+]

➡ 33.  A video compilation^[»][»] with numerous proofs of Ukrainian soldiers sporting neo-Nazi insignia; a video^[»] explaining the continuation of Nazis since WWII

Moreover, the fact that neo-Nazis from around the world have been backing and flocking to Ukraine to fight for it is a further proof that Ukraine is aligned with neo-Nazi ideology with supremacist beliefs. Here is some of the evidence of foreign neo-Nazis joining Ukrainian neo-Nazis, which proves that that supporting Ukraine means also supporting neo-Nazis:

➡    Countless Western media outlets have reported^{[+][+][+][+][+][+]} about neo-Nazis a.k.a. white supremacists and far-right extremists fighting in Ukraine.

In January 2024, British Guardian wrote an article^[+] titled “Neo-Nazis in the US no longer see backing Ukraine as a worthy cause”, which, in other words, states that they had backed it up to then but as with all people at low level of intelligence, give them some time and they will fight between themselves.

➡    violent, hate-filled “Misanthropic Division”^[+] is an overtly fascist volunteer wing of Ukraine’s ultranationalist Azov Battalion, which attracted many foreign neo-Nazis, from Europe, Japan, Middle East, including Belarusian, Georgian, Russian, Croat, and British extremists.

➡    Russian neo-Nazi fighting on the side of Ukraine^[+][+][+][+] is all bright people need to know about this topic. It is neo-Nazi ideology which makes unintelligent Russians into traitors and side with neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

➡    New Journal of European Criminal Law wrote a report^[+] on Far-right foreign fighters in Ukraine and it being a blind spot for the European Union

➡    A month before Putin sent his troops into Ukraine, a US investigative news website Raw Story reported^[+] about American neo-Nazis a.k.a. white supremacists and far-right extremists fight in Ukraine. Ukrainian neo-Nazi “Azov Battalion” and “Right Sector” electrified the neo-Nazi movement in the United States, Western Europe and Australia, as a role model for how the far right could topple a government and wage a nationalist war to forge a new society. No wonder, just weeks later Putin launched a SMO there to put a stop to that.

All such reports on foreign neo-Nazis fighting for Ukraine whitewash that fact and present it as “feeding into Putin’s narrative” or “echoing one of the Kremlin’s top propaganda points: that supporting Ukraine means also supporting neo-Nazis”. What they do not say explicitly is the fact that all these facts actually prove that Putin is right about neo-Nazis taking power over Ukraine and the need for “denazification”. They confirm^[+] that Ukraine's Nazi problem is real but somehow Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't – go figure! Just more of whitewashing and propaganda. Surely, it is none of Russia's business that NATO has been funding and providing weapons to neo-Nazis to kill the Russians since 2014 because mighty Russia is supposed to just live with it and let them kill the ethnic Russians in Donbas and carry out ethnic cleansing!

Whenever the US has attempted to change a disobeying regime around the world and when it didn't work out through economic warfare – sanctions, coercions, intimidations, bribes, or funding political campaigns of their pawns among the local politicians, they resort to guerrilla warfare^[+] orchestrating so-called revolutions (de facto coups) for which they need the types who would be committed to carry out such aggressive riots whatever it takes – the unintelligent (non-intelligentsia class), corrupt, power-hungry, aggressive opposition wannabe-leaders who would be very grateful and therefore committed and submissive to the US knowing that without American help, they would have no chance to seize power. In Latin America, such species were Contras (e.g., in Nicaragua), in the Middle East mujahideen or jihadists (e.g., in Syria), and in Europe neo-Nazis (e.g., in Syria). In Ukraine, apart from funding the power-hungry, fanatical neo-Nazi militants, the US also backed corrupt, non-intelligentsia class, wannabe leaders such as the boxer Vitali Klitschko and comedian Zelensky, among others.

Neo-Nazis were not meant to take control of the government or infiltrate any governing positions but only be exploited to carry out “the dirty work” or the manual labor of killing the American rivals, the Russians. Nevertheless, they did infiltrate the positions of power after the 2014 revolution, which the US knew very well about, still, they have been providing support and guns for them^[+] ever since. An openly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, anti-Russian party controlled the key levers of state power in a European capital, courtesy of US and European expansionism.

The undemocratically elected Ukrainian government, headed by neo-Nazi^[»][ꚛ][+] Russophobe US-appointee Arseniy Yatsenyuk, included no fewer than six ministers and governors from the fascist Svoboda party. Neo-fascist ultra-right Russophobic Svoboda party members were appointed to the posts of vice prime minister, minister of education, minister of agrarian policy and food supplies, minister of ecology and natural resources, prosecutor general, and head of defense^[+]. There were seven ministers with links to the extreme right, and the Svoboda party had then 37 deputies in the 450-member Ukrainian parliament.

US-puppet PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk - is this Nazi salute?

Svoboda's leader and one of the protest leaders Tyahnybok^[ꚛ][+] is a self-proclaimed anti-Semite who openly called for Ukrainians to fight against the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia”^{[+] [»]}. Following the 2010 conviction of John Demjanjuk as an accomplice in the murder of nearly 30.000 people in the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor, Tyahnybok called him a hero^[+].

Svoboda’s openly pro-Nazi politics have not deterred then-Vice President Joe Biden from wholeheartedly greeting Tyahnybok^{[ꚛ][ꚛ][+]}, or Senator John McCain from addressing a EuroMaidan rally alongside Tyahnybok^[+][ꚛ], nor did it prevent Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland^[+] from enjoying friendly meetings^{[+][ꚛ][ꚛ]} with the Svoboda leader at the time.

Tyahnybok with Biden and in front of a picture of Nazi war criminal Bandera

The anti-Russian far-right in Ukraine strongly associates with the legacy of Nazi murderer Stepan Bandera^[+]. In 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko made Bandera a “national hero of Ukraine”, despite charges of murder, Nazi collaboration, and ethnic cleansing. The European Parliament, in its resolution^[+] passed on February 25, deplored the decision by President Yushchenko, acknowledging Bandera as Nazi collaborator.

In June 2015, both Canada and the United States announced that their own forces will not support or train the Azov regiment, citing its neo-Nazi connections. The following year, however, the US lifted the ban^[+] under pressure from the Pentagon.

The initial fascist actions of the interim government in 2014 included enforcing laws against the linguistic human rights of Russian ethnic minorities (violating international law) and making moves to remove a law that forbids “excusing the crimes of fascism”^[+].

We all know by now that the war in Ukraine and the Russo-Ukrainian conflict didn't start with the Russian special military operation in February 2022 but with Maidan Revolution in February 2014 when, among others, a mob with neo-Nazi insignia (wearing the SS uniform with swastikas and other neo-Nazi symbols^[ꚛ]) took to the streets to forcefully and undemocratically overthrow the democratically elected government. Displays of open fascism and neo-Nazi extremism became too glaring to ignore^[+]. White supremacist banners, red and black (standing for Blood and Soil) UPA flags^[+] (same colors as Nazi Germany Blood Flag^[+]), Sieg heil salutes, and the Nazi Wolfsangel⁷ symbol became an increasingly common site in Maidan Square, and neo-Nazi forces have established “autonomous zones” in and around Kyiv. According to members of the Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Union^[+], ultranationalists and Nazis made up about 30% of protesters. In January 2014 (and every year since then) 15.000 Ukraine nationalists marched to celebrate the birthday of notorious Nazi collaborator Bandera. Nazi glorification only intensified since then, whereby ethnic minorities have been terrorized, prosecuted, and killed, which is why Russians had to intervene to denazify the host country of their around 8 million compatriots living unprotected in horror in Ukraine.

This article is part of Denazification series:

Why Should Ukraine Denazify?

• Kyiv Regime – Drug-Addicts?

• Kyiv Regime – Neo-Nazis?

• What Is Denazification

Denazification References

Countering the Counter-Arguments:

1. Fallacy: The West and NATO Would Never Support Neo-Nazis

2. Russia has many neo-Nazis too

3. Percentage of neo-Nazi seats in the Ukrainian parliament

4. Zelensky is a Jew

Banderites

Russophobia

Genocide Allegation

Linguistic Genocide

Thank you for reading this article and participating in this peace initiative by raising your awareness and, hopefully, your consciousness and spirit. To properly grasp everything, we^[*^] recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative for Ukraine in the proper order, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we recommend that you do. When you are ready, please proceed to the next article in this segment on Why Should Ukraine Denazify of the “Meeting the Demands for Ending the War” series: “Denazification – Countering the Counter-Arguments”

1. Stepan Bandera^[+][+] was an Ukrainian nationalist, an anti-Semite, anti-Soviet Nazi collaborator, convicted murderer, responsible for the ethnic cleansing of minorities such as the genocide of more than 100.000 of Poles, Soviets, and Jews during World War II as he was a leader of OUN-B and UPA who massacred countless civilians while collaborating with Nazis

2. Russophobic US ambassador in Ukraine from 2013-2016 and then in Greece till 2022, whose main appointment was to destroy the relationship of both countries with Russia

3. note that here and before 2022, Western MSM spelled the Ukraine's capital as Kiev, not Kyiv. The citiy was known as Kiev for centuries until the new regime in 2022 changed the name (spelling & pronanciation) to Kyiv to break all ties with Russian language

4. SMO = Special Military Operation

5. in September 2023, he also exposed the scandal around the honoring of a Waffen-SS veteran by the Canadian parliament

6. POWs = prisoners of war

7. a Nazi-linked Wolfsangel^[+] symbol was widely used by various Nazi military formations, including several SS divisions that committed massacres during World War II