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Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, where the American dollars are crisp and clean, has just dodged a bullet. This one didn’t come from Russia; the shot was self-inflicted. Mayor Vitali Klitschko overruled the city council and a popular vote of city dwellers to prevent the naming of a street after a World War II-era Nazi collaborator.
The European Jewish Press reported Wednesday that the city “wanted to name a street after Volodymyr Kubiyovych, a Nazi collaborator and SS official,” until Klitschko, apparently mindful of how bad this looks in the West, stepped in and put a kibosh on the plan. Until his intervention, everything was going swimmingly: the Jerusalem Post reported last Tuesday that according to Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, “a street in the Ukrainian capital will be renamed following a motion passed by the city council, and will bear the name of Volodymyr Kubiyovych, who during the Holocaust was heavily involved in the formation of the Waffen-SS Galizien, a Nazi military force made up of Ukrainian volunteers.”
Yes, you read that right. This eye-watering move was planned after a “historical expert commission within the council had put forward several options for the renaming of what is currently Przhevalsky Street in Kyiv,” and several names were put to a public vote. The National Socialist won handily: “The option to rename the street after Volodymyr Kubiyovych has so far received a majority, with 31% of the vote, with the second and third highest options receiving just 18% and 10% respectively.”
Does it really need to be said that this was a bad idea from the get-go? Some Ukrainians have a soft spot for the National Socialists because they fought against the Soviet Russians who starved and oppressed Ukraine, but honoring them at this late date is problematic on all kinds of levels, and Kubiyovych was hardly a good choice. Before the National Socialist invasion of the USSR, Kubiyovych “requested the creation of an autonomous state within Ukraine in which Poles and Jews would not be allowed to live.” Then, once the National Socialists had occupied much of Ukraine, Kubiyovych “took on a key role in the formation of the Waffen-SS Galizien, publicly announcing his willingness to take up arms and fight for the Nazi cause.”
After the war, Kubiyovych settled in France and won renown as an expert in Ukrainian history and culture. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t collaborate with the National Socialists.
Democrats used to care about Ukraine’s National Socialist infatuation. The independent journalism site Kanekoa News reported as long ago as last June that “on October 16, 2019, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee’s counterterrorism subpanel, Rep. Max Rose (NY), led a letter signed by forty Democrats asking the State Department why they had not placed Ukraine’s Azov Battalion on the U.S. list of ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ (FTOs).”
The irony couldn’t be richer, for in October 2022, the New York Times, that reliable organ of far-Left opinion, referred to “Ukraine’s celebrated Azov Battalion,” and claimed that “the group’s defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol — the southern port city decimated by Russian forces in the first months of the war — has become a powerful symbol of the suffering inflicted by Russia and the resistance mounted by Ukraine.”
The letter added that “the 115th Congress of the United States stated in its 2018 omnibus spending bill that ‘none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.’” But that was when Volodymyr Zelensky was widely regarded as some kind of ally or tool of the Left’s Emmanuel Goldstein of the day, Donald Trump; after all, the first Stalinist show trial impeaching the America-First president took place over a phone call to Zelensky. So it was in the Democrats’ interest to play up the Nazi element in Ukraine, just as it is in their interests now to pretend that element doesn’t exist.
Infidel lives matter says
31% isn´t a majority. There is no antisemitism in Russia. Right?
Rarely says
Ukraine.
Infidel lives matter says
The jewish Zelensky won the presidential election by 73% of the vote. Certainly there´s a lot of antisemitism in Ukraine, but I see no reason to believe that there´s any less in Russia. That Russia invaded Ukraine to fight nazis is a load of horse manure. Like Putin gives a
rat´s ass about jews.
gravenimage says
+1
Jack Reynolds says
Zelenskyy is both Jewish and his mother tongue is Russian, not Ukrainian.
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If that surprises you then you have no real understanding of how large the Russian disinformation campaign is.
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gravenimage says
True, Jack.
Jack Reynolds says
I have a friend with a Russian father and a Ukrainian mother from the DONETSK region. He was in the military and she was born in a Tank Battalion located directly on the border with China. The nearby Gulag that shared that swampy border town was over 50% Jewish, people deported there by Stalin.
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The percentage of Jews is lower today, but the Enclave still exists.
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Jack Reynolds says
The odd thing about the pro-Russian propaganda found on many Internet channels, is that it is invariably IDENTICAL to that found on sources such as RT News and The Dive by Jackson Hinkle on RUMBLE, and they are 100% financed by the RUSSIAN DEPT OF DEFENCE.
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They repeat the same lies over and over again.
They repeat the same lies over and over again.
They repeat the same lies over and over again.
They repeat the same lies over and over again.
They repeat the same lies over and over again.
They repeat the same lies over and over again.
They repeat the same lies over and over again.
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JUST SAYIN’
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Marz says
But don’t we hear the same lies over and over from western media outlets? Russia has no men left, running out of ammunition, running out of money, losing to Ukrainians etc.etc.. Putin is insane, suffering with Parkinson’s disease, terminal cancer or there’s a plotted coup etc. etc. etc..
Just saying…. It’s all propaganda.
gravenimage says
Not really. We keep getting updates, good and bad. Things have bogged down right now, and no one is trying to hide that.
jjack Reynolds says
I really don’t give a F*CK. Putin thought he could win a War by using little other than Fear and Propaganda. Now he’s screwed.
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Jack Reynolds says
I have a friend Russian father, Ukrainian mother, from DONETSKY, but she was born in a Jewish Enclave on the border with China. Half the population in the local Gulag were Jews sent there by Stalin.
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What she recalls is all of the big mosquitos, and that the people on the opposite side of the river had different eyes.
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Mark Spahn says
“The option to rename the street after Volodymyr Kubiyovych has so far received a majority, with 31% of the vote, with the second and third highest options receiving just 18% and 10% respectively.”
“Majority” means more than one-half; i.e., more than50%. A top vote that is less than 50% is called a “plurality”.
Jack Reynolds says
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
Ahhh … So he was a little like John A. MacDonald then ???
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FYI says
Just a little reminder of the ones who have the most to benefit from triggering a major war with Russia;
“We need to go to war with Russia”
Hillary Clinton 2017
Who is WE?That’s the neocons.It’s not the American people.
Looks like they might get their war..if only the Russians would swallow the bait.Of course it had to be GERMAN Leopard tanks you notice..
gravenimage says
Russia attacked and invaded Ukraine. Your idea that the US has invaded Russia is mistaken.
Marz says
That Russia invaded Ukraine is absolutely true. However, don’t you think Russia may have been provoked into invading? Rand Corporation wrote a paper on how to weaken Russia back in 2008 and it seems that their idea has been followed through with Ukraine fighting a proxy war. Despite being warned by the then Ambassador to Russia of Georgia and Ukraine being of the brightest red lines for Russia, what happened? NATO continued expanding toward the Russian border, the Maidan Coup, announcing moves towards incorporating Ukraine into NATO, not upholding the Minsk agreements, arming and training the Ukrainian Army (it was a tier one army) and finally, the demonisation of Ukrainians with Russian heritage that allowed the shelling of the Donbas indiscriminately killing civilians.
When the Russians finally understood what was intended, they did indeed invade however, instead of the Russians being bled white by our Ukrainian proxies, we are arguably now much weaker, Russia having proved far more resilient than anticipated. So resilient that now the Rand Corporation wrote and suggested we look for an off ramp.
I feel sorry for the Ukrainians, not only were they seriously misled but are now paying the price for Western duplicity. I doubt the Russians will want to return any territories now captured. The UK has sent depleted uranium shells which will poison the land along with other health issues. Monsanto is running rampant with gmo wheat which some countries have banned, so that’s their market share circulating down the drain. Most of Ukrainian industry was in the South along with a great deal of natural resources.
But yeah, sure, Russia invaded Ukraine.
gravenimage says
The implication that Russia having invaded their unthreatening neighbor is somehow incidental is very odd.
Then, how was Russia provoked into invading their neighbor? Ukraine was not threatening Russia.
NATO nations–the Baltic States–have been on Russia’s borders since the early 1990s. They have never invaded Russia, not threatened to invade. Then, Ukraine had applied for NATO membership some years back and been turned down, so the claim that they were poised to join NATO is also false.
Russia would have no right to invade Ukraine in any case. Contrary to what you have apparently been told, invading nations because they are afraid you might invade them is *not* grounds to invade them.
Then, Putin and other high ranking Russians like Lavrov, Medvedev, and Patriarch Kirill have all affirmed that what Russia wants in Ukraine is genocide. So claims that it is wrong for them to defend themselves is really appalling.
And Russia *had* been driven out of much of the Ukrainian land they seized right after the invasion. Claims that Russia will not want to return this territory really makes no difference if they cannot hold it.
Then, Ukraine does not grow GMO crops, so implying that Russia invaded Ukraine to stop them from growing this wheat–absurd in any case–is simply untrue.
Here are other excuses Russia has given for invading Ukraine, many of them contradictory:
Before the invasion, Russia said that 1) They don’t intend to invade Ukraine. The said this until just a few days before they invaded. Then, 2) they have to invade because Ukrainians are Nazis. Note that Lavrov has said that any Ukrainian who favors independence is a “Nazi”. 3) They have to defend Donbas. 4) That Ukrainian biolabs have invented viruses that target Russians and not Ukrainians, even though many of them are genetically identical. 5) That Ukraine is joining NATO, and this is unacceptable to Russia. Never mind that Ukraine was not joining NATO, nor that NATO is purely defensive, in any case. And if the did join, this is not Russia’s business. 6) That Ukraine was joining the EU, and that this is unacceptable to Russia. Never mind that Ukraine would not have been joining the EU any time soon, nor that if they do it is not Russia’s business. 7) That Ukraine somehow presented a threat to Russia. 8) That Ukraine has always been part of Russia. 9) That Ukraine does not exist. 10) That Ukrainian President Zelensky is a drug addict. (This is my personal “favorite”). 11) That Putin is the new Peter the Great, and that the conquest of Ukraine is the first step towards realizing this. 12) That Ukrainians all worship Satan. Never mind that more Ukrainians are Christian than are Russians.
Finally, Finland has joined NATO, and Sweden is poised to do so. Finland gives them a long border with NATO, yet Russia is not invading them. In fact, Russia has never invaded a NATO country. This is, in fact, why countries threatened by Russia like joining NATO.
Jack Reynolds says
Ukraine simply refuses to be starved into submission by Russia AGAIN.
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In 1991 Ukraine was the wealthiest of the former East Block countries.
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Here are a few average GDP (PPP) per capita figures for 2020.
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Russia ……. $24,000
Ukraine ….. $12,000
Romania … $24,000
Canada …… $48,000
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OK, GOT IT YET ???
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BTW … Prior to the 1932 HOLODOMOR the Donbass Region was majority Ukrainan-speaking.
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Andrew Harrod says
I understand the controversies here, but the Wikipedia entry on this Ukrainian has a far more mixed assessment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Kubijovy%C4%8D
CJK says
Before February 2022 I didn’t pay as much attention to what was going on in Russia as I should have.
I did have a semi-favorable view of Putin while recognizing he was a defacto dictator or very close to it.In cultural issues he always seemed to be taking the right side especially as far as LGBT+P rights and the rights of Christians were concerned. It didn’t take long for me to see clearly who the good guys were after the invasion though.
When the entire Western MSM (the voice of Satan) marched in lockstep condemning Putin and stressing our need to send BILLIONS in tax dollars to some dancing, azz grabing hooomo, it was a NO BRAINER.
I mean they make Putin sound almost as bad as they make Trump sound.
Since then just about every single last detail I have learned about this current conflict and the all important history behind it has confirmed my thoughs and continues to confirm them.
It really is a NO BRAINER.
Jack Reynolds says
The fact that you think this is a ‘No brainer’ just shows how effective the Russian Dept of Defence propaganda has been.
Infidel lives matter says
You´re right Mr. Reynolds. Zelensky is an ass grabbing homo? Stupidest thing I´ve ever seen. Putin sucks Mo´s a##hole. https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2015/09/23/Putin-opens-one-of-Europe-s-biggest-mosques-in-Moscow-#:~:text=Russian%20President%20Vladimir%20Putin%20in,and%20Syria%20(ISIS)%20group.
Jack Reynolds says
Some day soon these fools are going to realize that they’ve been living in an Echo Chamber. It will be quite a shock when they ‘wake up’.
cjk says
Says the guy who is in agreement with the hard left MSM as they DEMAND support for the azz grabber. LOL!
Infidel lives matter says
I agree with you, but it doesn´t get through the censorship. I guess I didn´t kiss Putin´s ass enough.
gravenimage says
President Zelensky is a heterosexual family man.
But the idea that it would be fine for a country to invade its neighbors and rob, rape, and murder its civilians if their president *were* gay is pretty appalling.
gravenimage says
How is thinking that Russia was wrong in its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine “the voice of Satan”?
cjk says
Learn to read. I clearly say the Western MSM is the voice of Satan.
You fools back the same people that ABC, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, etc. back.
cjk says
Reading comprehension problems? I said the WesternMSM is the voice of Satan and do you dispute that?
You smarties back the same people that CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, PBS, etc. back.
gravenimage says
Presumably you were saying that Western media is the “voice of Satan” here because some of them have indeed said that Russia was wrong in invading Ukraine. Otherwise why would you have brought them up in this context?
I have my issues with a lot of the MSM, but you have not said how not agreeing with unprovoked aggression is the “voice of Satan”.
cjk says
Can’t communicate with someone who obviously has staggering reading comprehension problems.
gravenimage says
Okay, What About Ukraine’s Ongoing Infatuation with Nazis?
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Ukraine *does* have some neo-Nazis, sadly, as does much of the West. But nothing like the problem in Russia, where the Wagner Group is named for them and its fighters sport Nazi tattoos.