Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to “suspend” the activities of 11 opposition parties which that body claims are “linked to Russia.” Among the parties listed are the Opposition Platform For Life (holding 44 of the 450 seats in Ukraine’s unicameral Verkhovna Rada), founded by Viktor Medvedchuk—who has been under house arrest since about mid-2021—and the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine founded and led by Natalia Vitrenko.
(Three Ukrainian TV stations closed last February—ZIK, News One, and 112 Ukraine—were owned by Taras Kozak, a lawmaker and member of the pro-Russian Opposition Platform For Life.)
Zelenskyy read this statement, “I’d like to remind all politicians, from all camps: wartime exposes quite well the paucity of personal ambitions of those who try to put their own ambitions, their own party or career above the interests of the state, the people’s interests; those who hide in the rear, while pretending to be the only one who cares about defense. Any activity on the part of politicians aimed at splitting or collaborating will not succeed. But they will face a tough response. That is why the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has decided that, given the full-scale war being waged by the Russian Federation and the ties that some political organizations have with that state, any activity of a number of political parties will be suspended pending martial law.”
This leaves neo-Nazi parties unchallenged in the leadership of Ukraine. Today, it has become fashionable for people connected to NATO interests to claim that, despite their direct descent, biological or otherwise, from people such as Stepan Bandera, who proudly fought side by side with Nazis and murdered Jews and other alienated peoples by the thousands, they are valuable assets to the nation. News footage of these right-wing groups who dominate Ukrainian “politics” is characterized by torch-burning ceremonies, violent tattoos and banners, the Wolfsangel or “Wolf’s Hook” symbol popularized by the Nazi SS, and other Nazi-related symbols. President Zelenskyy, who was elected to his post on an anti-war policy, praises the groups like the Azov Battalion and the Right Sector for their wanton massacres. Supporters of the benefactors of the 2014 Anglo-American-directed right-wing coup, support these mass murders not in spite of but because of their indiscriminate killing sprees.
Here is a sample from Aris Roussinos, a former war correspondent, explaining why it is a lie to call a Nazi a Nazi.