Robert Parry: Ukraine’s ‘Romantic’ Nazi Storm Troopers

[Karmadillo]

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/15/ukraines-romantic-nazi-storm-troopers/

Exclusive: While most civilized people view the Swastika and other Nazi symbols as abhorrent reminders of unspeakable evil, the Washington Post trotted out a new way of seeing them – as “romantic” – a sign that apologists for Ukraine’s coup regime know no limits, reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

The U.S. mainstream media’s deeply biased coverage of the Ukraine crisis – endlessly portraying the U.S.-backed coup regime in Kiev as “the good guys” – reached a new level of absurdity over the weekend as the Washington Post excused the appearance of Swastikas and other Nazi symbols among a Ukrainian government militia as “romantic.”

This curious description of these symbols for unspeakable evil – the human devastation of the Holocaust and World War II — can be found in the last three paragraphs of the lead story in the Post’s Saturday editions, an article about Ukraine’s Azov battalion which has become best known for waging brutal warfare under Nazi and neo-Nazi insignia.



However, if you didn’t know that reputation, you would have learned little about that grim feature of the Azov paramilitaries as you wound your way through the long story which began on Page One and covered half an inside page.

Post correspondent Anthony Faiola portrayed the Azov fighters as “battle-scarred patriots” who were nobly resisting “Russian aggression,” so determined to fight for Ukraine’s freedom that they threatened to resort to “guerrilla war.”

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You might think it’s an extraordinary fact that a U.S.-backed government in 2014 has dispatched neo-Nazi storm troopers to lead street fighting in Ukrainian cities where seven decades ago the Nazi SS and its Ukrainian adjunct, the Galician SS, slaughtered Poles, Jews and Russians.

But it’s an unpleasant fact that the U.S. media would prefer to ignore. When it does get mentioned it is typically buried deep in an article or surrounded by excuses, such as the Post’s novel idea that the Nazi Swastika is “romantic.”

[grahamhgreen]

1. Kick. Nazis suck.

[snagglepuss]

2. Robert Parry has lost it. Complete and utter bullshit

As detailed below Hitler inflicted ENORMOUS devastation on Ukraine. No sane Ukrainian would hold Nazis in any regard. How do we know the assholes shown in photos are indeed Ukrainians and not Russians who were brought in to Ukraine by Stalin's project of Russiafaction?


In 1945 American war correspondent, Edgar Snow visited Ukraine and wrote:





“It was not until I went on a sobering journey into this twilight of war that I fully realized the price which 40,000,000 Ukrainians paid for Soviet and Allied Victory. The whole titanic struggle... was first of all a Ukrainian war. No fewer than 10,000,000 people had been lost to... Ukraine since 1941...” A relatively small part of [Russia} was actually invaded, but... Ukraine... was devastated.”

Poland, Belorussia, and, above all, Ukraine were the battlegrounds of the Eastern Front - trampled and terrorized by the armies of two brutal invaders, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

In Eastern Europe, WWII was essentially a war for control of Ukraine’s rich land and resources. For the people it would be a war of annihilation. In turn, their homeland would be laid waste by both Soviets and Nazis. Ukrainians would be forced to submit to occupation rule or perish. But the nation found the courage to fight back. Ukraine became the battlefield, as it had been when it defended its fledgling independent State a generation earlier.




http://www.ucrdc.org/Film-Hitler_annotated.html

[SidDithers]

3. Parry. LOL...nt

Sid

[pampango]

4. I hate anti-gay, authoritarian, 'traditional values', misogynist, militaristic,

"strong-countries-have-the-to-expand-into-weaker-ones" fascists.

[truth2power]

5. Thanks for posting, karmadillo....

But of course, the denialists show up to tell you that what you see with your own eyes isn't true.

And then there's Robt. Parry. He's......um.....he's......well, anyway.

Pathetic.

[malaise]

6. The Germans are more progressive than

the US coup backers.
What a planet. This will confuse some folks for sure -maybe they should read the Newsweek version - they hate RT.

[Jason Gardner]

7. Kremlin Stooge

How much is the FSB paying you, Robert? You certainly are working hard at achieving their agenda. I'm curious, though - is it better than your old KGB salary?