Ukraine’s ‘Romantic’ Nazi Storm Troopers
Image: Nazi symbols on helmets worn by members of Ukraine’s Azov battalion. (Images filmed by a Norwegian camera team and shown on German TV)
Ukraine’s ‘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
ConsortiumNews.com, September 15, 2014
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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“In one room, a recruit had emblazoned a swastika above his bed. But Kirt, a former hospitality worker, dismissed questions of ideology, saying that the volunteers — many of them still teenagers — embrace symbols and espouse extremist notions as part of some kind of ‘romantic’ idea.
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http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/15/ukraines-romantic-nazi-storm-troopers/
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In Ukraine, we are supporting people who have direct ideological ties the scum of the earth.
In the case of the United States, we are sliding from the "Friendly Fascism" of Bertram Gross, past something Corporate-State marriage along the lines of Italy before the second World War, where the State rewards and serves the wealthy, to the stage where the State directly uses the common people as slave labor and cannon fodder.
I remember asking last year:
What would the world look like if the NAZIs had won World War II?
A superpower could attack innocent nations with impunity to steal their oil and grab whatever else they got.
Children, including the Homeland's own citizens, could be tortured and killed in the name of national security.
Secret police could spy on every citizens' public and private communications, associations and affairs.
Elections would be decided by appointed officials rather than the People, 5 to 4.
The rich would not only get richer, they'd enjoy immunity from prosecution.
The poor would not only get poorer, it's austerity for the rest of us until poverty is the new normal.
Ignorance would be the sole purpose of both the news media and public education.
Money would trump peace.
And there is Justice only for "Just Us."
:fistbumo: 
