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Canada Must Stop Aiding and Abetting a Kiev Regime That Is ’Both Nazi and Fascist’

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24 April 2015

(CRC)—Since February 2014, Executive Intelligence Review, the weekly magazine founded by Lyndon LaRouche, has exposed the “British Imperial Project in Ukraine: Violent Coup, Fascist Axioms, and Neo-Nazis” [1]. Over the same period, the Committee for the Republic of Canada has spearheaded a campaign throughout Canada warning that the war in Ukraine was being used by a bankrupt British-steered financial system as a trigger-point to launch thermonuclear World War III against Russia and China, the two leading BRICS nations.

LaRouche-associated movements were quite active internationally in exposing the coup d’état that had occurred in Ukraine following the manipulation and violence in the Euromaidan that put in power the Victoria Nuland-controlled government of Arseni ‘Yats’ Yatsenyuk in Kiev.

As for the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who was warmly received in the Canadian Parliament on September 17 [2], he has not only tolerated the presence of Nazi elements within the government but he has not intervened to prevent atrocities from being committed by the various Neo-Nazi brigades in the National Guard militia which operates under the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Assassination [3] and threats in the wake of the adoption of drastic laws [4] against freedom of expression in Ukraine

American statesman Lyndon LaRouche and his wife Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, on April 10, forcefully denounced a Nazi-led campaign being carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to defame and threaten the prominent Ukrainian economist and former Member of Parliament Dr. Natalia Vitrenko, a heroine and leading intellectual leader of that country.

“There has to be a high suspicion that this is being orchestrated by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland,” said Lyndon LaRouche, “or by someone else with an affinity for Nazis in the Bandera tradition, such as Nuland is notorious for.”

“These slanders are all the more despicable, in that they occur one month before the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism in Europe, in May 1945. The nations said after the end of that war, ‘Never again!’, but the Western governments have forgotten about that pledge. Natalia Vitrenko has had the integrity to expose the neo-Nazi revival, and to give evidence of Banderite atrocities, both historically and in our day, while Victoria Nuland’s chosen Prime Minister Arseni ‘Yats’ Yatsenyuk, on the contrary, had the nerve to say on German television that the Nazi invasion never occurred—that it was only the Soviet Union that ‘occupied’ Ukraine”.

Despite Defense Minister Jason Kenney’s denial, Canadian military personnel will be training the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and other far-right fascists in western Ukraine

On April 20, the US sent 290 US troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade to begin training the Ukrainian National Guard. Britain has sent 75 military personnel to train the Ukrainians in “command procedures and tactical intelligence”.

The Canadian government announced that it would be sending 200 troops from the Petawawa Garrison in Ottawa Valley sometime during the summer months. The Canadian military specialists will train members of the National Guard Militia “in explosives and de-mining operations, medical aid, military police operations and logistics.”

There are still a few honest journalists in Canada and a few singular individuals who have had the courage to expose publicly the illegitimate nature of the Kiev government which shamelessly harbours neo-Nazis in their midst; several neo-Nazi battalions have also integrated the National Guard Militia.

One outspoken critic of the Kiev government in Canada has been former Canadian diplomat James Bissett, who was Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania (1990-1992). On December 4, Ambassador Bissett was one of the featured speakers at the University of Ottawa forum entitled “An Insight and International Viewpoint at the Euromaidan Revolution and the Rebellion in Donbass [5]” sponsored by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He has also been featured on RT’s German [6] and English speaking channel [7], where he explained that the “Azov Battalion and others that we’ve seen on your screen [RT-gg] are being incorporated into, or absorbed into, the Ukrainian army, into the National Guard. How are Canadian trainers going to make those distinctions between who are good guys and who are bad guys? They simply won’t be able to and I don’t think they are going to be trying very fastidiously to make that kind of identification.”

These high-profile exposés and the persistent work of the Committee for the Republic of Canada have forced the Defence Minister Jason Kenney to address publicly the issue [8], in a weak rebuttal of the charges that the Canadian military will in fact be training neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and that the Canadian mission is “counterproductive” in view of the Minsk II Agreements and will certainly not help resolve the “fratricidal” conflict in Ukraine.

Also noteworthy is an article by Eric Draitser, an op-ed columnist for RT that was published today in the online journal Strategic Culture Foundation (Stategic-Culture.org). The article is entitled “US Training Nazis, Western Media Providing Cover” [9] and is instructive as to the modus operandi which allows western governments, including the Canadian government, to support Nazi regimes with the crucial complicity of the media.

On April 10, the same website featured an article by Wayne Madsen “Canada Represents a Reservoir of Support for Ukrainian Neo-Nazis” [10] which summarily reviews the historical and present day Canadian-Ukrainian networks which allows the Canadian government to adopt a policy of aiding and abetting a Kiev regime that is both Nazi and Fascist.

In that article, Madsen reveals, among other items, that “The connections between the Canadian government and neo-Nazis in Ukraine should come as no surprise. The Ukrainian diaspora community in Canada was fertile ground to recruit far right anti-Communist activists and operatives during the Cold War. During the Cold War, right-wing Ukrainian groups denounced as supporters of the Soviet Ukrainian state any Ukrainian-Canadians who criticized the rightist leanings of Ukrainian-Canadian organizations. [see John Kolasky’s book “The Shattered Illusion—The History of Ukrainian Pro-Communist Organizations in Canada” - ed.]

“…Canada’s military support for neo-Nazi units in Ukraine preceded by almost a year the recent announcement that U.S. Army troops would be training the Azov Battalion, led by Nazi Andriy Biletsky, which marches under German Nazi SS flags. Canada has also provided support for the Aidar Battalion, which is believed to have recruited Islamic State Chechen irregulars to its ranks. Aidar Battalion forces have, according to Amnesty International, beheaded Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens captured in eastern Ukraine.

“…Denials of their neo-Nazi underpinnings aside, it is common to see the Canadian Maple Leaf flag flying alongside Nazi and neo-Nazi banners in Ukrainian mercenary battalion-held battle zones. Russia has accused Canada of harboring a number of Ukrainian Nazi war criminals over the years. The strong Ukrainian-Canadian lobby has prevented most of them from being extradited to stand trial for their war crimes. In November 2014, the Harper government was one of only three nations that voted against a United Nations General Assembly against the «glorification of Nazism». The other two «no» votes were those of Ukraine and the United States.

“Ukrainian-Canadian groups have also resorted to xenophobic attacks on Canada’s Russian-Canadian population. Last year, Ukrainian disrupted a World War II Victory Day ceremony, attended by many Russian-Canadians, in Winnipeg. Major Ukrainian-Canadian organizations have ties to the neo-Nazi Right Sector, Svoboda, Spilna Sprava, Bandera Trident [Tryzub imeni Bandery], Prosvita, and other fascist groups in Ukraine. Those Ukrainians who stand up to complain about the neo-Nazi ties of Ukrainian-Canadian organizations are often met with threats and insults from right-wing Ukrainian nationalist hooligans. The Ukrainian National Federation of Canada, an outgrowth of the Bandera-supporting Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), was actually incorporated by an act of the Canadian Parliament in 1950.”

Contact Your Member of Parliament

We urge all Canadian citizens to circulate to the Canadian Members of Parliament the following interview of Dr. Natalia Vitrenko of April 20, 2015 given to the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) entitled: Facing Terror Under a Kiev Regime ‘Both Nazi and Fascist’ [11]