How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine's power vacuum

[newthinking]

Why are we aligning with neo-nazi groups? What is the story behind the scenes that we are not being told?
http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right

In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from
deputy prime minister to head of defence. We profile the nationalists filling the power vacuum.


Wednesday 05 March 2014 Ukraine , World

How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine's power vacuum

The man facing down Putin's aggression as secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council is Andriy Parubiy. He oversees national security for the nation having previously served as security commandant during the anti-government protests in Kiev.

Parubiy was the founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler's Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians.

The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda, the far-right nationalist party whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok was one of the three most high profile leaders of the Euromaidan protests - negotiating directly with the Yanukovych regime.

Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector - a group of hardline nationalist streetfighters, who previously boasted they were ready for armed struggle to free Ukraine.

Svoboda (below) at the center of the maiden protests, is part of the new right wing government in Kiev



http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right

[jakeXT]

1. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, see Syria or go back to Afghanistan in the 80's /nt

[newthinking]

2. We can't support the rise of new Nazi's to power

Nazi'ism is growing in Ukraine. It is a very serious situation. Right Sector actually grew from within the protests.

And Yanukovich was not a US or EU "enemy". Sure he was a corrupt official, everyone knew that, but there was a far lesser Geopolitical threat to Europe and the US than there is now, and in the process we are blindly supporting the rise of new Nazi's into places of power.

[bemildred]

3. One is reminded of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. nt