History repeats itself: Russia faces off with Nazis in Ukraine

With ultra-nationalism and anti-Jewish sentiment rife in Western Ukraine, it looks like history is repeating itself, this time with the West trying to pit Ukraine against Russia, just like it did back in the days when Nazism was on the rise in Germany.

In the 1930s, Third Reich was all the rage in Europe and overseas in the United States, with Anglo-American elites pinning their hopes on Hitler who they believed could end the Soviet menace. Russia was reviled and the Nazi Germany was not. In fact, US corporations and banks supported and financed the Nazis, while their officials and businesses respected the Nazi regime. Mackenzie King, the union-busting advisor of the Rockefeller family and tenth prime minister of Canada, even admired Hitler openly, as did Edward VIII, who abdicated from the British throne in favor of his brother.
But the ultimate goal was, of course, to get Berlin and Moscow to mutually destroy one another. This is the same strategy that Washington used against Baghdad and Tehran when it encouraged Saddam Hussein to attack Iran and launch the Iran-Iraq War.

Now the West is comparing President Putin with Adolf Hitler, with Hillary Clinton and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird drawing parallels between the deployment of Russian troops in the Crimea and the Nazi invasion into Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. The propaganda war is in full swing as the media are doing their best to demonize Russians and to pave the way for US’s long-term objective of isolating and neutralizing Russia as an international rival and Eurasian actor.

Truths are being turned on their heads. The heirs of the Soviets, which defeated the Nazi and liberated Europe at a great price, are now vilified, while fascist forces and Western militarism are on the march again. But behind the fascists stand the neoliberals and organized capital who really pull the strings, just like it was before WWII.

It should come as no surprise that Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Wall Street-supported coup-imposed prime minister of Ukraine, is collaborating with ultra-nationalist admirers of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. In a twist of fate, it is Russian again who is standing against the fledgling Nazi state.

And the events in Ukraine are not just being spun: they are heavily tied to the past and the future. George Orwell actually said the following about the discursive process tied to the way that history is framed: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

Like the Western Ukraine that collaborated with the Nazis of the Second World War, Kiev is again overrun by neo-fascists that hate Russia and in their turn are used by the US and the European Union to bring down Russia.

Voice of Russia, Global Research

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12/3/14