A US activist organization is mounting a to "flood" Congress and the White House with thousands of emails demanding that "not one cent of taxpayers' money be spent for the new Ukrainian government," which it described as neo-Nazi.
The activists lambasted top US State Department officials for having stood arm in arm with neo-Nazi leaders in the EuroMaidan protest movement, who now hold many of the most powerful Cabinet positions, including in Ukraine’s military.
The online campaign, called the Answer Coalition, stressed on its webpage that the new Ukrainian self-proclaimed leadership’s anti-Russian and anti-Semitic rhetoric spoke volumes, as did their use of Nazi-styled symbolic. Those who now have seats in the Ukrainian parliament and make up the core of its ruling parties also stood behind numerous vandal attacks on war monuments to Soviet WWII vets, including Ukrainians who chose not to collaborate with Germans.
The new Kiev regime is a mixed bag of right-wing and openly fascist forces, with the line between them only visible to those in the know. The movements behind the recent coup – the Social National turned Svoboda party and the Right Sector – are in the ascendancy, as evidenced by the fact that they have been put in charge of the military and given other key positions inside the state apparatus.
For instance, Ukraine’s self-appointed Minister of Defense is Igor Tenyukh, one of the three Vice Prime Ministers Alexander Sych and top commander of Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council Andrei Parubiy are all members of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party.
In fact, Parubiy co-founded Svoboda (Freedom) in 1991. At that time, it was called the Social National Party and had the "Wolfsangel" (wolf-hook), which closely resembles swastika, as its symbol. Parubiy’s deputy is Dmytro Yarosh, who led the fascist Right Sector’s paramilitary troops in Maidan. Yarosh has gained notoriety after confessing that "National socialist ideas are popular here. …We want a clean nation, not like under Hitler, but a little bit like that."
Svoboda’s leader Oleg Tyahnybok is now one of the most powerful people in Ukraine. Speaking at memorial to a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that collaborated with the Nazis and butchered tens of thousands of Poles, Jews and communists, he once called on Ukrainians to fight against the "Russian-Jewish mafia."
Among other notorious individuals in power is Oleg Makhnitsky, Ukraine’s Svoboda-affiliated Attorney General, who began his career by indicting Crimea leaders after they spoke out against the new order in Kiev, and Boris Filatov, Deputy Head of South Eastern Ukraine, whose approach to any anti-Kiev dissent in the country’s east is "Give the scum promises, guarantees and then hang them."
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