{"id":147654,"date":"2015-04-30T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=147654"},"modified":"2015-05-01T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:44:03","slug":"the-may-2nd-odessa-massacre-why-obamas-coup-regime-still-runs-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-may-2nd-odessa-massacre-why-obamas-coup-regime-still-runs-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The May 2nd Odessa Massacre: Why Obama’s Coup-Regime Still Runs Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

(RINF<\/a>) – The May 2nd Ukrainian massacre of anti-regime pamphleteers last year at the Odessa Trade Unions Building,\u00a0burning these pamphleteers alive there,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0was crucial to the Obama Administration’s solidification of its control over Ukraine. That massacre was designed to, and it did, terrorize the residents in all areas of Ukraine which had voted overwhelmingly for the man whom Obama had just ousted<\/span><\/a>, Viktor Yanukovych. Especially in the Donbass region, Yanokovych had received 90%+ of the votes. In Odessa, he had received three-quarters of the votes.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Later will be explained why this terror against the residents of such regions was necessary for Obama\u2019s purpose of solidifying his control over Ukraine\u2019s government.) <\/span><\/p>\n

So, the shocking methods of executing these people, and its being done in public and with no blockage of\u00a0video images being recorded of these events by their many witnesses,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and with the newly-installed Obama government in Kiev doing nothing whatsoever to prosecute any of these horrific murderers, there was a clear message being sent to the people who had voted for Yanukovych: If you resist the new authorities in any way, this is how you will be treated by them.\u00a0This<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is how you will be treated (and that video was posted to the Internet by the perpetrators and their supporters, by headlining, “48 Russian Subversives Burned To Death In Fire At\u00a0Trade Unions Building Fire In Odessa,\u201d so that any other ‘Russian Subversives’ would have no doubt. However, those victims\u2019 identities were subsequently published, and all of the victims were actually Odessa locals, none were Russians. The perpetrators were racist fascists, after all; and, so, being a \u2018Russian\u2019 meant, to them, being from a hated ethnicity, not necessarily being a citizen of Russia.) Terror was the obvious purpose here, and Obama was behind it, but nazis were in front of it, and they were proud of their handiwork \u2013 proud enough to film it and then to display it to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the President that you had voted for were subsequently to be overthrown in an extremely bloody coup<\/span><\/a> \u2013 or even if it had happened in an authentic revolution \u2013 then how would you feel? And, if, two months later, people who were peacefully printing and distributing flyers against the illegally installed replacement regime<\/span><\/a> were publicly treated this<\/span><\/a> way, then would you want to be ruled by that regime<\/span><\/a>? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yanukovych had been elected in 2010 in an election that was declared free and fair by international observers; and, furthermore,\u00a0according to wikipedia,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0“All\u00a0exit polls conducted during the final round of voting reported a win for Viktor Yanukovych over Yulia Tymoshenko.[162][163][164].\u201d But,\u00a0starting in Spring of 2013,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which was as soon as Obama got into position all of his key foreign-affairs appointees for his second Presidential term, after the 2012 U.S. election,\u00a0the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine immediately started organizing, for Maidan square in Kiev, public demonstrations to bring Yanukovych down<\/span><\/a>, and they placed at the head of this operation the co-founder of the\u00a0Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Andriy Parubiy, a man who had long studied Hitler\u2019s methods of political organization. The troops, actually mercenaries, that provided the snipers who fired down onto the demonstrators and police in Maidan square in Kiev in February 2014 and pretended to be from Yanukovych\u2019s security forces<\/span><\/a>, were trained not by Parubiy but instead by\u00a0Dmitriy Yarosh,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who was the head of Ukraine\u2019s other large racist-fascist, or nazi, organization, the Right Sector, whose CIA-and-oligarch-backed army numbered probably between 7,000 and 10,000. Yarosh selected the best of them for this operation. Whereas Parubiy was the main political organizer and trainer of Ukraine\u2019s far-right, Yarosh was the main military organizer and trainer of Ukraine\u2019s far-right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, Obama\u2019s operation to oust Yanukovych was fully dependent upon Ukraine\u2019s far-right, which was\u00a0the only nazi movement that still retained deep and strong roots anywhere in Europe after World War II.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Obama built his takeover of Ukraine upon\u00a0people like this.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0As is clear there, they were very well trained. Yarosh had been training them for more than a decade. (He had been doing it even prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union.) Yarosh had carefully studied successful coups; he knew how to do it. Just as Obama had very skillfully selected his political campaign team for his 2008 White House run, he very carefully selected his American team for what would become the chief feature of his second-term foreign policy: his war against Russia, central to which was his campaign to install rabid haters of Russia into control of Ukraine, right next door to Russia (in the hope of ultimately placing missiles there, against Russia). He had groomed Dick Cheney\u2019s former foreign-affairs advisor Victoria Nuland as the spokesperson for Hillary Clinton\u2019s State Department (Nuland and Clinton were also personal friends of each other, so she was a skillful choice for this post), and then he boosted Nuland in the second term to the State Department post which oversaw all policymaking on Ukraine. Likewise Obama boosted\u00a0Geoffrey Pyatt into the Ambassadorship in Ukraine, as the operative there to carry out Nuland\u2019s instructions.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Nuland made the decision to base the Maidan demonstrations upon the political skill of Paribuy and the paramilitary muscle of Yarosh. They headed her Ukrainian team.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia says of Parubiy<\/span><\/a>, and of Obama\u2019s other Ukrainian operatives:<\/span><\/p>\n

Parubiy co-led the Orange Revolution in 2004.[5][11]\u00a0In the\u00a02007 parliamentary elections\u00a0he was voted into theUkrainian parliament\u00a0on an\u00a0Our\u00a0Ukraine\u2014People’s Self-Defense Bloc\u00a0ticket. He then became a member of the deputy group that would later become\u00a0For Ukraine!.[5]\u00a0Parubiy\u00a0stayed with\u00a0Our Ukraine\u00a0and became a member of its political council.[12]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In February 2010 Parubiy asked the\u00a0European Parliament\u00a0to reconsider its negative reaction to former\u00a0Ukrainian President\u00a0Victor Yushchenko’s\u00a0decision to award\u00a0Stepan Bandera, the leader of the\u00a0[racist-fascist]\u00a0Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the title of\u00a0Hero of Ukraine.[13]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In early February 2012 Parubiy left Our Ukraine because their “views diverged”.[14]\u00a0In\u00a02012 he was re-elected\u00a0into parliament on the party list of\u00a0“Fatherland”.[15] [Yulia Tymoshenko heads the Fatherland Party; and she had been Obama\u2019s choice to become the next President of Ukraine, but she was too far-right for even the far-right voters of northwestern Ukraine, so Poroshenko won instead.]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

From December 2013 to February 2014 Parubiy was a\u00a0commandant\u00a0of\u00a0Euromaidan.[16]\u00a0He was coordinator of thevolunteer security corps\u00a0for the\u00a0mainstream protesters.[17]\u00a0He was then appointed Secretary of the\u00a0National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.[6]\u00a0This appointed was\u00a0approved by (then) new\u00a0Ukrainian President\u00a0Petro Poroshenko\u00a0on June 16, 2014.[18]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

As Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Parubiy oversaw the “anti\u2014terrorist” operation againstpro-Russian separatists\u00a0in\u00a0eastern Ukraine.[19]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Working directly under Parubiy in that \u201canti-terrorist operation\u201d or \u201cATO,\u201d was Yarosh, who in\u00a0an interview with Newsweek<\/span><\/a>, said that he has \u201cbeen training paramilitary troops for almost 25 years,\u201d and that his \u201cdivisions are constantly growing all over Ukraine, but over 10,000 people for sure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On May 14th of last year, there appeared, at Oriental Review, an important news report,\u00a0\u201cBloodbath in Odessa Guided by Interim Rulers of Ukraine,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which described the roles of Yarosh, and of these others. It opened: “The information provided below was obtained from an insider in one of Ukraine\u2019s law-enforcement agencies, who wished to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.\u201d It said:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Ten days before the tragedy a secret meeting was held in Kiev, chaired by the incumbent president Olexander Turchinov, to prepare a special operation in Odessa.\u00a0Present were minister of internal affairs\u00a0Arsen Avakov, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service\u00a0Valentin Nalivaychenko, and the secretary of the National Security\u00a0and Defense Council\u00a0Andriy Parubiy. Ukrainian oligarch\u00a0Ihor Kolomoiskiy, the Kiev-appointed head of regional administration of the Dnepropetrovsk region, was\u00a0consulted in regard to the operation.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

During that meeting Arsen Avakov has reportedly came up with the idea of using football hooligans, known as \u201cultras,\u201d in the operation. Ever since his time as the head of\u00a0the Kharkov regional administration he has worked closely with the fans leaders, whom he continued to sponsor even fromhis new home in Italy.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Kolomoisky temporarily delivered his private \u201cDnieper-1\u201d Battalion under the command of law-enforcement officials in Odessa and also authorized a cash payment of\u00a0$5,000 for \u201ceach pro-Russian separatist\u201d killed during the special operation.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Mykola Volvov was wanted by the Ukrainian police since 2012\u00a0for fraud.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of days before the operation in Odessa Andriy Parubiy\u00a0brought dozens of bullet-proof vests\u00a0to local\u00a0ultra-nationalists. This video shows an episode of handing the vests to the local Maidan activists in Odessa.\u00a0Take note of the person who receives the load. He is Mykola Volkov, a local hard-core criminal who would\u00a0be repeatedly screened during the assault on Trade Unionist House\u00a0gun-shooting at the people\u00a0and\u00a0reporting about the \u201cincident\u201d by phone to an official in Kiev.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Preparations<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Ultranationalist militants from the extremist\u00a0Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA-UNSO), who could be\u00a0recognized by their red armbands, were also used during the operation. They were assigned a key role in\u00a0the staging of the provocations: they masqueraded as the defenders of the tent city on Kulikovo Field, and\u00a0then lured its occupants into the House of Trade Unions to be slaughtered.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Fifteen roadblocks were set up outside of Odessa, secured by militants under the personal command of\u00a0Kolomoisky\u2019s \u201cDnieper-1\u201d Battalion, as well as Right Sector\u2019s thugs from Dnepropetrovsk and the western\u00a0regions of Ukraine. In addition, two military units from the Self-Defense of Maidan arrived in Odessa, under\u00a0the command of the acting head of the administration of the president,\u00a0Sergey Pashinsky\u00a0\u2014 the same man\u00a0who was caught with a sniper rifle in the trunk of his car on\u00a0Feb. 18\u00a0on Independence Square (Maidan) in Kiev. Pashinsky later claimed that he had not been fully informed about the plans for the operation and had dispatched his\u00a0men only to \u201cprotect the people of Odessa.\u201d Thus, there were a total of about 1,400 fighters from other regions of Ukraine in the vicinity at the time \u2014 thus countering the\u00a0idea that there were \u201cresidents of Odessa\u201d who burned down the House of Trade Unions.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy chief of Odessa police and principle coordinator of the\u00a0operation Dmitry Fucheji mysteriously dissappeared soon after\u00a0the tradegy in Odessa.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The role of the Odessa police forces in the operation was personally directed by the head of the regional\u00a0police, Petr Lutsyuk, and his deputy Dmitry Fucheji. Lutsyuk was assigned the task of neutralizing Odessa\u2019s\u00a0regional governor, Vladimir Nemirovsky, to prevent him from putting together an independent strategy that\u00a0could disrupt the operation. Fucheji led the militants right to Greek Square where he was allegedly\u00a0\u201cwounded\u201d (in order to evade responsibility for subsequent events).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The operation was originally scheduled for May 2 \u2014 the day of a soccer match, which would justify the\u00a0presence of a large number of sports fans (\u201cultras\u201d) downtown and would also mean there would be a\u00a0minimal number of Odessa residents on the streets who were not involved in the operation, since the\u00a0majority of the city\u2019s population would be out of town enjoying their May Day holidays.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It should also be noted that Kolomoysky himself was directly connected to the U.S. White House<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If not for this horrific massacre, then the voters in the anti-coup regions would have remained inside the Ukrainian electorate, participants in the May 25th Presidential election to succeed Yanukovych as Ukraine\u2019s new President: they would have been Ukrainian voters because the public sentiment in those regions still was not yet predominantly for separating from Ukraine; it was instead for the creation of a federal system that would have granted Donbass, Odessa, and the other anti-coup areas, some degree of autonomy. But that way, with the moderating influence of the voters in the far southeast, the resulting national government wouldn\u2019t have been rabidly anti-Russian, and so wouldn\u2019t have been, like the present one is, obsessed to kill Russians and to join NATO, for a NATO war against Russia. Obama needed to get rid of those voters. He needed them not to participate in the 25 May 2014 election. The May 2nd massacre was the way to do that.\u00a0Here was the electoral turnout in the 25 May Ukrainian Presidential election.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0As you can see, almost all of the voters in that election were located in\u00a0the parts of Ukraine that had voted overwhelmingly for Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2010 election, against Yanukovych.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Obama did his best to get the nazi queen Tymoshenko elected as Ukraine\u2019s President; but, now that she was publicly and openly campaigning as the rabid anti-Russian that she had always been, and now that even many Ukrainian conservatives had qualms about going to war against Russia, since there was now so much political rhetoric favoring doing that, Poroshenko won, Tymoshenko lost. Poroshenko had played his cards just right: having been a supporter of the Maidan and of the overthrow of Yanukovych but not publicly associated with the nazis. He was even one of the people who informed the EU\u2019s investigator that the coup was a coup, no authentic revolution.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Publicly, Poroshenko gave no hint that he knew that Yanukovych had been framed for the February sniper-attacks that had been organized by the U.S. White House and that the overthrow had been a coup. In fact, on May 6th, just days after the massacre, and less than a month before the 2014 Presidential election, Poroshenko said, \u201cProof was presented at the Verkhovna Rada’s session behind closed doors today that what happened at the House of Unions can be called a terrorist attack.\u201d<\/span><\/a> (This had to be \u201cbehind closed doors\u201d because it was fictitious and thus needed to be blocked from being examined by the public.) By that time, the polls already showed that he was going to win the election, and he knew that his only real audience was the man sitting in the U.S. White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama didn\u2019t get the more overt anti-Russian President that he had wanted, but he still controls Ukraine.\u00a0The installation by Nuland of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the \u2018temporary\u2019 new Prime Minister to lead Ukraine after the coup,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0until a new President would be elected on May 25th, turned out to be permanent, instead of temporary. And Petro Poroshenko can\u2019t do anything that Obama doesn\u2019t want him to do. So: Obama still remains the virtual Emperor of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The people of Ukraine shouldn\u2019t praise or blame either their Prime Minister or their (perhaps merely nominal) President for what has been happening in their country after the coup; they should instead praise or blame those men\u2019s master: Barack Obama. He\u2019s the person who made Yatsenyuk the Prime Minister, and who controls Poroshenko even though he didn\u2019t prefer him over Tymoshenko.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ukraine is just part of the American Empire now. Any Ukrainian who doesn\u2019t recognize that would have to be a fool. It\u2019s the outright nazi part of the American Empire, but it\u2019s part of the American Empire nonetheless. Obama is the first U.S. President to install a racist-fascist, or nazi, regime, anywhere; and he did it in Ukraine, which has long been the ripest place in the world for doing that sort of thing. The May 2nd massacre was an important part of the entire operation. This is why that important massacre<\/span><\/a> is ignored as much as it can be, in the U.S. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s important history, but it\u2019s history that 99% of Americans are blocked from knowing. So: pass this article along to everyone you know (and, via facebook etc., even to some people you don\u2019t know); and they, too, will then have access to the documentation that\u2019s linked-to here, just as you did.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse (RINF) – The May 2nd Ukrainian massacre of anti-regime pamphleteers last year at the Odessa Trade Unions Building,\u00a0burning these pamphleteers alive there,\u00a0was crucial to the Obama Administration’s solidification of its control over Ukraine. That massacre was designed to, and it did, terrorize the residents in all areas of Ukraine which had voted overwhelmingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":141697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,944,59,943,947,926,524,945,523,49,76,40,946,888],"class_list":{"0":"post-147654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-may-2nd-massacre","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-odessa","17":"tag-parubiy","18":"tag-poroshenko","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-tymoshenko","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-usa-news","23":"tag-warfare","24":"tag-white-house","25":"tag-yarosh","26":"tag-yatsenyuk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}