{"id":149886,"date":"2015-05-09T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=44063c032445a1ed831dd6fd91b70337"},"modified":"2015-05-09T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:30:32","slug":"ukraine-commemorates-v-day-waging-war-honoring-nazi-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/ukraine-commemorates-v-day-waging-war-honoring-nazi-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Commemorates V-Day by Waging War and Honoring Nazi Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; US-installed Ukrainian fascists commemorated Poroshenko&#8217;s established victory in Europe Day of Remembrance by vowing to &#8220;destroy Moscow,&#8221; free its people, and let them &#8220;shape their own future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian ultranationalists attending a May 8 commemoration included 14th SS Waffen Grenadier division veterans, Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) members, and Nazi-infested volunteer battalions involved in what they call &#8220;the Russian-Ukrainian war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Svoboda party overt Nazis participated. Their slogan is &#8220;Ukraine for the Ukrainians&#8221; &#8211; meaning ethnically pure, free of Jews, Russians and others not wanted, by extermination or other means.<\/p>\n<p>Party member Yuri Sirotyuk called war on Russia Ukraine&#8217;s historic mission. &#8220;I believe that if we truly want it, we will do it,&#8221; he blustered.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s Ukrainian allies are over-the-top lunatics like Sirotyuk and likeminded fascists wanting war, not peace.<\/p>\n<p>Illegitimate prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk ludicrously accused Soviet Russia of invading Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera is honored as a national hero. His Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) was involved in mass executions and ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>Hooliganism is longstanding fascist policy. Opposition elements are systematically targeted for elimination &#8211; by imprisonment or cold-blooded murder.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko ranted on V-Day saying &#8220;May 9 will always be a red date in the Ukrainian calendar, just as these red poppies (replacing Russia&#8217;s St. George&#8217;s Ribbons) symbolize the remembrance of the fallen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will never celebrate this day under the Russian scenario, because it provides for the cold-blooded use of Victory Day for an apology to the expansionist policy regarding neighbors aimed at keeping them in the sphere of one&#8217;s influence and restoration of empire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Truth is polar opposite. Russia is Europe&#8217;s preeminent peacemaker. Ukrainian fascists are US proxies waging dirty war without mercy on their own people &#8211; besides targeting all anti-regime Ukrainians wanting to live free from the scourge of fascism.<\/p>\n<p>Donbass remains in the eye of the storm. Minsk ceasefire terms were dead on arrival. Ukrainian shelling continues daily.<\/p>\n<p>Residential areas are prime targets. On V-Day, Gorlovka was attacked. &#8220;The shelling of northern suburbs resumed in the second half of day&#8221; after earlier a kindergarten and civilian homes were struck, a local resident explained.<\/p>\n<p>Explosions were heard in nearby villages. Heavy smoke was seen rising. A gas pipeline was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Other targeted areas include Donetsk airport, surrounding areas, and Shirokino village. According to Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic (DPR) military spokesman Eduard Basurin:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The intensity of attacks by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies increased, with 57 violations of the ceasefire&#8221; on one day alone &#8211; dozens of violations daily.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces largely conceal weapons during daylight hours &#8211; then use them against Donbass targets mostly at night.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, OSCE chairman Ivica Dacic condemned ceasefire violations. He and other Western officials do nothing to stop them.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko vows to continue war until Donbass freedom fighters are eliminated and Crimea is forcefully seized from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>He wants NATO membership to facilitate his war plans &#8211; including against Russia. He ludicrously claims Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity depend on it.<\/p>\n<p>Lunatics think this way. They infest Washington and Kiev. They risk war on Russia. They threaten world peace.<\/p>\n<p>On a day peace advocates celebrate defeating the scourge of Nazism, the unthinkable threatens humanity -possible nuclear war ending life on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n<p>His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/p>\n<p>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/p>\n<p>It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Commemorates V-Day by Waging War and Honoring Nazi Criminalsby Stephen LendmanUS-installed Ukrainian fascists commemorated Poroshenko&#8217;s established victory in Europe Day of Remembrance by vowing to &#8220;destroy Moscow,&#8221; free its people, and let the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":149898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149886","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\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}