"Scientists" on present Ukraine
A
statement by 300 people, who declared themselves as scholars studying fascism and Nazism, was published three years ago on the website Jewish Journal. Many of the individuals, who signed this statement, work at such renowned universities as Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard etc.
These scientists called today's Ukraine "democratic" and, among other things, stated that there is no official Nazism in this country now; see below a quote from this statement:
We do not idealize the Ukrainian state and society. Like any other country, it has right-wing extremists and violent xenophobic groups. Ukraine also ought to better confront the darker chapters of its painful and complicated history. (but) … At this fateful moment we stand united with free, independent and democratic Ukraine and strongly reject the Russian government’s misuse of the history of World War II to justify its own violence.
Among the persons, who had signed the above-mentioned statement, I noticed Timothy Snyder, a professor at Yale University, which is consistently ranked among the top ten universities in the United States.
As stated on the official Yale University
website, Snyder (see the photo above left) is the author of several books on totalitarian regimes and, most importantly, also teaches a course on modern Ukraine at Yale.
However, a Ukraine expert like Snyder cannot help but know that Nazi symbols and salutes are openly used by Ukrainian military personnel; see the results of an
investigation conducted by the French newspaper Le Monde this year and the photo above right.
Moreover, the official
state symbols of some units of the Ukrainian army are only slightly modified symbols of the SS units of Nazi Germany; see the photos from Le Monde below.
One can probably agree with the words of professors from Harvard, Oxford, Yale, etc. that “any country has right-wing extremists and violent xenophobic groups.”
But as for Ukraine, we are not talking about some groups, but about the open use of Nazi symbols and Nazi salutes in a Ukrainian state organization, that is, in the Ukrainian army.
And, as far as I know, in no other country in the world, except for “democratic” Ukraine, are such things possible in the army.
