Ukraine and the 80th Anniversary of the Victory over German Nazism

 

80 years ago, the United Nations crushed German Nazism.

However, now the US, Great Britain and France are helping post-Maidan Ukraine with finances and weapons. The leaders of these countries don’t care that one of the first innovations in Ukraine after the so-called “Maidan victory” was the decision of the Ukrainian parliament to repeal the language law.

Although this law had granted certain rights to ethnic minorities to use their native language in certain areas of public life. Such rights were granted to ethnic Russians too, who were then the largest ethnic minority in Ukraine.

Currently, ethnic Russians in Ukraine are inferior citizens, since they have fewer rights in terms of using their native language than the so-called indigenous peoples of Ukraine. And Russians are not an indigenous people according to Ukrainian law. Russians also have fewer rights than those non-indigenous peoples whose native language is one of the official languages of the European Union.

In Ukraine, the authorities claim that such a curtailment of the rights of the country's largest ethnic minority has allegedly occurred due to the worsening relations between Ukraine and Russia, inter alia, after the referendum on March 16, 2014, on Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation.

However, a simple analysis of the dates proves that this is not the case.

The Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly to repeal the aforementioned language law on February 23, 2014, and the referendum in the Crimea took place only on March 16, 2014.

Therefore, it is necessary to reverse the cause and effect.

It was not the worsening of relations between Ukraine and Russia that caused the curtailment of the rights of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, but the curtailment of the rights of ethnic Russians in Ukraine that caused the worsening of relations between Ukraine and Russia.

Another reason for the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine is that after the so-called “Maidan victory” in 2014, symbols of Nazi Germany are widely used in Ukraine.

According to official data, the human losses of the peoples of the USSR during the war against Nazi Germany amounted to 26.6 million people out of a total population of 196.7 million people at the beginning of this war.
For comparison, it can be said that US losses on the German front amounted to approximately 250,000 people out of 133 million at the beginning of the war.

Therefore, in countries that were earlier parts of the USSR, the majority of citizens have a very negative attitude towards Nazi symbols.

Formally, these symbols are banned in Ukraine too, but Western media constantly show footages of the use of such symbols in Ukrainian government structures.

The beginning of this article shows a still from a story filmed by the German state media corporation Deutsche Welle last month at a Ukrainian army training camp.

And in August of last year, I published an article about the use of Nazi symbols by the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region.