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The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution confronting Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal agile Nazis. It is as uncomplicated as that, writes Craig Murray.

Members of the special Ukrainian neo-Nazi police regiment Azov in 2014. (My News24, CC Past three.0, Wikimedia Eatables)

By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.u.k.

T his is verbatim from the official study of the U.North. General Assembly plenary of Dec. 16:

"The Assembly next took upwardly the written report on 'Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,' containing two draft resolutions.

"By a recorded vote of 130 in favour to ii against (Ukraine, United States), with 49 abstentions, the Assembly so adopted draft resolution I, 'Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance'." It goes on:

"By its terms, the Assembly expressed deep business organization nearly the glorification of the Nazi movement, neo?Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting monuments and memorials, holding public demonstrations in the name of the glorification of the Nazi by, the Nazi movement and neo-Nazism, and declaring or attempting to declare such members and those who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition, collaborated with the Nazi movement and committed war crimes and crimes against humanity 'participants in national liberation movements'.

Further, the Associates urged States to eliminate all forms of racial bigotry past all appropriate means, including through legislation, urging them to address new and emerging threats posed by the ascension in terrorist attacks incited by racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion or belief. Information technology would phone call on States to ensure that education systems develop the necessary content to provide accurate accounts of history, as well as promote tolerance and other international homo rights principles. It as well would condemn without reservation any deprival of or attempt to deny the Holocaust, too as any manifestation of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities on the footing of ethnic origin or religious belief."

Torchlight march in accolade of the ceremony of the nascence of Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian wartime fascist leader, Kyiv, January 1, 2015 (VO Svoboda/cc-by-3.0/Wikimedia Commons)

In Ukraine, back up for the Ukrainian nationalist divisions who fought alongside the Nazis has go, over the final eight years, the founding ideology of the modernistic post-2013 Ukrainian state (which is very different from the various Ukrainian state which briefly existed 1991-2013). The full resolution on Nazism and racism passed by the General Assembly is lengthy,  just these provisions in particular were voted confronting by the United States and by the Ukraine:

• "Emphasizes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that 'any commemorative celebration of the Nazi authorities, its allies and related organizations, whether official or unofficial, should be prohibited past States', also emphasizes that such manifestations do injustice to the retentiveness of the countless victims of the Second World State of war and negatively influence children and young people, and stresses in this regard that it is important that States take measures, in accordance with international human rights constabulary, to counteract any celebration of the Nazi SS system and all its integral parts, including the Waffen SS;

• Expresses business about recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought confronting Nazism during the 2nd World War, as well equally to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Boosted Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949;

• Condemns without reservation any denial or attempt to deny the Holocaust;

• Welcomes the phone call of the Special Rapporteur for the agile preservation of those Holocaust sites that served as Nazi expiry camps, concentration and forced labour camps and prisons, as well as his encouragement of States to take measures, including legislative, police enforcement and educational measures, to put an end to all forms of Holocaust denial."

As reported in The Times of Israel, hundreds took part in a demonstration in Kiev in May and others throughout Ukraine, in accolade of a specific division of the SS. That is but i march and 1 division — glorification of its Nazi by is a mainstream part of Ukrainian political civilization.

Protesters in Kiev with neo-Nazi symbols – SS-Volunteer Division "Galicia" and Patriot of Ukraine flags, 2014. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Eatables)

In 2018 a bipartisan letter by l U.Southward. representatives condemned multiple events commemorating Nazi allies held in Ukraine with official Ukrainian government bankroll.

At that place are no two ways about it. The Ukrainian vote against the U.Northward. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the credo of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that.

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The United States claims that its vote against was motivated by concern for liberty of speech. We accept the Explanation of Vote that the Us gave at the committee stage:

"The United States Supreme Courtroom has consistently affirmed the constitutional right to freedom of oral communication and the rights of peaceful associates and association, including by avowed Nazis"

That sounds good and noble. But consider this — why does the United States government believe that avowed Nazis take freedom of speech communication, but that Julian Assange does non? Yous can take liberty of speech communication to advocate the murder of Jews and immigrants, but non to reveal U.Due south. state of war crimes?

Imperial Interests

Ukrainian volunteer battalion members with neo-Nazi Wolfsangel symbol, July 24, 2014. (CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Why was the U.Due south. authorities targeting journalists in the invasion of Iraq? The U.Due south. believes in freedom of speech when it serves its imperial interests. Information technology does not practise so otherwise. This is the very worst kind of high-sounding hypocrisy, in aid of defending the Nazis in Ukraine.

The 2d reason the United States gives is that Russia is making the whole thing upward:

"a document most notable for its thinly veiled attempts to legitimize Russian disinformation campaigns denigrating neighboring nations and promoting the distorted Soviet narrative of much of contemporary European history, using the cynical guise of halting Nazi glorification"

The problem here is that it is very difficult to portray The Times of Israel or 50 bipartisan U.S. congressional representatives every bit a Russian disinformation campaign. There is no historical dubiety whatever of Ukrainian nationalist forces' active back up of Nazism and participation in genocide, not merely of Jews and Roma but of Poles and religious minorities. In that location is no doubt whatsoever of the modern glorification in Ukraine of these evil people.

Memorial cross marking the identify in the Kaunas district of Republic of lithuania where Juozas Luksa died. (Vilensija, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

It is of form not just Ukraine. In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the tape of collaboration with Nazis, of active participation in fighting for Nazis, and in active participation in genocide is extremely shaming. Throughout Eastern Europe there is a failure in these "victim nations" to expect history squarely in the eye and to admit what happened — a failure the United States in actually promoting as "a campaign confronting Russian disinformation".

I recommend to yous the website  Defending History, run by the admirable David Katz, which is a large and valuable resources on this website from a Lithuanian Jewish perspective that cannot remotely be dismissed as Russian or left-fly propaganda. The front page currently features the December 2021 naming of a square in the capital later on Lithuanian "freedom fighter" Juokas Luksa "Daumantas," a man who commenced the massacre of Jews in Vilnius ahead of the inflow of German language forces.

These are precisely the kind of commemorations the resolution is against. There has been a rash of devastation of Soviet war memorials and fifty-fifty war graves, and erection of commemorations, in various form, of Nazis throughout the Baltic states. That is what paras 6 and 7 of the resolution refer to, and in that location is no uncertainty whatsoever of the truth of these events. It is non "Russian disinformation."

However the European union, in support of its Baltic states members and their desire to forget or deny historical truth and to build a new national myth expunging their agile role in the genocide of their Jewish and Roma populations, would non support the U.N.Resolution on Nazism. The EU countries abstained, every bit did the U.1000.. The truth of course is that NATO intends to use the descendants of Eastern European racists against Russian federation much as Hitler did, at to the lowest degree in a cold war context.

You won't find that in the Explanation of Vote.

Craig Murray is an writer, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British administrator to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. His coverage is entirely dependent on reader back up. Subscriptions to keep this web log going aregratefully received.

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Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/23/us-ukraine-refuse-to-condemn-nazism-at-un/

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