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“The key is not to let the American people [who pay the bills] in on the secret” that “their” government backs events like burning innocents alive in the 2014 Odessa massacres":
4/20/2022, “Curfew for [then 8th] Anniversary of Odessa Massacre That Sparked Rebellion,“ Consortium News, Joe Lauria:
“[Ukraine] Authorities in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have set a 24-hour curfew from May 1-3 [2022] to prevent protests commemorating the burning alive on May 2, 2014 of
48 people who had rejected the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev earlier that year [2014]….For the duration of the ‘curfew’ Odessans are not allowed to leave their homes.”…
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Above, Grim Reaper: Feb. 2016, “State Dept’s Mission: Coup d’etat,” The Technocratic Tyranny
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This weekend marks the 11th anniversary” of the US-backed burning alive of 48 human beings in the Odessa massacre.
“On May 2, 2014, Neo-Nazi gangs massacred 48 people
who had rejected the U.S.-backed overthrow
of a democratically-elected government in Kiev earlier that year.
The deliberately-set fire in the Trade Unions Building in Odessa has never been satisfactorily investigated by Ukrainian authorities.
Eight days later [May 2014] two ethnic Russian majority
oblasts in the east declared independence from Ukraine,
leading to the U.S.-backed war against them by the unconstitutional government….[By brutally violent means, Ukraine thugs helped Ukraine become a US colony. No one had asked the people in Eastern regions if they wanted to be a US colony].
This is how Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News, reported the story on May 10, 2014. He emphasized
the effort by the U.S. government and media to bury the U.S. role
in the 2014 unconstitutional change of government and the part played by Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, which the U.S. government, corporate media and their “anti-disinformation” allies are still trying to hide.
“The key to all these unsavory alliances
is for the American people not to know about the real nature of these U.S. clients,” he wrote.”
“May 10, 2014, Exclusive: For the second time in a week, Ukrainian anti-regime protesters holed up in a building were killed by fires set by pro-regime attackers with ties to newly formed neo-Nazi security forces, reports Robert Parry.”
By Robert Parry, Special to Consortium News
First published May 10, 2014
“In Ukraine, a grisly new strategy bringing in neo-Nazi paramilitary forces
to set fire to occupied buildings
in the country’s rebellious southeast appears to be emerging as
a favored tactic as the [US taxpayer funded] coup-installed regime in Kiev seeks to put down resistance from ethnic Russians and other opponents.
The technique first emerged on May 2 [2014] in the port city of Odessa when pro-regime militants
chased dissidents into the Trade Unions Building and then set it on fire.
As some 40 or more ethnic Russians were burned alive or died of smoke inhalation, the crowd outside mocked them as red-and-black Colorado potato beetles, with the chant of “Burn, Colorado, burn.”
Afterwards, reporters spotted graffiti on the building’s walls containing Swastika-like symbols and honoring the “Galician SS,” the Ukrainian adjunct to the German SS in World War II.
This tactic of torching an occupied building occurred again on May 9 [2014] in Mariupol, another port city,
as neo-Nazi paramilitaries organized now as the regime’s “National Guard” were dispatched
to a police station that had been seized by dissidents, possibly including police officers who rejected a new Kiev-appointed chief.
Again, the deployment of the “National Guard” was followed by burning the building and killing a significant but still-undetermined number of people inside. (Early estimates of the dead range from seven to 20.)
In the U.S. press, Ukraine’s “National Guard” is usually described as a new force derived from the Maidan’s “self-defense” units that spearheaded the Feb. 22 revolt in Kiev overthrowing elected President Viktor Yanukovych.
But the Maidan’s “self-defense” units were drawn primarily
from well-organized bands of neo-Nazi extremists from western Ukraine
who hurled firebombs at police and fired weapons
as the anti-Yanukovych protests turned increasingly violent.
But the mainstream U.S. press in line with State Department guidance has sought to minimize or dismiss the key role played by neo-Nazis in these “self-defense” forces as well as in the new government.
At most, you’ll see references to
these neo-Nazis as “Ukrainian nationalists.”
Turning to the Neo-Nazis
Odessa Trade Union Building on fire, May 2, 2014. (Screenshot from Roses Have Thorns, Part 6, The Odessa Massacre)
However, as resistance to Kiev’s [US-backed] right-wing regime expanded in the ethnic Russian east and south,
the coup regime found itself unable to count on regular Ukrainian troops
to fire on civilians.
Thus, its national security chief Andriy Parubiy, himself a neo-Nazi, turned to the intensely motivated
neo-Nazi shock troops
who had been battle-tested during the coup.
These extremists were reorganized as special units of the National Guard and dispatched to the east and south to do the dirty work that the regular Ukrainian military was unwilling to do.
Many of these extreme Ukrainian nationalists lionize World War II Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and like Bandera dream of a racially pure Ukraine, free of Jews, ethnic Russians and other “inferior” beings.
The slur of calling the Odessa protesters Colorado beetles — as they were being burned alive — was a reference to the black-and-red colors used by the ethnic Russian resistance in the east.
Though the mainstream U.S. press either describes Parubiy simply as the interim government’s chief of national security (with no further context) or possibly as a “nationalist,” his fuller background includes his founding of the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, blending radical Ukrainian nationalism with neo-Nazi symbols. Last year, he became commandant of the Maidan’s “self-defense forces.”
[See: Curfew for Anniversary of Odessa Massacre That Sparked Rebellion]
Then, on April 15, [2014] after becoming the Kiev regime’s chief of national security and finding Ukrainian troops unwilling to fire on fellow Ukrainians in the east, Parubiy went on Twitter to announce, “Reserve unit of National Guard formed #Maidan Self-defense volunteers was sent to the front line this morning.”
Those National Guard forces also were reported on the ground in Odessa when the trade unions building was torched on May 2 and they showed up again in Mariupol as the police station was burned on May 9, according to a report in The New York Times on Saturday.
The Times mentioned the appearance and then disappearance of the National Guard without providing any useful background about this newly organized force.
In the language used by the mainstream U.S. press and the Kiev regime, the neo-Nazi brigades are “volunteers” and “self-defense” units while the rebels resisting the post-coup regime are “pro-Russian militants” or “terrorists.”
The Times reported the May 9 [2014] attack in Mariupol this way:
“Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, wrote on Facebook that about 60 pro-Russian militants had tried to seize the city’s police headquarters. The police called for support from the Ukrainian national guard, a newly formed force of quickly trained volunteers drawn from participants in last winter’s street protests in the capital.
Mr. Avakov wrote that 20 ‘terrorists’ had died in the fighting, while those who survived dispersed and hid in a residential neighborhood.”
The Times added:
“The national guard, though, pulled out of the city soon afterward. Residents who had gathered around the police station offered an account that differed from the interior minister’s. The city police, they said, were sympathetic to the pro-Russian side and had mutinied against an out-of-town chief newly installed by the interim government in Kiev.
Armored vehicles had driven into the city to confront the rebellious police, not the militants, residents said. Holes in the brick wall suggested heavy weaponry. Gunfire echoed downtown.”
After the deaths inside Mariupol’s police station, the Kiev regime rejoiced at the extermination of a large number of “terrorists.”
As the U.K.’s Independent reported, “The military action is accompanied by stridently aggressive rhetoric from politicians in Kiev who are crowing about the numbers of ‘terrorists’ killed and threatening further lethal punishment.”
The Kiev’s regime’s concern that some local police forces have at best mixed loyalties has led it again to turn to the Maidan “self-defense” forces to serve as a special “Kiev-1” police force, which was dispatched to Odessa amid that city’s recent violence.
A group of Nicaraguan Contras rest after a firefight, Jan. 1, 1987. (Tiomono, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
Though many Americans don’t want to believe that their government would collaborate with neo-Nazis or other extremist elements, there
actually has been a long history of just that.
In conflicts as diverse as the revolutions in Central America and the anti-Soviet Afghan war in the 1980s to the current civil conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, it has not been uncommon for
the side favored by the United States to rely on extremist paramilitary forces to engage in the most brutal fighting.
In Central American conflicts that I covered for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s, some of the “death squads” associated with pro-U.S. regimes were drawn from neo-fascist movements allied with the far-right World Anti-Communist League.
In Afghanistan, the C.I.A. relied on Islamist extremists, including Saudi jihadist Osama bin Laden,
to kill Russians and their Afghan government allies.
Today, in Syria, many of the most aggressive fighters against Bashar al-Assad’s government
are Arab jihadists recruited from across the region and armed by Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf oil sheikdoms.
So, it fits with a pattern for the U.S. government to hold its nose and rely on neo-Nazis from western Ukraine to take the fight to rebellious ethnic Russians in the east and south.
The key to all these unsavory alliances is for the American people not to know about the real nature of these U.S. clients.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration advanced the concept of “public diplomacy”
to intimidate journalists and human rights activists who dared report on the brutality
of U.S.-backed forces in El Salvador and Guatemala and the C.I.A.-trained Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Thus, most Americans weren’t sure what to make of recurring reports about right-wing
“death squads” killing priests and nuns
and committing other massacres across Central America.
Regarding Afghanistan, it took the American people until Sept. 11, 2001, to fully comprehend whom the Reagan administration had been working with in the 1980s.
Similarly, the Obama administration has tried to maintain the fiction that the Syrian opposition
is dominated by well-meaning “moderates.”…
So, it should come as no surprise that the Kiev regime would turn to its Maidan “self-defense” forces formed around neo-Nazi militias to go into southern and eastern Ukraine with the purpose of burning to death ethnic Russian “insects” occupying buildings.
The key is not to let the American people [who pay all the bills] in on the secret.“
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“[For more, see Consortium News‘ “Ukraine, Through the U.S. ‘Looking Glass.’”]
The late investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He began Consortium News in 1995.”
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