THE BROWN REVOLUTION OF UKRAINE
By Israel Shamir Feb 25, 2014.
[For those who miss it. Here only extracts]
SERPENT
EGGS
In the Western
Ukraine, the serpent eggs hatched: children of Nazi collaborators who had
imbibed hatred towards the Russians with their mothers’ milk. Their fathers had
formed a network under Reinhard Gehlen, the German spymaster. In 1945, as
Germany was defeated, Gehlen swore allegiance to the US and delivered his
networks to the CIA. They continued their guerrilla war against the Soviets
until 1956. Their cruelty was legendary, for they aimed to terrify the
population into full compliance to their command. Notoriously, they strangulated
the Ukrainians suspected of being friendly to Russians with their bare hands.
A horrifying confession
of a participant tells of their activities in
Volyn: “One night, we strangulated 84 men. We strangulated adults, as for
little kids, we held their legs, swung and broke their heads at a doorpost.
…Two nice kids, Stepa and Olya, 12 and 14 years old… we tore the younger one
into two parts, and there was no need to strangulate her mother Julia, she died
of a heart attack” and so on and so on. They slaughtered hundreds of thousands
of Poles and Jews; even the dreadful Baby Yar massacre was done by them
The children of
these Bandera murderers were brought up to hate Communism, Soviets and
Russians, and in adoration of their fathers’ deeds. They formed the spearhead
of the pro-US anti-government rebels in the Ukraine, the Right Sector led by
out-and-out fascist Dmytro
Yarosh. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDC0lDxinY#t=171]
Behind the
spearhead of the Right Sector, with its fervent anti-communist and anti-Russian
fighters, a larger organisation could be counted on: the neo-Nazi Freedom
(Svoboda), of Tyagnibok. Some years ago Tyagnibok called
for a fight against Russians and Jews, now he has become more cautious
regarding the Jews.
The
parliamentary parties (the biggest one is the party of Julia Timoshenko with
25% of seats, the smaller one was the party of Klitschko the boxer with 15%)
would support the turmoil as a way to gain power they lost at the elections.
REVOLUTION:
THE OUTLINE
The revolution
deserves to be described in a few lines: Yanukovych was not too bad a
president, prudent though weak. Still the Ukraine came to the edge of financial
abyss. (You can read more about it in my previous piece
: What Really Happened in Ukraine. By
Israel Shamir. Dec 2013. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/20/what-really-happened-in-ukraine/).
He tried to save the situation by allying with the EC, but the EC had no money
to spare. Then he tried to make a deal with Russia, and Putin offered him a way
out, without even demanding from him that the Ukraine join the Russian-led TC.
This triggered the violent response of the EC and the US, as they were worried
it would strengthen Russia.
Yanuk, as people
call him for short, had few friends. Powerful Ukrainian oligarchs weren’t
enamoured with him. Besides the usual reasons, they did not like the raider
habits of Yanuk’s son, who would steal other men’s businesses.
Yanuk’s
electorate, the Russian-speaking people of the Ukraine (and they are a majority
in the land, like English-speaking Scots are majority in Scotland) were
disappointed with him because he did not give them the right to speak Russian
and teach their children in Russian. The followers of Julia Timoshenko disliked
him for jailing their leader. (She richly deserved it: she hired assassins,
stole billions of Ukrainian state money in cahoots with a former prime
minister, made a crooked deal with Gazprom at the expense of Ukrainian
consumers, and what not.) Extreme nationalists hated him for not eradicating
the Russian language.
The US-orchestrated attack on the elected President
followed Gene Sharp's instructions to a tee, namely: (1) seize a central square and
organise a mass peaceful sit-in, (2) speak endlessly of danger of violent
dispersal, (3) if the authorities do nothing, provoke bloodshed, (4) yell
bloody murder, (5) the authority is horrified and stupefied and (6) removed and
(7) new powers take over.
The most
important element of the scheme has never been voiced by the cunning Sharp, and
that is why the Occupy Wall Street movement (who thumbed through the book)
failed to achieve the desired result. You have to have the Masters of Discourse,
Western mainstream media, on your side. Otherwise, the government will squash
you as they did with the Occupy and many other similar movements. But here, the
Western media was fully on the rebels’ side, for the events were organised by
the US embassy.
At first, they
gathered for a sit-in on the Independence Square (aka “Maidan Square”) some
people they knew: recipients of USAID grants via the NGO network, wrote
a Ukrainian expert Andrey Vajra, networks of fugitive oligarch Khoroshkovski,
neo-Nazis of the Right Sector and radicals of the Common Cause. The peaceful
assembly was lavishly entertained by artists; food and drink were served for
free, free sex was encouraged – it was a carnival in the centre of the capital,
and it began to attract the masses, as would happen in every city in the known
universe. This carnival was paid for by the oligarchs and by the US embassy.
But the carnival
could not last forever. As per (2), rumours of violent dispersal were spread.
People became scared and drifted away. Only a small crowd of activists remained
on the square. Provocation as per (3) was supplied by a Western agent within
the administration, Mr Sergey Levochkin. He wrote his resignation letter,
posted it and ordered police to violently disperse the sit-in. Police moved in
and dispersed the activists. Nobody was killed, nobody was seriously wounded, -
today, after a hundredfold dead, it is ridiculous even to mention this
thrashing, - but the opposition yelled bloody murder at the time. The world
media, this powerful tool in the hands of Masters of Discourse, decried
“Yanukovych massacred children”. The EC and the US slapped on sanctions, foreign
diplomats moved in, all claiming they want to protect peaceful demonstrators,
while at the same time beefing up the Maidan crowd with armed gunmen and Right
Sector fighters.
We referred to
Gene Sharp, but the Maidan had an additional influence, that of Guy Debord and
his concept of Society of
Spectacle. [ http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/
] It was not a real thing, but a
well-done make-believe, as was its predecessor, the August 1991 Moscow “coup”.
Yanukovych did
everything to build up the Maidan resistance: he would send his riot police to
disperse the crowd, and after they did only half of the job, he would call them
back, and he did this every day. After such treatment, even a very placid
dog would bite.
The
Spectacle-like unreal quality of Kiev events was emphasized by arrival of the
imperial warmonger, the neocon philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. He came to
Maidan like he came to Libya and Bosnia, claiming human rights and threatening
sanctions and bombing. Whenever he comes, war is following. I hope I shall be
away from every country he plans to visit.
First victims of
the Brown Revolution were the monuments – those of Lenin, for they do hate
communism in every form, and those of the world war, because the
revolutionaries solidarise with the lost side, with the German Nazis.
History will
tell us to what extent Yanuk and his advisors understood what they were doing.
Anyway, he encouraged the fire of Maidan by his inefficient raids by a
weaponless police force. The neo-Nazis of Maidan used snipers against the
police force, dozens of people were killed, but President Obama called upon
Yanuk to desist, and he desisted. After renewed shooting, he would send the
police in again. An EC diplomat would threaten him with the Hague tribunal
dock, and he would call his police back. No government could function in such
circumstances.
Eventually he
collapsed, signed on the dotted line and departed for unknown destination. The
rebels seized power, forbade the Russian language and began sacking Kiev and
Lvov. Now the life of the placid people of Kiev has been turned into a living
hell: daily robberies, beating, murder abound. The victors are preparing a
military operation against the Russian-speaking areas in the South East of
Ukraine. The spectacle of the revolution can yet turn really bloody.
Some Ukrainians
hope that Julia Timoshenko, freshly released from jail, will be able to rein
the rebels in. Others hope that President Putin will pay heed to the Ukrainian
events, now that his Olympic games are, mercifully, finished. The spectacle is
not over until the fat lady sings, but sing she will – her song still remains
to be seen and heard.
English
language editing by Ken Freeland
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Israel Shamir is an internationally
acclaimed radical spiritual and political thinker, Internet columnist and
writer. His comments about current affairs and their deeper meaning are
published on his site www.Israelshamir.net.
He can be reached
at adam@israelshamir.net
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