You will Not-see them wearing patches and tattoos derived from the Dirlewanger Brigade, a unit so criminal (literally) the Waffen SS found it a bit too extreme. You will Not-see their tanks flying the red and black flags of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, enthusiastic Holocaust participants and murderous nationalist extremists. You will Not-see monuments to them everywhere in Ukraine. You will Not-see their symbols in practically every picture of Ukrainian military personnel.
Actually, you will see all of those things in Ukraine. But the Western press insists that you are Not-seeing what you think you are.
Among the more lurid grotesqueries emerging from the Western information war waged around the war in Ukraine is the blatant excusing, explaining away, and willful blindness to obvious Ukrainian affection for the symbols, and by extension, policies, of the vile, genocidal regime that ruled World War Two Germany.
And make no mistake- Ukraine has a very real Not-see problem. The strain of Ukrainian nationalism that illegally seized control in the 2014 coup is directly descended from the fascist Union of Ukrainian Nationalists (UON), enthusiastic supporters of German National Socialism, and especially its racist policies. Any instances of disputes between the two derived from fanatical Ukrainian nationalism bumping up against fanatical German nationalism. On every other point of policy, they were deeply simpatico: rabid anti-semitism, extreme ethnocentrism, and a homicidal hatred of “Bolshevism,” to their mind including anything even vaguely on the political left. And this rabid “anti-communism” (really, anti-leftism) blends nicely with their visceral anti-Russian racism, another ideology shared with the acolytes of the psycho, shit artist Austrian corporal.
This link is no longer even hidden, undoubtedly boosted by the ability of the Western press to now Not-see them. Western news outlets like PBS even take the time to scrub images, like this instance where a picture of Bandera was blurred out. The term “Banderite”, used across Eastern Europe as a slur (especially among the Russians, Poles, and Hungarians the UON enthusiastically slaughtered for being not Ukrainian), is actually embraced, if not completely openly, by individuals throughout the Ukrainian power structure.
Zaluzhny, the lauded commander of the Ukrainian forces, proudly displays a picture of Bandera over his shoulder in interviews, and is also regularly seen wearing what bizarrely looks like a Not-See charm bracelet. Zelensky, (whose willingness to associate with admirers of Holocaust perpetrating creeps, in normal circumstances, would earn him the label “self-hating Jew”) felt the need to essentially issue a massive public shrug about fanboys of the perpetrators of the absolutely horrifying, well documented (the UON and company, having loads of fun, took lots of pictures) Lvov (Lviv) pogrom.
And these proudly racist, fascist heirs of the UON have a similar taste for brutality and politically and racially motivated murder. Just like the 2014 coup, where the muscle was provided by far right soccer hooligans and fascist groups, the most fanatical and violent parts of the Ukrainian power structure have proved key players in the war. Units formed around Not-see all but in name far right groups have long been the muscle used to impose their view of Ukrainian nationalism, both in “peace” and war. The Azov Battalion, the militant arm of the fascist Svobda party, as well as far right militias transformed into ‘regular’ Ukrainian army units, like the Kraken and Aidar Battalions, have been key players on the battlefields. The fully documented, absolutely horrific acts of these groups haven’t stopped the Western MSM from furiously scrubbing their images, shamelessly and vigorously.
It is deeply disturbing, raising the question of how vile, racist, hateful, and basically incompatible with modern thinking groups have to be to be disqualified as imperial agents. When one considers the history of the Syrian dirty war, the question becomes even darker- does the West actually PREFER to work with literally the most reviled and feared extremists?
From the beginning of the Western effort to overthrow the Syrian government, Western agents worked indirectly and almost certainly directly with the most extreme elements in the opposition. The widely promoted characterization that their support was going to “moderate rebels” was a blatant fudge, if not an outright lie. The actual “moderates” were small in number and utterly powerless in relation to massively more numerous, much more violent rebel elements that would happily kill them- seeing them as just more apostates- given a chance.
And looking at it as scumbag Western spooks, whose only goal is maintaining and expanding imperial power, there is a sick logic to working with groups and individuals that come as close to pure evil as you can get. They can always be turned on- they won’t be believed in any circumstances- and they are a convenient threat to used against recalcitrant allies. And regardless of their supposed religious or ideological bent, they always seem easily persuaded to do basically anything for money and weapons.
And echoing reporting today on Ukraine, Western media contorted their reporting to pretend hardcore Islamist jihadis were rebel heroes. PBS even suited up a Salafi nutjob who ate a Syrian soldier’s bloody heart raw.
But to return to the current Not-seeing being done by the Western media in Ukraine, one of the creepier aspects of this sudden spinning of guys “who are just into Nordic runes” is the fact that within the last decade, the same MSM regularly named and shamed Ukraine’s Not-see’s.
Even scarier is that not only have the imperial mockingbirds forgotten the Ukrainian Not-see tune, anyone outside of mass media doing the same is now censored and banned by both governments and internet monopolists, a story much to extensive and important to be handled here.
And the parallels with their historic heroes extend on multiple lines, particularly in their approach to war. Propaganda is just as key as it was to the National Socialists, and just as manipulative, blatantly dishonest, and fanatical, from tales of wunderwaffen come to save the day to fantastic tales of crimes by brutal Russian subhumans.
Their propaganda is also extremely similar to their murderous idols not only in themes, but in methods. Many are straight out of the playbook of epic creep Joseph Goebbels- lie constantly and shamelessly (if you keep repeating it, some will believe), and accuse your enemies of committing YOUR crimes, and of having YOUR weaknesses.
Their approach to warfare is also similar, with maximum brutality and terrorism key components. And not only are enemy civilians readily sacrificed to the sacred cause, their own people are expected to throw themselves on Russian bayonets, if only to dull the blades.
Just like when things got desperate in Germany in 1945, near children and old men are conscripted just like Volkstrum, and thrown into battle with shockingly minimal training as meat barriers to slow the enemy as they are crushed. Casualty and POW reports prove this, with numerous men in their 50’s and even 60’s listed. Territorial units are now filled out with the disabled (just like Wehrmacht 'Stomach Divisions’) , and even women are being lined up to be fed into the meat grinder.
And just like the dying Reich, a death cult like fanaticism reigns, where any cost paid by the nation and the people for victory is not only reasonable, it is expected. All citizens are not only expected to throw themselves in front of Russian tanks, if the war is lost, it will be THEIR fault, not that of their leaders, for not doing enough.
And there is yet another similarity between the Not-sees of 2023 Ukraine to National Socialist Germany in 1945. Having chosen an unwinnable war with Russia, they are now being methodically crushed by the modern equivalent of the Red Army.
And just like the German racist militarists they so admire, all the media spin, wunderwaffen, death cult like sacrifices of masses for the cause, and fervent belief in their racial superiority over their opponent won’t change that reality a bit.