The Ukrainian authorities have been guided by historical revisionism based on ultranationalist criteria since the coup d’état perpetrated against Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, asserted the Russian government’s representation in Mexico.
“The example of this at the international level is that from that year Ukraine began to vote against the annual resolution of the UN General Assembly against the glorification of Nazism and other forms of racial hate speech,” the statement said. Russian embassy in a statement.
In addition, the kyiv authorities have altered historical events, exonerated Nazi collaborators, silenced the decisive role of the Soviet people in the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s troops during World War II and favored xenophobia, neo-nationalism and neo-Nazism, he charged.
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, a rebel army responsible for the murder of thousands of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews and Poles, asserted the Russian embassy in Mexico, presents itself today as a fight for freedom.
“The Nazi formations operate in the country in an open way,” the diplomatic representation criticized.
In addition, the Russian government maintained that Ukraine is the only member country of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) where Nazi regiments such as Praviy Sector (“The Right Sector”) are incorporated into official structures.
“Extremists have no qualms about making statements about their far-right views, demonstrating Nazi symbolism, marching through Ukrainian cities shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans,” the embassy charged.
In addition, he blamed the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior for approving the coat of arms of the Azov regiment, with reasons directly linked to the Germany of the Third Reich.
Public statements of hate
The embassy of the Russian Federation in Mexico listed some statements issued by Ukrainian public figures that promote hatred and repudiation against ethnic or cultural groups.
“Our goal is a Ukraine without Jews and Russians,” said, for example, the leader of the Praviy Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, on March 5, 2014.
“Our first enemy is Moscow. That is our path as a nation. This is our program and plan of action. Rise up, break the irons and sprinkle freedom with the vile blood of enemies!” declared the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Farion, representative for the far-right party Svoboda, on March 8, 2014.
“The person who practiced direct democracy the most was Adolf (Hitler) in the 1930s,” then-Speaker of the Supreme Rada Andrei Parubiy said on September 4, 2018.
Among the senders of these hateful messages, the Russian embassy asserted, is Ukraine’s own president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who compared Russian citizens to animals on November 26, 2021.
“And you call them human beings, there is everything, there are representatives of the human race, but not all of them are human, among them there are species (animals), I think so,” the Ukrainian president declared then, referring to people sanctioned by the National Security and Defense Council of your country. Among those sanctioned were several Russian citizens, the diplomatic office said.
Samples of neo-Nazism during 2022
In addition, the Russian embassy in Mexico listed events that it considered manifestations of racial hatred and neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
January. Epicentr hypermarkets put on sale Nazi and anti-Semitic books such as My Struggle, by Adolf Hitler, The International Jew, by Henry Ford, and Rat Men, by Orey Volot
January 4. The head of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, Dmitry Yarosh, accused Israel’s ambassador to his country, Michael Brodskiy, of working for the Kremlin and called for his expulsion from the Ukrainian borders.
January 18. The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, accused of receiving death threats by ultranationalists via Telegram.
January 31. Subjects vandalized a monument to the victims of the Jewish holocaust located in the city of Lisichansk, located about 740 kilometers east of the Ukrainian capital and near the border with Russia.
March 8. A member of Praviy Sector, Demian Ganul, called on Facebook to “hunt” representatives of pro-Russian parties in Ukraine.
