Monday, February 28, 2022

Canadian Troops Have Been Training Ukrainian Neo-Nazis In Crowd Control Techniques

 We've posted on the Americans training the Nazi Azov Brigade—there's another bunch of them near the Polish border in Lviv, HQ for the WWII Ukrainian National Socialist leader Stepan Bandera—those stories go back to 2014 and the U.S.; Canadian; U.K.-backed coup, and we've posted some on the Canadian stuff:

....Turning From the Dark Side of Heritage
Stepan Bandera’s ethnic nationalist party, the OUN, still exists today under another name: Svoboda, formerly the Social-National Party of Ukraine, whose ideology openly is and always was that kind of national socialism. A fairly minor party, their activists played a noticeable role in the Maidan uprising of 2014, as the only protestors openly committing violence against police forces and Party of Regions offices. Svoboda officials and leaders have deep connections with violent guerrilla groups like Azov Battalion, who have massacred ethnic minorities throughout the Russian invasion.

That Chrystia Freeland, as the Foreign Minister of one of the world’s more resilient liberal democracies, sold arms and sent Canadian soldiers to train neo-Nazi groups in the name of holding back Russian military aggression, is a serious fault. Her own identity as the child of a Catholic Ukrainian immigrant includes a weakness that made her enthusiastic support for the nationalist battalions more likely than not. Freeland’s heritage is the same as Bandera’s and his successors in Ukrainian fascism: the city of Lviv, cultural centre of the most European, least Russian-influenced, region of Ukraine....

But here's some more and after the jump, some news that may be good or bad depending on where you come down on Russians fighting neo-Nazis. 

From The Ottawa Citizen, November 8, 2021:

Allegations of Canadian troops training neo-Nazis and war criminals sparks military review

A review into how Canada approves the foreign military personnel its trains should be ready by early next year but parts of the study will need to remain secret.  

The review follows concerns raised by Jewish groups of the alleged involvement of Canadian troops in training neo-Nazis in Ukraine as well as warnings by soldiers last year that some Iraqis who have received instruction from Canada were involved in torture and rape. 

DND spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier said the review was started in late October. “This review will look holistically at all missions where the CAF conducts mentoring or capacity building functions with the armed forces of another nation,” he noted.

But Le Bouthillier indicated that some details of the review will remain secret as “the specifics of the process by which the CAF verifies the suitability of training candidates is subject to operational security restrictions.”

But critics point out the Canadian Forces does not actually conduct vetting of those foreign troops that it trains, which is at the heart of the problem. It leaves such vetting up to the nation providing the troops to be trained.

The review comes as a Jewish group in Ukraine is highlighting a new video of Ukrainian paratroopers singing a song to honour Stepan Bandera. Bandera was a anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator whose organization is linked to the murder of more than 100,000 Jews and Poles during the Second World War. He is revered in Ukrainian nationalist and far-right circles.....

....MUCH MORE

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Note the date. That was less than four months ago.

I may have been confusing the "torture and rape" with the Mounties beating people in the streets. My bad. And by-the-bye it was 100,000 of their Polish neighbors in Galicia and Volhynia that the Ukrainians killed. 

The number of Jews is a multiple of that and if you count the Trawniki men working at Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Majdanek the Ukes were complicit with their new German BFF's in the murder of something like 1.7 million people in the murder factories.

Anyhoo, enough history, here's the bad news for the neo-Nazi Azov battalion, fully integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the Maidan coup in 2014.

Their home on the Sea of Azov, Mariupol, is about to be surrounded on the landward side and the Russian Navy has control of the Sea of Azov and much of the Black Sea, Which was what Crimea was all about (in Canadian: all aboot)  

Here's a poli-sci guy from the University of Ottawa:

Mariupol is north of Krasnodar across the Sea of Azov and as can be seen on the now-two-day-old map is the focus of a pincer movement. 

Zaporizhia, the site of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is to the northwest. 

That's all I knw. It's complicated. 

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