Perhaps the biggest taboo of the U.S. Mainstream coverage of the Ukraine crisis is to block out the role played by neo-Nazi militias in both the Feb. 22 coup and this summer’s bloody offensive in eastern Ukraine, but the ugly reality occasionally breaks through, as William Blum noted in Anti-Empire Report. By William Blum Ever since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects the US/European Union/NATO triumvirate have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis. It’s been virtually unmentionable.

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I’m sure that a poll taken in the United States on this issue would reveal near universal ignorance of the numerous neo-Nazi actions, including publicly calling for death to “Russians, Communists and Jews.” But in the past week the dirty little secret has somehow poked its head out from behind the curtain a bit. Far-right militia members demonstrating outside Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. (Screen shot from RT video via YouTube video) On Sept. 9, NBCnews.com reported that “German TV shows Nazi symbols on helmets of Ukraine soldiers.” The German station showed pictures of a soldier wearing a combat helmet with the “SS runes” of Hitler’s infamous black-uniformed elite corps. (Runes are the letters of an alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples.) A second soldier was shown with a swastika on his helmet.On Sept.

13, the Washington Post showed a photo of the sleeping quarter of a member of the Azov Battalion, one of the Ukrainian paramilitary units fighting the pro-Russian separatists. On the wall above the bed is a large swastika. Not to worry, the Post quoted the platoon leader stating that the soldiers embrace symbols and espouse extremist notions as part of some kind of “romantic” idea. Yet, it is Russian president Vladimir Putin who is compared to Adolf Hitler by everyone from Prince Charles to Princess Hillary because of the incorporation of Crimea as part of Russia. On this question Putin has stated: “The Crimean authorities have relied on the well-known Kosovo precedent, a precedent our Western partners created themselves, with their own hands, so to speak. In a situation absolutely similar to the Crimean one, they deemed Kosovo’s secession from Serbia to be legitimate, arguing everywhere that no permission from the country’s central authorities was required for the unilateral declaration of independence. “The UN’s international court, based on Paragraph 2 of Article 1 of the UN Charter, agreed with that, and in its decision of 22 July 2010 noted the following, and I quote verbatim: ‘No general prohibition may be inferred from the practice of the Security Council with regard to unilateral declarations of independence.’” Putin as Hitler is dwarfed by the stories of Putin as invader (Vlad the Impaler?).

For months the Western media has been beating the drums about Russia having (actually) invaded Ukraine. I recommend reading: “How Can You Tell Whether Russia has Invaded Ukraine?” by Dmitry Orlov And keep in mind the NATO encirclement of Russia.

Imagine Russia setting up military bases in Canada and Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Remember what a Soviet base in Cuba led to. William Blum is an author, historian, and renowned critic of U.S. Foreign policy. He is the author of and, among others.

[This article originally appeared at the Anti-Empire Report,.]. Nazism: History is Repeating itself in Ukraine (VIDEO) It’s been said those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it In the 1930’s, special interests backed the Nazis as a means of achieving greater power and wealth. Today in Ukraine, they are doing it again.

Play by play, word for word- using the same toxic demagoguery and arraying troops, armor, and airpower against their own people and their neighbors. History is repeating itself because some of us have clearly failed to learn from it.

For those of us that have learned history’s lessons, it is time to spread the word. Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928. His family were members of the nobility (or “szlachta” in Polish) and hailed from Galicia in then eastern Poland (now in Ukraine). His father, a Polish diplomat, was posted to Germany from 1931 to 1935, and the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938 during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Given Brzezinski’s awareness of what has called “the extraordinary violence that was perpetrated against Poland” during the Second World War, he surely has little compunction about making both the Ukrainians and the Russians “bleed for as much and as long as is possible.” •. The involvement of the neo-Nazi in Ukraine is not only hidden in the US mainstream media, but the whole world at large. In South Africa I have not seen this kind of perspective in any of our media including the national broadcasters.