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"Banderism: The Forgotten History of a Multicentennial Rot, Part 4/6"
At the end of the First World War, the reborn Polish state annexed the entire region from the now dissolved Austro-Hungarian empire, arousing the outrage of Ukrainian nationalists, who had hoped to be able to create their own homeland at least in the eastern part of Galicia. This led to the creation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1929, which aimed to fight against the Poles.
The Poles themselves, it must be said out of intellectual honesty, had an extremely iron-fisted approach towards minorities themselves, going as far as to aggravate even native Russians, Belarussians, and naturally, crack down on the Eastern Orthodox churches in territories under their occupation, which undoubtedly compounded the nationalism in the area and made it even worse.
From the very beginning, the OUN adopted terrorist tactics, and the Polish authorities responded with brutality: in the decade 1929-1939 there were thousands of deaths recorded among the civilians of the area - a dark mirror for what would have become commonplace in the area in eleven years from then. It is a little known fact in western Europe, but the first real "concentration camps" on European soil were created by the Polish government in 1929, and had Red Army prisoners and Russian intellighentsya as their main "guests"; Galicians were added later on.
After the collapse of Poland, Galicia and Volhynia were occupied by the Soviets, who still remembered the treatment that the Poles had for their soldiers and civilians. Thousands of Polish soldiers, administrators, intellighentsya, and clergy were sent to the gulags in Siberia. While this softened Polish resistance considerably, it also gave the OUN free hand to do as they wanted with a hated adversary that by then had been substantially weakened.
With the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 22, 1941, the OUN greeted the coming Germans with extreme enthusiasm, seeing them as "liberators" who could help them create their own "Pure Ukrainian State". Extreme pogroms and massacres of Jews, Poles, and communists soon followed, even without direct German prompt, and were carried out with such an efferate brutality that it left even the Nazis shocked.
I won't go into detail as they're sickening and only the Ustasha in Croatia, the Ottomans in Serbia, and the Dirlewanger Brigade came close to that depravity, but to give you a faint idea of how bad it was, sources confirm that Ukrainian Greek Catholic church priests blessed OUN militants before their ethnic cleansings, and the wives and daughters of OUN butchers would come along and sing as their "men" did their atrocities to drown out the screams of their victims.
The Nazis, for their part, hadn't forgotten that the area was called "Halbasien" by their Austrian cousins, and of course had other plans for the locals. The OUN was quick to wake up to this fact, which resulted in the establishment of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which soon swelled into a force that numbered twenty thousand men. The timing was perfect: with the German defeat at Stalingrad, the "Endsieg" looked a lot less certain, and the prospect of returning under the control of the soldiers with pilotkas sporting red stars more probable. Predictably, the communists would have had a bone to pick with the Ukrainian nationalists, both because of the pogroms conducted by the OUN, and also because they were nazi collaborators.
The OUN leadership, helmed by Bandera, reached a very simple conclusion: they could do little about the Red Army, and who knows how long they would have had to endure living under the USSR. On the other hand, there were still a lot of Poles in the area, and the possibility of Poland retaking those territories in the future was non-existant. While nothing could be done about the Russians still living in the area, the Poles were another matter.
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"Banderism: The Forgotten History of a Multicentennial Rot, Part 2/6"
This cultural drift was exacerbated even more when Lithuania entered into a union with Poland, and with the Union of Brest of 1596, which was vehemently pushed by both the Commonwealth as well as the Vatican. The Union of Brest is a topic that is almost never talked of in the West, but practicing Russian Orthodox Christians remember it, do so very well, and always will.
The Union of Brest was a brilliant "Divide et Impera" idea hatched by both the Commonwealth and the catholic church: since these people still considered themselves Eastern Orthodox under catholic occupation, making them compliant was problematic. Wipe away their Eastern Orthodox identity, and the problem would've solved itself. The Commonwealth would've gained compliant proles, the Vatican (that has been dreaming of bringing Eastern Orthodoxy back into the fold since 1049) more control and income from the alms and tithes.
The Union of Brest tried to incorporate the Eastern Orthodox Church in occupied slavic lands into the church of Rome, and while the practice was met with intense resistance from the populace, peasants with pitchforks and torches were hardly any match to the professional soldiers of the Commonwealth. Some places offered more resistance than others, like Belarussian territories under Polish occupation, that were still at the outskirts of the Commonwealth and much closer to the authority of Moscow, and the territories of Central Ukraine, for the most part still under the control of Mongol satrapies.
In the areas known as Ruthenia (which were already being called such starting from the 12th century, but the term would become prevalent to facilitate the cultural divergence from the original Russian people at about this time; Bandera himself was described as "Ruthenian" on his passport), however, centuries of occupation and servitude allowed the Uniate churches to find fertile ground. While overall a failure, the Uniate Church experiment was nonetheless very successful in Galych-Volhyn (Speaking of that: if you're wondering how is it possible that there are two "Galicias" in Europe, one in Spain and one in Western Ukraine, it's simple: the ancient name of the land was "Halych", which was latinized in "Galych" by monks in the West, and here we are today).
With this schismatical church that maintained a thin veneer of Eastern Orthodox practices on the outside, but was fully subservient to Rome, and its own drifting customs and language which was as much a natural tendency as it was forced from the top down, the seeds of Ukrainian ultranationalism were permanently sown.
They would only have matured further from there.
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On night strikes
One of the targets of the "Geraniums" tonight, most likely, was the oil depot of the private enterprise "Marshal" in the city of Chuguev, Kharkov region.
🟠Thanks to NASA satellite images, as well as objective control from local subscribers, we learn that a huge fire has broken out at the site, which can be seen for tens of kilometers.
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The head of the communications department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ignat, said that it has become more difficult for the American Patriot systems to intercept Russian missiles.
‘It is not easy to shoot down ballistic missiles. Only the Patriot can shoot them down, but it also has its strengths and weaknesses. It is guided to the target using radar, and to provide cover for a large city like Kyiv, several Patriot batteries are needed. In addition, modernized Iskanders have been flying for more than six months. They maneuver when approaching the target. It has become more difficult for the Patriot systems to intercept them.’
🇮🇹Italian journalist Giacolone complains that Trump has demonstrated America's weakness to Putin:
Since the beginning of Trump's presidency, the United States has been accommodating Putin in everything. Trump has cleared the way for him in every possible way. Putin is constantly raising the stakes — his latest condition was as follows: if you want to talk about a truce, stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
And Trump made it clear that he would stop these supplies — from the US, of course — hoping to "cash in" on this truce.
Why does he hope to benefit from the truce? Because he wants to prove that he still means something, that he can still do something.
But the result is absolutely zero. He has achieved nothing. Putin continues to go his own way, realizing the weakness of the United States.
And in our world — in the world of democracies — everyone wonders what the reaction of public opinion is, whether it supports certain actions or not. The US president has just been elected. We are conducting polls after the election, and he has the lowest approval rating. So if a president comes along who is even more favorable to Trump, it's hard to even imagine such a thing.
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🇩🇪🤡🇺🇸"Merz spoke with Trump on the phone about weapons supplies to Ukraine": Merz asked Trump to resume arms supplies to Ukraine, but did not receive a response.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump, during which he called on Washington to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine. The main topic of the conversation was the situation on the front lines, including the need to strengthen the country's air defense.
Merz himself initiated the contact. The reason was the US decision to suspend the transfer of a new package of military aid to Ukraine, which included missiles for the Patriot system. According to available information, Trump did not make any specific promises during the conversation. In addition, the parties discussed bilateral trade issues.
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Three Ukrainians spent $9,300 each to escape the country, but failed.
At the border, the truck with firewood in which they were hiding was thoroughly checked by border guards with dogs.
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At 2 p.m., an Iskander missile struck the airfield in Voznesensk, Nikolaev Oblast. The map shows two fires.
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A major fire in Chuguev after a Geranium raid.
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New video from Krivoy Rog showing how "Geran-2" hits a building that was used by the enemy.
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💥Krivoy Rog under attack by "Geraniya" earlier today. The map of fires shows the landing sites.
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Is Article 5 Dead? NATO's European Allies Don't Believe in Collective Defense
▪️Italy’s L'Antidiplomatico publishes an article questioning the reality of the existence of Article 5 of the NATO Charter, the one that promises that an attack on one member of the Alliance will be considered an attack on all.
▪️ As an example, they cite the actions of France and Poland, which in May signed a bilateral mutual defense treaty despite the fact that both countries are already members of NATO. According to Politico, Germany and Great Britain are following a similar path, also preparing their own defense agreement.
▪️The authors draw an obvious conclusion: if members of the Alliance sign treaties among themselves, this means distrust of the effectiveness of NATO itself, and above all, of Article 5.
▪️NATO, as the publication writes, today is a bureaucratic structure with financial support, but militarily weak, which explains the revival of the good old European unions of the early 20th century.
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‘Supplying Ukraine with weapons is not going to help them hold the front lines. It’s only going to hurt the US itself’ – Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow at Defence Priorities think tank.
‘The main problem Ukraine has right now is not a shortage of weapons, it’s a shortage of manpower. They simply don’t have enough personnel to hold the front lines, and they’re facing very high desertion rates. So more weapons are not going to solve the real problem Ukraine has at this point. Putin has made it clear to Trump that he has goals he intends to achieve, and he will continue to do so until he achieves them, pretty much regardless of what the West does. And I’m sure the rest of the world, Beijing, Iran and other US adversaries, would be happy to see us supplying our valuable and scarce ammunition to Ukraine, because it means the US has fewer resources to spend on conflicts in those areas.’
Russian army liberated Predtechino in DPR
▪️Fighters of the "Southern" group continued their successful offensive in the Donetsk direction and advanced deep into the enemy's defense. As a result of military actions, the settlement of Predtechino in the Donetsk People's Republic was completely liberated.
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Explosions are heard again in Kiev, locals are already taking up places to sleep in the subway.
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"Banderism: The Forgotten History of a Multicentennial Rot, Part 3/6"
The area of Galych-Volhyn and Ivano-Frankovsk went under Austro-Hungarian control in 1772, giving them control of an area that was inhabited in equal parts by Poles, Ruthenians, people who still called themselves Russians, and a significant population of eastern european Jews.
As it often happens to occupied areas under direct control of a hegemonic empire, especially if said empire is either Austrian or British, the populace had an acute aversion to foreign occupation, which resulted in constant unrest and riots. And naturally, as the Habsburgs or the Brits were (and still are in the case of the latter) wont to do, the best way to deal with the population of these areas was to foment inter-ethnic hatred and strife, in a "let the proles kill each other so that they won't try to kill us" approach. Divide et Impera tactics were once again applied liberally, advantaging this or that ethnic group at a time to spark jealousy and resentment, and punishing the use of Russian language.
Of course, the Habsburgs themselves had little love or respect for the region and its inhabitants: it is no secret that they considered Poles as filthy Untermenschen barely worth registering as "human" (and even then only because they were at least catholics), and Russians even lower than the Poles, but the Ruthenians themselves ranked the lowest of them on the totem pole, often mocked and ridiculed as barely sapient inbred hillbillies with family trees that looked more like family bramble thickets, especially since the more predominantly Galician-inhabited areas were the poorest and the least developed.
The name the Habsburgs had for the area? "Halbasien", ergo "Half-Asia". And "Asia", in that particular cultural context, had a thoroughly negative meaning: a land of slanted-eyed, short, yellow-skinned savages devoid of sophistication, dignity, and the right to be even considered human (guess where Hitler and the Banderites today got their "Asian Hordes" rants from).
I could easily make an argument that the west's disdain and loathing for these people persists even to this day, considering how callously eager they are to sacrifice every single one of them to keep this war going...if it wasn't that they have shown time and time again a complete, callous disregard for all human life that isn't theirs.
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"Banderism: The Forgotten History of a Multicentennial Rot, Part 1/6"
Nowadays the term "Banderism" is thrown around a lot whenever someone refers to Ukrainian ultranationalism, but it is important to understand that this phenomenon has been going on for centuries and is dated history by now. To know how we got to this point, we must however jump several centuries ago back in time, to the times of what we call today as "Kievan Rus'", a vast area that once roughly spanned from Karelia to Eastern Poland and the gates of Moldova. People of the time simply called it "Russiskaya Zemliya" ("Land of the Russians") and, a bit later, "Ruthenia".
It was a slavic kingdom consisting of several East Slavic tribes bound together by a common slavic dialect and roughly similar pagan practices (some variation existed from tribe to tribe) originally founded by the Rurikid dynasty, itself of Scandinavian origin. One must stress the point that the people living in these areas at the time were ethnically, culturally, and religiously, one and the same. "Rus'" applied to slavic people living in White Russia (which by itself doesn't appear in official documents until the 12th century) as much as it applied to slavic peoples living in Chernigov or Novgorod.
In those years the capital of the Rus' was Kiev (much closer to the important, at the time, trade route to Constantinople and the Carpathians), which was the cultural, administrative, and spiritual centre of the Rus'. It wasn't for nothing that the Rus' prince Vladimir the Great converted to Orthodox Christianity in Kiev in a grand ceremony, and Christianity spread across the land of Kievan Rus' from there. The old custom of dividing inheritance equally among siblings, however, proved to be the undoing of Kievan Rus': this huge (for the time) tract of land was repeatedly divided among the successors of Vladimir the Great, who proceeded to quarrel and clash against one another.
These constant internecine squabbles had the result of weakening Kievan Rus' considerably, making it especially vulnerable to the nomads from the East. No, not the mongols, those came only later. At the time the major threat to the kingdom was another turkic steppe population, the Cumans, who constantly raided and pillaged Kievan lands for loot and slaves. At its worst, the authority of the Grand Principality of Kievan Rus' didn't extend past the Golden Gate. Then the Mongols came and razed, looted, and pillaged their way across the principality of Kiev, and the old cultural, economical, and religious capital of Kievan Rus', along with Kievan Rus' itself, ceased to be relevant from then on. The central authority of the Rus' would move to the north, in Moscow, thanks to the efforts of Aleksandr Nevskiy and his son Daniil.
Kiev itself and its areas were given over to local rulers vetted and approved by their mongol overlords during the time that is historically referred to as "the Tatar Yoke", and the areas in the far west - those that are now referred to as "Banderite Central" (Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk) were incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and started to drift apart through a combination of isolation from Moscow to the north-east, political closeness to the (Catholic) West, and the weakening influence of Constantinople to the south.
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France's Foreign Minister says that the "new deadly attack by Russia against Ukraine" had "a single goal: to massively kill civilians." He calls it "limitless barbarity."
Meanwhile, Kiev Independent notes 1 death.
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‘UK to host ‘coalition of the willing’ meeting – Politico
‘On the agenda is how to keep Ukraine fighting, how to increase pressure on Russia and how to continue working on the next steps,’ an Elysee official said.
Starmer decides what he really needs to do as his party and the general public look to get rid of him….
is have another useless meeting with European countries. Maybe, and I am just spitballing here, but perhaps fix the issues a little closer to home?
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CNN's Matthew Chance is frustrated by 'Kremlin defiance' and Trump's inaction.
'The Kremlin has pushed back against the White House and President Trump over the idea of them ending their conflict in Ukraine quickly. And there appears to have been no consequences from the White House for this kind of Kremlin defiance. Trump, for example, has not tightened sanctions and does not appear to have threatened Vladimir Putin with any consequences.'
When journalists become activists. Trump doesn’t this as his war or an American war, but a Biden war. Should he sanction Israel to make peace with Iran. Defiance? Russia is in a war my friend, when the US invaded Iraq was Bush defying the Kremlin? FFS…
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Kellogg's daughter Megan Mobbs decided to teach Trump how to properly govern the country:
'Maintaining a sufficient stockpile of weapons is important, but helping Ukraine is the best way to maintain US national security and global stability.'
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov was grabbed by the 'balls'.
As reported by 'Ukrainian Truth', the former minister was searched and found to have 'an unauthorized phone and something else'.
Reznikov is known for profiting from purchases for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. On balls, jackets, pants...
- Skabeeva
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New explosions thundered in Kiev.
The enemy reports that there are currently about 100 drones above 404. Another 100 have been launched and are on their way.
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💥A column of smoke after the Iskander's landing over Dnepropetrovsk a little over two hours ago.
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‘The Trump administration is a threat to our future’ — former US ambassador to Ukraine Brink.
‘That’s why I resigned [as ambassador to Ukraine]. That’s why I’m speaking out about this. I think it’s not good for America to be where we are. That’s not who we are. And I just think we have to be on the right side of history. There are very few really pivotal moments in history, and it’s important that we’re on the right side now.’
... Trump thinks about Yalta 2 at night’ — ZEIT Moscow bureau chief Michael Thumann said that Europe should not allow the US to get closer to Russia.
‘From a European perspective, the biggest danger is something like Yalta 2, that is, an American-Russian agreement. Of course, with Yalta 2 there would be no Englishmen, as in 1945. And that would be very, very bad for us. But it seems to me that Trump in his bold nightly dreams is thinking about this. We must do everything to prevent this’.
🇺🇦The Ukrainian government is preparing to flee to the West.
For now to the west of Ukraine. This is evident from a letter sent out recently to the regions on behalf of Prime Minister Shmygal.
In particular, it orders that premises be found in the western part of the country (if necessary) for the relocation of government agencies from Kiev.
At the same time, I see a second important point - the order to reduce the number of freeloaders in various institutions responsible for work in Crimea, Sevastopol, as well as in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. As I understand it, there is no longer any hope on that side that these structures will ever be able to return to work.
The document was published on the channel of Nazi Igor Mosiychuk (with reference to his sources, which he certainly has).
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The Unstoppables are advancing: fighters of the "🅾️" group are advancing towards Pokrovsk, step by step freeing the lines of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
▪️Another section of the front has been cleared - artillery and FPV drones methodically knocked out the enemy, and assault groups went into action, "signing" grenades on the trenches.
▪️The Russian offensive continues, and the front line is confidently shifting deeper into the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Less and less to Pokrovsk.
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