The Donbass , where in 2012 there had been roughly 20 Communist votes for every Fascist vote, found itself ruled by a post-coup regime containing Russophobic and deeply anti-communist Western Fascists.
There is a further element of the fascist scene in Ukraine that has enjoyed a spectacular street-level renaissance in the last 6 months - the notorious Pravy Sektor. Pravy Sektor were formed from an association of various fascist paramilitary groups, including the Patriots of Ukraine, ditched by Svoboda when it decided to court the mainstream in 2004.
Pravy Sektor became the decisive street level force during the Maidan rising, and led the final push to eject the Yanukovych regime after the Maidan rejected the multi-lateral peace deal. Pravy Sektor also plays a significant part in providing volunteers for the new regime's secretive irregular armed battalions. It's well armed, and recently re-located its leadership from Kiev to Dnipropetrovsk for the express purpose of being closer to the 'action' in the Donbass.
The mainstream media have attempted to portray the Maidan coup and the subsequent regime as another 'colour revolution' - part of the gradual but ineluctable victory of bourgeois liberal capitalism in the spaces formerly occupied by the Soviet bloc. But there is as much brown to this revolution as orange. It is an absolute scandal that the USA, EU and NATO, together with their cheerleaders in the mainstream media, are aiding and abetting a regime that is arming and turning loose fascist wing-nuts on the industrial, working class heartlands of the country.
Civil War?
This is the real background to the Donbass rebellion, and it explains not only why it is happening but why it is happening now.
The Ukrainian regime is a neo-fascist regime that came to power as a result of a violent coup perpetrated by right-wing, nationalist forces. The Crimea and Donbass rose up against this unconstitutional usurpation of state power.
The Atlanticist bloc gave full support to the coup, and expected Russia to obediently bow to it's self-declared right to global hegemony. Putin had different ideas. The Crimea seceded and re-joined Russia .
The Ukraine, supported by the Atlanticist bloc, has armed fascist groups and unleashed them against the Donbass. This has only made matters worse, and at the referendum the people of the Donbass made their views clear for all to see.
The reckless assault by Ukrainian forces and Fascist Militia against the Donbass must stop. If it doesn't, then Ukraine may slip further into civil war. If this happens, then the greatest share of the blame should be laid at the feet of the disgraceful imperialistic statecraft of Washington, the EU and NATO.
Lionel Reynolds (@DispFromEmpire) writes the www.dispatchesfromempire.com blog
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