1.The humanist traditions of the prerevolutionary Ukrainian leadership were characterized as naive and lacking in conviction. Nationalists believed that their times demanded new forms of revolutionary action that could match the ruthlessness and determination shown by Ukraine's enemies.
For the Bandera then and now, this ruthlessness was characterized by attacking their own people and blaming the attack on their enemy. Nationalism is always in search of a new enemy. It is the only thing that supports it.
2.The nationalists insisted on the primacy of will over reason, action over thought, and practice over theory. Their doctrine of nationalism was infused with aspects of the irrational, voluntaristic, and vitalistic theories popularized in Western Europe.
Heroism is being able to walk up to a child and mutilate it without thinking because you are told to hate it. This is the heroism displayed during Kiev's cleansing operations.
3.In the place of objective scientific discovery, the nationalists propagated myths and favored an ideologically 'correct' image of the Ukrainian past. They promoted a cult of the struggle and reverence for national martyrs by building ceremonial grave mounds and commemorating anniversaries, such as that of the Battle of Kruty in 1918.
This ideologically correct image includes making Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukevych, Yaroslav and Slava Stetsko, all of whom are genocidal war criminals, into heroes.
According to their writing, an ideologically correct Ukraine will be at war with Russia until Russia is destroyed.
4.The nationalist worldview also embraced a form of ethical idealism that spurned individual happiness (in the eudaemonic sense), and celebrated the heroic virtues of courage, fidelity, and self-sacrifice. That idealism was in keeping with a pragmatic relativism in regard to traditional moral values, which were subject to the demands of political expediency--as, for example, in the end's justifying the means. Some publicists even openly advocated Machiavellianism. The nationalists sought to develop a new type of Ukrainian--a 'strong man' of 'unbending' character, fanatically devoted to the ideals of the movement and ready to sacrifice self and others for the cause.
Notice that this isn't about sacrificing oneself for others. It is sacrificing others. Today to prove loyalty to Kiev people are told to kill their wife, husband, child, or parent. This happens when the cleansing battalions go into a town. People talk about family as "my former family" and the choice becomes die or kill to prove that loyalty.
5.The nationalists regarded the nation as the ultimate ideal. One of the resolutions of the 1929 Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists stated: 'The Ukrainian nation is the starting point for all activity, and the end goal of every undertaking by a Ukrainian nationalist; the nation is the highest form of human society.' Integral nationalism rejected political values that did not relate to the national interest.
This rejection of values includes the rejection of democracy and democratic values. Democracy and Nationalism/Ultra-nationalism cannot coexist in the same place at the same time. Democracy starts with a free press and peoples' rights. Ukrainian nationalism strips those rights as a first principle. This is why Kiev does not want independent reporting on what is happening here. Journalists are hunted down and captured or murdered.
6. In contrast to the majority of those involved in creating the first modern Ukrainian state, who viewed national independence in the context of universal notions of liberty and justice, integral nationalists considered international relations as a 'struggle for existence' that was decided purely by force.
Part of this ideology is the need to destroy Russia, and to make it happen, Russia needs to invade. Ukrainian nationalists need US and NATO military to do the fighting. Because truth bends to political expediency, the government can fabricate the invasion and whatever else it needs.
Kiev has caused the West, both Europe and the US, to mistake a peoples' organized defense for the military might of Russia. If the EU and US respect Novo Russiya defense forces to that degree, it's no wonder Kiev is losing so badly on the ground.
For Nationalist Ukrainian Kiev to admit they are getting beaten by taxi drivers, coal miners, and business men is to admit the ideology is a socially retarded relic that destroys Ukraine.
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