Crucial information on Ukrainian Neo-Nazi hisgory in the U.S., by George Eliason, writing from Lugansk.

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Novo Russiya (Donbas) has become the hunting ground for reporters and writers trying to cover the campaign by Kiev forces. I have nothing but admiration for the reporters constantly trying to cover the events. For the first time in local memory they have become prime targets in war.

For any person the story comes to life when it is about people you care about. When you live there you are involved.

In Ukraine the words you write can get you and the people you care about killed. You really weigh carefully what you disclose. You think about hurting innocent people. Noone writes for the sake of writing when you are surrounded by hundreds of automatic, heavy weapons and people that don't recognize your humanity.

Words like Ukrainian Nationalist have no real meaning for readers. For us it means an ideology of death. A word like propaganda boils down to what it really means - lies that kill and liars that make murderers heroes. Lies are killing people in Lugansk and Donetsk. Stopping death by lies from Kiev are why the Novo Russiya Republic (Lugansk and Donetsk) was founded.

Throughout the press the American Bandera, Mark Paslawsky has been called a hero of America and Ukraine. He was a West Point graduate and served in the US military. He loved Bruce Springsteen and wrapped himself in the American and Ukrainian flags. Paslawsky volunteered at age 55 to fight for Nationalist Ukraine. He served under Simeon Sementchenko as a volunteer in the Donbas Battalion. Mark Paslawsky was an American OUNb Banderavites Ukrainian emigre ultra-nationalist, or just to keep it simple, an American Nazi.

The Donbas Battalion and Symeon Sementchenko are not regular army, nor have they been directly involved in heavy combat until recently. Donbas battalion is a Punisher/ Cleansing Battalion that goes from village to village and city to city after it is cleared of militia. Their only purpose has been the mutilation and mass murder of defenseless, unarmed people.

In my articles updating the events of the war I have mentioned the mass murder, torture, and mutilation Sementchenko's Donbas battalion has left in its wake on a number of occasions. It is responsible for cutting the hands and feet off live people before killing them.

In the village of Snowy they took males age 14-60 suspected of sympathizing with the referendum or militia (now Novo Russiya Army) into the street and shot them in cold blood. They routinely tortured people for information. In the town of Friendly, the Donbas battalion shot into the houses and murdered everyone they thought were sympathetic to the referendum.

In early July, Oleg Dube, one of Donbass Battalions more committed volunteers fighting "separatists" had a falling out with Sementchenko because of the murder and cowardice displayed by the battalion in Nikolaeka. On his facebook page on July 7^th he wrote: When they entered Nikolaevka, there were only unarmed townspeople there. They knew going in there was no militia. He describes the battalion filled with cowards shooting everything that moved and throwing grenades into the houses, cellars, and every structure, killing everyone and everything they came across.

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Sementchenko attested to the authenticity himself by posting his answer to Oleg Dube. "Who is in the Military Prosecutor's Office? In wartime such allegations are unacceptable. Religious strife in the battalion will not be tolerated." He then stated that if people believed it, they were losing the information war.

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Oleg Dube was arrested and detained in Izyumske. Later on to make a point to the battalion, Sementchenko reportedly made him kneel in front of the battalion and urinated on him.

In June Sementchenko gave a speech on Maidan that Pravy Sektor wasn't dedicated enough to the work of cleansing the towns and villages. To him, Dimiti Yarosh's men were just common cowardly looters. None of these "battalions" are involved very much in the actual fighting. They stand behind the army and the conscripted national guard and fire on them when they refuse to shoot unarmed people.

Battalion Azovunder Oleg "the pitchfork" Lyashko: The purpose of the foreign volunteers fighting on Ukrainian territory as part of the nationalist Battalion "Azov", is a "white Ukraine." According to the Swedish newspaper The Local, these soldiers are not fighting for the sake of democracy, on the contrary, they can prevent its development in the country.

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Hromadske.tv reporter Nastya Stanko (one of the most virulent supporters of the Kiev junta) tweeted a revelation about this. She tweeted that the Aydar Battalion serves the junta by going behind Ukrainian soldiers and firing on them if they retreat.

These battalions, including the Donbas battalion, stand behind both regular army and national guard troops and shoot them when they fail to attack unarmed civilians. This is Ukrainian Nationalism's version of heroism. When the national guards go into battle today they are without training. They are people who have been pulled off the street and thrown onto the front lines. Last week in one battle outside Donetsk over 800 national guards were killed in one day. Mark Paslawsky's work would have been to make sure there was no retreat for them.

Was Paslawsky a Nazi?

According to pro junta journalist Stefan Jajecznyk and University of Alberta researcher and Ukrainian nationalist Taras Kuzio-Paslawskywas the only member of the Ukrainian nationalist and anti-Russian diaspora to have volunteered to fight for Ukraine, an ironic fact considering Ukrainian emigres were the subject of incessant attacks by Soviet and Russian propaganda for their allegedly 'extreme nationalism'....The same Ukrainian diaspora communities who idolise nationalist leaders have been unable to raise significant funds for the Ukrainian military and National Guard....There are prominent figures in the diaspora communities with ties to Ukrainian nationalist politicians but their silence is deafening. The OUNb -- the most vilified of all Ukrainian organisations by the USSR and still by Russia today -- resembles a deer caught in the headlights."-Financial Times-ft.com

Paslawsky was a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist that carried an American flag.

What Paslawsky Died For

The government in Kiev is set up within the framework of Ukrainian Nationalism. This was defined by the Ukrainian diaspora during the years the government was in exile. It is the ideology the entire Kiev government lives by and what Paslawsky died for.

In 1945, The National Conference of the OUN chose the Yaroslav Stetsko Bureau of the Organization, which is owned by Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. In 1946 Yaroslav Stetsko led the anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. In 1968 Yaroslav Stetsko was elected head of revolutionary OUN, which he led for the rest of his life. Jaroslav Stetsko left us a great ideological and theoretical legacy, which remains relevant today. The article "Nationalism and Democracy", submitted, is now a guide for future generations.-Jaroslav Stetsko NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY [Z.Karbovych: Nationalism and Democracy, "Breakdown", Prague, May-June 1939; "Liberation Road", part 4, 1982, p. 402-404. ]

Ultra Nationalism or Nazism in Ukraine is known as Integral Nationalism. The Encyclopedia of Ukraine put together by Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, including a Waffen SS officer, is an attempt to legitimize and preserve their history for a free Ukraine. Quotes in italics are from the official history the Bandera emigre leaders gave to Kiev along with the West Ukrainian symbolism that modern Ukraine uses, including the ultra-nationalist Trident.

What the ultra-nationalists looked back on before 1991 corresponds to the shape the Government in Kiev finally took in 2014. The following is the ideology of Ukrainian Nationalism defined in their own words. Bite the points in regular print. This is the fascism Mark Paslawsky died for and believed in. Is he a heroic democratic American? You decide.

Ukrainian Nationalist Ideology

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.

If Russia did invade it would be the one mistake that would destroy Novo Russiya because the West would also immediately send in troops and the war would destroy the entire region.

7.Ukrainian integral nationalism is a totalitarian movement. The all-encompassing character of the movement is reflected in the complete and unqualified submission of its followers to nationalist ideology and organizational discipline. The movement did not restrict itself to political affairs, but sought to control cultural matters also, particularly in regard to literature, which was considered an important means of shaping society's worldview.

Ukrainian integral nationalism is simply the most violent Sado-masochist governing structure on the planet today. If you are the elite you are free to kill, maim, or torture anyone below your station. If you are below, you must submit.

8.Political program: The political order of the future Ukrainian state would consist of a one-party system based on the principle of supreme leadership (vozhdyzm). There would be only one political organization (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), which would consist of a supraclass of 'better people.' The state structure would be formed from a hierarchy of leaders under the supreme leader (vozhd), who would function both as leader of the movement and head of state. Propaganda and educational materials for young cadres would consistently underline the role and authority of the leader.

The one party system grew into a one ideology system. As early as last April Tymoshenko was stating openly that the presidential elections could be decided in the Rada. The "better people" were in place. There was no need for an election. All the politicos in Kiev are bound by this ideology.

9.The traditional mentality and ideology of integral nationalism were best preserved in the diaspora by the OUN (Bandera faction).

Before the changes in Ukraine in 1991, as a political movement and ideology, Ukrainian nationalism could be active only in the diaspora. Even in its splintered form it remained an explosive and vibrant force. It had great ideological difficulties, however, because of its confrontation with Western democracy,"

The Encyclopedia of Ukraine clearly states clearly that in the 1980's the Ukrainian Congressional Committee of America (UCCA) became the sole representative of the OUNb or Bandera world wide. The Bandera, who hate democracy, have spent most of their existence invading the institutions of government, religion, and society in the US. Nazism and Bandera were imported after 1991 from the Ukrainian American emigre population which today celebrates Stepan Bandera as a religious saint and cultural role model for Ukrainian American children.

This obviously fascist, racist, and murderous ideology is taught to children in America.

This ideology takes the moral underpinning out from a normal person. Scholars today are studying Bandera in almost real time. Consider the following comments.

From CELEBRATING FASCISM AND WAR CRIMINALITY IN EDMONTON -Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (Berlin ):""Ideology as a Cultural System. Geertz describes it a loss of the orientation that most directly gives rise to ideological activity, an inability, for lack of usable models, to comprehend the universe of civic rights and responsibilities in which one finds oneself located .(12) This loss of orientation certainly occurred in Western Ukraine after World War I. It manifested itself in organisations such as the OUN, which radicalised Ukrainian nationalism, orientating it towards Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and other extreme and radical nationalistic movements. This applied to terrorism that occurred in the interwar period, and mass violence and murder conducted during World War II in an attempt to carve out a state. A loss of cultural orientation also occurred amongst the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and other countries around the world..."

Who was Mark Paslawsky?

In Multiculturalism, memory, and ritualization: Ukrainian nationalist monuments in Edmonton, Alberta, Pers Anders Rudling describes the upbringing of the different generation s of emigres in the Ukrainian nationalist diaspora. They were brought up to be more committed than their Waffen SS Nazi parents to the cause of Ukrainian nationalism. Given that America's UCCA became the sole representative of Bandera world-wide, after seeing the events in Ukraine you can understand the culture Mark Paslawsky was brought up in.

This is some of what Australian children are taught about the mass murderer Bandera in Scouting. He is their hero and role model. In Philadelphia the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) which became Waffen SS Galizien, Nachitgall, and Roland who committed genocide in Poland and Ukraine of over 500,000 people; are called heroes. Ukrainian Nationalists bring their children up to model their lives on these leaders.

CYM and PLAST America

In 1936, the OUN publication The Nationalist stated its position pretty clearly:

"Nationalism is the love of country and the willingness to sacrifice for her...A person brought up in Ukrainian Nationalism will make a 100 percent better AMERICAN CITIZEN than one who is not."

"Was it nazism, or fascism that guided Washington, Lincoln, or other statesmen to make the U.S. a world power? Or was it American Nationalism?"

For generations in America and around the world, children were brought up to be soldiers to fight against the enemies of Ukrainian Nationalism. According to the OUN's own texts, Nationalism has as much of a problem with democracy as it does with communism. Democracy cannot share the same space as fascism. Ukrainian scouting was used as a vehicle to teach Ukrainian nationalism in America. From the time they are children, they are taught that Nationalism is superior to democracy, and the need change countries like America into Nationalist states.

Paslawsky grew up in this environment. Every person in the emigre population was enlisted to push western countries, especially the US, into a war with Russia.

Paslawsky grew up in a culture that identified Southeast Ukraine as impure. Ethnically it is Ukrainian-Russian. The UPA's Roman Shukevych's solution to this "Russian" problem was to kill every inhabitant in the region. This hatred for Russians is ingrained in emigres from the time they can talk. Shukevych's solution is part of Ukrainian Nationalism's ideology.

'He really hated the Russians. "We all hate the Russians." Vice News article and video by Simon Ostrovsky glorifying the actions of a murderer of women and children like Paslawsky has taken this across the pale. Paslawsky has been part of Donbas Battalion, and genocide is what they do. Its all they do.

The Propaganda

Everything Edward Snowden warned the world about is in play in Kiev's media war. With the help of the US, Kiev is trying to dominate the internet by dominating internet search information. This observation by one of the best professionals in the Search Optimization field sums up the propaganda war concisely:

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I would like to meet Simon Otrovsky and let him know on a personal level what a real American thinks about propagandists that cover up genocide and glorify murderers.

My Encounter with Mark Paslawski

I live inside the area that was called the southern pot when Kiev controlled it. The regular army (Ukraine) were gentlemen while they were here. They were supposed to root out local separatists (people that took part in the May referendum for federalization), and I was told by a local official that the army sent a report to Kiev stating all these people had left. The one thing they kept making clear was they were not going to hurt the locals.

Within a week, hundreds of national guard conscripts started setting up camp at Zelenapolea, which is next to us. The conscripts were mostly kids that only a few weeks before were at home. They had little to no training. The number grew quickly and Pravy Sektor set up a base a few towns away from us.

After the Zelenapolea camp was set up, Pravy Sektor moved in and started patrolling our streets for several weeks. That's when the tone changed. We started getting the patrols from the punisher battalions that came into town a few times a day to resupply. Transportation was stopped.

They kept their weapons leveled at everyone walking by them on the street, including women and children.

They came at regular hours, so we simply avoided them, but towns near us were turned to ash and people living in them killed. There were no fighters there, just civilians. After they bombed a nearby town with phosphorus, one of the national guard commanders told a town official that our town wouldn't be touched. The official asked sarcastically "What, like last night? That town is ashes." The commander's response was "They were just unlucky."

We were unlucky enough to see four phosphorus bombs dropped. It wasn't near us, but even in broad daylight at a distance it looked like welding flash. The sky was raining light wrapped in billowing white smoke. Why unlucky? It was coming down on someone and there was nothing could be done to help.

With this as a back drop, Zelenapolea became a large camp with several thousand from these groups coming in to rest.

Journalists were being actively hunted by the junta, and I have done everything I can to let the world know what this animalistic ideology was doing. We kept a low profile.The army told a town official every time a new group came in. They gave us a heads up every time a new punisher group arrived. During this period we were only getting a couple hours sleep a night. Bombing and artillery were close by in towns all around us at all hours, sometimes shaking the window glass. Most of the attacks started in the pre-dawn hours when people were sleeping.

A few days before the militia from Rovenki attacked Zelenapolea, the regular Ukrainian army left. The officer in charge told town officials that a punisher crew was coming to cleanse the town and they had two days to get all the children out. A real effort was made to do that. The next day a national guard commander remarked that as harsh as we thought they were, within days the town would be begging them for protection from what was coming.

The next day we went to the small open air market in town to pick up a few things. That's when I noticed Mark Paslawsky. The Donbas battalion had arrived the afternoon before. He walked up to groups of people and stood back listening. He approached the group of people we were talking to and noticed me. I just stood quietly. With my features I am obviously not Ukrainian. I stand out like an Italian.

Paslawsky noticed me and just stood staring. That was why I noticed him. He stood out even more than me locally. His stance and attitude gave him away as a foreigner and I thought he must have been one of the Ukrainian emigre mercenaries we were expecting.

Most properties in Ukraine are walled in and have gates. Later that afternoon I looked through the gates because my dogs were barking. There he was. Paslawsky sat in a car in front of my house, staring at my gate for over ten minutes. I watched him for five minutes, memorizing his face and waiting.

Donbas battalions go through towns killing people to make examples, and this is what Mark Paslawsky was a part of.

I wondered if the punishers were told I was an American writer. It is against the law to write anything against the junta. It's gotten to the point that even Ukrainian reporters complain that all they are allowed to write is hand-fed propaganda.

I was getting articles out the entire time Pravy Sektor was here. It was more a matter of when they would find out, and not if. At worst we were hoping that our passports would cause enough of a problem to keep us and the town safe. Now we know that all it would have done was make us a bigger example. It was an act of God that kept our town safe this whole time.

The next morning the camp at Zelenapolea was decimated. The Donbas battalion did the other thing they are famous for: they ran. The Donbas battalion doesn't fight unless they are cornered. I never saw Paslawsky again until the report of his death.

Why I take no joy in the death of this Nazi

This American Nazi who was eulogized, wrapped in an American flag as a hero and lover of Bruce Springsteen, should not have died like he did. A Nazi that commits mass murder, and especially an American Nazi like Paslawsky, needs to be made to squirm in court for crimes against humanity. Bandera murdered over 500,000 people in WWII and never answered for one of them. The Bandera today are being lauded for murder.

Mr. Paslawsky killed women and children. If he was part of the Donbas battalion, and he was, that's what it does for work. This isn't even up for question.

Mr. Paslawsky's final words: "I don't want to die" sum up his courage. He didn't come to die. He came to kill. He was a Ukrainian nationalist who hated Russians. After Russia, America and the West need to understand the second kind of moskal (derogatory term for anyone that disagrees with Bandera) Ukrainian nationalists hate almost as much: Democracy and democratic people.

In contrast, my wife, who's had three heart-attacks, showed the courage of a true Donbas girl. She refused to leave even when I begged her too. Her grandfather's name is on the memorial at Saur Magilla in Dontesk. Her father was also a hero. These are her people and the Nazis aren't going to make her run no matter what.

Picture Mark Paslawsky or Pravy Sektor outside your gates staring at you. The person you love most in the world is standing behind you. You know the genocide of your town is set to begin. That's what Paslawsky was there to do. If he walked up to your gate what would you have done?

The next segment will show you that they are already at your gate so you had better figure it out now.

Authors Bio:

George Eliason is an American journalist that lives and works in Donbass. He has been interviewed by and provided analysis for RT, the BBC, and Press-TV. His articles have been published in the Security Assistance Monitor, Washingtons Blog, OpedNews, the Saker, RT, Global Research, and RINF, and the Greanville Post along with many other publications.
He has been cited and republished by various academic blogs including Defending History, Michael Hudson, SWEDHR, Counterpunch, the Justice Integrity Project, along with many others.