Ursprungligen postat av Tony Seed
Under the high ideals of democracy and Canadian values, the Harper war government has hosted the NATO Propaganda (Information) Office in Kiev since 2004, sends warships to U.S.-NATO exercises in the Black Sea, designates Ukraine and Poland as a strategic partner of the Canadian Forces, sponsors annual warfare exercise Maple Arch at the Yavoriv military training field in the Lviv oblast in western Ukraine (the largest in Europe), trains Ukrainian military in Canada, increasingly imports small arms from the Ukraine, and provides shelter at its embassy in Kiev for neo-nazi activists and protestors whom John Baird hails as courageous.
Virtually nothing is known or published about the actual role of the NATO Office in Kiev over the past ten years, but recently a website published an outrageous photo expos of clandestine activities at the NATO military base in Estonia. An extensive number of photos, reproduced below, shows the training of Ukrainian nationalist young men and several women in terrorism including sniper fire, assembling and setting of IEDS, homemade weapons, bazookas and varied small arms. The training of this Ukrainian fifth column is said to have been carried out in 2006. The training was obviously intensive and in part ideological. They are presumably those activists in Kiev filling up molotov cocktails and throwing grenades at public officials and unarmed police forces to bring about the Feb. 23rd putsch. The neo-Nazis trained and propped up by the EU, U.S. and Canada are engaged in wanton violence including killings and this is called democracy. (For a BBC documentary on the role of the neo-Nazis, see here. For the revelation of electronic correspondence of the deputy head of the Ukrainian nationalist party, The Stepan Bandera Trident, Andrey Tarasenko, by Anonymous Ukraine, in which he asks for more powerful weapons, information on the location weapons caches in Kerch, Feodosia, Simferopol, Sevastopol and Yalta, etc., see here. The UDAR party is head by Vitaly Klitschko, the German man in Kiev, one of the three leaders in the opposition coalition, but excluded from the new government.)
The photos show that US and British flags predominate at the NATO base. The young men wear symbols on their caps of the OUN-UNA organization of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian nationalist hero who collaborated with the German Nazi occupation as well as carried out pogroms during World War II. The meaning of a poster in the background of one photo is not clear to me, but seems to identify their connection with or sphere of operations in the western Ukraine / Carpathia a chain of mountain ranges that stretch in an arc from the Czech Republic in the northwest through Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine to Romania in the east and on to the Iron Gates on the River Danube between Romania and Serbia in the south. The questions naturally arise: How did NATO originally recruit them? What was the role in their recruitment by the NATO Office in Kiev operated by the Canadian government? What has been their role over the past seven years in the imperialist incitement of tension and the politics of division and communal conflict within the Ukraine?
