Vladimir V. MALYSHEV
The struggle against the USSR, which turned into a struggle against Russia
The American portal Antiwar.com published a long article "US cooperation with neo-Nazis in Ukraine: an inconvenient story." It turns out that Washington established and maintained ties with Bandera adherents from the very beginning of the Cold War.
In September 1947, writes the author of the article Ted Schneider, US intelligence discovered a group of Ukrainian militants in Germany. Referring to the book Safe for Democracy by CIA expert John Prados, he notes that the Supreme Liberation Council of Ukraine (a structure of the OUN * banned in Russia) ordered everyone to go to the West. Thus began "the story of a secret marriage between the US, Britain and Ukrainians, who had previously collaborated with the Nazis, in their underground war against the Soviet Union . "
Prados writes that in 1946 Stalin demanded the extradition of Bandera, but the Americans provided him with protection (Operation Anyface), although they had information that he was a war criminal.
In the book Legacy of Ashes: A CIA Story, American writer Tim Weiner recounts that at the initiative of US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal , "Ukrainian resistance forces" were tasked to "wage a secret war against Stalin . "
A secret CIA report to the National Security Council in April 1948 described future cooperation with Ukrainian collaborators and noted "their high value to the US government for the purpose of propaganda and anti-communist political activities, as well as sabotage." Operation AERODYNAMIC, codenamed Operation AERODYNAMIC, was launched by the CIA in 1948. Frank Wiesner of the CIA says :"Given the size and activity of the resistance movement in Ukraine, we considered this project to be of the highest priority . "
Antiwar.com writer Ted Schneider notes that Zelenskiy " as a result of intense pressure from neo-Nazi parties that wield enormous power disproportionately to their low popular support, backtracked on his campaign promise of peace and refused to talk to the leaders of Donbass and to implement the Minsk agreements . "
Schneider argues that the snipers who participated in the massacre that took place in Kyiv on February 20, 2014 and preceded the coup d'état were not members of regular troops, but members of ultra-nationalist militant groups (Svoboda*, Right Sector, banned in Russia*). It was they who seized the government building and forced Yanukovych to flee. It was they who became the “legitimate part of the Maidan” and the “new norm of Ukrainian statehood”, having joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Stephen Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies from Princeton, in an article about Ukraine "America's Collusion with Neo-Nazis" noted that the putschist regime established in Ukraine did everything to perpetuate the memory of Ukrainian collaborators who collaborated with Nazi Germany.
In general, the Americans began to use Bandera against the USSR earlier than Ted Schneider believes. In mid-1946, American intelligence agencies launched two projects with the participation of Ukrainians who ended up in the western zones of occupation of Germany after the war (“Belladonna” and “Lynx”). The projects were aimed at gathering information about the Soviet military administration in Germany.
In March 1948, a report entitled "The Use of Refugees from the Soviet Union in the National Interests of the United States" appeared. There were then approximately 700,000 Soviet citizens in refugee camps outside the USSR, many of them from Ukraine. Of these, saboteurs were trained, placing them at a base in Munich. In the spring of 1952, the "Office for Special Warfare" was created in the structure of the Pentagon, which formed special forces for operations on the territory of the USSR and its allies. Only in the European part of the Soviet Union, the Pentagon has identified up to 30 operational areas for the actions of its special forces. The instruction of US President G. Truman read :"Organize in foreign countries dissatisfied individuals, manage them, teach them and provide them with everything necessary for waging guerrilla warfare ... and overthrowing governments hostile to the United States . "
Ukrainian historian and political scientist I.V. Sekirin notes that after 1953 the Western Ukrainian underground began to receive tacit support from the Ukrainian Soviet authorities. “After Stalin’s death ,” writes Sekirkin, “ according to the amnesty carried out by Khrushchev, all active members of the UPA-OUN were released, returning without any special obstacles to their homeland . ” And in the 1950s and 1960s, with the promotion of “their” people to party and economic posts in the Ukrainian SSR, a quiet restoration of the OUN* began. After the collapse of the USSR, the process accelerated and took on open forms.
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