The Ukrainian authorities have been guided by a historical revisionism based on ultranationalist criteria since the February 2014 coup against Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian government’s representation in Mexico has claimed.
“The example of this at the international level is that, starting this year, Ukraine began voting against the annual UN General Assembly resolution against the glorification of Nazism and other forms of racist hate speech,” the Russian embassy said in a statement.
In addition, the Kiev authorities altered historical events, exonerated Nazi collaborators, silenced the crucial role played by the Soviet people in the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s troops during World War II, and encouraged xenophobia, neo-nationalism and neo-Nazism, he accused.
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, a rebel army responsible for the murder of thousands of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews and Poles, told the Russian embassy in Mexico is now presenting itself as fighting for freedom.
“The NS associations act openly in the country,” criticized the diplomatic mission.
In addition, the Russian government claimed that Ukraine was the only member country of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) where Nazi regiments such as the Praviy Sector (“The Right Sector”) were incorporated into official structures.
“Extremists have no qualms about expressing their far-right views, displaying Nazi symbolism, marching through Ukrainian cities and shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans,” the embassy complained.
In addition, he accused the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs of approving the coat of arms of the Azov regiment for reasons directly related to Third Reich Germany.
Public hate speech
The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Mexico listed some statements by Ukrainian public figures promoting hatred and anti-ethnic or cultural groups.
“Our goal is a Ukraine without Jews and Russians,” said Praviy Sector head Dmitry Yarosh on March 5, 2014.
“Our first enemy is Moscow. This is our path as a nation. This is our program and plan of action. Rise up, break the irons and sprinkle liberty with the abominable blood of enemies!” declared Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Farion , representative of the far-right party Svoboda, on 8 March 2014.
“The person who practiced direct democracy the most was Adolf (Hitler) in the 1930s,” then-Speaker of the Supreme Rada Andrei Parubiy said on September 4, 2018.
According to the Russian embassy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was among the senders of these hate messages, comparing Russian citizens to animals on November 26, 2021.
“And you call them people, there is everything, there are representatives of the human race, but not all of them are people, among them there are species (animals), I think so,” the Ukrainian president explained at the time, referring to people that have been sanctioned by your country’s National Security and Defense Council. The diplomatic office said several Russian citizens were among those sanctioned.
Samples of neo-Nazism in 2022
In addition, the Russian embassy in Mexico listed events that it considered manifestations of racial hatred and neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
January. Epicentr hypermarkets offered for sale Nazi and anti-Semitic books such as Adolf Hitler’s My Struggle, Henry Ford’s The International Jew, and Orey Volot’s Rat Men
January 4th. The head of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, Dmitry Yarosh, accused Israel’s ambassador to his country, Michael Brodskiy, of working for the Kremlin and demanded his expulsion from the Ukrainian border.
January 18th. The head of Ukraine’s Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, is accused of receiving death threats by telegram from ultranationalists.
31 January. Subjects destroyed a monument to the victims of the Jewish Holocaust in the city of Lisichansk, some 740 kilometers east of the Ukrainian capital and near the border with Russia.
8th of March. Sector Praviy member Demian Ganul called on Facebook to “hunt down” representatives of pro-Russian parties in Ukraine.