The illusion of Nazism in Ukraine: How the Kremlin has worked with its associates for decades

Russia has long been preparing for war. After the collapse of the USSR, the secret services worked on several fronts, including with the help of collaborators and acting as propagandists. The key tasks of the special services in Ukraine were: the maximum Russification of Ukraine and the introduction of puppet rule in the country.

Earlier, when the people did not elect the Kremlin or did not support the policy expected in Moscow, Russia tried to influence the situation, including falsifying the election results. In 2014, the Ukrainians defended their choice on the Maidan. Similarly, when Yanukovych's puppet government turned away from European integration and when students were beaten in the main square in Kiev, the Revolution of Dignity began.

When Russia lost control of the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainians managed to ban pro-Russian political forces - the Communist Party, the Party of the Region. But politicians were creating new political projects that continued to work for the Kremlin. However, these Kremlin aides did not act as effectively as Putin would have liked.

As it turned out, in Ukraine, the Russian security service FSB banally threw money. Therefore, when the Russian government started the war and thought that everything would be easy and that it would take a few days, it miscalculated - neither investments in collaborationists, nor clumsy propaganda did not give the expected results. Racist false messages only affect Russians.

But Ukrainians remember how their associates behaved and did their best not to be re-elected and to receive the punishment they deserved. That is why the Movement HONESTLY keeps the Register of State Traitors.

How the FSB used the swastika

Thus, at the beginning of 2000, pro-Russian politicians distributed leaflets of Natalija Vitrenko in Crimea, where a goblin's hand with the inscription NATO and a swastika lay on the territory of the peninsula.

NATO is portrayed as the hand of the Nazi occupier and a threat to the people. And, of course, only the then leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (and now a well-known collaborator) could save Ukraine from such a plague.

The messages have not changed in Russia for so many years. If no one in Ukraine believes in them, in Russia they believed and planted that belief in the heads of many people. However, if earlier Russian propaganda spoke about "some Nazis" in Ukraine, in recent weeks, after the defeat on the fronts of the so-called "military special operation", the main

message of Kremlin spokesmen has changed in the direction that our country is full of Hitler's followers.

That is why Russians now often associate Ukrainians with the Nazis, but at the same time they commit crimes according to which even the Nazis are not cruel.

How Russian special services turned Yushchenko into a Nazi

Later, before the Orange Revolution, advertisements for three variants of Ukrainians were spread through pro-Russian TV channels, which intensified the rhetoric of pro-Russian politicians. It was pure black PR, designed to divide Ukrainians and make the people of eastern Ukraine more committed to Russian rhetoric.

This advertisement was developed by the Ukrainian political scientist Timofey Sergeytsev, who worked for Kuchma and Yanukovych. He is now talking in the Russian media about Russia's plans to "denazify" Ukrainians.

Representatives of the "orange government", especially Viktor Yushchenko, were portrayed by the Russian secret services as Nazis. The same swastika was used in propaganda. The message continued that Yushchenko's election and support for the Western factor would bring civil war.

All attempts by the Kremlin to reverse the situation in 2004 failed. The people elected Viktor Yushchenko president, but Yanukovych and Co. they waited their turn. And he came.

The swastika after the Revolution of Dignity

The rematch after the Orange Revolution took place in 2010, when Yanukovych was legally elected president. At the time, the government and the president of Ukraine were Russian puppets and were preparing the state for a pro-Russian course. But the people did not allow that - the Revolution of Dignity began, after which Russia realized that it was losing and started an offensive on Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

When a so-called referendum was held in Crimea, the occupiers used advertisements with two images of the peninsula: a swastika and barbed wire were applied to Crimea as part of Ukraine, and Crimea as part of Russia looked bright and attractive.

After such pictures, it was much easier to say that the Crimean people chose Russia in a pseudo-referendum - they said they knew what they were giving up and where they were going.

The very fact of the lack of agitation by Ukraine was not important - should we focus on the positions and decisions of the country under the swastika and barbed wire?

The HONEST movement has been collecting these and other examples of racist propaganda for the Museum of Agitation and Political Garbage for years. And if you just walk through the pages of this portal, it will be obvious: Russians have been using the same false messages for 20 years, and Putin is still pretending to be true.

Such an information policy allows the Kremlin leader to tell the Russians about the need to denazify Ukraine, and his followers to devise methods for how that denazification will take place.

Russia has made and continues to invest in propaganda not only in Ukraine. In the rhetoric of some Hungarian, French, German and other politicians, we now see how Gazprom and Rosneft money works. This can be seen from the statements of some church representatives, including those who, unfortunately, still serve in Ukraine. All these racist spokespersons, as well as cooperating Ukrainian politicians, are becoming visible.

For years, racist propaganda has been preparing a springboard for the war in Ukraine. And the war came. That is why the dissemination of false information of the Kremlin by pro-Russian politicians in Europe can become a springboard for military action in the EU. And there can be a war, under the same slogans of Russia. After all, we have already heard relevant statements from some supporters of the "Russian measure".