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[[Image:Quran.jpg|thumb|right|Pages from the [[Koran]], the foundational text of the Islamic ideology, dictated by a single 7th-century author who claimed to have been inspired by a supernatural being whom Muslims call 'Allah'. If the Constitution is the highest law of the United States, then the Koran is the highest law of Islam.]]
'''Islam''' (or '''Mohammedanism'''; archaic) is a major [[Political|socio-political]] system<ref>[http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/100100/sec_id/100100 Why Islam is Not a Religion], by Rebecca Bynum (Nov. 2011) Speech delivered October 18th to ACT! for America Chapter in Memphis Tennessee</ref> based on the teachings of [[Muhammad]] (sometimes Mohammed), a seventh-century [[Arab]]. Muhammad claimed descent from [[Ishmael]], the son of [[Abraham]]. Muhammad claimed to have received revelations from Allah, the entity which adherents of Islam claim to resemble the [[God]] of [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]], via the archangel Gabriel, which were written in the [[Koran]] – thus forming the core teachings of Islam. Many of Islam's traditions derive from moon-worshipping [[Pagan]] cults.

The Koran's singular authorship offers no corroborating evidence, as the four Gospels do for example, of testimony of independent eyewitness accounts to its claim of divine inspiration as the Mosaic Law requires,<ref>Dueteronomy 19:15 ''By the testimony of two is a matter established''. The testimony of one - Mohammad - is insufficient to convict the human race, or infidels, of sin, ''per the Law of Moses'' or the Koran itself which claims descent.</ref> from which the Koran's author borrowed selectively.

==Overview==
[[File:World Muslim Population Pew Forum.png|thumb|The Muslim population of the world map according to the Pew Forum 2009 report.]]
The word "Islam"<ref>Arabic الإسلام‎‎, specifically referring to submission to Allah</ref> means "submission" or "surrender" in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]. Islam, as originally designed in the Koran, presents itself as an "Abrahamic faith" and has [[Moses]] in it,<ref>Brannon Wheeler. Moses in the Koran and Islamic Exegesis. Routledge, 2002.</ref> as well as [[Jesus]] as a prophet in Islam,<ref>Muhammad Ata ur-Rahim, Ahmad Thomson. ''Jesus: Prophet of Islam''. TTQ, INC., 2003.</ref> and it specifically denies Jesus's divine nature.

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The world’s Islamic population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. In the United States, for example, the population projections show the number of Muslims more than doubling over the next two decades, rising from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030.<ref>[http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ The Future of the Global Muslim Population.]</ref>
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Islam has been criticized for some time because of its demanding of strict submissiveness (especially of women), its suppression and violations of human rights (also including those of women), and its predisposition to being violent toward those of true religious faiths and attacking those faiths deemed a threat to Islam. There have been over 23,000 terrorist attacks committed by adherents of Islam since [[September 11, 2001 attacks|the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001]].<ref>http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/</ref> A more recent strain of Islam has combined European totalitarianism and a virulent [[anti-Semitism]]. This version is called [[Jihadism#Lesser jihad|lesser jihad]], [[Islamism]], radical Islam, or militant Islam. Without the historic institution of the Caliph, this form degenerates into stateless terrorist activity that strikes at the heart of civilized man. Some who identify as Muslim have denounced the violent jihadism while others remain silent. Some Muslims and non-Muslims theorize that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/954/distinguishing-between-islam-and-islamism|title=Distinguishing between Islam and Islamism|author=Daniel Pipes|date=June 30, 1998}}</ref> The Reformation movements were costly and bloody for well over a century.
[[Image:Mecca.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mecca]], one of the holy cities of Islam.]]
There are small groups of largely Westernized Muslims who publicly reject Islamism. Such moderate Muslim conservatives are in the [[Republican Party]], known as the [[Muslim Republicans]].<ref name="muslimrepublicans.net">http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> One of America's Founding Fathers, [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was a religious [[libertarian]], declared: "''freedom for the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindu and infidel of every denomination''."<ref>John A. Garraty, Story of America Beginnings to 1877, (1992) Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pg 706.</ref>

Issues with Islam arose in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. Republican presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]] said that "''Radical, violent Islamists pose a threat to Americans and others around the world.''" and that "''they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know.''" Romney said that when he lived in Detroit he knew Muslims, as Detroit has a large Muslim population, and says "''They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.''<ref name="muslimrepublicans.net"/> Former Republican presidential nominee candidate [[Ron Paul]], a libertarian conservative, says that America should not fear Islam and said that America should just embrace people of all faiths.<ref name="muslimrepublicans.net"/> American conservative author Margaret Hoover believes that the Republican Party needs to recognize Muslim Republicans, noting an example of Muslim Republican youth Suhail Khan who she describes as "''one of thousands of Muslim Americans who work to promote Christian-Muslim understanding''".<ref>Margaret Hoover, ''American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party'', Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, pg 202.</ref> Candidates for the Republican nomination like [[Newt Gingrich]] and [[Rick Santorum]] strongly criticized Islamic extremism.<ref name="muslimrepublicans.net"/>

[[Multiculturalism|Multiculturalists]] ignore or minimize violence in the history of Islam and exaggerate Christian atrocities to advance a [[moral equivalence]]. Proponents of this view often cite the [[Crusades|Great Crusades]]--an unsuccessful attempt by Western Christians to retake parts of the [[Byzantine Empire]] that had been conquered by Islamic armies--and various religious wars which were later fought in Europe between branches of Christianity. However, they brand critics of Islam "racists" (even though Islam is not a "race") and "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobes]]" (a smear term invented for the purpose of censoring and silencing legitimate criticism of Islam) for exposing today's threats by [[jihadism|jihadists]].<ref>http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/charity.html</ref>

A follower of Islam is called a "[[Muslim]]" (rarely "Moslem"), a term which means "one who submits (to Allah)." The older terms "Mohammedan" and "Muhammedan" ("follower of Muhammad"), have fallen out of use.<ref>Additional archaic terms for Muslims include "Hagarene", "Musselman", and "Saracen." Saracen as a term for Muslims was limited to the Crusades era, although it makes frequent re-appearances in pre-modern polemics. Hagarene was a more common term in pre-modern works, as it denotes the Biblical connection of Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, who is claimed to be a patriarch of Islam. Additional names for Muslims in pre-modern and Medieval works are generally derived from misspellings.</ref>

Because of its history of terrorism, mass murder and suicide attacks, Islam, and those who adhere to it, are sometimes generally perceived as having no regard toward human life.<ref>[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2017/07/09/human/permanent-rage-islam/ The Permanent Rage of Islam] at Conservative News and Views</ref>

==Theology==
[[File:Kaaba.jpg|thumb|Masjid al-Haram, the holiest site in Islam.]]

There are no clergy, but there are religious teachers, or [[Imam]]s, who have their followings. All Muslims are supposed to follow the teachings of Muhammad, whom they believe to be Allah's<ref>Arabic الله</ref> last and greatest [[prophet]] (although Jesus, in Matthew 7:15-20, warned "Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will recognize them by their fruit", which serves to explicitly describe Muhammad and such like him). The teachings of Muhammad are transmitted through the [[Koran]], the Hadith, and the Sunnah. The Sunnah is a general term for "the life and doings of the Prophet", which all Muslims are called on to replicate. Islam claims that the Archangel [[Gabriel]] appeared to Muhammad in a cave reciting verbatim a revelation from Allah. The first word that Gabriel says to Muhammad is "Iqra" or "Recite/Proclaim", which is found in the 96th Sura of the Koran.

Muslims believe that Allah revealed the Koran to Muhammad. The key miracle of Islam comes from the historical condition of the illiterate and uneducated Muhammad, as the Koran is composed in an erudite and complex form of Arabic prose and poetry.<ref>Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created- Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood: Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- He Who taught (the use of) the pen,- Taught man that which he knew not.(Surah 96:1-5)</ref> The Koran was not written down in a systematic fashion until a decade after Muhammad died, preferable transmission being through oral recitation. The Koran is claimed by Muslims to be the pure and holy word of Allah, uncreated and eternal. In Islamic belief, the term uncreated is very important, as it implies that there is no author for the Koran, only the delivering of the word to Muhammad who delivered it to the Sahab and the Salaf (The Companions and the Pure), who delivered it to the scribe delegated to record it in the reign of the Caliph Uthman bin Affan.

Islam teaches fundamental contradictions about the nature of Allah. Allah is said to be all-powerful, yet impotent to have a son (Surah 6:100-101). The idea of Allah having offspring is mocked,<ref>"Limitless is He is His glory, and sublimely exalted above anything that men may devise by way of definition: the Originator of the heavens and the earth! How could it be that He should have a child without there ever having been a mate for Him - since it is He who has created everything, and He alone knows everything?" - Surah 6:100-101.</ref> and this limitation of his power differentiates Allah from the Christian God. Allah is a very angry god who loves only those who swear allegiance to him, and hates non-believers. To serve Allah is to hate Allah's enemies with the same divine hatred that Allah hates non-believers (Surah 5:54). This stands in direct contrast to John 3:16.

In Islamic theology, Allah, the alleged maker of heaven and earth (Surah 6:100), is impotent to have a son (Surah 6:101). Human beings, with the ability to reproduce themselves, possess powers Allah is incapable of.

===Divisions within Islam===
Uthman was assassinated in 656 A.D. by soldiers who then installed Ali ibn Abu Talib, Muhammad's son-in-law, as [[Caliph]]. Ali's followers believed Muhammad had chosen Ali to be Muhammad's heir, and had disagreed with the selections of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman as Caliphs. Ali's claim to the position was challenged by Muawiyah, a kinsman of the murdered Uthman. Five years later, Ali was assassinated by Kharjites, dissidents who broke away from the main body of Islam because they rejected Ali's accepting arbitration to resolve his leadership dispute with Muawiyah. Ali's supporters, or the Shiah al-Ali (or Shiat Ali, partisans of Ali) believed that Ali was the true Caliph and was, in part, divinely inspired. Ali's sons, Hassan and Husayn followed as [[Shia]] Caliphs, Hassan dying in 669 or 670 A.D., possibly by poisoning, and Husayn slain by soldiers of his rival, the [[Sunni]] Caliph Yazid, in 680 A.D.

The Shia Islamic community has divided further as followers coalesced around several of Ali's descendants or successors, called [[Imam]]s. The "twelvers," predominant in Iran, believe the twelfth Imam is in hiding and will reveal himself just before judgment day. Ismailis rejected the seventh Imam and practice a spirituality that seeks hidden meaning in scripture. Ismailis ruled much of [[North Africa]] as the Fatimid Dynasty of [[Egypt]] in the tenth through the twelfth centuries, and today are found primarily in [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]], and [[India]]. The Sunni majority reject the premise that men can be divine, including Muhammad, Ali, or Jesus, and did not accept any of the Imams who followed Ali. Sunnis remain more committed to traditions and less inclined to accept Shia mysticism. Today, about 15% of the world's Muslims are Shia and 85% are orthodox Sunni.

There are other factions within Islam. Sufis, a name possibly derived from the wool garments they wear, developed around mystical practices and trance-induced revelations. Sufis are found today in [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], and parts of [[Africa]]. One of the most famous modern followers of Sufism was American professional boxer [[Muhammad Ali]] in his later years. Other movements have taken reform tracks, such as the Unitarians of [[Saudi Arabia]], also called [[Wahhabi]]s after their 18th-century reformist founder Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. The conservative Wahhabis are found today in Saudi Arabia and [[Qatar]]. Today the Wahhabi line has a tendency to produce extremists, such as [[Osama Bin Laden]]. Some critics would argue that the [[Taliban]] of Afghanistan took conservative reform to an extreme. Other sects or break-away groups include, among others, the Alawis found in Syria and Turkey, the [[Druze]] in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel, the Ibadhis (Kharjites) in Oman and Africa, the Ahmadiya of Pakistan, and the Zaydis of Yemen.

==Origins==
Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam originated in the Middle East. Islam claims to trace its roots back to Abraham through his son Ishmael. Muslims do not believe that Muhammad was the founder of Islam, rather they claim that he restored the original faith of Abraham and the prophets that followed as recorded in the lost books of the Tawrat and Injil.

Based upon this belief, the [[Bible]], both the [[Old Testament|Old]] and [[New Testament]]s, is claimed by adherents of Islam to have become corrupted through the [[Bible translations|translations and misinterpretations]] accumulated over several millennia. The criticism of the [[Torah]] centers around the reconstruction of the existing Biblical text required after the "[[Babylon]]ian captivity". The criticism of the New Testament centers in the many disputed gnostic texts which contradict the orthodox biblical canon. Interestingly, Islamic jurisprudence accepts that the Injil was complete and whole up until the revelation of Muhammad. Therefore, there is some inconsistency in the claims made against the New Testament. For more information, see [[The Bible versus the Qur'an|The Bible versus the Koran]].

Muhammad spent many years attempting to unite disparate polytheistic Arab tribes in the power vacuum created by the fall of the [[Roman Empire]] through recitations of his epic poem, which borrowed heavily from Hebrew scriptures and dietary laws, meeting with only limited success. He was eventually driven out of Mecca by the powers that be for challenging state authority, an event known as the ''Hijra'' or "Flight from Mecca" which marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

Eventually Muhammad was summoned back to Mecca by a faction of sympathizers, mainly tribal family members, as political chaos engulfed the city. Muhammad conquered the city after a prolonged siege with attacks on the civilian population and hundreds of beheadings to any who refused to accept his claims to a divine mission of carrying out the will of Allah. The doctrine of abrogation (''nashk'') in Islamic scholarship teaches that the later instructions of Mohammad supersede any earlier contradictory verses in the Koran.<ref>http://www.quranicstudies.com/books/abrogation-in-the-quran-and-islamic-law/</ref> Hence was born political Islam,<ref>https://www.politicalislam.com/abrogation-and-the-koran/</ref> a doctrine of war, conquest, and [[vengeance]], over any earlier utterances which teach Islam a religion of peace. Peace only exists in Islam insofar as all Islam's enemies are subjugated.

==Terminology==
Additional archaic terms for Muslims include, but are not limited to, "Hagarene" and "Saracen." The term Hagarene was more common in post-crusade Europe as it made specific reference to the Biblical mother of Ishmael. In Islam, Ishmael plays an analogous theological role to Isaac. Muslims do not use it today to avoid confusing worship of [[Muhammad]] with worship of [[Allah]].<ref>Schimmel, (1992)</ref>

==Islamic guidance==
During his lifetime, Muhammad's companions learned and later transcribed the verses (surrahs) of the Koran as Muhammad spoke them. In Islam, the teachings of Mohammed were believed to be direct divine revelation from Allah.

The third Caliph, Uthman, collected and codified the various versions of the surrahs into one written Koran that became the standard Arabic text used by the world's Muslims today. The Koran is longer than the Bible and written in general order of longest chapters to shortest rather than in any order of when they were spoken, sometimes making the work appear to be confusing. In all there are 114 chapters. Most of the later recorded sayings of Mohammed, which were also more warlike, actually appear earlier in the text. Present-day Muslims look first to the Koran as a guide to life, then to the [[Sunnah]], or the way of the Prophet (his life as an example for others) as recorded by his early companions, and then to the [[Hadith]], a collection of the Prophet's sayings, comments, advice, and descriptions.

Frequently, Muslims disagreed over how to interpret certain passages in the Qur'an, the Sunnah, or the Hadith in their search for the ideal life and perfect path to heaven. From these interpretations Sunni Muslims developed four schools of law, or interpretations of law, named after their founders or early leaders: the Hanbali, considered the most strict school and predominant today in Saudi Arabia; Shafi, the school of widest acceptance, found in Egypt, parts of Palestine-Syria, south Arabia, and the Far East; Maliki, prevalent in North Africa, Sudan, and Nigeria; and Hanafi, considered the most moderate school, predominant in Ottoman Turkey and today found primarily on the Levant and Indian subcontinent. Frequently, Islamic countries have two separate legal systems, one for civil, criminal, or commercial law, and a second, and separate, system for religious law. Religious courts and their judges (qadis) might handle issues dealing with marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, religious education, charitable or religious property (Waqf), or family matters. Among Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen have Shariah courts serving alongside their secular courts or have adopted [[Sharia]]h (Islamic law) as the basis of their legal systems.

===Five pillars of Islam===
*'''[[Shahadah]] (Profession of Faith)''' -The Shahadah is the Muslim profession of faith. 'ašhadu 'al-lā ilāha illā-llāhu wa 'ašhadu 'anna muħammadan rasūlu-llāh, a loose English translation reads "''There is none worthy of worship except Allah, and [[Muhammad]] is the messenger of Allah''" This testament can be seen as the foundation of all of the other tenets of Islam and swears off the divinity of Christ. For the Christian believer, the Shahada is essentially an [[oath]] renouncing the divinity of [[Christ]], "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven." (Matt 10:33).

*'''[[Salat]] (Ritual Prayer)''' -All Muslims are required to pray to Allah five times each day while facing [[Mecca]]. Praying six times a day is considered willful disobedience to Allah, ''per shariah law'', an act punishable by death.<ref>The example is used by Prof. Quinten Wiktorowitz of an extremist considered by Muslim "moderates" as one who loves Allah so much he defies Allah's instructions. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10576100500497004</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://archives.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/WIKTOROWICZ_2006_Anatomy_of_the_Salafi_Movement.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiXlY7EttfTAhVF02MKHRExBFwQFggcMAA&usg=AFQjCNH4tKyamYaRwVVY8j23A0VjTOOWJg&sig2=zIzwl9aecd3zpGkLsveV0g "Despite the success of the Prophet’s mission and the growth of Islam, Salafis believe human desires continue to grip Muslims and challenge the purity of the message. In this view, there is an eternal temptation to manipulate and distort the religion through innovation. Although nefarious interests often drive deviancy, it can also result from good intentions. Muslims who pray more than the explicitly proscribed five times a day, for example, are likely motivated by love for God. They are, however, still engaged in innovation because they are inventing new practices to fulfill a human desire." p.4 pdf]</ref>

*'''Zakat (Charity)''' Zakat is often described as charitable giving. Able Muslims must donate to the poor based on the wealth one has accumulated. In current usage it is interpreted as 2.5% of [[net worth]] held for a full lunar year. However, funding violent jihad by wealthy Muslims has been ruled a form of ''zakat'' by Islamic scholars, a requirement to fulfill their Islamic duty under the five pillars. There exists the poor, unemployed, and unemployable jihadis, and the ignorant (''jahiliyya'') infidel masses in need if Islamic enlightening, hence funding terrorism is considered charitable work.

*'''Sawm (Fasting)''' All able-bodied Muslims (children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the ill are exempt) must not eat during the daylight hours of the entire month of [[Ramadan]]. According to Muslims, this purifies the body and soul. Although Muslims and their mainstream media surrogates refer to it as a "fast," this in no way aligns with traditional Christian and Judaic concepts of fasting, and indeed violates the basic concept. Torturing oneself in an outward display of [[piety]] is deemed hypocritcal by the [[monotheist]]ic traditions of Christianity and Judaism. Some Islamic sects allow military, police and emergency services personnel to receive an exemption from fasting from an imam, on the grounds that their work supports the community or national good.

*'''Hajj (Pilgrimage)''' All able-bodied Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives. Many without funds for a round trip never made it back, having been sold off in the slave auction market place at [[Taif]].<ref>https://youtu.be/emRVkisdbhc</ref>

===Sharia===
[[Image:StarCresent.png|thumb|right|220px|The Star and Crescent is a symbol of Islam. It is featured in the national flag of [[Algeria]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Malaysia]], [[Tunisia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Mauritania]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Turkey]], amongst others]]
[[Sharia]] is the body of Islamic law. The term means "way" or "path"; it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence. It is not actually part of the canonical Koran; that is to say, it is not believed to be the direct word of Allah by Muslims, but rather the interpretation of it.

Sharia deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business law, contract law, sexuality, marriage, divorce, and social issues. Most Islamic scholars regard Sharia as the body of precedent and legal theory established during the early stages of the Islamic Empire, though a few scholars also believe contemporary legal cases can and should shape the law, though such thinkers may be subject to ridicule and even threats from Islamists and their liberal allies.

Sharia law proscribes often brutal punishments for acts, that, in the western world, are relatively minor. For example, under sharia law, turning away from Islam is punishable by death,<ref>[http://www.ntpi.org/html/whyoppose.html]</ref> while women found guilty of adultery is punishable by stoning to death, which often includes many rape victims, as Sharia courts often regard a rape victim as guilty of adultery unless she can provide four witnesses to the act of rape.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6148590.stm</ref> In cases involving the death penalty of corporal punishment, methods of carrying out the punishment are often barbaric, and include public beheading, chopping off of the hand, and flogging.<ref>http://saudiwoman.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/punishment-in-saudi-arabia/</ref> Many Islamic groups have been attempting to have Shariah courts set up in European countries, initially to rule over civil cases between Muslims in Europe.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422661,00.html</ref>

The need by Islam's adherents to add to and retain followers in its ideology through Sharia, deceit, force and intimidation, particularly through threats of death against those who leave Islam or who levy legitimate criticism against it for its barbaric ways and history, would indicate that overall, Islam is a weak ideology that would not withstand criticism or exposure of the truth of its ways and history. To facilitate retaining its membership and to keep the truth about Islam under wraps, its adherents have formed convenient alliances with sympathetic liberals in politics, academia, the courts, the mainstream media and Hollywood to deceive the public about Islam and what it really is, as well as to censor and silence critics of Islam through ridicule, false accusations of "racism", "hate speech" and "Islamophobia" and the illegal use of the legal system to punish critics.<ref>[http://nationalpost.com/news/weaponization-of-free-speech-prompts-talk-of-a-new-hate-law?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29 "Weaponization" of free speech prompts talk of a new hate law] at the ''National Post''</ref>

===Ulemah ===
Sunni Islam does not have a priesthood or clerical hierarchy to conduct religious services or interpret scripture, but it does have prayer leaders, called Imams, and religious scholars, called Ulemah,<ref>"Umma and ulemah" would be roughly equivalent to "laity and clergy".</ref> who often are educated men familiar with the Koran and able to offer commentaries on Koranic verses. Sunni Muslims also respect the teachings and interpretations of scholars, judges, and academics who may interpret laws, write treatises on Sharia (religious law) or Hadith, and issue Fatwas, religious rulings or declarations intended to enlighten or guide Muslims. These religious scholars issue legal rulings on various questions in contemporary life, such as the use of toilet paper which Islamic law previously forbade,<ref>https://nypost.com/2015/04/08/muslims-can-now-use-toilet-paper-turkeys-top-religious-authority/</ref> transgenderism,<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-transgender/pakistani-clerics-declare-transgender-marriages-legal-under-islamic-law-idUSKCN0ZD1IZ</ref> conjugal relations in marriage during the menstrual cycle<ref>http://aliftaa.jo/QuestionEn.aspx?QuestionId=2667#.YGOXVtKSncs</ref> or use of bug zappers.<ref>https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/198619/killing-insects-with-electric-insect-killer</ref>

Shia Islam has a hierarchy that resembles a priesthood. Mullahs are prayer leaders, but usually do not interpret religious law. Mujtahids are religious scholars who may interpret law or passages from the Koran or Hadith. The lower order of Mujtahids are called Hojjatolislam. Ayat Allah (literally sign of Allah, also Ayatollah) is a higher order of Mujtahid who may issue Fatwas, or religious edicts, in addition to leading Islamic schools, interpreting religious law and the Koran, and offering sermons or discourses on proper Islamic behavior.

== Converts to Islam ==
People who convert to Islam from legitimate religions or from nontheism commit ideologically motivated crimes such as [[jihadism|jihadist]] [[terrorism]], [[hate speech]], [[discrimination]], [[anti-Semitism]], anti-Christianity and [[fraud]]: [http://web.archive.org/web/20190327113206/https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Converts_to_Islam A list of converts to Islam]. As has been witnessed many times, people who convert to Islam become radicalized and divide the world into two groups: Muslims ("people who surrender to Allah") and non-Muslims (''kafir''s, i.e. people who think differently). Many people, especially men, who convert to Islam are also [[Misogyny|misogynists]] and [[pedophiles]], since Islam allows and even celebrates misogyny and pedophilia.

==Today==
[[File:2012 Sydney protest.jpg|thumb|Some non-Muslims feel threatened by the unforgiving nature of the ideology of Islam.]]
Islam is the world's largest socio-political ideology, with over 1.6 billion followers, and is claimed to be the fastest-growing ideology in America.<ref>[http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-fastest-growing-religion-in-america-is-islam]</ref> This rapid growth is mainly due to conversions, high birth rates, and convenient redefinitions of the term "Muslim". Conversions to Christianity (from ''any'' faith or lack thereof) outnumber those to Islam, but are keeping up with the birthrate discrepancy.<ref>[http://www.bible.ca/global-religion-statistics-world-christian-encyclopedia.htm World Christian Encyclopedia]</ref><ref>[http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/AlJazeerahAfrica.php Translation of AL-Jazeerah interview between Maher Abdallah and Shiekh Ahmed Katani]</ref>

Islamic doctrine, including what is taught in [[North America]], teaches that 1 John 4:9, "God is love", is a false doctrine.<ref>http://www.arabicbible.com/for-christians/1313-christians-common-questions-about-islam.html?start=2</ref> The doctrine of ''Al-Wala wal-Bara'' teaches true faith is measured in sharing Allah's hatred of the ''kufr'', non-believers, or infidels.<ref>http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim</ref> In other words, Islamic doctrine teaches that Allah hates his own creation, sinful man, which John 3:16 teaches, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son." ''Al-Wala wal-Bara'', or divine hatred, is used to justify terrorist attacks. The believing Muslim feels he is carrying out Allah's will in killing Allah's enemies. Rather than the [[atonement|atoning]] blood of Jesus for sinful man, the murder of infidels and attacks on their societal institutions and national governments is aimed at blotting out evil in the world.

Even Orthodox Judaism teaches that Jehovah loves sinners. Psalm 138:8, for example, says, "The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands."

[[Indonesia]] has the largest Islamic population in the world.

=== Future of Islam in Europe and the desecularization of Europe ===
''See also: [[Atheism vs. Islam]] and [[Secular Europe]]''
[[File:Europe pol 2004.jpg|thumbnail|right|325px|In 2014, the Pew Research Forum indicated that [[Europe]] will go from 11% of the world's population to 7% of the world's population by 2050.<ref>[https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/03/10-projections-for-the-global-population-in-2050/ 10 projections for the global population in 2050] By Rakesh Kochhar, Pew Research Forum, February 3, 2014</ref>]]

In April 2010, Eric Kaufmann indicated concerning the future of Islam in Europe:
{{cquote|I address this in some detail in the book, as well is in a [http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/europes-muslim-future recent article in the April issue of Prospect magazine] here in Britain. The short answer is that I don’t foresee a Muslim-majority Europe in this century or in the next. Why? Mainly because Muslim birthrates are plunging both in Europe and the Muslim world. Already, Iran, Tunisia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and several other Muslim countries have replacement-level fertility or below. In the UK, Bangladeshi and Pakistani fertility has halved in a generation and is now under 3 children per woman. This means their long-term growth will begin to tail off. The other part of the equation is the rise of non-Muslim immigrant groups (African and West Indian Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and other Eastern faiths) who are also increasing and therefore making Europe more plural and, in the process, rendering it harder for Muslims to increase their share of the population.

That said, Muslim membership retention and in-group marriage is exceptionally high (over 90 per cent) and they are a much younger population than the host society. So they are on course for steady growth. My colleagues and I expect their fertility to fall to host levels by 2030, but they will still make up 5-15 per cent of most West European countries by 2050 and 10-25 per cent by 2100. This is a major change from the 2-6 per cent levels of today<ref>[http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/shall_the_religious_inherit_the_earth/#sthash.nE0JGi2Y.dpuf ''Shall the religious inherit the earth?''], 2010 Interview with [[Eric Kaufmann]] by MercatorNet</ref>}}

Due to the growing number of Muslims moving into secular Europe/[[Western World]] and the ideological differences between the [[atheist worldview]] and Islam, there has been growing tension between [[atheism|atheists]]/secularists and Muslims - particularly between [[Militant atheism|militant atheists]] and militant Islam.

The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Sam Harris]] and the late [[Christopher Hitchens]] have received multiple accusations of engaging in "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]]" behavior.<ref>
*[https://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/dawkins_harris_hitchens_new_atheists_flirt_with_islamophobia/ Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia] by Nathan Lean, ''Salon'', March 30, 2013
*[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus] by [[Glenn Greenwald]], ''The Guardian'', April 3, 2013</ref> On the other hand, defenders of atheist criticisms of Islam/Muslims indicated that New Atheists should be able to criticize Islam without being accused of "Islamophobia".<ref>[http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2013/04/new-atheism-should-be-able-criticise-islam-without-being-accused-islamophobia New Atheism should be able to criticise Islam without being accused of Islamophobia] by Andrew Zak Williams, ''New Statesman'', Published 19 April 2013</ref>

For more information, please see:

*[[Atheism vs. Islam]]
*[[Atheism vs. Christianity]]

=== Growth of Islam in the United Kingdom ===

''See also:'' [[Growth of Islam in the United Kingdom]]

According to the website Statista.com's article [https://www.statista.com/topics/4765/islam-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/#topicOverview Islam in the UK - Statistics & Facts]: "Like most major European countries, the United Kingdom has a significant Muslim population living within its borders. With the number of Muslims in Europe predicted to increase significantly in the near future, the UK's share of Muslims in the population could rise from 6.3 percent in 2016 to 17.2 percent by 2050."

==Other aspects of Islam==
===Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem===
Muhammad's home city of Mecca was the site of his earliest preaching and conversions, and is the location of the Kaaba, traditionally held to be the foundation stone of the first mosque built by Adam and later restored by Abraham, and now the focus of the annual pilgrimage (hajj). Some historians suggest that the Kaaba, a black stone probably meteoric in origin, was venerated by pre-Islamic polytheistic religions.

At first, Jerusalem was claimed by Islam to be its holy city and the focus of prayers, but Mecca became the center of Islam after Muhammad's return in 630. Medina, because of its early association with Muhammad and as the site of Muhammad's tomb, is second in importance to Mecca. Jerusalem is revered by Muslims as the site of Solomon's temple, Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Ishmael, and the scene of Muhammad's miraculous midnight journey, the latter two now enshrined in the [[Dome of the Rock]] mosque. According to the Koran (Surrah 17:1, Isra) and Hadith, Muhammad and Gabriel were taken on winged mules from Mecca to Jerusalem, where they ascended through the seven heavens to the presence of Allah. During the visit, Muhammad learned, among other points, that Muslims were to pray five times each day and to honor Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the other prophets.

===People of the Book===
Christians and Jews are called "people of the Book" in the Koran and are considered earlier forerunners to Islam and viewed as brothers as long as they pay an extra tax when under Islamic rule. Islam, which claims roots tracing back to Abraham through his son Ishmael instead of Isaac as the Jews did, believes that they are the descendants of Allah's promise. Islam claims that both the Old and New Testament were corrupted and corrected by the Koran (though in truth, it is the Koran itself which plagiarized from and corrupted Biblical scripture), but there is still an earlier link claimed between the two religions and Islam. The view of Jews and Christians varied within different parts of the Koran and Islamic history. Much of current Islamic culture, even in places that were once very tolerant such as Egypt, has seen an upsurge in persecution and violence against Christians and Jews.

===Jihad===
Jihad is the "struggle" each Muslim is called to against unbelievers (infidels). Participation in jihad in Allah's cause was the third most important good deed listed in the Hadith, after prayer and honoring one's parents. Jihad was a rallying cry for the military spread of Islam in the seventh through tenth centuries against non-Muslims, and is the same reason for Islamic terrorism and war today. 
Some Muslim apologists in the western world say that jihad refers to the difficulties a Muslim faces in the everyday trials of life, such as the effort to get better grades in school, or the striving to achieve better results from a job, or the struggle to avoid sinful temptations. It is, they say, the internal struggle of good and evil, or the pure and the impure. However, this is simply a fabrication, which has been publicly labeled as such by Muslim scholars in the middle east. Nonetheless, even some mosques not teach this, fostering a more peaceful version of Islam. Unfortunately, it is not based on the Koran and the Hadith, but rather modern revisions. Any Muslim believing this peaceful version can be corrected based on these sacred books, and thus become "radicalized."

====Violent passages of the Koran championed by Islam====
In its passages, the Koran has advocated adherents of Islam to commit acts of violence, hatred and insurrection against those who do not follow that ideology (in particular, Jews and Christians) or are critical of it, to subjugate Judaism, Christianity and other religions to Islam and to force the followers of legitimate religions to submit and adhere to Islam.<ref>[https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx What Does Islam Teach About Violence]</ref><ref>[https://thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/hell-and-hate.aspx What Does Islam Teach About Hell and Hate]</ref> Not surprisingly, attempts at pointing out the violence advocated by the Koran have been met with denials and excuses by Islamic apologists, who engage in [[taqiyya]] by claiming that the critics of the violent passages took those passages "out of context" and that "critics only quote the part which (suits) them" while the apologists do exactly what they accuse the critics of doing.<ref>[https://discover-the-truth.com/2014/08/12/quran-2191-and-kill-them-wherever-you-find-them-explained/ Quran 2:191- ‘And kill them wherever you find them…’ Explained] - an attempt by Islamic apologists to excuse violent passages of the Koran by offering deceitful explanations of what they claim those passages "really mean"</ref><ref>[http://islam101.com/terror/verse8_12.htm The Holy Quran, verse 8:12], from another Islamic apologist site which excuses the violent passages of the Koran and attacks its critics by claiming "Some non-Muslims either through ignorance or Islam-bashing continue taking the verses of the Holy Quran out of context and its history to justify their false propaganda"</ref><ref>[https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/games/discover-truth/verses/47-4.aspx "Discover the Truth's" Game] - a refutation of the claims and excuses made by the Islamic apologist site Discover the Truth regarding Koran 47:4</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/01/jihad_quran_9123_v_matthew_103.html Jihad: Quran 9:123 v. Matthew 10:34] at American Thinker</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/obama_quotes_verse_532_omits_5.html Obama quotes (Koran) verse 5:32, omits 5:33] at American Thinker</ref> Among the more violent and hateful passages of the Koran are these:

*Koran 2:191 - “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”
*Koran 9:123 - “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.”
*Koran 9:5 - “When opportunity arises kill the infidels wherever you catch them.”
*Koran 3:85 - “Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.”
*Koran 9:30 - “The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them.”
*Koran 5:33 - “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
*Koran 9:28 - “The infidels are unclean; do not let them into a mosque.”
*Koran 22:19 - “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies.”
*Koran 47:4 - “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.”
*Koran 8:65 - “The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.”
*Koran 3:28 - “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.”
*Koran 8:12 - “Terrorize and behead those who disbelieve (in Allah).”
*Koran 8:60 - “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.”

====Osama bin Laden and fundamentalists====
[[Osama bin Laden]], a follower of [[Wahhabism]], stated that Islam is at war with the United States and its allies. Some observers claim that the number of Islamic fundamentalists is growing and poses a threat to the West.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/255/islamic-fundamentalists-are-the-new-big-threat-to-the-west|title=Islamic Fundamentalists are the New Big Threat to the West|author=Daniel Pipes|newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=Sept 16, 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/rev2006-06-04td.html|title=All or Nothing: The quest for a moderate Islam may be futile.|date=June 4, 2006|author=Theodore Dalrymple|newspaper=Cite Journal}}</ref> But other observers differentiate between conservative "fundamentalists" and the "extremists" who follow murderers such as bin Laden or other terrorists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2008/09/15/who_speaks_for_islam/page/full/|title=Who Speaks For Islam|author=Dinesh D'Souza|newspaper=Townhall|date=Sept 15, 2009}}</ref> In several major Islamic nations, bin Laden had the support of the majority of people in the early years after the 9/11 attacks. As he lost battles with the West and started to target fellow Muslims his popularity waned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/04/30/on-anniversary-of-bin-ladens-death-little-backing-of-al-qaeda/|title=On Anniversary of bin Laden's Death, Little Backing of al Qaeda|date=April 30, 2012|publisher=Pew Research Center}}</ref>

===Islam and forced conversion===
The Quran and the various Hadiths teach Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they are killed, converted, or in a permanent state of subjugation.
*Quran (8:38-39) - “Say to those who have disbelieved, if they cease (from disbelief) their past will be forgiven... And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world ]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.”

*Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

*Quran (9:5) "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them..."

*Quran (9:11) - (Continued from verse 9:5) "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion"

*Quran (9:56-57) - "And they swear by Allah that they are most surely of you, and they are not of you, but they are a people who are afraid (of you). If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste."

*Quran (2:193) - "And fight them until fitna is no more, and religion be only for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers."

*Qur'an (3:83) - "Are they seeking a religion other than Allah's, when every soul in the heavens and the earth has submitted to Him, willingly or by compulsion?"

*Sahih Muslim (1:33) The Messenger of Allah said: "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat."

*Sahih Muslim (19:4294) - "When you meet your enemies who are polytheists (which includes Christians), invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them ... If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them"

*Sahih Bukhari (84:59) - "Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.'"

*Sahih Bukhari (53:392) - "While we were in the Mosque, the Prophet came out and said, "Let us go to the Jews" We went out till we reached Bait-ul-Midras. He said to them, "If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle."

*Sahih Bukhari (2:24) - "Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."

*Sahih Bukhari (60:80) - "The Verse:--'You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind.' means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam."

*Sahih Bukhari (60:40) - "...:And fight them till there is no more affliction (i.e. no more worshiping of others along with Allah)."

*Sahih Bukhari (59:643) - "Testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, or else I will chop off your neck!"

*Ibn Kathir v.4 p.133, Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 959 - "Then the apostle sent Khalid bin Walid… to the Banu al-Harith and ordered him to invite them to Islam three days before he attacked them. If they accepted then he was to accept it from them, and if they declined he was to fight them. So Khalid set out and came to them, and sent out riders in all directions inviting the people to Islam, saying, 'If you accept Islam you will be safe.' So the men accepted Islam as they were invited."

*Ibn Kathir (Commenting on Quran 2:256 in the unabridged version of his tafsir) - "Therefore all people of the world should be called to Islam. If anyone of them refuses to do so, or refuses to pay the jizya, they should be fought till they are killed."

===Islam and slavery===
*Quran (33:50) - ''"O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee"
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*Quran (23:5-6) - ''"..who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess..."
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*Quran (4:24) - ''"And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess."
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*Quran (8:69) - ''"But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good"''

*Quran (24:32) - ''"And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves..."''

*Quran (2:178) - ''"O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female."
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*Quran (16:75) - ''"Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to Allah."
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*Sahih Bukhari (41.598) - Muhammad establishes that slaves are property. They cannot be freed if an owner has outstanding debt, but they can be used to pay off the debt<ref>https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx</ref>

*Sahih Bukhari (62:137) - Gives an account of women taken as slaves in battle by Mohammed's men after their husbands and fathers were killed. The women were raped with Mohammed's approval.

*Sahih Bukhari (34:432) - Another account of women taken captive and raped with Mohammed's approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.

*Sahih Bukhari (47:765) - A woman is rebuked by Mohammed for freeing a slave girl. The prophet tells her that she would have gotten a greater heavenly reward by giving her to a relative (as a slave).

*Sahih Bukhari (2:15:103) - ''"I was watching the display of black slaves in the mosque..."''

*Sahih Bukhari (59:637) - ''"The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, 'Don't you see this (i.e. Ali)?' When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, 'O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumlus.'"''

*Abu Dawud (2150) - ''"The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Quran 4:24) 'And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.'"
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*Abu Dawud (1814) - ''"...[Abu Bakr] He then began to beat [his slave] him while the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) was smiling and saying: Look at this man who is in the sacred state (putting on ihram), what is he doing?"
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*Abu Dawud (38:4458) - ''Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: “A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves)”.''

*Abu Dawud (1:142) - ''"Do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl"''

===Stealing from non-Muslims===
The Koran and the various Hadiths encourage Muslims to steal from non-Muslims.
*Koran (8:69) - "So enjoy what you took as booty; the spoils are lawful and good."

*Koran (48:20) - "Allah promised you many acquisitions which you will take, then he hastened on this one for you and held back the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign for the believers and that he may guide you on a right path."

*Koran (33:27) - "And he caused you to inherit their land and their houses and their wealth, and land ye have not trodden. Allah is ever able to do all things."

*Sahih Bukhari (53:351) - " Allah's Messenger said, "Booty has been made legal for me."

*Ibn Ishaq (327) - "Allah made booty lawful and good. He used it to incite the Muslims to unity of purpose. So enjoy what you have captured."

*Ibn Ishaq (503) - "Allah saw what was in their hearts [what they coveted] so he rewarded them with victory and with as much spoil as they could take. Allah promised that they would soon capture a great deal of booty.”

*Sahih Bukhari (44:668) - "We were in the company of the Prophet at Dhul-Hulaifa. The people felt hungry and captured some camels and sheep (as booty)..."

*Ahmad 4869 (also found in the original Hadith of Bukhari and Sahih al Jaami' AsSagheer 2828) - It is mentioned from Ibn ‘Umar from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “I have been raised between the hands of the Hour with the sword, until Allah the Exalted is worshipped alone with no associates. He has provided sustenance from beneath the shadow of spears and has decreed humiliation and belittlement for those who oppose my order.”<ref>https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/stealing.aspx</ref>

===Contamination of food given to non-Muslims===
There have been incidents where Muslims contaminate food given to Non-Muslims:
*In 2008, in the U.K, Saeed Hashmi and Jan Yadgari, the owners of a restaurant, sold chocolate cake sprayed with human feces.<ref>https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/uk-muslim-who-sprayed-food-with-feces-and-urine-cant-be-deported</ref>

*In 2015, a Pakistani Muslim owned restaurant in Britain by the name of "Khyber Pass Kebab" was found by health inspectors to be mixing feces in food given to customers.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247526/Kebab-shop-owners-infected-150-customers-rare-form-food-poisoning-meals-contaminated-human-faeces.html</ref>

*In July 2019, the local branch of ISIS in India planned to poison prasadam at a Hindu temple, to kill over 400 Hindu devotees. The suspects were arrested before they could do this.<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/terror-group-islamic-state-zakir-naik-mumbreshwar-temple-1573514-2019-07-25</ref>

*In August 2019, a Muslim vendor in the city of Meerut in India was caught mixing his Urine and Sperm in Biryani that he sold to Hindus.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGuYkInllg</ref>

*On April 3, 2020, a Muslim fruit vendor in India was caught licking fruits before selling them.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPoFAe52uw4&feature=emb_title</ref>

*On May 8, 2020, a Muslim man by the name of Abdul Nazim Sheikh Mahmood was caught on video licking bread while cutting it. The incident occurred in Maharashtra, India.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2020/05/maharashtra-man-arrested-in-amravati-after-video-of-him-spitting-on-bread-in-a-bakery-goes-viral-on-tiktok/</ref>

*On February 21, 2021, a Muslim man by the name of Sohail was caught on video spitting on Rotis while cooking for a wedding in the city of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, India.<ref>https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/watch-man-spits-on-tandoori-rotis-while-cooking-at-wedding-in-ups-meerut-arrested/723272</ref>

*On March 19, 2021, two Muslim men by the names of Sabi Anwar and Ibrahim were caught on camera spitting on Rotis that they were preparing.<ref>https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/2-staffers-held-for-spitting-on-rotis/article34103460.ece</ref>

*In September 2021, a Muslim owned company by the name of "iD Fresh Food" was found to be adding Cow Bones and Calf Rennet in Idli and Dosa Batter.<ref>https://twitter.com/RUDRANofficial/status/1434533101821063170</ref><ref>https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/iD-Fresh-Food-raises-Rs-35-crore-in-first-round-of-funding/article20900998.ece</ref>

*In October 2021, a Muslim by the name of Tamizuddin was caught on camera spitting on rotis while working at a Dhaba in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.<ref>https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/watch-man-spits-on-tandoori-roti-while-cooking-in-ghaziabad-dhaba-arrested-4335503.html</ref>

===Restrictions===
Observant Muslims are not supposed to eat pork and in general do not have dogs as pets; both swine and canines are considered unclean. Muslims can have dogs for safety. Muslims are prohibited from drinking alcoholic beverages, gambling, and from collecting interest on financial transactions.

===Women in Islam===
[[File:Muslim girls at Istiqlal Mosque Jakarta Indonesia.jpg|left|thumb|240px|Muslim girls at Istiqlal [[Mosque]], Jakarta.]]
In pre-Islamic times women's rights were defined by tribal laws which differed among the tribes. Some women had absolute equity and the ability to hold power, while some women were treated worse than chattel; bride prices, unlimited polygamy, and female infanticide were a common theme. [[Sharia law|Islamic law]] offered a path for which Muslim men could regulate women in a legal system based on Muslim principles of jurisprudence on the Arabian peninsula. Treated merely as individual sex objects, women were granted very limited rights but as distinct legal individuals; forced to marry who their parents tell them to, women are required not to directly object in order for the marriage contract to have some form of validity.

Unlike the pre-Islamic times where unlimited polygamy occurred, [[Sharia law]] limits [[polygamy]] to a maximum of four wives at any one time, though the use of "temporary" marriage in effect rendered this restriction meaningless. Once married, only men are entitled to divorce any time they please. The reality of traditional Sharia law as applied in the modern era has shocked the modern conscience.<ref>Linda Rae Bennett, ''Women, Islam and Modernity'' (2005)</ref> These restrictions on women were put into place over a thousand years ago, and there has been little progress since. Women are still not allowed to drive a [[car]], they cannot ride [[bicycle]]s, are unable to [[vote]], have been prohibited from traveling abroad without permission, and they can't use public facilities when men are present.

[[File:Sharia.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Muslim woman tortured under Sharia law.]]
Women in Islam are treated as inferiors to men in almost every regard and women's rights are all but non-existent in Islam, a fact conveniently ignored by the ideology's liberal allies (including in [[feminism]] and the [[mainstream media]]). In [[Sharia]], the testimony of one man equals that of five women. Women are required to cover the head and body in public, by wearing the hijab. Hijab is applied in different ways: a small scarf around the head and western street clothes may be acceptable in Cairo or Damascus but a full-length opaque [[burqa]] was enforced in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. As of 2008, [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iran]], and [[Pakistan]] are the most significant Middle Eastern countries where the government requires women to wear some form of restrictive garb, though cultural pressure in most Islamic countries offers women little choice but to submit to the dictat of hijab. Women who are claimed by their husbands or family to have disgraced their family are put to death in "[[honor killing]]s"; buried halfway or sometimes up to their neck so they cannot run, women, who are in most cases victims, are stoned to death.

====Honor killings====
Another violent practice continued in Islamic countries is [[honor killing]], in which a brother, father, or uncle "restores" or "defends" a family's honor by killing the sister, daughter, or niece that "dishonored" the family through supposedly "promiscuous" behavior. This "promiscuous" activity often includes women from Islamic societies living in the West aspiring to a more open lifestyle. The "honor killing" is more ancient, and pagan in origin, but tolerated and practiced more or less openly in some Islamic societies.

Some apologists might try to excuse or justify this practice by putting down this verse:

<blockquote>
'Because of that, We decreed...that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.' -5:32. [http://quran.com/5/32].
</blockquote>

Notice the ellipses between decreed and that? I hope you did, and if you followed the link you would know that this was decreed to the Children of Israel, who would be the Jews. Now, how could this be a defense against honor killing in Islamic countries if this wasn't even given to Muslims? The answer lies in the very next verse:

<blockquote>
'Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment, Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.' (5:33-34) [http://quran.com/5/33] [http://quran.com/5/34]
</blockquote>

So what we get from that, unlike the Jews where it is a blessing not to commit murder, for Muslims, it is a deed for Allah to murder those who have "caused corruption". Among these that "cause corruption" could be one's daughter, sister, or wife who is not wearing the headscarf, praying five times a day, not fasting in Ramadan, becoming too Westernized, etc., and thus honor killing would be "justified" in their view. Of course if you look at the next verse, it says that you should be merciful to those who have repented -before you apprehend them. This implies that they will be terrorized, and then there self-preservation instinct will kick in and they will repent. But what about those who don't? What if one's female relative doesn't believe that the headscarf is necessary while you do? And what if she still believes the same way after you apprehend her? You follow 5:33. As Muhammed himself proclaimed:

<blockquote>
I have been made victorious with terror.'
-Bukhari 4.52.220 [http://www.quranexplorer.com/Hadith/English/Hadith/bukhari/004.052.220.html].
</blockquote>

====Female genital mutilation====
Female genital mutilation (also known as "female circumcision") is mentioned in Hadith as an "honorable" condition for a woman, and act to carry out. It is a pre-Islamic tradition in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab world, though not in Coptic Egypt as some Islamic apologists claim. Female genital mutilation is not called for nor is it supported by the Koran.

====Abortion====
Muslims see [[abortion]] as ''haram'' (forbidden), but accept it if the life of mother is at risk.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/abortion_1.shtml</ref>

====Islamic dress is regular grounds for conflict in multicultural education====
Treatment of women varies widely by country. In the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia women are forbidden from driving a car, traveling in public without their husband or a male family member as an escort, leaving their home without wearing Islamic dress, working or voting. Though not formally forbidden from owning property, they have no way of obtaining this as work is forbidden and only males are permitted to inherit – should a man die, his brothers, sons, and father will all inherit before his wife. These restrictions are part of Sharia law and enforced by the police and a special Islamic office. Pakistan has similar restrictions but to a lesser extent. In contrast, [[Turkey]] has a majority Muslim population and yet grants women some rights similar to those of men including property ownership, employment, and education to university level.

Islamic apologists suggest the extremely repressive policies of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are cultural rather than religious, though these are the countries where traditional Islam is strongest. They point to the more moderate Islam practiced in Turkey as a demonstration that Islam and women's rights are compatible, ignoring the efforts of traditionalists in Turkey to end the few freedoms women were granted by men.

Islamic women's status is controversial. While Islamic men control and oppress Islamic women by compelling them to remain hidden behind the veil, sequestered in the home, and ignorant of the world by denying them access to education and worldly opportunities, Islamic apologists defend some practices. These men claim that many of the restrictions on women, such as the veil, are cultural traditions that pre-date Islam and are intended to protect women from predatory men. Unfortunately, such Islamic men ignore the fact that if a predatory man or group of rapists were to sexually assault an Islamic woman in Islam, she would be punished under Sharia law for "allowing" such an act to occur, and she would likely receive hundreds of lashes and years of jail time or be punished with death; the predatory man or men commonly go unpunished or only receive very light punishments at worst.

=== Atheism vs. Islam ===
From a global perspective, [[Europe]] is more secular/[[Atheism|atheistic]] than the rest of the world although it does have a considerable amount of religious immigrants who have higher birth rates (see: [[Secular Europe]] and [[Atheist population]] and [[Global atheism]]).

===Anti-science===
Modern science started in Christian Europe, not the Islamic world, and not even China. The Islamic world has not accomplished anything major in the sciences, unless copying counts. The Muslims borrowed their architecture from the Byzantines. For example, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem was built and designed by Byzantine craftsmen. The most beautiful churches in medieval Italy also used Byzantine architecture. Thousands of years before Muhammad was born, the Greeks discovered algebra and the Persians built the first astrolabe, though no denying that the Arabs were influential in naming algebra and translated many works. Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics borrowed from Greek philosophers. Greek physicians Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos did human dissections long before Ibn al-Nafis. Al-Kindi was a member of the school of Aristotelianism who just translated and preserved Greek works. After Greece and China established academies with Syrian Christians starting the School of Nisibis, the first school of higher education to achieve university status was the University of Bologna, while Al-Ahzar University was established as a madrassa around 970 AD, but did not achieve university status until 990 years later; the first hospital was built by the heretical Nestorians. The Indian numerals were actually modified in Europe, but ironically, the Arabic language was the last one to adopt the modified version.

==[[Taqiyya]]==
'''[[Taqiyya]]''' (al-Taqiyya, also spelled Al-Takeyya) is a concept in ([[Shia]]) Islam<ref>"Taqiyah" Oxford Dictionary of Islam. John L. Esposito, Ed. Oxford University Press. 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 9 June 2006.</ref> of deception (- of the "infidel").<ref>[https://www.meforum.org/2095/islams-doctrines-of-deception Islam's doctrines of deception]. By Raymond Ibrahim.
Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst.
October 2008.</ref><ref>Carol, S. (2019). [https://books.google.com/books?id=trqzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT337 Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East: A Comprehensive Analysis]. United States: iUniverse.
"taqiyya—the Master of Deception."</ref> It encourages [[lie|lying]] and [[deceit]] by "disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies,"<ref name="Islam watch">http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm [https://archive.ph/aoC0]</ref> especially when failing to do so may put the believer at risk.<ref name="islamtoday.com">IslamToday.com, ''Rulings Regarding the Concealment of Faith'', retrieved 10/16/08 [http://www.islamtoday.com/showme_beta.cfm?cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=653]</ref> It is authorized under the [[Koran]] and Sunna.{{fact}}

Taqiyya allows a Muslim even "to deny or denounce his faith if, in so doing, he protects or furthers the interests of Islam, so long as he remains faithful to Islam in his heart."<ref name="Islam watch"/> Taqiyya further permits "lying under oath in testimony before a court, deceiving by making distorted statements to the media such as the claim that Islam is a 'religion of peace.'" It can be used to lure credibility and to advance Islam and its expansion.<ref name="Islam watch"/>

Islam, in fact, generally teaches that it is acceptable to lie, so long as they know the truth and the lie will benefit the ideology, or keep them in, or get them into a position to advance the ideology, if only by stealth.

==Historical background==
According to Islamic belief, in approximately 610 A.D., [[Muhammad]], a 40-year-old merchant of the Quraysh tribe in [[Mecca]], located in the Hijaz (now eastern [[Saudi Arabia]]), was commanded by the angel [[Gabriel]] (or Jibreel) to "recite" the message of Allah (professed by adherents of Islam to be their god). Gabriel said mankind had lost sight of Allah's previous messages to earlier prophets, [[Adam]], [[Noah]], [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], [[Solomon]], and [[Jesus]], among others, and that Muhammad was to spread Allah's message to all people so that mankind would know how to live, how to show respect for Allah, and how to prepare for the judgment day.
[[File:Islam750.jpg|right|thumb|Map of the expansion of Islam]]
The message to Muhammad was to be Allah's last and fullest revelation, a direct copy of the Umm Al Khitab, the mother of all books located in heaven next to Allah; Muhammad was the "seal of the prophets." Muhammad won some converts to Islam in his local area, but his [[monotheist]] preaching threatened to undermine the profitable [[polytheist]] pilgrim traffic supporting many Meccan merchants. In 622 A.D., the merchants drove Muhammad and his followers out of Mecca to the city of Yathrib (later renamed [[Medina]], or the city – as in the city of the prophet). This flight (hijra) from Mecca to Medina marks the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar, and is celebrated each year in the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Muhammad's forces, composed of the sahaba (companions) from Mecca, and the Ansar (allied tribes from Yathrib) started attacking the trade caravans going in and out of Mecca, cutting off its economic lifeline. After a series of battles between the Meccans and Muhammad's forces, Mecca finally accepted Muhammad's ultimatum to succumb and convert to Islam. The city welcomed the prophet back in 630. Muhammad died in 632.

Tribal elders in a traditional council called the "Shura" elected [[Abu Bakr]] to be Muhammad's successor, or [[Caliph]] (Khalifa). Abu Bakr united the tribes of the Arabian peninsula during his two years as head of the new faith. Upon his death, the elders elected [[Umar ibn al-Khattab]] the next Caliph. During Umar's ten-year reign, Islam invaded and spread through conquest and negotiation into [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Palestine]], [[Iraq]], and parts of Persia (modern-day [[Iran]]). Umar was assassinated by a Persian in 644, and was succeeded by [[Uthman ibn Affan]], who continued the invasions to spread Islam into [[North Africa]], [[Cyprus]], the rest of Persia, [[Afghanistan]], and parts of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. Over the next two centuries, Islamic armies continued to expanded Islam's empire into sub-Saharan Africa, [[Spain]], South-east and Central Asia, and [[Turkey]].

The Muslim armies conquered and superseded the ancient Sassanid and Byzantine empires which had ruled before. Within a generation of Muhammad's death Islamic armies occupied an empire stretching from the Nile river to the far-off Persian province of Khorasan. Reasons for the rapid conquest are varied and obscure. The Arab armies were more akin to tribal war bands raiding and settling where and when they could. The Byzantine and Sassanid empires had been at war for centuries. The constant simmering conflict between Constantinople and Persia reached a climax in the early 7th century. The Sassanids conquered briefly Egypt and the Levant threatening the central Byzantine heartland of Anatolia. Under the military reforms of the emperor Heraclius, the Byzantine army consolidated and counterattacked, recapturing all that they had lost and capturing the Sassanian capital of Ctesiphon in 628.

This brief end of the Roman-Persian wars disrupted the frontier areas which had predicated their economies on raiding and mercenary activities. Two major areas in Arabia were directly affected. The Lackmid tribe and the Gassanid tribe both acted as mercenaries for the Persians and Romans. The official religion of both tribes analogically mirrored that of their overseers. Monophysite Christianity was common, particularly of the Jacobite sect. The death of Muhammad and the subsequent Ridda wars occupied these warrior tribes until the reign of Caliph Umar. Additionally, there was great religious unrest in the Levant and Egypt. These areas resented the ruinous taxes and the harsh orthodoxy imposed by the emperor in Constantinople.

The same climate was present in the Sassanid realm with the rise of the dualism of the Manicheans. Under the Caliph Umar, the Arab tribes which had concluded the infighting following the death of Muhammad were allowed to raid into the Byzantine and Sassanid frontiers. The weakened state of both regimes from both military and economic exhaustion and religious unrest made them fertile picking grounds for the tribal warbands. The Arabs were chiefly successful in holding these areas in that they upheld a lightweight regime of low taxes based on the Islamic laws and distant government. Rather than employing an army of bureaucrats and nobility, the early Arab empire was more favorable towards maintaining the existing government structures under the leadership of Arab tribes. In this atmosphere, it is hardly surprising to note the reports from both Islamic and Christian sources of peaceful capitulation and invitation of the invading forces.

[[File:Madina Haram at evening .jpg|center|800px|thumb|Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Mosque of the Prophet) in [[Medina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], the site of [[Muhammad|Muhammad's]] tomb.]]

=== Islam and war ===
''See also: [[Irreligion/religion and war]] and [[Islamic terrorism]] and [[Atheism vs. Islam]]''

The book ''The Irrational [[Atheism|Atheist]]'' notes:
{{Cquote|It’s also interesting to note that more than half of these religious wars, sixty-six in all, were waged by Islamic nations, which is rather more than might be statistically expected considering that the first war in which Islam was involved took place almost three millennia after the first war chronicled in the ''Encyclopedia'', Akkad’s conquest of Sumer in 2325 B.C.

In light of this evidence, the fact that a specific religion is currently sparking a great deal of conflict around the globe cannot reasonably be used to indict all religious faith, especially when one considers that removing that single religion from the equation means that all of the other religious faiths combined only account for 3.35 percent of humanity’s wars.<ref>[https://www.chcpublications.net/IrrationalAtheist.pdf - Abbreviated free copy on the book The Irrational Atheist PDF]</ref>}}

===Islam and Christianity===
''See also: [[Dhimma]]''

While adherents of Islam do not believe Jesus to be the Son of God or in the Resurrection, they consider Him and His mother to be among Allah's most important prophets (Marian and Isa) otherwise known as Mary and Jesus. However, the Koran warns against worshipping Jesus, Muhammad, and other humans for fear of [[idolatry]].<ref>[http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Islam/Islam.htm Christian Churches of God Articles on Islam], March 10, 2007</ref>

The Koran states that non-believers will be punished, though the nature of the punishment is not specified (same as similar statements in the Bible and the Torah):

{{cquote|Surely, disbelievers are those who said:
'Allah is the third of the three (in a Trinity).' But there is no god but One, Allah.
And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them.

Will they not repent to Allah and ask His Forgiveness? For Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The Messiah, son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a Siddiqah (i.e. she believed in the words of God and His Books ).
They both used to eat food (as any other human eat).
Look how We make the signs clear to them, yet look how they are deluded away (from the truth)."
}}
::(Koran 5:73-75)

However, Islam does recognize Christians and Jews as "people of the book" since both refer to one God only, and recognize Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) as a founding prophet.

==Critics==
Most contemporary critics of Islam are either atheists or nominally religious: [[Ibn Warraq]] (author), [[Wafa Sultan]] (psychiatrist), [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] (author), [[Hugh Fitzgerald]] (of JihadWatch), [[Oriana Fallaci]] (author), [[Geert Wilders]] (politician), [[Sam Harris]] (author), [[Pamela Geller]] (blogger), [[Bill Maher]] (comedian) and the crowd at the Ayn Rand Institute. The notable exception is [[Robert Spencer]], who while a devout Catholic, criticizes Islam as the socio-political ideology it is. Political critics include [[Winston Churchill]],<ref>[http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/winston-churchills-brutal-takedown-of-islam-means-more-today-than-ever Winston Churchill’s Brutal Takedown of Islam Means More Today than Ever]</ref> [[Herman Cain]], [[Rick Santorum]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news-press.com/article/20130323/NEWS0119/303230016/Santorum-delivers-warning-about-radical-Islam-during-Naples-appearance|title=Santorum delivers warning about radical Islam during Naples appearance|date=March 23, 2013|newspaper=Fort Meyers News Press|author=Lindsay Downey}}</ref> [[David Horowitz]] (author) and [[Pat Robertson]] (preacher). Neither [[Ronald Reagan]] (who helped mujahideen fight atheistic Communists) nor [[George W. Bush]] ("Islam means peace") saw Islam as the problem. Commentators note that the conservative response to fundamental Islam is a far cry from the complete and unequivocal condemnation of Communism during the heyday of the Cold War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberty-and-culture.com/conservatives.html|title=The Conservative Response to the Islamic Threat.|author=Jason Pappas|date=Sept 5, 2004}}</ref> [[Dinesh D’Souza]] argues that Muslims are "God-fearing conservatives",<ref>{{cite book|author=Dinesh D’Souza|title=The Enemy At Home|year=2007|publisher= Doubleday}}</ref> even though they have formed convenient alliances with liberals and several Islamic countries (particularly Iran) have formed alliances with the Communist regimes in [[China]] and [[North Korea]] and the Marxist regime in [[Venezuela]] to oppose the United States and its Western allies.<ref>''Some of the text for this article was taken from "Islam: A Primer", Congressional Research Service Report for Congress (2003), a work in the public domain'' [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islam.htm#back]</ref>

===Ex-Muslims===
[[Michelle Malkin]] highlights a group of [[Ex-Muslims]] hoping to change the terms of debate about Islam in Europe. Maryam Namazie, the head of the British group said "Too many things in the media and government policies have been geared to pandering to the political Islamic movements and Islamic organizations."<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/20/ex-muslims-stand-up-in-britain/ Ex-Muslims stand up in Britain]</ref> Ex-Muslims include Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark A. Gabriel, Walid Shoebat, and Mosab Hassan Yousef.
== Evangelism - Christianity vs. Islam competition in Africa ==

''See also:'' [[Evangelism - Christianity vs. Islam competition in Africa]]

In 2021, ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported:
{{Cquote|Across sub-Saharan Africa, religion today is in ferment as different versions of Christianity and Islam vie for believers—a contest that is transforming both faiths and disrupting long-established terms of coexistence.
Owing to population growth and the intensity of their religiosity, Africans are now one of the more important constituencies of both Islam and Christianity worldwide, and sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most active and contested religious markets. The region was 59% Christian and 30% Muslim in 2020, according to the World Religion Database. “There is a new scramble for Africa,” said Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome of Jamia Mosque in Nairobi, Kenya, drawing an analogy with the colonization of the continent in the late 19th century. “Christianity is growing, Islam is growing, and there is competition.”

On a continent where indigenous religions dominated just a century ago, Christian missionary efforts, associated with European colonization, have borne fruit in massive conversions. By 2020, there were 643 million Christians in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter of the world total, up from 7.4 million in 1900. By 2050, it is projected that there will be 1.3 billion Christians in the region, or 38% of all the Christians in the world.<ref>[https://archive.md/6a9xY#selection-143.5-143.62 The Competition for Believers in Africa’s Religion Market], Wall Street Journal, 2021</ref>}}

== See also ==
[[Image:Africa islam 87.jpg|thumb|Islam in Africa]]
*[[Arab American]]
*[[Islamic republic]]
*[[Islamophobia]]
*[[Qur'an]]
*[[Jihadism]], an extremist, take on Islam
*[[Ramadan]]
*[[In the midst of a Maelstrom: the Holy Spirit and silence: an essay]] encounter of Israeli Messianic Jew and Egyptian Muslim in Alexandria
*[[List of countries by number of Muslims]]
*[[Civilization state‎‎]]
*[[Undercover Muslim]]
*[[Islamic worldviews]]
*[[Islamophilia]]
*[[Judaism and Islam]]
*[[Atheism vs. Islam]]
*[[Islam and Christianity]]

==Further reading==
* Armour, Rollin. ''Islam, Christianity, and the West: A Troubled History'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Christianity-West-Troubled-History/dp/1570754071/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342713&sr=1-32 excerpt and text search]
* Armstrong, Karen. ''Islam: A Short History'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-Modern-Library-Chronicles/dp/081296618X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Berkey, Jonathan P. ''The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Formation-Islam-Religion-Society-600-1800/dp/0521588138/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342713&sr=1-27 excerpt and text search]
* Campo, Juan Eduardo. ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' (2009), basic introduction
* Esposito, John J. ''The Oxford History of Islam'' (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-History-Islam-John-Esposito/dp/0195107993/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Glasse, Cyril. ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'' ( 2nd ed. 2008)
* Lewis, Bernard. ''Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East'' (2001), by leading conservative historian [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-People-Events-Middle/dp/0812695186/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342525&sr=1-15 excerpt and text search]
* Martin, Richard C. et al. ''Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World'' (2003), more advanced
* Newby, Gordon. ''A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Encyclopedia-Islam-Gordon-Newby/dp/1851682953/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342942&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Robinson, Chase F. ed. ''The New Cambridge History of Islam'' (Volume 1) (2009), summarizes advanced scholarship
* Ruthven, Malise, and Azim Nanji. ''Historical Atlas of Islam'' (2004)
* Schimmel, Annemarie. ''Islam: An Introduction''. (1992)
* Sonn, Tamara and Mary Williamsburg. ''A Brief History of Islam'' (2004) [https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Blackwell-Histories-Religion/dp/1405109009/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search]
* Wheatcroft, Andrew. ''Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/Infidels-History-Conflict-Between-Christendom/dp/0812972392/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342525&sr=1-13 excerpt and text search]

==External links==
*[http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html Islam and Christianity] - excellent article comparing and contrasting the two.
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/ Qur'an online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/ Sahih Bukhari (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/ Sahih Muslim (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/ Sunan Abu-Dawud (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/ Malik's Muwatta (Hadith collection) online in English]
* Congressional Research Service, "Islam: A Primer", Report for Congress (2003), a work in the public domain and the source of part of this article [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islam.htm#back]
*[http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/01/islamists-torch-pope-in-effigy-again.html Islamists Torch Pope in Effigy, Again]
*[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2010/december/849_kind-strangers.html Muslims Saving Jews During World War II.] By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.
*[http://differencesbetween.com/islam-and-muslim/ Difference Between Islam and Muslim]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ A Turkish Delight: they think so in Israel too!]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ Turkey's Islamic scholar, Rabbi Meir Lau, and Cain speechless before Abel]

==References==
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Wars provoked by Deep State

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All of the major wars involving the United States in the 20th century and the 21st century by far were provoked by the [[deep state]]. When the Bushes got the [[United States]] involved in the Iraq Wars and Afghanistan, this was the first time since [[William McKinley]] that a [[Republican Party]] administration got the United States involved in major armed conflicts. Republicans [[Dwight Eisenhower]] and [[Richard Nixon]] won two terms by pledging withdrawal from no-win wars in Korea and Vietnam, with three out of four landslide victories except for 1968. When conservative Republican [[Donald Trump]] pledged to withdraw from America's endless wars in the [[Middle East]], he won the 2016 and 2024 elections, but [[Joe Biden]] stole the 2020 election from him.

==Wars involving the United States==

===World War I===
The [[Lusitania]] was sunk with some US passengers, but Germany said that there were illegally smuggled weapons on it, and later proven right. As for the Zimmermann Telegram to [[Mexico]], it said "IF" the US attacks us and you help, we will help you in turn." In [[February Revolution]], [[Czar Nicholas II]] was succeeded by Georgy Lvov and later President [[Alexander Kerensky]]. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Anthony C. Sutton documents records from the US state department how the United States backed the second or October Revolution - the hijacking of Russia's democratic February Revolution by the [[Bolsheviks]]. [[Woodrow Wilson]] bribed Kerensky to stay in World War I, and even gave [[Leon Trotsky]] a passport to go to Russia. The new Bolshevik regime concluded a treaty with Germany, conceding the [[Ukraine]] to Germany. During the Russian Civil War, the foreign allies, including the United States, fought the communist Reds by sending invasion forces during land grab attempts while giving the democratic Whites little assistance (a small faction of the Whites supported restoration of the monarchy). At the Treaty of Versailles, the democratic principle of self-determination was only applied to the [[Central Powers]] and the former [[Russian Empire]], but not the other allied victors including colonial powers such as [[Britain]] and [[France]].

=== World War II ===
[[Franklin Roosevelt]] used the [[Lend-Lease Act]] to fund the British before using oil sanctions on [[Japan]] to trigger Pearl Harbor, as Japan had zero chance of defeating the United States, and even [[China]], which was in a warlord period, was too large for the python to swallow, and Japan would have lost either way. There is also speculation that Roosevelt intentionally allowed Pearl Harbor to happen, and that his ultimate goal was to start a conflict with Japan in order to justify intervening in Europe. A counterargument or defense to said speculation is that the Axis could not have been defeated unless the United States got involved. That is certainly a possibility in the case of Germany (but not Japan), but what cannot be ignored is that 85% of [[Nazi]] causalities (including most before [[D-Day]]) occurred in the hands of the Soviet Army, which no doubt was emboldened by the country having suffered approximately 27 million deaths (one-third were soldiers) during the course of the war, and 60% of causalities of the Imperial Japanese Army took place at the hands of China, which suffered 20 million causalities (one-fourth soldiers). This is the same Soviet Union that Woodrow Wilson helped to create. And regardless of which side of that argument is correct, at the end of the day the absolute truth is that Roosevelt wanted to get involved in the war from the beginning, perhaps if not likely in the name of interests that had nothing to do with American interests or even basic morality (remember, this is the same man who had previously refused German Jews entry into the United States when it was already clear that Hitler had genocidal intentions towards them, and even based parts of the New Deal on foreign counterparts established by fascist regimes). And of course, the lack of sincere moral outrage towards the genocidal policies of the Axis countries has continued well beyond the war and even to this day, as the CIA has consistently forged covert alliances with neo-Nazi groups and in some cases unrepentant former members of the ''original'' Nazis, and during [[Operation Paperclip]], former Nazis were brought to work for [[NATO]] and United States government departments and agencies, but their records were scrubbed so they can look clean. To this day, the United States has put little to no pressure on Japan to acknowledge its wartime crimes to the extent that Germany has, as Germany has released their records on the crimes committed during the Holocaust, and UNESCO was going to release records on Japan's war crimes in 2015 until Tokyo threatened to withhold funding.

=== Korean War ===

On January 12, 1950, President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[Deep State]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] gave his carefully written "defensive perimeter" speech at the National Press Club, which [[communist]]s interpreted as allowing communist [[North Korea]] to invade [[South Korea]]. Acheson's speech notably excluded South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) from the defensive perimeter that extended from [[Japan]]’s Ryukyu Islands to the [[Philippines]]. As explained by the ''World Tribune'':
{{cquote|According to Soviet eyewitness accounts made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, Acheson’s speech was rushed to Stalin’s desk for a careful study. Stalin then immediately held secret deliberations with Mao, who had been in the USSR since late December 1949, about the seemingly changed military assessment concerning Korea. [North Korea dictator Kim Il-Sung] had been begging Stalin to approve his plan to attack South Korea, only to be repeatedly rejected by him on account of an assumed American military response. But only two weeks after Acheson’s speech, as the post-Soviet Union archival releases have indicated, on January 30, 1950, Stalin finally issued a general approval for Kim Il-Sung to launch the attack on the South.<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/dean-achesons-fateful-speech-and-the-outbreak-of-the-korean-war-on-june-25-1950/</ref>}}

Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> During his address to the UN General Assembly, Truman said, “The men who laid down their lives for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our memory, and in the memory of the world, forever. They died in order that the United Nations might live.” <ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207324.htm</ref>

===Vietnam War===
After stealing the 1960 election, [[John F. Kennedy]] authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed attempt to overthrow Cuban dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. Following this incident, he later told reporter James Reston, "We have trouble making our power look credible and Vietnam looks like the place to do it.” While it's debatable whether he had a change of heart on that matter between then and his assassination, what cannot be disputed is that his successor [[Lyndon Johnson]], a total Deep State puppet, remained committed to war. Once the false-flag [[Gulf of Tonkin]] incident occurred, the mainstream media led by [[CBS]] reporter [[Walter Cronkite]] beat the drums for entering the war, only to switch sides later on when it was too late. They would later play these same games during Iraq War II.

=== Gulf War ===

On July 25, 1990, the [[Deep State]] U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, declared during discussions with Iraqi officials and amid a massive troop buildup by it on the [[Kuwait]] border that the U.S. is "inspired by the friendship and not by confrontation, does not have an opinion" on the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. "We [the U.S.] have no opinion on the Arab–Arab conflicts," she reportedly declared to [[Saddam Hussein]]. She reportedly also told him that the U.S. did not intend "to start an economic war against Iraq." Saddam Hussein apparently construed these comments as a green light for him to invade Kuwait, which he did soon thereafter. [[George H.W. Bush]] subsequently pursued war on false pretenses, accusing Saddam of undermining the global order when his true motivations was protecting the petrodollar in preparation for his envisioned "New World Order."

With the above in mind, one cannot help but wonder whether Glaspie's baiting of Saddam was not accidental, but rather an intentional act done as a favor to [[Saudi Arabia]], the benefactor of the petrodollar and by extension the "New World Order."

===Bosnian War===
During his first term as president, [[Bill Clinton]] deceived the public into believing that [[Serbia]] was committing genocide in [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41373/</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315650006_The_impact_of_Islam_on_the_Bosnian_problem_The_myth_of_harmonious_multiethnicity_revisited</ref><ref>https://mightynose.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-explains-former-deputy-chief-of-mission-of-un-military-observers-in-bosnia-and-croatia/</ref>

===Kosovo War===
During his second term, [[Bill Clinton]] launched the [[Kosovo War]] after he falsely accused Serbia of genocide,<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/01/clinton-wag-dog-no-kosovo-genocide.html</ref><ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/18/balkans3</ref> as the Clinton State Department claimed that 100,000 Kosovo Albanians were killed or missing, when the causalities was actually 11,000,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/world/early-count-hints-at-fewer-kosovo-deaths.html</ref> and later 3,000.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> Previously, the Clinton State Department once admitted that the Kosovo Liberation Army is a terrorist organization.<ref>https://apjjf.org/site/make_pdf/3578</ref><ref>https://www.newenglishreview.org/Ares_Demertzis/How_To_Dismember_A_Country/</ref>

===Afghan War===
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both deliberately ignored the many warnings from various foreign intelligence agencies about the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the former missed multiple opportunities to take bin Laden out before he could strike. Once 9/11 had occurred, Bush then falsely labeled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as being the government which bore ultimate responsibility (the actual guilty party was Saudi Arabia, who Bush continued to prop up as an ally).

===Iraq War===
Like the first Iraq War, the second one was started on false pretenses in order to prevent Saddam Hussein (who was then trying to sell oil for Euros as opposed to dollars) from undermining the petrodollar.

Three years after the start of the war, Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] announced Colonel Ralph Peters New Middle East Project, a continuation of the [[World War I]] Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which he admits to the title "Blood Borders".<ref>http://armedforcesjournal.com/blood-borders/</ref><ref>http://www.defenddemocracy.press/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/</ref><ref>https://brilliantmaps.com/new-middle-east/</ref><ref>http://www.behindthenews.co.za/2018/04/11/the-greater-middle-east-project/</ref>

===Libya War===
As [[WikiLeaks]] showed in the Clinton emails, [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was overthrown to prevent the adoption of gold back currency. <ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=%E2%80%9CThis+gold+was+accumulated+prior+to+the+current+rebellion+and+was+intended+to+be+used+to+establish+a+pan-African+currency+based+on+the+Libyan+golden+Dinar.+This+plan+was+designed+to+provide+the+Francophone+African+Countries+with+an+alternative+to+the+French+franc+%28CFA%29.&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0</ref>

===Syrian War===
The Syrian War was the consequence of a failed attempt by the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] regime to overthrow Syrian leader [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Like Saddam and Gaddafi before him, Assad posed a threat to the petrodollar by supporting oil and gas pipelines that undermined Saudi dominance of the regional energy market.

==US proxy wars==
===Donbas war===
{{See also|Donbas war}}
Along with the [[United States Department of State]] and [[George Soros]], many NGOs funded the 2013-2014 [[Maidan coup]] in which neo-Nazis took over [[Ukraine]].

===NATO war in Ukraine===
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
After engaging in human trafficking and genocidal extermination in [[Donbass]] for eight years, [[Russia]] begun special military operations to purge the deep state neo-Nazis in which it also destroyed a lot of bio warfare labs. For the deep state, this delayed their plans to start future pandemics.

===2023-24 Islamic Republic of Iran continuous war on Israel===
The origins of the Iran-Israel conflict, which began with the [[October 7 War|October 7, 2023 attacks]] on [[Israel|Israeli]] territory by the [[Iran|Iranian]] proxy [[Hamas]], (followed by its [[Hezbollah]], though on a larger scale, the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution saw Israel as an extension of the US and it interrupts its dominance in the Middle East), yet, some might argue that the signing of the [[Abraham Accords]], which were intended to be the framework for a future [[Arab]]-Israeli military alliance, as well as against Iran. Someone suggested the Iranian didn't like this alliance, as the American so called [[Deep State]] had long wished destruction upon Iran for its resistance to their agenda in Eurasia, just as they wish destruction upon [[China]] and [[Russia]] on similar grounds. Accordingly Iran plotted a [[First strike|first strike]] in hopes of killing the alliance before it came into being. It might possibly be argued that it was done, asides from religious fanaticism (just as they targeted Jews outside of Israel, including in the 1990s attacks in Latin America and in Bulgaria a few yeats back) for [[pragmatic]] reasons as well, especially as there were rumors of Saudis getting closer with Israel, which indeed, it stopped it.

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==References==

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-12T05:09:28Z

MattF: /* History and life */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref> During the 2020 election, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> On November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> She became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois on January 28, 2025.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
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[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-12T05:07:40Z

MattF: /* History and life */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76KKGD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IDXH7DW9K7W8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5VDqK0i-aPeP5CkStjVieQ.NgZDxah_7kkP9RJNeH845t241fkVo4okIPkOvRyLN8s&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+became+my+own+beginning+choosing+myself%3A+rebuilding+my+life%2C+and+starting+again+yesoe+yoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1788991726&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Yesoe}}
[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-12T05:06:16Z

MattF: /* History and life */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76KKGD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IDXH7DW9K7W8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5VDqK0i-aPeP5CkStjVieQ.NgZDxah_7kkP9RJNeH845t241fkVo4okIPkOvRyLN8s&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+became+my+own+beginning+choosing+myself%3A+rebuilding+my+life%2C+and+starting+again+yesoe+yoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1788991726&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Yesoe}}
[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-12T05:05:49Z

MattF: /* Musician */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76KKGD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IDXH7DW9K7W8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5VDqK0i-aPeP5CkStjVieQ.NgZDxah_7kkP9RJNeH845t241fkVo4okIPkOvRyLN8s&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+became+my+own+beginning+choosing+myself%3A+rebuilding+my+life%2C+and+starting+again+yesoe+yoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1788991726&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Yesoe}}
[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-11T00:51:23Z

MattF: /* Education and Experiences */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76KKGD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IDXH7DW9K7W8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5VDqK0i-aPeP5CkStjVieQ.NgZDxah_7kkP9RJNeH845t241fkVo4okIPkOvRyLN8s&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+became+my+own+beginning+choosing+myself%3A+rebuilding+my+life%2C+and+starting+again+yesoe+yoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1788991726&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Yesoe}}
[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-11T00:50:45Z

MattF: /* Education and Experiences */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor, and then left to become the CDO Loan Asset Administrator at US Bank. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76KKGD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IDXH7DW9K7W8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5VDqK0i-aPeP5CkStjVieQ.NgZDxah_7kkP9RJNeH845t241fkVo4okIPkOvRyLN8s&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+became+my+own+beginning+choosing+myself%3A+rebuilding+my+life%2C+and+starting+again+yesoe+yoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1788991726&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1]

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[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-09-09T22:11:05Z

MattF:

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor, and then left to become the CDO Loan Asset Administrator at US Bank. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Since March 2026, Yesoe works for US Bank in the private credit department as a senior level deal administrator. Yesoe Yoon is the author of I Became My Own Beginning Choosing Myself: Rebuilding My Life, and Starting Again.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ76KKGD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IDXH7DW9K7W8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5VDqK0i-aPeP5CkStjVieQ.NgZDxah_7kkP9RJNeH845t241fkVo4okIPkOvRyLN8s&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+became+my+own+beginning+choosing+myself%3A+rebuilding+my+life%2C+and+starting+again+yesoe+yoon&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1788991726&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1]

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Worst College Majors

2026-07-22T12:14:59Z

MattF: /* Courses */

The '''worst college majors''' are fields of study that leave the student with few job opportunities and a badly biased [[liberal]] view of the world. Students incur an average debt of $35,000 for attending college, and the worst college majors burden students without the ability to pay off their loans, which are typically not dischargeable in [[bankruptcy]].<ref>The average debt incurred for Master's degrees is $69,140; law school is $140,000; and medical school is $200,000.</ref> [[Conservative]] former congressman [[Madison Cawthorn]] (R-NC) advised college students who are not seeking to be engineers, physicians, or lawyers, to drop out of college because, in his words, college is a "scam".<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/madison-cawthorn-urges-fellow-conservatives-leave-college-i-am-proudly-dropout-1661932</ref> By 2022, major employers including [[IBM]], [[Google]], [[Delta]], and the State of [[Maryland]] had dropped college degrees as a requirement for many of their jobs.

For example, courses on [[witchcraft]] are commonly offered as part of women’s studies at many public universities, even in [[conservative]] states.

Adding insult to injury, many public colleges have begun charging students more if they decline one of the Worst College Majors, and study something of value instead.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-24/differential-tuition-increase-major/54513940/1</ref> Incidentally, a study by ''USA Today'' and the non-profit Education Sector showed that 514 colleges are more likely to produce defaults in student loans than graduates.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/03/514-Colleges-Have-Higher-Default-Rates-Than-Graduation-Rates</ref>

College matters less and less to employers, and some of the staff on [[Capitol Hill]] opted against completing college. The number of degree-less hires trended up at [[Google]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1& In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal, ''NYTimes'', June 19, 2013]</ref> The President of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy wrote in the ''Wall Street Journal'', “Many liberal-arts graduates, even from the best schools, aren’t getting jobs in part because they didn’t learn much in school.”<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2013/02/10/sorry-left-and-right-no-job-requires-a-college-degree/ Sorry Left AND Right, No Job Requires A College Degree, Forbes.com, February 10, 2013]</ref> The most valuable degrees are certain fields in [[STEM]] subjects.
== Decline of students picking the worst college majors ==
In 2022, amidst a decline in students attending college, liberal-leaning Vox.com reports concerning college students moving away from the worst college majors:
{{Cquote|..students have moved away from the traditional [[humanities]] toward degrees in business, health care, and IT.

The enrollment crisis will shift this trend into overdrive. [Shippensburg University] is responding to all the distribution centers out on I-81 by developing programs in [[logistics]] and [[supply chain]] management. It’s looking to create more short-term, job-focused certificates that lead up to a bachelor’s degree, and others that supplement BA’s after graduation. Other nearby colleges are expanding nursing programs, developing professional master’s degrees, and creating new courses for adults looking to change careers.

Colleges won’t just be going along with the strengthening alignment of the higher education experience with the labor market. They will be actively promoting it, jettisoning “unprofitable” majors that used to be sheltered inside universities with more than enough students. The next generation of higher education leaders will take scarcity as a given and “return on investment” as both a sales pitch and state of mind.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash The incredible shrinking future of college], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}}

==Undergraduate majors==
# American Indian/Native/Indigenous studies
# Animal Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Anthropology/Archeology<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Art History<ref name=kiplinger>[http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/college/T012-S001-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/index.html] Kiplinger, May 2015</ref><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Black studies
# Business Administration/Management<ref name=yahoo2>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-worst-majors-for-finding-a-good-job-211340394.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2013</ref>
# Child and Family Studies<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Climatology
# Comedic Arts <ref>[http://www.hngn.com/articles/102255/20150619/emerson-college-boston-offer-comedy-major-2016.htm Emerson College in Boston to Offer Comedy Major in 2016]</ref>
# Commercial Art/Graphic Design<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Communications<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Comparative Religion
# Creative Writing
# Criminal Justice<ref name="yahoo2" />
# Culinary Arts<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Dance<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Drama/Theater<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Economics (without a numerate bias)<ref name="yahoo2" />
# English [[Literature]]/Literary Criticism<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Environmental Studies
# Exercise Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Fashion Design
# Film/Video<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name=georgetown>[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth?] Georgetown University, July 2011</ref>
# Fine Arts<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>http://www.artcareer.net/faqs/job-market-outlook-for-artists-and-designers/</ref>
# Forestry/Range Management/Wildlife Management
# Gaming Management<ref name="cat">[http://www.umac.mo/iscg/courses/gmdiphome.html 10 Worst College Majors for Employment]</ref>
# Gender Studies<ref>https://www.ncf.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies/</ref>
# Golf Management – University of Birmingham / Florida Gulf Coast University
# Graphic design<ref> https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/t012-s001-worst-college-majors-for-a-lucrative-career-2019/index.html?amp</ref>
# Hispanic studies
# History<ref name="yahoo1" />
# History of Music
# Horticulture<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Human Resources
# Interior Design
# Islamic Studies<ref>http://colleges.collegetoolkit.com/colleges/browse/majors/byid/islamic_studies/38.0205.aspx</ref>
# Journalism<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/slideshow/personal-finance/2010/06/28/worst-fields-graduates/#slide=4</ref>
# Latin<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Leisure Studies<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Liberal Arts<ref name=yahoo1>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-worst-college-majors-143200704.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2014</ref>
# [[Homosexuality|LGBT]] studies<ref>http://www.yale.edu/lgbts/</ref><ref>http://www.lgbts.umd.edu/</ref>
# Music<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Music/Art Therapy<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Outdoor Adventure Leadership - Laurentian University
# Paralegal studies/prelaw
# Philosophy<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php]</ref>
# Photography<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Psychology<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Physical Fitness/Education<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Puppetry
# [[Atheism|Secularism]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/us/08secular.html Pitzer College in California Adds Major in Secularism]</ref><ref>In their book ''Encyclopedia of Social Deviance'', which was published in 2014, authors Craig J. Forsyth and ‎Heith Copes wrote: "Atheism as a subject of social science has also generally been ignored in comparison with the scholarly work on religion" (see page 41 of their book). Social Scientists are often generally reluctant to study atheists and it is considered not a great thing to have on your resume for future employment as far as graduate students (see: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk Why is Psychology Silent When it Comes to Atheism? - Dr. Melanie Brewster - Skepticon 7], Published on Nov 27, 2014). According to the atheist Dr. Melanie Brewster, "Good peer-reviewed psychology journals are kind of hesitant to take studies on atheism."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk] Hunsberger was the first social scientist to do a fairly intensive look at atheists and a book on his study was published in 2006.[https://www.amazon.com/Atheists-Groundbreaking-Study-Americas-Nonbelievers/dp/1591024137] One of the great ironies of this state of affairs is that the very well-known psychiatrist [[Sigmund Freud]] was an atheist (much of his work is now considered [[pseudoscience]]).[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/defender-of-a-damaging-pseudo-science/157101.article] (See also: [[Sigmund Freud's view of religion]]).</ref><ref>[[Global atheism|Global atheism/agnosticism is declining]] and the trend of [[desecularization]] is expected to continue in the 21st century. Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth] In the [[Western World]] and the world as a whole [[internet atheism|interest in internet atheism is declining]].</ref> ''(See also: [[Views on atheists]])''
# Sequential Art<ref>http://www.scad.edu/sequential-art/index.cfm</ref>
# Social Work<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Sociology
# Urban Planning
# Video Game Design
# [[Feminism|Women's studies]]<ref name=collegecrunch>[http://www.collegecrunch.org/advice/the-10-most-expensive-but-useless-degrees-in-americ/] College Crunch, December 2008</ref>
#Justice and Peace Studies

==Graduate programs==
#Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology<ref name=bankrate>[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx 5 Graduate Degrees That Don't Pay Off] Bankrate.com</ref>
#Computer Engineering<ref name="bankrate" />
#Fine Arts<ref name="bankrate" />
#Law (from a low-ranked, especially tier 4 law school)<ref name="bankrate" />(Note: Tier 1 = US News ranking 1-50, Tier 2 = US News Ranking 50-100, Tier 3 = US News Ranking 100-150, Tier 4 = US News Ranking 150-200)<ref name=Law School Advice>[http://lawschooladvice.com/law-school-tiers/]Lawschooladvice.com</ref>
#PR, Advertising & Mass-Media<ref name="bankrate" />

== Various vocations and income/wealth ==

''See also:'' [[Vocation]]

The Cambridge Dictionary defines vocation as "a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you...".<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vocation Vocation]</ref>

=== Highest paying vocations/occupations ===

*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-occupation-produces-lot-millionaires-mukesh-kumar What occupation produces a lot of millionaires?]
*[https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/top-100-highest-paying-jobs 100 High-Paying Careers To Consider (With Average Salaries) ], Indeed, 2023
*[https://www.creditkarma.com/income/i/highest-paying-trade-jobs 24 of the highest-paying trade jobs in 2023], Credit Karma, 2023

==Courses==
# 100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses - New York University<ref>100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses</ref>
# All the Single Ladies - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# American Indian Environmental Studies - Laurentian University
# American Witches - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Angry White Men<ref>https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12058</ref>
# Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft - Los Angeles City College<ref>https://www.lacitycollege.edu/Academics/Classes/documents/Fall/Fall-2018-Class-Schedule</ref>
# Arguing with Judge Judy - UC Berkeley
# Beer and Spirits - Boston University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Beyoncé Nation - Cornell University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Brain Like Berkeley: An Insight into the Artistry of Frank Ocean - UC Berkeley<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World - University of Washington-Seattle<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Physiology and Medicine
# Communicating Bullshit - University of Southern Maine<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Contemporary American Culture: The Fifty Shades Trilogy - American University<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/12/29/American-Univeristy-to-Offer-Course-on-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey UNIVERSITY TO OFFER COURSE STUDYING 'FIFTY SHADES OF GREY' TRILOGY, Breitbart, December 29, 2012]</ref>
# Cyber Feminism - Cornell University
# Dracula - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://slavic.as.virginia.edu/course-descriptions-2</reF>
# Ecology of Renewable Natural Resources - Texas Tech University<ref>[http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/courses/NRM.php Texas Tech University Course Listing]</ref>
# Emotional Literacy<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076368/Schools-councils-waste-300-000-useless-emotional-literacy-course-faraway-island-sun.html</ref>
# [[Evolution]]
# Feminist New Black Man - Occidental College<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvlL_lDk4ko Jason Mattera At CPAC, YouTube]</ref>
# Field Equipment Operation (tractor driving) - UC Davis
# Football Culture
# From DNA to ''Homo sapiens'' - MCLA
# Game of Thrones: Re-Imagining Medieval History as an Allegory of the Present -Dartmouth<ref>https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/02/class-ice-and-fire</ref>
# Gaga for Lady Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/lady-gaga-college-class_n_712540.html</ref>
# Getting dressed - Princeton University<ref>http://www.universitynavigator.com/university-blog/most-ridiculous-courses-you-can-opt-for.html</ref>
# Happiness - Xavier University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Harry Potter Studies - University of Central Florida<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture - UC San Diego
# History of Evolutionary Thought - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<ref>https://www.coursicle.com/utc/courses/BIOL/4550/</ref>
# History of Surfing - UC Santa Barbara
# History of Weaving - UC Berkeley
# Ice Cream 101: Introduction to Frozen Desserts - Penn State–State College, Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Intro to Cannabis - University of Cincinnati<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# "Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections" - [[University of Maryland]] (oversubscribed with a long waiting list)<ref>https://app.testudo.umd.edu/soc/202501/WGSS/WGSS315</ref>
# Introduction to Social Networking
# Labor Studies - UM Saint Louis & UM Kansas City<ref>[http://www.thehotjoints.com/2011/04/25/video-college-course-teaches-violent-union-tactics/ Video: College Course Teaches Violent Union Tactics, The Hot Joints, April 25, 2011]</ref>
# Marijuana Law and Policy - Vanderbilt University Law School <ref>https://law.vanderbilt.edu/courses/341</ref>
# Media Genres (studies zombies) - University of Baltimore<ref>[http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/university-of-baltimore-pop-culture-class-focuses-on-zombies/19625044?test=latestnews College Course Preps Pupils for Zombie Apocalypse, AOL News, September 9, 2010]</ref>
# Medicinal Plant Chemistry - Northern Michigan University<ref>https://www.nmu.edu/chemistry/why-medicinal-plant-chemistry</ref>
# Monsters - University of Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/undergraduate/2018/fall/engl102.402</ref>
# Native American Feminism - University of Michigan
# Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement - Columbia University<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/02/occupy-101/ Columbia University to Offer ‘Occupy 101′ Course, January 2, 2012]</ref>
# Nonhuman Subjects: Monsters, Aliens, Ghosts, and Others - The University of Arizona<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Philosophy and Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington<ref>[http://courses.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&CourseID=PHIL-180 Georgetown University Course Listing]</ref>
# Physiology of Cannabis, Spring - UC Davis <ref>https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/yu-fung-lin</ref>
# Pilot Brewery (brewmaster) - UC Davis
# Politicizing Beyoncé - Rutgers University class from the Department of Women's and Gender Studies<ref>[http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/higher-education-rutgers-university-offers-class-on-beyonce/ Higher Education: Rutgers University Offers Class on Beyonce, Jammie Wearing Fools, Jan 31, 2014]</ref>
# Queer Musicology – UCLA
# Quidditch - Oberlin College
# Revolutionary Marxism - Portland State University<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/portland-state-university-offering-revolutionary-marxism-course-and-wait-until-you-see-the-syllabus/</ref>
# Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing, and Wakeboarding - UCSD<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - UC Berkeley
# Seeing with a Native Eye - Laurentian University
# Self-Esteem - Cal State Fresno
#Skateboard Culture and Popular Culture - University of Oregon<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Spongebobology - Oberlin College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/2018/FA/idsem-ug1972_001.html</ref>
# The Colbert Report: American Satire Writing Seminar - Boston University<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cody-brotter/bu-offers-stephen-colbert_b_810122.html Class Credit for Colbert College Course, Huffington Post, January 18, 2011]</ref>
# The Science of Harry Potter – Frostburg University<ref>CBS News: ''Harry Potter Goes To College: Professor Uses Boy Wizard To Explores Links Between Magic, Science'', by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, Sept. 26, 2003 [https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/19/national/main584456.shtml] ''...Frostburg State President Catherine R. Gira said she isn't worried that some may view a Harry Potter class as trivial. "Irrespective of the specific title of the course, the 'magic' in the fiction is being analyzed by applying concepts of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. This honors course creatively packages scientific principles in a contemporary way that will interest today's students," Gira said.''</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Marine Science of SpongeBob SquarePants - University of Georgia<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Mythology of Harry Potter - UCLA
# The Real Game of Thrones—Culture, Society, and Religion in the Middle Ages - Harvard University<ref>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/19/the-real-game-of-thrones/</ref><ref>https://time.com/4798917/harvard-game-of-thrones-class/</ref>
# The Science of Superheroes - UC Irvine<ref>[http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/14/the-top-8-california-schools-that-are-like-totally-wasting-your-money/ The Top 8 California Schools that Are, Like, Totally Wasting Your Money, NewsRealBlog, November 14, 2010]</ref>
# The Simpsons and the American Family - Hampshire College
# The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Odyssey of Jay-Z – Georgetown University<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz1fPkYhzqX Jay-Z's street rhymes a Georgetown college course]</ref>
# The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media - Skidmore College<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2014/03/27/your-kids-new-college-course-the-sociology-of-miley-cyrus/#ixzz2xE9fPqF4 Your kid’s new college course: ‘The Sociology of Miley Cyrus’ DailyCaller.com, March 27, 2014]</ref>
# U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness - Arizona State University<ref>[http://campusreform.org/?ID=6225 White professor teaches 'problem of whiteness' course at Arizona State]</ref>
# Understanding Obama - Harvard Law School<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/harvard-law-offering-understanding-obama-course-taught-by-obama-mentor/</ref>
# Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance - New York University<ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/09/n-y-u-to-offer-classes-on-occupy-wall-street/ N.Y.U. To Offer Classes On Occupy Wall Street], [[Weasel Zippers]], December 9, 2011.</ref>
# Wine and Beer in Western Culture - Ohio State University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Witch Hunt! - Amherst College<ref>https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1819F/ENGL/ENGL-370-1819F</ref>

==Anti-racism==
Multiple colleges and universities have workshops on so called "white privilege." In response to the demands of black students in the 1970s, many universities established academic programs in "black studies" or "Africana Studies." These programs were structured as conventional departments that offered majors, master's degrees and even doctorates in the field. Specialized journals reported on their scholarship and research. However, as a part of the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, black students are demanding new programs in "anti-black racism", mandatory training in "anti-racism" during new student orientation and even for-credit mandatory classes in [[anti-racism]]. This raises the logical question of whether these demands are an implicit rejection of the prior black studies programs as ineffective or illegitimate. For example, will the student's demands be satisfied if the new graduation requirement was to take one of a number of classes offered by an area studies or Africana Studies program? What is the value of an Africana Studies major's degree awarded over the past fifty years now that the current academic fashion has embraced anti-racism? It is unclear how anti-racism studies differ from black studies or African studies.
* During the summer of 2020, Martha Pollack, President of [[Cornell University]] recommended that all students, faculty and staff engage in a "community book read" of ''How to Be an Antiracist'' by [[Ibram X. Kendi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statements.cornell.edu/2020/20200603-support-strengthen-community.cfm|title=Immediate actions to support and strengthen our community|date=June 3, 2020|accessdate=2020-08-21}}</ref>
* The [[University of Pittsburgh]] requires a one-credit-hour course, "Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210)" to indoctrinate all students in [[anti-racism]]. Students are automatically enrolled in the class and cannot drop it for any reason.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.provost.pitt.edu/anti-black-racism-history-ideology-and-resistance-final-course-syllabus|title=Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210) — Final Course Syllabus|accessdate=2020-08-25}}</ref>

==Workshops==
#Multiple schools have a Condom Olympics, where students to be involved in a condom-wrapped egg toss, condom water balloon toss, condom art, and a condom scavenger hunt.<ref>https://uwm.edu/welcome/event/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=5437</ref><ref>http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/115262-meanwhile-university-arizona-plans-condom-olympics/ Meanwhile, University Of Arizona Plans ‘Condom Olympics’, IJReview.com, February 15, 2014]</ref><ref>https://csceagle.com/2010/11/10/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-uvas-condom-olympics-lacked-reliable-educational-component/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/schoolchildren-exposed-to-giant-penis-sex-games-at-uc-berkeley/</ref><ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/condom-update.php</ref><ref>https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/st-olaf-college-and-the-condom-olympics</ref><ref>https://apps.carleton.edu/student/orgs/sarc/photos/sexsaturdayphotos/?image_id=1019516</ref><ref>https://www.upressonline.com/2014/02/not-with-a-bang-but-with-a-blow-fau-condom-olympics-closing-ceremony/</ref>
#Arizona State University hosts a masturbation workshop titled "Go F--- Yourself".<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/01/31/arizona-state-hosts-masturbation-workshop-titled-go-fck-yourself/</ref>
#Hamilton College in New York and University of Minnesota host Orgasm workshop for female undergrad students.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5104 College to host orgasm workshop for female undergrads, CampusReform.com, September 25, 2013]</ref>
#Michigan State University has a "Make your own Dildo Student Event" where students learn to create sex toys.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-state-cancels-make-your-own-dildo-student-event</ref>
#Harvard University hosts a workshop called 'What What in the Butt: Anal 101', to teach that the butthole is the greatest "equalizer"<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/08/harvard-hosts-anal-sex-workshop-entitled-what-what-in-the-butt/</ref>
#Marquette University, Brown University and Columbia University to host Femsex workshop. Topics include orgasms, masturbation, sex, kink and explicit coloring books.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5050 Catholic college to host controversial 'Femsex' workshop with 'C--t Coloring' and 'pleasure point' CampusReform.com, September 10, 2013]</ref>
#New York University sponsors Strap-On Play, Sex Toys 101, and Oral Sex Tips, part of the bigger event called “Babeland: Queer Student Night with NYU LGBTQ Student Center.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5019 NYU offers ‘Strap-On Play,’ ‘Sex Toys 101’ workshops for LGBTQ students, CampusReform.com, August 27, 2013]</ref>
#Multiple schools have all sorts of sex week events,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2013/03/ivy-league-offers-prostate-pleasuring-lessons/</ref> as Brown University includes "The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure." to teach male students how to attain ‘prostate pleasure’,<ref>http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4668</ref> the University of Tennessee sponsors a six-day event called 'Sex Week'. <ref>[http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/university-of-tennessee-uses-student-fees-to-host-lesbian-bondage-expert.html University of Tennessee Uses Student Fees to Host Lesbian Bondage Expert]</ref> and worst of all, Yale hosts a workshop on the acceptance of bestiality, incest and prostitution.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4646 Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality, CampusReform.org march 5, 2013]</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Academia and intellectual development]]
*[[Atheism and academia]]
*[[Atheist indoctrination]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx?ec_id=m1117367#slide=1 5 graduate degrees that don't pay off]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Unemployment.Final.update1.pdf Unemployment rates and earnings for college majors - Georgetown University report - 2012]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors] - Comprehensive report at [[Georgetown University]] website
*[http://learnfinancialplanning.com/best-worst-college-majors-degree/ Best and Worst College Majors]
*[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php Top 10 Useless College Degrees & Classes]
*[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/10-college-majors-lowest-unemployment-rates-163049193.html College majors with lowest unemployment]
*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/11/the-10-worst-college-majors/#332061d953c9 The 10 Worst College Majors]
*[https://prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3034 50 College Courses That Show America's Students Indoctrinated Into Socialism]

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[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Snowflakes]]

Yesoe Yoon

2026-06-26T02:02:25Z

MattF:

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor, and then left to become the CDO Loan Asset Administrator at US Bank. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> Since March 2026, Yesoe works for US Bank in the private credit department as a senior level deal administrator.

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoonyesoe12/]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]

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Worst College Majors

2026-06-08T22:05:19Z

MattF: /* Courses */

The '''worst college majors''' are fields of study that leave the student with few job opportunities and a badly biased [[liberal]] view of the world. Students incur an average debt of $35,000 for attending college, and the worst college majors burden students without the ability to pay off their loans, which are typically not dischargeable in [[bankruptcy]].<ref>The average debt incurred for Master's degrees is $69,140; law school is $140,000; and medical school is $200,000.</ref> [[Conservative]] former congressman [[Madison Cawthorn]] (R-NC) advised college students who are not seeking to be engineers, physicians, or lawyers, to drop out of college because, in his words, college is a "scam".<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/madison-cawthorn-urges-fellow-conservatives-leave-college-i-am-proudly-dropout-1661932</ref> By 2022, major employers including [[IBM]], [[Google]], [[Delta]], and the State of [[Maryland]] had dropped college degrees as a requirement for many of their jobs.

For example, courses on [[witchcraft]] are commonly offered as part of women’s studies at many public universities, even in [[conservative]] states.

Adding insult to injury, many public colleges have begun charging students more if they decline one of the Worst College Majors, and study something of value instead.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-24/differential-tuition-increase-major/54513940/1</ref> Incidentally, a study by ''USA Today'' and the non-profit Education Sector showed that 514 colleges are more likely to produce defaults in student loans than graduates.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/03/514-Colleges-Have-Higher-Default-Rates-Than-Graduation-Rates</ref>

College matters less and less to employers, and some of the staff on [[Capitol Hill]] opted against completing college. The number of degree-less hires trended up at [[Google]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1& In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal, ''NYTimes'', June 19, 2013]</ref> The President of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy wrote in the ''Wall Street Journal'', “Many liberal-arts graduates, even from the best schools, aren’t getting jobs in part because they didn’t learn much in school.”<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2013/02/10/sorry-left-and-right-no-job-requires-a-college-degree/ Sorry Left AND Right, No Job Requires A College Degree, Forbes.com, February 10, 2013]</ref> The most valuable degrees are certain fields in [[STEM]] subjects.
== Decline of students picking the worst college majors ==
In 2022, amidst a decline in students attending college, liberal-leaning Vox.com reports concerning college students moving away from the worst college majors:
{{Cquote|..students have moved away from the traditional [[humanities]] toward degrees in business, health care, and IT.

The enrollment crisis will shift this trend into overdrive. [Shippensburg University] is responding to all the distribution centers out on I-81 by developing programs in [[logistics]] and [[supply chain]] management. It’s looking to create more short-term, job-focused certificates that lead up to a bachelor’s degree, and others that supplement BA’s after graduation. Other nearby colleges are expanding nursing programs, developing professional master’s degrees, and creating new courses for adults looking to change careers.

Colleges won’t just be going along with the strengthening alignment of the higher education experience with the labor market. They will be actively promoting it, jettisoning “unprofitable” majors that used to be sheltered inside universities with more than enough students. The next generation of higher education leaders will take scarcity as a given and “return on investment” as both a sales pitch and state of mind.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash The incredible shrinking future of college], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}}

==Undergraduate majors==
# American Indian/Native/Indigenous studies
# Animal Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Anthropology/Archeology<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Art History<ref name=kiplinger>[http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/college/T012-S001-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/index.html] Kiplinger, May 2015</ref><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Black studies
# Business Administration/Management<ref name=yahoo2>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-worst-majors-for-finding-a-good-job-211340394.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2013</ref>
# Child and Family Studies<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Climatology
# Comedic Arts <ref>[http://www.hngn.com/articles/102255/20150619/emerson-college-boston-offer-comedy-major-2016.htm Emerson College in Boston to Offer Comedy Major in 2016]</ref>
# Commercial Art/Graphic Design<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Communications<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Comparative Religion
# Creative Writing
# Criminal Justice<ref name="yahoo2" />
# Culinary Arts<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Dance<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Drama/Theater<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Economics (without a numerate bias)<ref name="yahoo2" />
# English [[Literature]]/Literary Criticism<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Environmental Studies
# Exercise Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Fashion Design
# Film/Video<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name=georgetown>[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth?] Georgetown University, July 2011</ref>
# Fine Arts<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>http://www.artcareer.net/faqs/job-market-outlook-for-artists-and-designers/</ref>
# Forestry/Range Management/Wildlife Management
# Gaming Management<ref name="cat">[http://www.umac.mo/iscg/courses/gmdiphome.html 10 Worst College Majors for Employment]</ref>
# Gender Studies<ref>https://www.ncf.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies/</ref>
# Golf Management – University of Birmingham / Florida Gulf Coast University
# Graphic design<ref> https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/t012-s001-worst-college-majors-for-a-lucrative-career-2019/index.html?amp</ref>
# Hispanic studies
# History<ref name="yahoo1" />
# History of Music
# Horticulture<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Human Resources
# Interior Design
# Islamic Studies<ref>http://colleges.collegetoolkit.com/colleges/browse/majors/byid/islamic_studies/38.0205.aspx</ref>
# Journalism<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/slideshow/personal-finance/2010/06/28/worst-fields-graduates/#slide=4</ref>
# Latin<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Leisure Studies<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Liberal Arts<ref name=yahoo1>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-worst-college-majors-143200704.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2014</ref>
# [[Homosexuality|LGBT]] studies<ref>http://www.yale.edu/lgbts/</ref><ref>http://www.lgbts.umd.edu/</ref>
# Music<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Music/Art Therapy<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Outdoor Adventure Leadership - Laurentian University
# Paralegal studies/prelaw
# Philosophy<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php]</ref>
# Photography<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Psychology<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Physical Fitness/Education<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Puppetry
# [[Atheism|Secularism]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/us/08secular.html Pitzer College in California Adds Major in Secularism]</ref><ref>In their book ''Encyclopedia of Social Deviance'', which was published in 2014, authors Craig J. Forsyth and ‎Heith Copes wrote: "Atheism as a subject of social science has also generally been ignored in comparison with the scholarly work on religion" (see page 41 of their book). Social Scientists are often generally reluctant to study atheists and it is considered not a great thing to have on your resume for future employment as far as graduate students (see: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk Why is Psychology Silent When it Comes to Atheism? - Dr. Melanie Brewster - Skepticon 7], Published on Nov 27, 2014). According to the atheist Dr. Melanie Brewster, "Good peer-reviewed psychology journals are kind of hesitant to take studies on atheism."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk] Hunsberger was the first social scientist to do a fairly intensive look at atheists and a book on his study was published in 2006.[https://www.amazon.com/Atheists-Groundbreaking-Study-Americas-Nonbelievers/dp/1591024137] One of the great ironies of this state of affairs is that the very well-known psychiatrist [[Sigmund Freud]] was an atheist (much of his work is now considered [[pseudoscience]]).[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/defender-of-a-damaging-pseudo-science/157101.article] (See also: [[Sigmund Freud's view of religion]]).</ref><ref>[[Global atheism|Global atheism/agnosticism is declining]] and the trend of [[desecularization]] is expected to continue in the 21st century. Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth] In the [[Western World]] and the world as a whole [[internet atheism|interest in internet atheism is declining]].</ref> ''(See also: [[Views on atheists]])''
# Sequential Art<ref>http://www.scad.edu/sequential-art/index.cfm</ref>
# Social Work<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Sociology
# Urban Planning
# Video Game Design
# [[Feminism|Women's studies]]<ref name=collegecrunch>[http://www.collegecrunch.org/advice/the-10-most-expensive-but-useless-degrees-in-americ/] College Crunch, December 2008</ref>
#Justice and Peace Studies

==Graduate programs==
#Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology<ref name=bankrate>[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx 5 Graduate Degrees That Don't Pay Off] Bankrate.com</ref>
#Computer Engineering<ref name="bankrate" />
#Fine Arts<ref name="bankrate" />
#Law (from a low-ranked, especially tier 4 law school)<ref name="bankrate" />(Note: Tier 1 = US News ranking 1-50, Tier 2 = US News Ranking 50-100, Tier 3 = US News Ranking 100-150, Tier 4 = US News Ranking 150-200)<ref name=Law School Advice>[http://lawschooladvice.com/law-school-tiers/]Lawschooladvice.com</ref>
#PR, Advertising & Mass-Media<ref name="bankrate" />

== Various vocations and income/wealth ==

''See also:'' [[Vocation]]

The Cambridge Dictionary defines vocation as "a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you...".<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vocation Vocation]</ref>

=== Highest paying vocations/occupations ===

*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-occupation-produces-lot-millionaires-mukesh-kumar What occupation produces a lot of millionaires?]
*[https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/top-100-highest-paying-jobs 100 High-Paying Careers To Consider (With Average Salaries) ], Indeed, 2023
*[https://www.creditkarma.com/income/i/highest-paying-trade-jobs 24 of the highest-paying trade jobs in 2023], Credit Karma, 2023

==Courses==
# 100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses - New York University<ref>100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses</ref>
# All the Single Ladies - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# American Indian Environmental Studies - Laurentian University
# American Witches - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Angry White Men<ref>https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12058</ref>
# Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft - Los Angeles City College<ref>https://www.lacitycollege.edu/Academics/Classes/documents/Fall/Fall-2018-Class-Schedule</ref>
# Arguing with Judge Judy - UC Berkeley
# Beer and Spirits - Boston University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Beyoncé Nation - Cornell University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Brain Like Berkeley: An Insight into the Artistry of Frank Ocean - UC Berkeley<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World - University of Washington-Seattle<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Physiology and Medicine
# Communicating Bullshit - University of Southern Maine<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Contemporary American Culture: The Fifty Shades Trilogy - American University<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/12/29/American-Univeristy-to-Offer-Course-on-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey UNIVERSITY TO OFFER COURSE STUDYING 'FIFTY SHADES OF GREY' TRILOGY, Breitbart, December 29, 2012]</ref>
# Cyber Feminism - Cornell University
# Dracula - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://slavic.as.virginia.edu/course-descriptions-2</reF>
# Ecology of Renewable Natural Resources - Texas Tech University<ref>[http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/courses/NRM.php Texas Tech University Course Listing]</ref>
# Emotional Literacy<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076368/Schools-councils-waste-300-000-useless-emotional-literacy-course-faraway-island-sun.html</ref>
# [[Evolution]]
# Feminist New Black Man - Occidental College<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvlL_lDk4ko Jason Mattera At CPAC, YouTube]</ref>
# Field Equipment Operation (tractor driving) - UC Davis
# Football Culture
# From DNA to ''Homo sapiens'' - MCLA
# Game of Thrones: Re-Imagining Medieval History as an Allegory of the Present -Dartmouth<ref>https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/02/class-ice-and-fire</ref>
# Gaga for Lady Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/lady-gaga-college-class_n_712540.html</ref>
# Getting dressed - Princeton University<ref>http://www.universitynavigator.com/university-blog/most-ridiculous-courses-you-can-opt-for.html</ref>
# Happiness - Xavier University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Harry Potter Studies - University of Central Florida<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture - UC San Diego
# History of Surfing - UC Santa Barbara
# History of Weaving - UC Berkeley
# Ice Cream 101: Introduction to Frozen Desserts - Penn State–State College, Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Intro to Cannabis - University of Cincinnati<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# "Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections" - [[University of Maryland]] (oversubscribed with a long waiting list)<ref>https://app.testudo.umd.edu/soc/202501/WGSS/WGSS315</ref>
# Introduction to Social Networking
# Labor Studies - UM Saint Louis & UM Kansas City<ref>[http://www.thehotjoints.com/2011/04/25/video-college-course-teaches-violent-union-tactics/ Video: College Course Teaches Violent Union Tactics, The Hot Joints, April 25, 2011]</ref>
# Marijuana Law and Policy - Vanderbilt University Law School <ref>https://law.vanderbilt.edu/courses/341</ref>
# Media Genres (studies zombies) - University of Baltimore<ref>[http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/university-of-baltimore-pop-culture-class-focuses-on-zombies/19625044?test=latestnews College Course Preps Pupils for Zombie Apocalypse, AOL News, September 9, 2010]</ref>
# Medicinal Plant Chemistry - Northern Michigan University<ref>https://www.nmu.edu/chemistry/why-medicinal-plant-chemistry</ref>
# Monsters - University of Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/undergraduate/2018/fall/engl102.402</ref>
# Native American Feminism - University of Michigan
# Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement - Columbia University<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/02/occupy-101/ Columbia University to Offer ‘Occupy 101′ Course, January 2, 2012]</ref>
# Nonhuman Subjects: Monsters, Aliens, Ghosts, and Others - The University of Arizona<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Philosophy and Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington<ref>[http://courses.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&CourseID=PHIL-180 Georgetown University Course Listing]</ref>
# Physiology of Cannabis, Spring - UC Davis <ref>https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/yu-fung-lin</ref>
# Pilot Brewery (brewmaster) - UC Davis
# Politicizing Beyoncé - Rutgers University class from the Department of Women's and Gender Studies<ref>[http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/higher-education-rutgers-university-offers-class-on-beyonce/ Higher Education: Rutgers University Offers Class on Beyonce, Jammie Wearing Fools, Jan 31, 2014]</ref>
# Queer Musicology – UCLA
# Quidditch - Oberlin College
# Revolutionary Marxism - Portland State University<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/portland-state-university-offering-revolutionary-marxism-course-and-wait-until-you-see-the-syllabus/</ref>
# Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing, and Wakeboarding - UCSD<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - UC Berkeley
# Seeing with a Native Eye - Laurentian University
# Self-Esteem - Cal State Fresno
#Skateboard Culture and Popular Culture - University of Oregon<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Spongebobology - Oberlin College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/2018/FA/idsem-ug1972_001.html</ref>
# The Colbert Report: American Satire Writing Seminar - Boston University<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cody-brotter/bu-offers-stephen-colbert_b_810122.html Class Credit for Colbert College Course, Huffington Post, January 18, 2011]</ref>
# The Science of Harry Potter – Frostburg University<ref>CBS News: ''Harry Potter Goes To College: Professor Uses Boy Wizard To Explores Links Between Magic, Science'', by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, Sept. 26, 2003 [https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/19/national/main584456.shtml] ''...Frostburg State President Catherine R. Gira said she isn't worried that some may view a Harry Potter class as trivial. "Irrespective of the specific title of the course, the 'magic' in the fiction is being analyzed by applying concepts of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. This honors course creatively packages scientific principles in a contemporary way that will interest today's students," Gira said.''</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Marine Science of SpongeBob SquarePants - University of Georgia<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Mythology of Harry Potter - UCLA
# The Real Game of Thrones—Culture, Society, and Religion in the Middle Ages - Harvard University<ref>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/19/the-real-game-of-thrones/</ref><ref>https://time.com/4798917/harvard-game-of-thrones-class/</ref>
# The Science of Superheroes - UC Irvine<ref>[http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/14/the-top-8-california-schools-that-are-like-totally-wasting-your-money/ The Top 8 California Schools that Are, Like, Totally Wasting Your Money, NewsRealBlog, November 14, 2010]</ref>
# The Simpsons and the American Family - Hampshire College
# The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Odyssey of Jay-Z – Georgetown University<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz1fPkYhzqX Jay-Z's street rhymes a Georgetown college course]</ref>
# The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media - Skidmore College<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2014/03/27/your-kids-new-college-course-the-sociology-of-miley-cyrus/#ixzz2xE9fPqF4 Your kid’s new college course: ‘The Sociology of Miley Cyrus’ DailyCaller.com, March 27, 2014]</ref>
# U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness - Arizona State University<ref>[http://campusreform.org/?ID=6225 White professor teaches 'problem of whiteness' course at Arizona State]</ref>
# Understanding Obama - Harvard Law School<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/harvard-law-offering-understanding-obama-course-taught-by-obama-mentor/</ref>
# Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance - New York University<ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/09/n-y-u-to-offer-classes-on-occupy-wall-street/ N.Y.U. To Offer Classes On Occupy Wall Street], [[Weasel Zippers]], December 9, 2011.</ref>
# Wine and Beer in Western Culture - Ohio State University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Witch Hunt! - Amherst College<ref>https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1819F/ENGL/ENGL-370-1819F</ref>
# History of Evolutionary Thought - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<ref>https://www.coursicle.com/utc/courses/BIOL/4550/</ref>

==Anti-racism==
Multiple colleges and universities have workshops on so called "white privilege." In response to the demands of black students in the 1970s, many universities established academic programs in "black studies" or "Africana Studies." These programs were structured as conventional departments that offered majors, master's degrees and even doctorates in the field. Specialized journals reported on their scholarship and research. However, as a part of the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, black students are demanding new programs in "anti-black racism", mandatory training in "anti-racism" during new student orientation and even for-credit mandatory classes in [[anti-racism]]. This raises the logical question of whether these demands are an implicit rejection of the prior black studies programs as ineffective or illegitimate. For example, will the student's demands be satisfied if the new graduation requirement was to take one of a number of classes offered by an area studies or Africana Studies program? What is the value of an Africana Studies major's degree awarded over the past fifty years now that the current academic fashion has embraced anti-racism? It is unclear how anti-racism studies differ from black studies or African studies.
* During the summer of 2020, Martha Pollack, President of [[Cornell University]] recommended that all students, faculty and staff engage in a "community book read" of ''How to Be an Antiracist'' by [[Ibram X. Kendi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statements.cornell.edu/2020/20200603-support-strengthen-community.cfm|title=Immediate actions to support and strengthen our community|date=June 3, 2020|accessdate=2020-08-21}}</ref>
* The [[University of Pittsburgh]] requires a one-credit-hour course, "Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210)" to indoctrinate all students in [[anti-racism]]. Students are automatically enrolled in the class and cannot drop it for any reason.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.provost.pitt.edu/anti-black-racism-history-ideology-and-resistance-final-course-syllabus|title=Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210) — Final Course Syllabus|accessdate=2020-08-25}}</ref>

==Workshops==
#Multiple schools have a Condom Olympics, where students to be involved in a condom-wrapped egg toss, condom water balloon toss, condom art, and a condom scavenger hunt.<ref>https://uwm.edu/welcome/event/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=5437</ref><ref>http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/115262-meanwhile-university-arizona-plans-condom-olympics/ Meanwhile, University Of Arizona Plans ‘Condom Olympics’, IJReview.com, February 15, 2014]</ref><ref>https://csceagle.com/2010/11/10/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-uvas-condom-olympics-lacked-reliable-educational-component/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/schoolchildren-exposed-to-giant-penis-sex-games-at-uc-berkeley/</ref><ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/condom-update.php</ref><ref>https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/st-olaf-college-and-the-condom-olympics</ref><ref>https://apps.carleton.edu/student/orgs/sarc/photos/sexsaturdayphotos/?image_id=1019516</ref><ref>https://www.upressonline.com/2014/02/not-with-a-bang-but-with-a-blow-fau-condom-olympics-closing-ceremony/</ref>
#Arizona State University hosts a masturbation workshop titled "Go F--- Yourself".<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/01/31/arizona-state-hosts-masturbation-workshop-titled-go-fck-yourself/</ref>
#Hamilton College in New York and University of Minnesota host Orgasm workshop for female undergrad students.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5104 College to host orgasm workshop for female undergrads, CampusReform.com, September 25, 2013]</ref>
#Michigan State University has a "Make your own Dildo Student Event" where students learn to create sex toys.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-state-cancels-make-your-own-dildo-student-event</ref>
#Harvard University hosts a workshop called 'What What in the Butt: Anal 101', to teach that the butthole is the greatest "equalizer"<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/08/harvard-hosts-anal-sex-workshop-entitled-what-what-in-the-butt/</ref>
#Marquette University, Brown University and Columbia University to host Femsex workshop. Topics include orgasms, masturbation, sex, kink and explicit coloring books.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5050 Catholic college to host controversial 'Femsex' workshop with 'C--t Coloring' and 'pleasure point' CampusReform.com, September 10, 2013]</ref>
#New York University sponsors Strap-On Play, Sex Toys 101, and Oral Sex Tips, part of the bigger event called “Babeland: Queer Student Night with NYU LGBTQ Student Center.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5019 NYU offers ‘Strap-On Play,’ ‘Sex Toys 101’ workshops for LGBTQ students, CampusReform.com, August 27, 2013]</ref>
#Multiple schools have all sorts of sex week events,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2013/03/ivy-league-offers-prostate-pleasuring-lessons/</ref> as Brown University includes "The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure." to teach male students how to attain ‘prostate pleasure’,<ref>http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4668</ref> the University of Tennessee sponsors a six-day event called 'Sex Week'. <ref>[http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/university-of-tennessee-uses-student-fees-to-host-lesbian-bondage-expert.html University of Tennessee Uses Student Fees to Host Lesbian Bondage Expert]</ref> and worst of all, Yale hosts a workshop on the acceptance of bestiality, incest and prostitution.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4646 Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality, CampusReform.org march 5, 2013]</ref>

== References ==
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== See also ==
*[[Academia and intellectual development]]
*[[Atheism and academia]]
*[[Atheist indoctrination]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx?ec_id=m1117367#slide=1 5 graduate degrees that don't pay off]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Unemployment.Final.update1.pdf Unemployment rates and earnings for college majors - Georgetown University report - 2012]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors] - Comprehensive report at [[Georgetown University]] website
*[http://learnfinancialplanning.com/best-worst-college-majors-degree/ Best and Worst College Majors]
*[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php Top 10 Useless College Degrees & Classes]
*[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/10-college-majors-lowest-unemployment-rates-163049193.html College majors with lowest unemployment]
*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/11/the-10-worst-college-majors/#332061d953c9 The 10 Worst College Majors]
*[https://prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3034 50 College Courses That Show America's Students Indoctrinated Into Socialism]

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[[Image:Quran.jpg|thumb|right|Pages from the [[Koran]], the foundational text of the Islamic ideology, dictated by a single 7th-century author who claimed to have been inspired by a supernatural being whom Muslims call 'Allah'. If the Constitution is the highest law of the United States, then the Koran is the highest law of Islam.]]
'''Islam''' (or '''Mohammedanism'''; archaic) is a major [[Political|socio-political]] system<ref>[http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/100100/sec_id/100100 Why Islam is Not a Religion], by Rebecca Bynum (Nov. 2011) Speech delivered October 18th to ACT! for America Chapter in Memphis Tennessee</ref> based on the teachings of [[Muhammad]] (sometimes Mohammed), a seventh-century [[Arab]]. Muhammad claimed descent from [[Ishmael]], the son of [[Abraham]]. Muhammad claimed to have received revelations from Allah, the entity which adherents of Islam claim to resemble the [[God]] of [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]], via the archangel Gabriel, which were written in the [[Koran]] – thus forming the core teachings of Islam. Many of Islam's traditions derive from moon-worshipping [[Pagan]] cults.

The Koran's singular authorship offers no corroborating evidence, as the four Gospels do for example, of testimony of independent eyewitness accounts to its claim of divine inspiration as the Mosaic Law requires,<ref>Dueteronomy 19:15 ''By the testimony of two is a matter established''. The testimony of one - Mohammad - is insufficient to convict the human race, or infidels, of sin, ''per the Law of Moses'' or the Koran itself which claims descent.</ref> from which the Koran's author borrowed selectively.

==Overview==
[[File:World Muslim Population Pew Forum.png|thumb|The Muslim population of the world map according to the Pew Forum 2009 report.]]
The word "Islam"<ref>Arabic الإسلام‎‎, specifically referring to submission to Allah</ref> means "submission" or "surrender" in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]. Islam, as originally designed in the Koran, presents itself as an "Abrahamic faith" and has [[Moses]] in it,<ref>Brannon Wheeler. Moses in the Koran and Islamic Exegesis. Routledge, 2002.</ref> as well as [[Jesus]] as a prophet in Islam,<ref>Muhammad Ata ur-Rahim, Ahmad Thomson. ''Jesus: Prophet of Islam''. TTQ, INC., 2003.</ref> and it specifically denies Jesus's divine nature.

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The world’s Islamic population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. In the United States, for example, the population projections show the number of Muslims more than doubling over the next two decades, rising from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030.<ref>[http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ The Future of the Global Muslim Population.]</ref>
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Islam has been criticized for some time because of its demanding of strict submissiveness (especially of women), its suppression and violations of human rights (also including those of women), and its predisposition to being violent toward those of true religious faiths and attacking those faiths deemed a threat to Islam. There have been over 23,000 terrorist attacks committed by adherents of Islam since [[September 11, 2001 attacks|the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001]].<ref>http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/</ref> A more recent strain of Islam has combined European totalitarianism and a virulent [[anti-Semitism]]. This version is called [[Jihadism#Lesser jihad|lesser jihad]], [[Islamism]], radical Islam, or militant Islam. Without the historic institution of the Caliph, this form degenerates into stateless terrorist activity that strikes at the heart of civilized man. Some who identify as Muslim have denounced the violent jihadism while others remain silent. Some Muslims and non-Muslims theorize that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/954/distinguishing-between-islam-and-islamism|title=Distinguishing between Islam and Islamism|author=Daniel Pipes|date=June 30, 1998}}</ref> The Reformation movements were costly and bloody for well over a century.
[[Image:Mecca.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mecca]], one of the holy cities of Islam.]]
There are small groups of largely Westernized Muslims who publicly reject Islamism. Such moderate Muslim conservatives are in the [[Republican Party]], known as the [[Muslim Republicans]].<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> One of America's Founding Fathers, [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was a religious [[libertarian]], declared: "''freedom for the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindu and infidel of every denomination''."<ref>John A. Garraty, Story of America Beginnings to 1877, (1992) Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pg 706.</ref>

Issues with Islam arose in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. Republican presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]] said that "''Radical, violent Islamists pose a threat to Americans and others around the world.''" and that "''they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know.''" Romney said that when he lived in Detroit he knew Muslims, as Detroit has a large Muslim population, and says "''They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.''<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> Former Republican presidential nominee candidate [[Ron Paul]], a libertarian conservative, says that America should not fear Islam and said that America should just embrace people of all faiths.<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> American conservative author Margaret Hoover believes that the Republican Party needs to recognize Muslim Republicans, noting an example of Muslim Republican youth Suhail Khan who she describes as "''one of thousands of Muslim Americans who work to promote Christian-Muslim understanding''".<ref>Margaret Hoover, ''American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party'', Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, pg 202.</ref> Candidates for the Republican nomination like [[Newt Gingrich]] and [[Rick Santorum]] strongly criticized Islamic extremism.<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref>

[[Multiculturalism|Multiculturalists]] ignore or minimize violence in the history of Islam and exaggerate Christian atrocities to advance a [[moral equivalence]]. Proponents of this view often cite the [[Crusades|Great Crusades]]--an unsuccessful attempt by Western Christians to retake parts of the [[Byzantine Empire]] that had been conquered by Islamic armies--and various religious wars which were later fought in Europe between branches of Christianity. However, they brand critics of Islam "racists" (even though Islam is not a "race") and "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobes]]" (a smear term invented for the purpose of censoring and silencing legitimate criticism of Islam) for exposing today's threats by [[jihadism|jihadists]].<ref>http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/charity.html</ref>

A follower of Islam is called a "[[Muslim]]" (rarely "Moslem"), a term which means "one who submits (to Allah)." The older terms "Mohammedan" and "Muhammedan" ("follower of Muhammad"), have fallen out of use.<ref>Additional archaic terms for Muslims include "Hagarene", "Musselman", and "Saracen." Saracen as a term for Muslims was limited to the Crusades era, although it makes frequent re-appearances in pre-modern polemics. Hagarene was a more common term in pre-modern works, as it denotes the Biblical connection of Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, who is claimed to be a patriarch of Islam. Additional names for Muslims in pre-modern and Medieval works are generally derived from misspellings.</ref>

Because of its history of terrorism, mass murder and suicide attacks, Islam, and those who adhere to it, are sometimes generally perceived as having no regard toward human life.<ref>[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2017/07/09/human/permanent-rage-islam/ The Permanent Rage of Islam] at Conservative News and Views</ref>

==Theology==
[[File:Kaaba.jpg|thumb|Masjid al-Haram, the holiest site in Islam.]]

There are no clergy, but there are religious teachers, or [[Imam]]s, who have their followings. All Muslims are supposed to follow the teachings of Muhammad, whom they believe to be Allah's<ref>Arabic الله</ref> last and greatest [[prophet]] (although Jesus, in Matthew 7:15-20, warned "Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will recognize them by their fruit", which serves to explicitly describe Muhammad and such like him). The teachings of Muhammad are transmitted through the [[Koran]], the Hadith, and the Sunnah. The Sunnah is a general term for "the life and doings of the Prophet", which all Muslims are called on to replicate. Islam claims that the Archangel [[Gabriel]] appeared to Muhammad in a cave reciting verbatim a revelation from Allah. The first word that Gabriel says to Muhammad is "Iqra" or "Recite/Proclaim", which is found in the 96th Sura of the Koran.

Muslims believe that Allah revealed the Koran to Muhammad. The key miracle of Islam comes from the historical condition of the illiterate and uneducated Muhammad, as the Koran is composed in an erudite and complex form of Arabic prose and poetry.<ref>Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created- Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood: Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- He Who taught (the use of) the pen,- Taught man that which he knew not.(Surah 96:1-5)</ref> The Koran was not written down in a systematic fashion until a decade after Muhammad died, preferable transmission being through oral recitation. The Koran is claimed by Muslims to be the pure and holy word of Allah, uncreated and eternal. In Islamic belief, the term uncreated is very important, as it implies that there is no author for the Koran, only the delivering of the word to Muhammad who delivered it to the Sahab and the Salaf (The Companions and the Pure), who delivered it to the scribe delegated to record it in the reign of the Caliph Uthman bin Affan.

Islam teaches fundamental contradictions about the nature of Allah. Allah is said to be all-powerful, yet impotent to have a son (Surah 6:100-101). The idea of Allah having offspring is mocked,<ref>"Limitless is He is His glory, and sublimely exalted above anything that men may devise by way of definition: the Originator of the heavens and the earth! How could it be that He should have a child without there ever having been a mate for Him - since it is He who has created everything, and He alone knows everything?" - Surah 6:100-101.</ref> and this limitation of his power differentiates Allah from the Christian God. Allah is a very angry god who loves only those who swear allegiance to him, and hates non-believers. To serve Allah is to hate Allah's enemies with the same divine hatred that Allah hates non-believers (Surah 5:54). This stands in direct contrast to John 3:16.

In Islamic theology, Allah, the alleged maker of heaven and earth (Surah 6:100), is impotent to have a son (Surah 6:101). Human beings, with the ability to reproduce themselves, possess powers Allah is incapable of.

===Divisions within Islam===
Uthman was assassinated in 656 A.D. by soldiers who then installed Ali ibn Abu Talib, Muhammad's son-in-law, as [[Caliph]]. Ali's followers believed Muhammad had chosen Ali to be Muhammad's heir, and had disagreed with the selections of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman as Caliphs. Ali's claim to the position was challenged by Muawiyah, a kinsman of the murdered Uthman. Five years later, Ali was assassinated by Kharjites, dissidents who broke away from the main body of Islam because they rejected Ali's accepting arbitration to resolve his leadership dispute with Muawiyah. Ali's supporters, or the Shiah al-Ali (or Shiat Ali, partisans of Ali) believed that Ali was the true Caliph and was, in part, divinely inspired. Ali's sons, Hassan and Husayn followed as [[Shia]] Caliphs, Hassan dying in 669 or 670 A.D., possibly by poisoning, and Husayn slain by soldiers of his rival, the [[Sunni]] Caliph Yazid, in 680 A.D.

The Shia Islamic community has divided further as followers coalesced around several of Ali's descendants or successors, called [[Imam]]s. The "twelvers," predominant in Iran, believe the twelfth Imam is in hiding and will reveal himself just before judgment day. Ismailis rejected the seventh Imam and practice a spirituality that seeks hidden meaning in scripture. Ismailis ruled much of [[North Africa]] as the Fatimid Dynasty of [[Egypt]] in the tenth through the twelfth centuries, and today are found primarily in [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]], and [[India]]. The Sunni majority reject the premise that men can be divine, including Muhammad, Ali, or Jesus, and did not accept any of the Imams who followed Ali. Sunnis remain more committed to traditions and less inclined to accept Shia mysticism. Today, about 15% of the world's Muslims are Shia and 85% are orthodox Sunni.

There are other factions within Islam. Sufis, a name possibly derived from the wool garments they wear, developed around mystical practices and trance-induced revelations. Sufis are found today in [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], and parts of [[Africa]]. One of the most famous modern followers of Sufism was American professional boxer [[Muhammad Ali]] in his later years. Other movements have taken reform tracks, such as the Unitarians of [[Saudi Arabia]], also called [[Wahhabi]]s after their 18th-century reformist founder Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. The conservative Wahhabis are found today in Saudi Arabia and [[Qatar]]. Today the Wahhabi line has a tendency to produce extremists, such as [[Osama Bin Laden]]. Some critics would argue that the [[Taliban]] of Afghanistan took conservative reform to an extreme. Other sects or break-away groups include, among others, the Alawis found in Syria and Turkey, the [[Druze]] in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel, the Ibadhis (Kharjites) in Oman and Africa, the Ahmadiya of Pakistan, and the Zaydis of Yemen.

==Origins==
Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam originated in the Middle East. Islam claims to trace its roots back to Abraham through his son Ishmael. Muslims do not believe that Muhammad was the founder of Islam, rather they claim that he restored the original faith of Abraham and the prophets that followed as recorded in the lost books of the Tawrat and Injil.

Based upon this belief, the [[Bible]], both the [[Old Testament|Old]] and [[New Testament]]s, is claimed by adherents of Islam to have become corrupted through the [[Bible translations|translations and misinterpretations]] accumulated over several millennia. The criticism of the [[Torah]] centers around the reconstruction of the existing Biblical text required after the "[[Babylon]]ian captivity". The criticism of the New Testament centers in the many disputed gnostic texts which contradict the orthodox biblical canon. Interestingly, Islamic jurisprudence accepts that the Injil was complete and whole up until the revelation of Muhammad. Therefore, there is some inconsistency in the claims made against the New Testament. For more information, see [[The Bible versus the Qur'an|The Bible versus the Koran]].

Muhammad spent many years attempting to unite disparate polytheistic Arab tribes in the power vacuum created by the fall of the [[Roman Empire]] through recitations of his epic poem, which borrowed heavily from Hebrew scriptures and dietary laws, meeting with only limited success. He was eventually driven out of Mecca by the powers that be for challenging state authority, an event known as the ''Hijra'' or "Flight from Mecca" which marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

Eventually Muhammad was summoned back to Mecca by a faction of sympathizers, mainly tribal family members, as political chaos engulfed the city. Muhammad conquered the city after a prolonged siege with attacks on the civilian population and hundreds of beheadings to any who refused to accept his claims to a divine mission of carrying out the will of Allah. The doctrine of abrogation (''nashk'') in Islamic scholarship teaches that the later instructions of Mohammad supersede any earlier contradictory verses in the Koran.<ref>http://www.quranicstudies.com/books/abrogation-in-the-quran-and-islamic-law/</ref> Hence was born political Islam,<ref>https://www.politicalislam.com/abrogation-and-the-koran/</ref> a doctrine of war, conquest, and [[vengeance]], over any earlier utterances which teach Islam a religion of peace. Peace only exists in Islam insofar as all Islam's enemies are subjugated.

==Terminology==
Additional archaic terms for Muslims include, but are not limited to, "Hagarene" and "Saracen." The term Hagarene was more common in post-crusade Europe as it made specific reference to the Biblical mother of Ishmael. In Islam, Ishmael plays an analogous theological role to Isaac. Muslims do not use it today to avoid confusing worship of [[Muhammad]] with worship of [[Allah]].<ref>Schimmel, (1992)</ref>

==Islamic guidance==
During his lifetime, Muhammad's companions learned and later transcribed the verses (surrahs) of the Koran as Muhammad spoke them. In Islam, the teachings of Mohammed were believed to be direct divine revelation from Allah.

The third Caliph, Uthman, collected and codified the various versions of the surrahs into one written Koran that became the standard Arabic text used by the world's Muslims today. The Koran is longer than the Bible and written in general order of longest chapters to shortest rather than in any order of when they were spoken, sometimes making the work appear to be confusing. In all there are 114 chapters. Most of the later recorded sayings of Mohammed, which were also more warlike, actually appear earlier in the text. Present-day Muslims look first to the Koran as a guide to life, then to the [[Sunnah]], or the way of the Prophet (his life as an example for others) as recorded by his early companions, and then to the [[Hadith]], a collection of the Prophet's sayings, comments, advice, and descriptions.

Frequently, Muslims disagreed over how to interpret certain passages in the Qur'an, the Sunnah, or the Hadith in their search for the ideal life and perfect path to heaven. From these interpretations Sunni Muslims developed four schools of law, or interpretations of law, named after their founders or early leaders: the Hanbali, considered the most strict school and predominant today in Saudi Arabia; Shafi, the school of widest acceptance, found in Egypt, parts of Palestine-Syria, south Arabia, and the Far East; Maliki, prevalent in North Africa, Sudan, and Nigeria; and Hanafi, considered the most moderate school, predominant in Ottoman Turkey and today found primarily on the Levant and Indian subcontinent. Frequently, Islamic countries have two separate legal systems, one for civil, criminal, or commercial law, and a second, and separate, system for religious law. Religious courts and their judges (qadis) might handle issues dealing with marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, religious education, charitable or religious property (Waqf), or family matters. Among Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen have Shariah courts serving alongside their secular courts or have adopted [[Sharia]]h (Islamic law) as the basis of their legal systems.

===Five pillars of Islam===
*'''[[Shahadah]] (Profession of Faith)''' -The Shahadah is the Muslim profession of faith. 'ašhadu 'al-lā ilāha illā-llāhu wa 'ašhadu 'anna muħammadan rasūlu-llāh, a loose English translation reads "''There is none worthy of worship except Allah, and [[Muhammad]] is the messenger of Allah''" This testament can be seen as the foundation of all of the other tenets of Islam and swears off the divinity of Christ. For the Christian believer, the Shahada is essentially an [[oath]] renouncing the divinity of [[Christ]], "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven." (Matt 10:33).

*'''[[Salat]] (Ritual Prayer)''' -All Muslims are required to pray to Allah five times each day while facing [[Mecca]]. Praying six times a day is considered willful disobedience to Allah, ''per shariah law'', an act punishable by death.<ref>The example is used by Prof. Quinten Wiktorowitz of an extremist considered by Muslim "moderates" as one who loves Allah so much he defies Allah's instructions. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10576100500497004</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://archives.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/WIKTOROWICZ_2006_Anatomy_of_the_Salafi_Movement.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiXlY7EttfTAhVF02MKHRExBFwQFggcMAA&usg=AFQjCNH4tKyamYaRwVVY8j23A0VjTOOWJg&sig2=zIzwl9aecd3zpGkLsveV0g "Despite the success of the Prophet’s mission and the growth of Islam, Salafis believe human desires continue to grip Muslims and challenge the purity of the message. In this view, there is an eternal temptation to manipulate and distort the religion through innovation. Although nefarious interests often drive deviancy, it can also result from good intentions. Muslims who pray more than the explicitly proscribed five times a day, for example, are likely motivated by love for God. They are, however, still engaged in innovation because they are inventing new practices to fulfill a human desire." p.4 pdf]</ref>

*'''Zakat (Charity)''' Zakat is often described as charitable giving. Able Muslims must donate to the poor based on the wealth one has accumulated. In current usage it is interpreted as 2.5% of [[net worth]] held for a full lunar year. However, funding violent jihad by wealthy Muslims has been ruled a form of ''zakat'' by Islamic scholars, a requirement to fulfill their Islamic duty under the five pillars. There exists the poor, unemployed, and unemployable jihadis, and the ignorant (''jahiliyya'') infidel masses in need if Islamic enlightening, hence funding terrorism is considered charitable work.

*'''Sawm (Fasting)''' All able-bodied Muslims (children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the ill are exempt) must not eat during the daylight hours of the entire month of [[Ramadan]]. According to Muslims, this purifies the body and soul. Although Muslims and their mainstream media surrogates refer to it as a "fast," this in no way aligns with traditional Christian and Judaic concepts of fasting, and indeed violates the basic concept. Torturing oneself in an outward display of [[piety]] is deemed hypocritcal by the [[monotheist]]ic traditions of Christianity and Judaism. Some Islamic sects allow military, police and emergency services personnel to receive an exemption from fasting from an imam, on the grounds that their work supports the community or national good.

*'''Hajj (Pilgrimage)''' All able-bodied Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives. Many without funds for a round trip never made it back, having been sold off in the slave auction market place at [[Taif]].<ref>https://youtu.be/emRVkisdbhc</ref>

===Sharia===
[[Image:StarCresent.png|thumb|right|220px|The Star and Crescent is a symbol of Islam. It is featured in the national flag of [[Algeria]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Malaysia]], [[Tunisia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Mauritania]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Turkey]], amongst others]]
[[Sharia]] is the body of Islamic law. The term means "way" or "path"; it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence. It is not actually part of the canonical Koran; that is to say, it is not believed to be the direct word of Allah by Muslims, but rather the interpretation of it.

Sharia deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business law, contract law, sexuality, marriage, divorce, and social issues. Most Islamic scholars regard Sharia as the body of precedent and legal theory established during the early stages of the Islamic Empire, though a few scholars also believe contemporary legal cases can and should shape the law, though such thinkers may be subject to ridicule and even threats from Islamists and their liberal allies.

Sharia law proscribes often brutal punishments for acts, that, in the western world, are relatively minor. For example, under sharia law, turning away from Islam is punishable by death,<ref>[http://www.ntpi.org/html/whyoppose.html]</ref> while women found guilty of adultery is punishable by stoning to death, which often includes many rape victims, as Sharia courts often regard a rape victim as guilty of adultery unless she can provide four witnesses to the act of rape.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6148590.stm</ref> In cases involving the death penalty of corporal punishment, methods of carrying out the punishment are often barbaric, and include public beheading, chopping off of the hand, and flogging.<ref>http://saudiwoman.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/punishment-in-saudi-arabia/</ref> Many Islamic groups have been attempting to have Shariah courts set up in European countries, initially to rule over civil cases between Muslims in Europe.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422661,00.html</ref>

The need by Islam's adherents to add to and retain followers in its ideology through Sharia, deceit, force and intimidation, particularly through threats of death against those who leave Islam or who levy legitimate criticism against it for its barbaric ways and history, would indicate that overall, Islam is a weak ideology that would not withstand criticism or exposure of the truth of its ways and history. To facilitate retaining its membership and to keep the truth about Islam under wraps, its adherents have formed convenient alliances with sympathetic liberals in politics, academia, the courts, the mainstream media and Hollywood to deceive the public about Islam and what it really is, as well as to censor and silence critics of Islam through ridicule, false accusations of "racism", "hate speech" and "Islamophobia" and the illegal use of the legal system to punish critics.<ref>[http://nationalpost.com/news/weaponization-of-free-speech-prompts-talk-of-a-new-hate-law?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29 "Weaponization" of free speech prompts talk of a new hate law] at the ''National Post''</ref>

===Ulemah ===
Sunni Islam does not have a priesthood or clerical hierarchy to conduct religious services or interpret scripture, but it does have prayer leaders, called Imams, and religious scholars, called Ulemah,<ref>"Umma and ulemah" would be roughly equivalent to "laity and clergy".</ref> who often are educated men familiar with the Koran and able to offer commentaries on Koranic verses. Sunni Muslims also respect the teachings and interpretations of scholars, judges, and academics who may interpret laws, write treatises on Sharia (religious law) or Hadith, and issue Fatwas, religious rulings or declarations intended to enlighten or guide Muslims. These religious scholars issue legal rulings on various questions in contemporary life, such as the use of toilet paper which Islamic law previously forbade,<ref>https://nypost.com/2015/04/08/muslims-can-now-use-toilet-paper-turkeys-top-religious-authority/</ref> transgenderism,<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-transgender/pakistani-clerics-declare-transgender-marriages-legal-under-islamic-law-idUSKCN0ZD1IZ</ref> conjugal relations in marriage during the menstrual cycle<ref>http://aliftaa.jo/QuestionEn.aspx?QuestionId=2667#.YGOXVtKSncs</ref> or use of bug zappers.<ref>https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/198619/killing-insects-with-electric-insect-killer</ref>

Shia Islam has a hierarchy that resembles a priesthood. Mullahs are prayer leaders, but usually do not interpret religious law. Mujtahids are religious scholars who may interpret law or passages from the Koran or Hadith. The lower order of Mujtahids are called Hojjatolislam. Ayat Allah (literally sign of Allah, also Ayatollah) is a higher order of Mujtahid who may issue Fatwas, or religious edicts, in addition to leading Islamic schools, interpreting religious law and the Koran, and offering sermons or discourses on proper Islamic behavior.

== Converts to Islam ==
People who convert to Islam from legitimate religions or from nontheism commit ideologically motivated crimes such as [[jihadism|jihadist]] [[terrorism]], [[hate speech]], [[discrimination]], [[anti-Semitism]], anti-Christianity and [[fraud]]: [http://web.archive.org/web/20190327113206/https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Converts_to_Islam A list of converts to Islam]. As has been witnessed many times, people who convert to Islam become radicalized and divide the world into two groups: Muslims ("people who surrender to Allah") and non-Muslims (''kafir''s, i.e. people who think differently). Many people, especially men, who convert to Islam are also [[Misogyny|misogynists]] and [[pedophiles]], since Islam allows and even celebrates misogyny and pedophilia.

==Today==
[[File:2012 Sydney protest.jpg|thumb|Some non-Muslims feel threatened by the unforgiving nature of the ideology of Islam.]]
Islam is the world's largest socio-political ideology, with over 1.6 billion followers, and is claimed to be the fastest-growing ideology in America.<ref>[http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-fastest-growing-religion-in-america-is-islam]</ref> This rapid growth is mainly due to conversions, high birth rates, and convenient redefinitions of the term "Muslim". Conversions to Christianity (from ''any'' faith or lack thereof) outnumber those to Islam, but are keeping up with the birthrate discrepancy.<ref>[http://www.bible.ca/global-religion-statistics-world-christian-encyclopedia.htm World Christian Encyclopedia]</ref><ref>[http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/AlJazeerahAfrica.php Translation of AL-Jazeerah interview between Maher Abdallah and Shiekh Ahmed Katani]</ref>

Islamic doctrine, including what is taught in [[North America]], teaches that 1 John 4:9, "God is love", is a false doctrine.<ref>http://www.arabicbible.com/for-christians/1313-christians-common-questions-about-islam.html?start=2</ref> The doctrine of ''Al-Wala wal-Bara'' teaches true faith is measured in sharing Allah's hatred of the ''kufr'', non-believers, or infidels.<ref>http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim</ref> In other words, Islamic doctrine teaches that Allah hates his own creation, sinful man, which John 3:16 teaches, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son." ''Al-Wala wal-Bara'', or divine hatred, is used to justify terrorist attacks. The believing Muslim feels he is carrying out Allah's will in killing Allah's enemies. Rather than the [[atonement|atoning]] blood of Jesus for sinful man, the murder of infidels and attacks on their societal institutions and national governments is aimed at blotting out evil in the world.

Even Orthodox Judaism teaches that Jehovah loves sinners. Psalm 138:8, for example, says, "The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands."

[[Indonesia]] has the largest Islamic population in the world.

=== Future of Islam in Europe and the desecularization of Europe ===
''See also: [[Atheism vs. Islam]] and [[Secular Europe]]''
[[File:Europe pol 2004.jpg|thumbnail|right|325px|In 2014, the Pew Research Forum indicated that [[Europe]] will go from 11% of the world's population to 7% of the world's population by 2050.<ref>[https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/03/10-projections-for-the-global-population-in-2050/ 10 projections for the global population in 2050] By Rakesh Kochhar, Pew Research Forum, February 3, 2014</ref>]]

In April 2010, Eric Kaufmann indicated concerning the future of Islam in Europe:
{{cquote|I address this in some detail in the book, as well is in a [http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/europes-muslim-future recent article in the April issue of Prospect magazine] here in Britain. The short answer is that I don’t foresee a Muslim-majority Europe in this century or in the next. Why? Mainly because Muslim birthrates are plunging both in Europe and the Muslim world. Already, Iran, Tunisia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and several other Muslim countries have replacement-level fertility or below. In the UK, Bangladeshi and Pakistani fertility has halved in a generation and is now under 3 children per woman. This means their long-term growth will begin to tail off. The other part of the equation is the rise of non-Muslim immigrant groups (African and West Indian Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and other Eastern faiths) who are also increasing and therefore making Europe more plural and, in the process, rendering it harder for Muslims to increase their share of the population.

That said, Muslim membership retention and in-group marriage is exceptionally high (over 90 per cent) and they are a much younger population than the host society. So they are on course for steady growth. My colleagues and I expect their fertility to fall to host levels by 2030, but they will still make up 5-15 per cent of most West European countries by 2050 and 10-25 per cent by 2100. This is a major change from the 2-6 per cent levels of today<ref>[http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/shall_the_religious_inherit_the_earth/#sthash.nE0JGi2Y.dpuf ''Shall the religious inherit the earth?''], 2010 Interview with [[Eric Kaufmann]] by MercatorNet</ref>}}

Due to the growing number of Muslims moving into secular Europe/[[Western World]] and the ideological differences between the [[atheist worldview]] and Islam, there has been growing tension between [[atheism|atheists]]/secularists and Muslims - particularly between [[Militant atheism|militant atheists]] and militant Islam.

The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Sam Harris]] and the late [[Christopher Hitchens]] have received multiple accusations of engaging in "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]]" behavior.<ref>
*[https://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/dawkins_harris_hitchens_new_atheists_flirt_with_islamophobia/ Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia] by Nathan Lean, ''Salon'', March 30, 2013
*[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus] by [[Glenn Greenwald]], ''The Guardian'', April 3, 2013</ref> On the other hand, defenders of atheist criticisms of Islam/Muslims indicated that New Atheists should be able to criticize Islam without being accused of "Islamophobia".<ref>[http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2013/04/new-atheism-should-be-able-criticise-islam-without-being-accused-islamophobia New Atheism should be able to criticise Islam without being accused of Islamophobia] by Andrew Zak Williams, ''New Statesman'', Published 19 April 2013</ref>

For more information, please see:

*[[Atheism vs. Islam]]
*[[Atheism vs. Christianity]]

=== Growth of Islam in the United Kingdom ===

''See also:'' [[Growth of Islam in the United Kingdom]]

According to the website Statista.com's article [https://www.statista.com/topics/4765/islam-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/#topicOverview Islam in the UK - Statistics & Facts]: "Like most major European countries, the United Kingdom has a significant Muslim population living within its borders. With the number of Muslims in Europe predicted to increase significantly in the near future, the UK's share of Muslims in the population could rise from 6.3 percent in 2016 to 17.2 percent by 2050."

==Other aspects of Islam==
===Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem===
Muhammad's home city of Mecca was the site of his earliest preaching and conversions, and is the location of the Kaaba, traditionally held to be the foundation stone of the first mosque built by Adam and later restored by Abraham, and now the focus of the annual pilgrimage (hajj). Some historians suggest that the Kaaba, a black stone probably meteoric in origin, was venerated by pre-Islamic polytheistic religions.

At first, Jerusalem was claimed by Islam to be its holy city and the focus of prayers, but Mecca became the center of Islam after Muhammad's return in 630. Medina, because of its early association with Muhammad and as the site of Muhammad's tomb, is second in importance to Mecca. Jerusalem is revered by Muslims as the site of Solomon's temple, Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Ishmael, and the scene of Muhammad's miraculous midnight journey, the latter two now enshrined in the [[Dome of the Rock]] mosque. According to the Koran (Surrah 17:1, Isra) and Hadith, Muhammad and Gabriel were taken on winged mules from Mecca to Jerusalem, where they ascended through the seven heavens to the presence of Allah. During the visit, Muhammad learned, among other points, that Muslims were to pray five times each day and to honor Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the other prophets.

===People of the Book===
Christians and Jews are called "people of the Book" in the Koran and are considered earlier forerunners to Islam and viewed as brothers as long as they pay an extra tax when under Islamic rule. Islam, which claims roots tracing back to Abraham through his son Ishmael instead of Isaac as the Jews did, believes that they are the descendants of Allah's promise. Islam claims that both the Old and New Testament were corrupted and corrected by the Koran (though in truth, it is the Koran itself which plagiarized from and corrupted Biblical scripture), but there is still an earlier link claimed between the two religions and Islam. The view of Jews and Christians varied within different parts of the Koran and Islamic history. Much of current Islamic culture, even in places that were once very tolerant such as Egypt, has seen an upsurge in persecution and violence against Christians and Jews.

===Jihad===
Jihad is the "struggle" each Muslim is called to against unbelievers (infidels). Participation in jihad in Allah's cause was the third most important good deed listed in the Hadith, after prayer and honoring one's parents. Jihad was a rallying cry for the military spread of Islam in the seventh through tenth centuries against non-Muslims, and is the same reason for Islamic terrorism and war today. 
Some Muslim apologists in the western world say that jihad refers to the difficulties a Muslim faces in the everyday trials of life, such as the effort to get better grades in school, or the striving to achieve better results from a job, or the struggle to avoid sinful temptations. It is, they say, the internal struggle of good and evil, or the pure and the impure. However, this is simply a fabrication, which has been publicly labeled as such by Muslim scholars in the middle east. Nonetheless, even some mosques not teach this, fostering a more peaceful version of Islam. Unfortunately, it is not based on the Koran and the Hadith, but rather modern revisions. Any Muslim believing this peaceful version can be corrected based on these sacred books, and thus become "radicalized."

====Violent passages of the Koran championed by Islam====
In its passages, the Koran has advocated adherents of Islam to commit acts of violence, hatred and insurrection against those who do not follow that ideology (in particular, Jews and Christians) or are critical of it, to subjugate Judaism, Christianity and other religions to Islam and to force the followers of legitimate religions to submit and adhere to Islam.<ref>[https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx What Does Islam Teach About Violence]</ref><ref>[https://thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/hell-and-hate.aspx What Does Islam Teach About Hell and Hate]</ref> Not surprisingly, attempts at pointing out the violence advocated by the Koran have been met with denials and excuses by Islamic apologists, who engage in [[taqiyya]] by claiming that the critics of the violent passages took those passages "out of context" and that "critics only quote the part which (suits) them" while the apologists do exactly what they accuse the critics of doing.<ref>[https://discover-the-truth.com/2014/08/12/quran-2191-and-kill-them-wherever-you-find-them-explained/ Quran 2:191- ‘And kill them wherever you find them…’ Explained] - an attempt by Islamic apologists to excuse violent passages of the Koran by offering deceitful explanations of what they claim those passages "really mean"</ref><ref>[http://islam101.com/terror/verse8_12.htm The Holy Quran, verse 8:12], from another Islamic apologist site which excuses the violent passages of the Koran and attacks its critics by claiming "Some non-Muslims either through ignorance or Islam-bashing continue taking the verses of the Holy Quran out of context and its history to justify their false propaganda"</ref><ref>[https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/games/discover-truth/verses/47-4.aspx "Discover the Truth's" Game] - a refutation of the claims and excuses made by the Islamic apologist site Discover the Truth regarding Koran 47:4</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/01/jihad_quran_9123_v_matthew_103.html Jihad: Quran 9:123 v. Matthew 10:34] at American Thinker</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/obama_quotes_verse_532_omits_5.html Obama quotes (Koran) verse 5:32, omits 5:33] at American Thinker</ref> Among the more violent and hateful passages of the Koran are these:

*Koran 2:191 - “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”
*Koran 9:123 - “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.”
*Koran 9:5 - “When opportunity arises kill the infidels wherever you catch them.”
*Koran 3:85 - “Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.”
*Koran 9:30 - “The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them.”
*Koran 5:33 - “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
*Koran 9:28 - “The infidels are unclean; do not let them into a mosque.”
*Koran 22:19 - “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies.”
*Koran 47:4 - “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.”
*Koran 8:65 - “The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.”
*Koran 3:28 - “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.”
*Koran 8:12 - “Terrorize and behead those who disbelieve (in Allah).”
*Koran 8:60 - “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.”

====Osama bin Laden and fundamentalists====
[[Osama bin Laden]], a follower of [[Wahhabism]], stated that Islam is at war with the United States and its allies. Some observers claim that the number of Islamic fundamentalists is growing and poses a threat to the West.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/255/islamic-fundamentalists-are-the-new-big-threat-to-the-west|title=Islamic Fundamentalists are the New Big Threat to the West|author=Daniel Pipes|newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=Sept 16, 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/rev2006-06-04td.html|title=All or Nothing: The quest for a moderate Islam may be futile.|date=June 4, 2006|author=Theodore Dalrymple|newspaper=Cite Journal}}</ref> But other observers differentiate between conservative "fundamentalists" and the "extremists" who follow murderers such as bin Laden or other terrorists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2008/09/15/who_speaks_for_islam/page/full/|title=Who Speaks For Islam|author=Dinesh D'Souza|newspaper=Townhall|date=Sept 15, 2009}}</ref> In several major Islamic nations, bin Laden had the support of the majority of people in the early years after the 9/11 attacks. As he lost battles with the West and started to target fellow Muslims his popularity waned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/04/30/on-anniversary-of-bin-ladens-death-little-backing-of-al-qaeda/|title=On Anniversary of bin Laden’s Death, Little Backing of al Qaeda|date=April 30, 2012|publisher=Pew Research Center}}</ref>

===Islam and forced conversion===
The Quran and the various Hadiths teach Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they are killed, converted, or in a permanent state of subjugation.
*Quran (8:38-39) - “Say to those who have disbelieved, if they cease (from disbelief) their past will be forgiven... And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world ]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.”

*Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

*Quran (9:5) "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them..."

*Quran (9:11) - (Continued from verse 9:5) "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion"

*Quran (9:56-57) - "And they swear by Allah that they are most surely of you, and they are not of you, but they are a people who are afraid (of you). If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste."

*Quran (2:193) - "And fight them until fitna is no more, and religion be only for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers."

*Qur'an (3:83) - "Are they seeking a religion other than Allah's, when every soul in the heavens and the earth has submitted to Him, willingly or by compulsion?"

*Sahih Muslim (1:33) The Messenger of Allah said: "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat."

*Sahih Muslim (19:4294) - "When you meet your enemies who are polytheists (which includes Christians), invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them ... If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them"

*Sahih Bukhari (84:59) - "Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.'"

*Sahih Bukhari (53:392) - "While we were in the Mosque, the Prophet came out and said, "Let us go to the Jews" We went out till we reached Bait-ul-Midras. He said to them, "If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle."

*Sahih Bukhari (2:24) - "Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."

*Sahih Bukhari (60:80) - "The Verse:--'You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind.' means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam."

*Sahih Bukhari (60:40) - "...:And fight them till there is no more affliction (i.e. no more worshiping of others along with Allah)."

*Sahih Bukhari (59:643) - "Testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, or else I will chop off your neck!"

*Ibn Kathir v.4 p.133, Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 959 - "Then the apostle sent Khalid bin Walid… to the Banu al-Harith and ordered him to invite them to Islam three days before he attacked them. If they accepted then he was to accept it from them, and if they declined he was to fight them. So Khalid set out and came to them, and sent out riders in all directions inviting the people to Islam, saying, 'If you accept Islam you will be safe.' So the men accepted Islam as they were invited."

*Ibn Kathir (Commenting on Quran 2:256 in the unabridged version of his tafsir) - "Therefore all people of the world should be called to Islam. If anyone of them refuses to do so, or refuses to pay the jizya, they should be fought till they are killed."

===Islam and slavery===
*Quran (33:50) - ''"O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee"
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*Quran (23:5-6) - ''"..who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess..."
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*Quran (4:24) - ''"And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess."
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*Quran (8:69) - ''"But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good"''

*Quran (24:32) - ''"And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves..."''

*Quran (2:178) - ''"O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female."
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*Quran (16:75) - ''"Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to Allah."
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*Sahih Bukhari (41.598) - Muhammad establishes that slaves are property. They cannot be freed if an owner has outstanding debt, but they can be used to pay off the debt<ref>https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx</ref>

*Sahih Bukhari (62:137) - Gives an account of women taken as slaves in battle by Mohammed's men after their husbands and fathers were killed. The women were raped with Mohammed's approval.

*Sahih Bukhari (34:432) - Another account of women taken captive and raped with Mohammed's approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.

*Sahih Bukhari (47:765) - A woman is rebuked by Mohammed for freeing a slave girl. The prophet tells her that she would have gotten a greater heavenly reward by giving her to a relative (as a slave).

*Sahih Bukhari (2:15:103) - ''"I was watching the display of black slaves in the mosque..."''

*Sahih Bukhari (59:637) - ''"The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, 'Don't you see this (i.e. Ali)?' When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, 'O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumlus.'"''

*Abu Dawud (2150) - ''"The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Quran 4:24) 'And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.'"
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*Abu Dawud (1814) - ''"...[Abu Bakr] He then began to beat [his slave] him while the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) was smiling and saying: Look at this man who is in the sacred state (putting on ihram), what is he doing?"
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*Abu Dawud (38:4458) - ''Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: “A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves)”.''

*Abu Dawud (1:142) - ''"Do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl"''

===Stealing from non-Muslims===
The Koran and the various Hadiths encourage Muslims to steal from non-Muslims.
*Koran (8:69) - "So enjoy what you took as booty; the spoils are lawful and good."

*Koran (48:20) - "Allah promised you many acquisitions which you will take, then he hastened on this one for you and held back the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign for the believers and that he may guide you on a right path."

*Koran (33:27) - "And he caused you to inherit their land and their houses and their wealth, and land ye have not trodden. Allah is ever able to do all things."

*Sahih Bukhari (53:351) - " Allah's Messenger said, "Booty has been made legal for me."

*Ibn Ishaq (327) - "Allah made booty lawful and good. He used it to incite the Muslims to unity of purpose. So enjoy what you have captured."

*Ibn Ishaq (503) - "Allah saw what was in their hearts [what they coveted] so he rewarded them with victory and with as much spoil as they could take. Allah promised that they would soon capture a great deal of booty.”

*Sahih Bukhari (44:668) - "We were in the company of the Prophet at Dhul-Hulaifa. The people felt hungry and captured some camels and sheep (as booty)..."

*Ahmad 4869 (also found in the original Hadith of Bukhari and Sahih al Jaami' AsSagheer 2828) - It is mentioned from Ibn ‘Umar from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “I have been raised between the hands of the Hour with the sword, until Allah the Exalted is worshipped alone with no associates. He has provided sustenance from beneath the shadow of spears and has decreed humiliation and belittlement for those who oppose my order.”<ref>https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/stealing.aspx</ref>

===Contamination of food given to non-Muslims===
There have been incidents where Muslims contaminate food given to Non-Muslims:
*In 2008, in the U.K, Saeed Hashmi and Jan Yadgari, the owners of a restaurant, sold chocolate cake sprayed with human feces.<ref>https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/uk-muslim-who-sprayed-food-with-feces-and-urine-cant-be-deported</ref>

*In 2015, a Pakistani Muslim owned restaurant in Britain by the name of "Khyber Pass Kebab" was found by health inspectors to be mixing feces in food given to customers. <ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247526/Kebab-shop-owners-infected-150-customers-rare-form-food-poisoning-meals-contaminated-human-faeces.html</ref>

*In July 2019, the local branch of ISIS in India planned to poison prasadam at a Hindu temple, to kill over 400 Hindu devotees. The suspects were arrested before they could do this.<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/terror-group-islamic-state-zakir-naik-mumbreshwar-temple-1573514-2019-07-25</ref>

*In August 2019, a Muslim vendor in the city of Meerut in India was caught mixing his Urine and Sperm in Biryani that he sold to Hindus.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGuYkInllg</ref>

*On April 3, 2020, a Muslim fruit vendor in India was caught licking fruits before selling them.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPoFAe52uw4&feature=emb_title</ref>

*On May 8, 2020, a Muslim man by the name of Abdul Nazim Sheikh Mahmood was caught on video licking bread while cutting it. The incident occurred in Maharashtra, India.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2020/05/maharashtra-man-arrested-in-amravati-after-video-of-him-spitting-on-bread-in-a-bakery-goes-viral-on-tiktok/</ref>

*On February 21, 2021, a Muslim man by the name of Sohail was caught on video spitting on Rotis while cooking for a wedding in the city of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, India.<ref>https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/watch-man-spits-on-tandoori-rotis-while-cooking-at-wedding-in-ups-meerut-arrested/723272</ref>

*On March 19, 2021, two Muslim men by the names of Sabi Anwar and Ibrahim were caught on camera spitting on Rotis that they were preparing.<ref>https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/2-staffers-held-for-spitting-on-rotis/article34103460.ece</ref>

*In September 2021, a Muslim owned company by the name of "iD Fresh Food" was found to be adding Cow Bones and Calf Rennet in Idli and Dosa Batter. <ref>https://twitter.com/RUDRANofficial/status/1434533101821063170</ref> <ref>https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/iD-Fresh-Food-raises-Rs-35-crore-in-first-round-of-funding/article20900998.ece</ref>

*In October 2021, a Muslim by the name of Tamizuddin was caught on camera spitting on rotis while working at a Dhaba in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.<ref>https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/watch-man-spits-on-tandoori-roti-while-cooking-in-ghaziabad-dhaba-arrested-4335503.html</ref>

===Restrictions===
Observant Muslims are not supposed to eat pork and in general do not have dogs as pets; both swine and canines are considered unclean. Muslims can have dogs for safety. Muslims are prohibited from drinking alcoholic beverages, gambling, and from collecting interest on financial transactions.

===Women in Islam===
[[File:Muslim girls at Istiqlal Mosque Jakarta Indonesia.jpg|left|thumb|240px|Muslim girls at Istiqlal [[Mosque]], Jakarta.]]
In pre-Islamic times women's rights were defined by tribal laws which differed among the tribes. Some women had absolute equity and the ability to hold power, while some women were treated worse than chattel; bride prices, unlimited polygamy, and female infanticide were a common theme. [[Sharia law|Islamic law]] offered a path for which Muslim men could regulate women in a legal system based on Muslim principles of jurisprudence on the Arabian peninsula. Treated merely as individual sex objects, women were granted very limited rights but as distinct legal individuals; forced to marry who their parents tell them to, women are required not to directly object in order for the marriage contract to have some form of validity.

Unlike the pre-Islamic times where unlimited polygamy occurred, [[Sharia law]] limits [[polygamy]] to a maximum of four wives at any one time, though the use of "temporary" marriage in effect rendered this restriction meaningless. Once married, only men are entitled to divorce any time they please. The reality of traditional Sharia law as applied in the modern era has shocked the modern conscience.<ref>Linda Rae Bennett, ''Women, Islam and Modernity'' (2005)</ref> These restrictions on women were put into place over a thousand years ago, and there has been little progress since. Women are still not allowed to drive a [[car]], they cannot ride [[bicycle]]s, are unable to [[vote]], have been prohibited from traveling abroad without permission, and they can't use public facilities when men are present.

[[File:Sharia.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Muslim woman tortured under Sharia law.]]
Women in Islam are treated as inferiors to men in almost every regard and women's rights are all but non-existent in Islam, a fact conveniently ignored by the ideology's liberal allies (including in [[feminism]] and the [[mainstream media]]). In [[Sharia]], the testimony of one man equals that of five women. Women are required to cover the head and body in public, by wearing the hijab. Hijab is applied in different ways: a small scarf around the head and western street clothes may be acceptable in Cairo or Damascus but a full length opaque [[burqa]] was enforced in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. As of 2008, [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iran]], and [[Pakistan]] are the most significant Middle Eastern countries where the government requires women to wear some form of restrictive garb, though cultural pressure in most Islamic countries offers women little choice but to submit to the dictat of hijab. Women who are claimed by their husbands or family to have disgraced their family are put to death in "[[honor killing]]s"; buried halfway or sometimes up to their neck so they cannot run, women, who are in most cases victims, are stoned to death.

====Honor killings====
Another violent practice continued in Islamic countries is [[honor killing]], in which a brother, father, or uncle "restores" or "defends" a family's honor by killing the sister, daughter, or niece that "dishonored" the family through supposedly "promiscuous" behavior. This "promiscuous" activity often includes women from Islamic societies living in the West aspiring to a more open lifestyle. The "honor killing" is more ancient, and pagan in origin, but tolerated and practiced more or less openly in some Islamic societies.

Some apologists might try to excuse or justify this practice by putting down this verse:

<blockquote>
'Because of that, We decreed...that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.' -5:32. [http://quran.com/5/32].
</blockquote>

Notice the ellipses between decreed and that? I hope you did, and if you followed the link you would know that this was decreed to the Children of Israel, who would be the Jews. Now, how could this be a defense against honor killing in Islamic countries if this wasn't even given to Muslims? The answer lies in the very next verse:

<blockquote>
'Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment, Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.' (5:33-34) [http://quran.com/5/33] [http://quran.com/5/34]
</blockquote>

So what we get from that, unlike the Jews where it is a blessing not to commit murder, for Muslims, it is a deed for Allah to murder those who have "caused corruption". Among these that "cause corruption" could be one's daughter, sister, or wife who is not wearing the headscarf, praying five times a day, not fasting in Ramadan, becoming too Westernized, etc., and thus honor killing would be "justified" in their view. Of course if you look at the next verse, it says that you should be merciful to those who have repented -before you apprehend them. This implies that they will be terrorized, and then there self-preservation instinct will kick in and they will repent. But what about those who don't? What if one's female relative doesn't believe that the headscarf is necessary while you do? And what if she still believes the same way after you apprehend her? You follow 5:33. As Muhammed himself proclaimed:

<blockquote>
I have been made victorious with terror.'
-Bukhari 4.52.220 [http://www.quranexplorer.com/Hadith/English/Hadith/bukhari/004.052.220.html].
</blockquote>

====Female genital mutilation====
Female genital mutilation (also known as "female circumcision") is mentioned in Hadith as an "honorable" condition for a woman, and act to carry out. It is a pre-Islamic tradition in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab world, though not in Coptic Egypt as some Islamic apologists claim. Female genital mutilation is not called for nor is it supported by the Koran.

====Abortion====
Muslims see [[abortion]] as ''haram'' (forbidden), but accept it if the life of mother is at risk.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/abortion_1.shtml</ref>

====Islamic dress is regular grounds for conflict in multicultural education====
Treatment of women varies widely by country. In the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia women are forbidden from driving a car, traveling in public without their husband or a male family member as an escort, leaving their home without wearing Islamic dress, working or voting. Though not formally forbidden from owning property, they have no way of obtaining this as work is forbidden and only males are permitted to inherit – should a man die, his brothers, sons, and father will all inherit before his wife. These restrictions are part of Sharia law and enforced by the police and a special Islamic office. Pakistan has similar restrictions but to a lesser extent. In contrast, [[Turkey]] has a majority Muslim population and yet grants women some rights similar to those of men including property ownership, employment, and education to university level.

Islamic apologists suggest the extremely repressive policies of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are cultural rather than religious, though these are the countries where traditional Islam is strongest. They point to the more moderate Islam practiced in Turkey as a demonstration that Islam and women's rights are compatible, ignoring the efforts of traditionalists in Turkey to end the few freedoms women were granted by men.

Islamic women's status is controversial. While Islamic men control and oppress Islamic women by compelling them to remain hidden behind the veil, sequestered in the home, and ignorant of the world by denying them access to education and worldly opportunities, Islamic apologists defend some practices. These men claim that many of the restrictions on women, such as the veil, are cultural traditions that pre-date Islam and are intended to protect women from predatory men. Unfortunately, such Islamic men ignore the fact that if a predatory man or group of rapists were to sexually assault an Islamic woman in Islam, she would be punished under Sharia law for "allowing" such an act to occur, and she would likely receive hundreds of lashes and years of jail time or be punished with death; the predatory man or men commonly go unpunished or only receive very light punishments at worst.

=== Atheism vs. Islam ===
From a global perspective, [[Europe]] is more secular/[[Atheism|atheistic]] than the rest of the world although it does have a considerable amount of religious immigrants who have higher birth rates (see: [[Secular Europe]] and [[Atheist population]] and [[Global atheism]]).

===Anti-science===
Modern science started in Christian Europe, not the Islamic world, and not even China. The Islamic world has not accomplished anything major in the sciences, unless copying counts. The Muslims borrowed their architecture from the Byzantines. For example, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem was built and designed by Byzantine craftsmen. Thousands of years before Muhammad was born, the Greeks discovered algebra and the Persians built the first astrolabe, though no denying that the Arabs were influential in naming it. Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics borrowed from Greek philosophers. After Greece and China established academies with Syrian Christians starting the School of Nisibis, the first school of higher education to achieve university status was the University of Bologna, while Al-Ahzar University was established as a madrassa around 970 AD, but did not achieve university status until 990 years later; the first hospital was built by the heretical Nestorians. The Indian numerals were actually modified in Europe, but ironically, the Arabic language was the last one to adopt the modified version.

==[[Taqiyya]]==
'''[[Taqiyya]]''' (al-Taqiyya, also spelled Al-Takeyya) is a concept in ([[Shia]]) [[Islam]]<ref>"Taqiyah" Oxford Dictionary of Islam. John L. Esposito, Ed. Oxford University Press. 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 9 June 2006.</ref> of deception (- of the "infidel").<ref>[https://www.meforum.org/2095/islams-doctrines-of-deception Islam's doctrines of deception]. By Raymond Ibrahim.
Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst.
October 2008.</ref><ref>Carol, S. (2019). [https://books.google.com/books?id=trqzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT337 Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East: A Comprehensive Analysis]. United States: iUniverse.
"taqiyya—the Master of Deception."</ref> It encourages [[lie|lying]] and [[deceit]] by "disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies,"<ref name="Islam watch">http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm [https://archive.ph/aoC0]</ref> especially when failing to do so may put the believer at risk.<ref name="islamtoday.com">IslamToday.com, ''Rulings Regarding the Concealment of Faith'', retrieved 10/16/08 [http://www.islamtoday.com/showme_beta.cfm?cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=653]</ref> It is authorized under the [[Koran]] and Sunna.{{fact}}

Taqiyya allows a Muslim even "to deny or denounce his faith if, in so doing, he protects or furthers the interests of Islam, so long as he remains faithful to Islam in his heart."<ref name="Islam watch"/> Taqiyya further permits "lying under oath in testimony before a court, deceiving by making distorted statements to the media such as the claim that Islam is a 'religion of peace.'" It can be used to lure credibility and to advance Islam and its expansion.<ref name="Islam watch"/>

Islam, in fact, generally teaches that it is acceptable to lie, so long as they know the truth and the lie will benefit the ideology, or keep them in, or get them into a position to advance the ideology, if only by stealth.

==Historical background==
According to Islamic belief, in approximately 610 A.D., [[Muhammad]], a 40-year-old merchant of the Quraysh tribe in [[Mecca]], located in the Hijaz (now eastern [[Saudi Arabia]]), was commanded by the angel [[Gabriel]] (or Jibreel) to "recite" the message of Allah (professed by adherents of Islam to be their god). Gabriel said mankind had lost sight of Allah's previous messages to earlier prophets, [[Adam]], [[Noah]], [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], [[Solomon]], and [[Jesus]], among others, and that Muhammad was to spread Allah's message to all people so that mankind would know how to live, how to show respect for Allah, and how to prepare for the judgment day.
[[File:Islam750.jpg|right|thumb|Map of the expansion of Islam]]
The message to Muhammad was to be Allah's last and fullest revelation, a direct copy of the Umm Al Khitab, the mother of all books located in heaven next to Allah; Muhammad was the "seal of the prophets." Muhammad won some converts to Islam in his local area, but his [[monotheist]] preaching threatened to undermine the profitable [[polytheist]] pilgrim traffic supporting many Meccan merchants. In 622 A.D., the merchants drove Muhammad and his followers out of Mecca to the city of Yathrib (later renamed [[Medina]], or the city – as in the city of the prophet). This flight (hijra) from Mecca to Medina marks the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar, and is celebrated each year in the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Muhammad's forces, composed of the sahaba (companions) from Mecca, and the Ansar (allied tribes from Yathrib) started attacking the trade caravans going in and out of Mecca, cutting off its economic lifeline. After a series of battles between the Meccans and Muhammad's forces, Mecca finally accepted Muhammad's ultimatum to succumb and convert to Islam. The city welcomed the prophet back in 630. Muhammad died in 632.

Tribal elders in a traditional council called the "Shura" elected [[Abu Bakr]] to be Muhammad's successor, or [[Caliph]] (Khalifa). Abu Bakr united the tribes of the Arabian peninsula during his two years as head of the new faith. Upon his death, the elders elected [[Umar ibn al-Khattab]] the next Caliph. During Umar's ten-year reign, Islam invaded and spread through conquest and negotiation into [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Palestine]], [[Iraq]], and parts of Persia (modern-day [[Iran]]). Umar was assassinated by a Persian in 644, and was succeeded by [[Uthman ibn Affan]], who continued the invasions to spread Islam into [[North Africa]], [[Cyprus]], the rest of Persia, [[Afghanistan]], and parts of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. Over the next two centuries, Islamic armies continued to expanded Islam's empire into sub-Saharan Africa, [[Spain]], South-east and Central Asia, and [[Turkey]].

The Muslim armies conquered and superseded the ancient Sassanid and Byzantine empires which had ruled before. Within a generation of Muhammad's death Islamic armies occupied an empire stretching from the Nile river to the far-off Persian province of Khorasan. Reasons for the rapid conquest are varied and obscure. The Arab armies were more akin to tribal war bands raiding and settling where and when they could. The Byzantine and Sassanid empires had been at war for centuries. The constant simmering conflict between Constantinople and Persia reached a climax in the early 7th century. The Sassanids conquered briefly Egypt and the Levant threatening the central Byzantine heartland of Anatolia. Under the military reforms of the emperor Heraclius, the Byzantine army consolidated and counterattacked, recapturing all that they had lost and capturing the Sassanian capital of Ctesiphon in 628.

This brief end of the Roman-Persian wars disrupted the frontier areas which had predicated their economies on raiding and mercenary activities. Two major areas in Arabia were directly affected. The Lackmid tribe and the Gassanid tribe both acted as mercenaries for the Persians and Romans. The official religion of both tribes analogically mirrored that of their overseers. Monophysite Christianity was common, particularly of the Jacobite sect. The death of Muhammad and the subsequent Ridda wars occupied these warrior tribes until the reign of Caliph Umar. Additionally, there was great religious unrest in the Levant and Egypt. These areas resented the ruinous taxes and the harsh orthodoxy imposed by the emperor in Constantinople.

The same climate was present in the Sassanid realm with the rise of the dualism of the Manicheans. Under the Caliph Umar, the Arab tribes which had concluded the infighting following the death of Muhammad were allowed to raid into the Byzantine and Sassanid frontiers. The weakened state of both regimes from both military and economic exhaustion and religious unrest made them fertile picking grounds for the tribal warbands. The Arabs were chiefly successful in holding these areas in that they upheld a lightweight regime of low taxes based on the Islamic laws and distant government. Rather than employing an army of bureaucrats and nobility, the early Arab empire was more favorable towards maintaining the existing government structures under the leadership of Arab tribes. In this atmosphere, it is hardly surprising to note the reports from both Islamic and Christian sources of peaceful capitulation and invitation of the invading forces.

[[File:Madina Haram at evening .jpg|center|800px|thumb|Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Mosque of the Prophet) in [[Medina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], the site of [[Muhammad|Muhammad's]] tomb.]]

=== Islam and war ===
''See also: [[Irreligion/religion and war]] and [[Islamic terrorism]] and [[Atheism vs. Islam]]''

The book ''The Irrational [[Atheism|Atheist]]'' notes:
{{Cquote|It’s also interesting to note that more than half of these religious wars, sixty-six in all, were waged by Islamic nations, which is rather more than might be statistically expected considering that the first war in which Islam was involved took place almost three millennia after the first war chronicled in the ''Encyclopedia'', Akkad’s conquest of Sumer in 2325 B.C.

In light of this evidence, the fact that a specific religion is currently sparking a great deal of conflict around the globe cannot reasonably be used to indict all religious faith, especially when one considers that removing that single religion from the equation means that all of the other religious faiths combined only account for 3.35 percent of humanity’s wars.<ref>[https://www.chcpublications.net/IrrationalAtheist.pdf - Abbreviated free copy on the book The Irrational Atheist PDF]</ref>}}

===Islam and Christianity===
''See also: [[Dhimma]]''

While adherents of Islam do not believe Jesus to be the Son of God or in the Resurrection, they consider Him and His mother to be among Allah's most important prophets (Marian and Isa) otherwise known as Mary and Jesus. However, the Koran warns against worshipping Jesus, Muhammad, and other humans for fear of [[idolatry]].<ref>[http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Islam/Islam.htm Christian Churches of God Articles on Islam], March 10, 2007</ref>

The Koran states that non-believers will be punished, though the nature of the punishment is not specified (same as similar statements in the Bible and the Torah):

{{cquote|Surely, disbelievers are those who said:
'Allah is the third of the three (in a Trinity).' But there is no god but One, Allah.
And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them.

Will they not repent to Allah and ask His Forgiveness? For Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The Messiah, son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a Siddiqah (i.e. she believed in the words of God and His Books ).
They both used to eat food (as any other human eat).
Look how We make the signs clear to them, yet look how they are deluded away (from the truth)."
}}
::(Koran 5:73-75)

However, Islam does recognize Christians and Jews as "people of the book" since both refer to one God only, and recognize Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) as a founding prophet.

==Critics==
Most contemporary critics of Islam are either atheists or nominally religious: [[Ibn Warraq]] (author), [[Wafa Sultan]] (psychiatrist), [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] (author), [[Hugh Fitzgerald]] (of JihadWatch), [[Oriana Fallaci]] (author), [[Geert Wilders]] (politician), [[Sam Harris]] (author), [[Pamela Geller]] (blogger), [[Bill Maher]] (comedian) and the crowd at the Ayn Rand Institute. The notable exception is [[Robert Spencer]], who while a devout Catholic, criticizes Islam as the socio-political ideology it is. Political critics include [[Winston Churchill]],<ref>[http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/winston-churchills-brutal-takedown-of-islam-means-more-today-than-ever Winston Churchill’s Brutal Takedown of Islam Means More Today than Ever]</ref> [[Herman Cain]], [[Rick Santorum]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news-press.com/article/20130323/NEWS0119/303230016/Santorum-delivers-warning-about-radical-Islam-during-Naples-appearance|title=Santorum delivers warning about radical Islam during Naples appearance|date=March 23, 2013|newspaper=Fort Meyers News Press|author=Lindsay Downey}}</ref> [[David Horowitz]] (author) and [[Pat Robertson]] (preacher). Neither [[Ronald Reagan]] (who helped mujahideen fight atheistic Communists) nor [[George W. Bush]] ("Islam means peace") saw Islam as the problem. Commentators note that the conservative response to fundamental Islam is a far cry from the complete and unequivocal condemnation of Communism during the heyday of the Cold War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberty-and-culture.com/conservatives.html|title=The Conservative Response to the Islamic Threat.|author=Jason Pappas|date=Sept 5, 2004}}</ref> [[Dinesh D’Souza]] argues that Muslims are "God-fearing conservatives",<ref>{{cite book|author=Dinesh D’Souza|title=The Enemy At Home|year=2007|publisher= Doubleday}}</ref> even though they have formed convenient alliances with liberals and several Islamic countries (particularly Iran) have formed alliances with the Communist regimes in [[China]] and [[North Korea]] and the Marxist regime in [[Venezuela]] to oppose the United States and its Western allies.<ref>''Some of the text for this article was taken from "Islam: A Primer", Congressional Research Service Report for Congress (2003), a work in the public domain'' [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islam.htm#back]</ref>

===Ex-Muslims===
[[Michelle Malkin]] highlights a group of [[Ex-Muslims]] hoping to change the terms of debate about Islam in Europe. Maryam Namazie, the head of the British group said "Too many things in the media and government policies have been geared to pandering to the political Islamic movements and Islamic organizations."<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/20/ex-muslims-stand-up-in-britain/ Ex-Muslims stand up in Britain]</ref> Ex-Muslims include Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark A. Gabriel, Walid Shoebat, and Mosab Hassan Yousef.
== Evangelism - Christianity vs. Islam competition in Africa ==

''See also:'' [[Evangelism - Christianity vs. Islam competition in Africa]]

In 2021, ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported:
{{Cquote|Across sub-Saharan Africa, religion today is in ferment as different versions of Christianity and Islam vie for believers—a contest that is transforming both faiths and disrupting long-established terms of coexistence.
Owing to population growth and the intensity of their religiosity, Africans are now one of the more important constituencies of both Islam and Christianity worldwide, and sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most active and contested religious markets. The region was 59% Christian and 30% Muslim in 2020, according to the World Religion Database. “There is a new scramble for Africa,” said Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome of Jamia Mosque in Nairobi, Kenya, drawing an analogy with the colonization of the continent in the late 19th century. “Christianity is growing, Islam is growing, and there is competition.”

On a continent where indigenous religions dominated just a century ago, Christian missionary efforts, associated with European colonization, have borne fruit in massive conversions. By 2020, there were 643 million Christians in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter of the world total, up from 7.4 million in 1900. By 2050, it is projected that there will be 1.3 billion Christians in the region, or 38% of all the Christians in the world.<ref>[https://archive.md/6a9xY#selection-143.5-143.62 The Competition for Believers in Africa’s Religion Market], Wall Street Journal, 2021</ref>}}

== See also ==
[[Image:Africa islam 87.jpg|thumb|Islam in Africa]]
*[[Arab American]]
*[[Islamic republic]]
*[[Islamophobia]]
*[[Qur'an]]
*[[Jihadism]], an extremist, take on Islam
*[[Ramadan]]
*[[In the midst of a Maelstrom: the Holy Spirit and silence: an essay]] encounter of Israeli Messianic Jew and Egyptian Muslim in Alexandria
*[[List of countries by number of Muslims]]
*[[Civilization state‎‎]]
*[[Undercover Muslim]]
*[[Islamic worldviews]]
*[[Islamophilia]]
*[[Judaism and Islam]]
*[[Atheism vs. Islam]]
*[[Islam and Christianity]]

==Further reading==
* Armour, Rollin. ''Islam, Christianity, and the West: A Troubled History'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Christianity-West-Troubled-History/dp/1570754071/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342713&sr=1-32 excerpt and text search]
* Armstrong, Karen. ''Islam: A Short History'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-Modern-Library-Chronicles/dp/081296618X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Berkey, Jonathan P. ''The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Formation-Islam-Religion-Society-600-1800/dp/0521588138/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342713&sr=1-27 excerpt and text search]
* Campo, Juan Eduardo. ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' (2009), basic introduction
* Esposito, John J. ''The Oxford History of Islam'' (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-History-Islam-John-Esposito/dp/0195107993/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Glasse, Cyril. ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'' ( 2nd ed. 2008)
* Lewis, Bernard. ''Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East'' (2001), by leading conservative historian [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-People-Events-Middle/dp/0812695186/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342525&sr=1-15 excerpt and text search]
* Martin, Richard C. et al. ''Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World'' (2003), more advanced
* Newby, Gordon. ''A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Encyclopedia-Islam-Gordon-Newby/dp/1851682953/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342942&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Robinson, Chase F. ed. ''The New Cambridge History of Islam'' (Volume 1) (2009), summarizes advanced scholarship
* Ruthven, Malise, and Azim Nanji. ''Historical Atlas of Islam'' (2004)
* Schimmel, Annemarie. ''Islam: An Introduction''. (1992)
* Sonn, Tamara and Mary Williamsburg. ''A Brief History of Islam'' (2004) [https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Blackwell-Histories-Religion/dp/1405109009/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search]
* Wheatcroft, Andrew. ''Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/Infidels-History-Conflict-Between-Christendom/dp/0812972392/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342525&sr=1-13 excerpt and text search]

==External links==
*[http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html Islam and Christianity] - excellent article comparing and contrasting the two.
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/ Qur'an online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/ Sahih Bukhari (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/ Sahih Muslim (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/ Sunan Abu-Dawud (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/ Malik's Muwatta (Hadith collection) online in English]
* Congressional Research Service, "Islam: A Primer", Report for Congress (2003), a work in the public domain and the source of part of this article [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islam.htm#back]
*[http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/01/islamists-torch-pope-in-effigy-again.html Islamists Torch Pope in Effigy, Again]
*[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2010/december/849_kind-strangers.html Muslims Saving Jews During World War II.] By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.
*[http://differencesbetween.com/islam-and-muslim/ Difference Between Islam and Muslim]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ A Turkish Delight: they think so in Israel too!]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ Turkey's Islamic scholar, Rabbi Meir Lau, and Cain speechless before Abel]

==References==
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King James Only

2026-05-10T02:12:40Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]], as Dave Hunt collabrated with Chick Publications
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Joseph Alan Johnston Campbell, a pastor who had sexual assault arrests
*[[Ian Paisley]], who was found guilty of contempt of court in 2009
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*[[Jimmy Swaggert]], known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Jack Hyles, who was known for improper sexual behavior
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their hateful views and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

King James Only

2026-05-10T02:05:57Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]], as Dave Hunt collabrated with Chick Publications
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*[[Ian Paisley]], who was found guilty of contempt of court in 2009
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*[[Jimmy Swaggert]], known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Jack Hyles, who was known for improper sexual behavior
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their hateful views and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

King James Only

2026-05-10T02:04:18Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]], as Dave Hunt collabrated with Chick Publications
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Ian Paisley, who was found guilty of contempt of court in 2009
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Jack Hyles, who was known for improper sexual behavior
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their hateful views and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

King James Only

2026-05-10T02:00:30Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]], as Dave Hunt collabrated with Chick Publications
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Jack Hyles, who was known for improper sexual behavior
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their hateful views and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

King James Only

2026-05-10T01:59:59Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]], as Dave Hunt collabrated with Chick Publications
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Jack Hyles, who was known for improper sexual behavior
*Brother Stair, who was arrested and charged with sexual assault
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their hateful views and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

Walter Cronkite

2025-10-19T03:48:36Z

MattF:

[[File:WalterCronkite.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
'''Walter Cronkite''' (Born, St. Joseph, Missouri, November 4, 1916 - New York, July 17, 2009) was the chief correspondent and an anchorman for, and managing editor of, the [[CBS]] Evening News, 1962-1981. Widely regarded as authoritative, he was known as "Uncle Walter". Unfortunately, he was a [[liberal]]-[[Progressivism|progressive]] and failed to see the threat of international [[Communism]].  Worse, he if anything advocated for Communism, even admitting he wanted a democratic federal world government and was willing to sit on the hand of Satan to get it.<ref>http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/United_Nations/Chronkite_UN.html</ref>

*He was the first journalist that told the nation in 1963 that [[John F. Kennedy]] had been assassinated.
*From the outset, critics accused Cronkite of politically slanting the news to the left. This bias, they said, was evidenced not so much by Cronkite's words as by his choice of what stories CBS covered, and by his habit of raising his eyebrows and scowling to show his disapproval of statements made by conservatives and Republicans.
*Cronkite strongly influenced the politics and outcome of the [[Vietnam War]]. In 1968 the Communist forces in [[South Vietnam]], facing defeat, staged massive kamikaze attacks on U.S. positions in Saigon and elsewhere during the Chinese New Year celebration called Tet. This suicidal "[[Tet Offensive]]" was a military disaster that cost the lives of 100 Communist fighters for every American killed. But as a top Communist general said years later on the Public Broadcasting Service documentary series Vietnam, those on the left in the American press turned this Marxist military defeat into a political victory for the Communist side.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1795 WALTER CRONKITE], [[Discover the Networks]]</ref>

In addition to his biased reporting on the war, FBI documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act by [[Yahoo]] news, evidence that legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even promising that CBS News would rent a helicopter to take liberal Senator [[Edmund Muskie]] to and from the site of an anti-war rally.<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2010/05/14/fbi-files-cbss-walter-cronkite-aided-vietnam-protestors-1960s FBI Files: CBS's Walter Cronkite Aided Vietnam Protestors in 1960s], [[Newsbusters]]</ref><ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/walter-leland-cronkite/Walter%20Leland%20Cronkite%20Part%201%20of%201/view</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100518130059/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2067</ref>

Cronkite's influence on the America's public perception of the Vietnam War was recognized by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] when he stated after a critical report on the war, "if we've lost Walter Cronkite, we've lost the country."<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/28/rs.00.html Interview With Walter Cronkite], [[CNN]]</ref>
{{cquote|'''''However nice a person he may have been, Walter Cronkite was, more importantly, a model voice for liberal-progressives’ brand of socialism. His lack of understanding about the nature of the Constitution and about the founding ethos of the United States allowed him to warp the minds of millions of Americans with the historicism that characterizes liberal-progressivism. -- Thomas E. Brewton'''''<ref>[http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/walter_cronkite_quintessential_liberal_progressive/ Walter Cronkite: Quintessential Liberal-Progressive]</ref>}}

There were rumors that in 1972 left-wing Democrat presidential nominee [[George McGovern]] asked Cronkite to be his Vice Presidential running mate.<ref>''The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age'', By James David Barber, New York, W.W. Norton and Co., 1980, pg. 102.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879139-8,00.html McGovern's First Crisis: The Eagleton Affair], ''[[Time magazine]]'', Aug. 07, 1972.</ref> {{dead link}} However, Cronkite denied that he was asked.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2009/07/mcgoverncronkite_in_1972.html|title=McGovern-Cronkite in 1972?|work=slate.com|date=July 25, 2009|accessdate=Aug. 28, 2017}}</ref>

Cronkite took other left-wing positions, such as supporting tax increases, supporting giving up U.S. sovereignty to the [[United Nations]], wishing for a [[one-world government]], supporting gun control, among other liberal positions.<ref name="mrc">[http://www.mrc.org/Profiles/cronkite/welcome.asp Walter Cronkite: Liberal Media Icon], [[Media Research Center]]</ref> During and following his anchorage tenure, Cronkite has placed a disproportionate amount of criticism towards Conservatives while aligning himself with liberal figures such as [[Bill Clinton]], [[Jimmy Carter]], and [[John Kerry]].<ref name="mrc" /> With two exceptions, Cronkite was not a political campaign contributor according to Federal Election Commission records. In 2000, he donated $1,000 to the [[NARAL]] Pro Choice America PAC and in 2004, he donated to an unsuccessful Congressional candidate in Kentucky.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121016020901/http://newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Walter_Cronkite.php CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION SEARCH], [[Wayback Machine]]</ref>

In 2004, he appeared in the liberal documentary ''[[Outfoxed]]'', in he which criticized [[Fox News Channel]] and claimed it had a conservative bias.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41604-2004Jul10.html Tilting at the Right, Leaning to the Left ], [[Washington Post]]</ref>

Cronkite was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He died on July 17, 2009, at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533660,00.html Famed CBS News Anchorman Walter Cronkite Dies at 92], [[Fox News]]</ref>

On October 17, 2025, the [[Daily Mail]] published an article showing Walter Cronkite appeared in the newly released [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] Island flight logs.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15203685/Legendary-broadcast-journalist-called-trusted-man-America-appears-newly-released-Epstein-flight-logs.html</ref>

<center>
"And that's the way it is"

</center>

==See also==
*[[Bernard Redmont]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Broadcasters]]
[[Category:Journalism]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
[[Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom award winners]]
[[Category:Best Selling Authors]]
[[Category:Globalists]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cronkite, Walter}}

[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]

Walter Cronkite

2025-10-19T03:43:30Z

MattF:

[[File:WalterCronkite.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
'''Walter Cronkite''' (Born, St. Joseph, Missouri, November 4, 1916 - New York, July 17, 2009) was the chief correspondent and an anchorman for, and managing editor of, the [[CBS]] Evening News, 1962-1981. Widely regarded as authoritative, he was known as "Uncle Walter". Unfortunately, he was a [[liberal]]-[[Progressivism|progressive]] and failed to see the threat of international [[Communism]].  Worse, he if anything advocated for Communism, even admitting he wanted a democratic federal world government and was willing to sit on the hand of Satan to get it.<ref>http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/United_Nations/Chronkite_UN.html</ref>

*He was the first journalist that told the nation in 1963 that [[John F. Kennedy]] had been assassinated.
*From the outset, critics accused Cronkite of politically slanting the news to the left. This bias, they said, was evidenced not so much by Cronkite's words as by his choice of what stories CBS covered, and by his habit of raising his eyebrows and scowling to show his disapproval of statements made by conservatives and Republicans.
*Cronkite strongly influenced the politics and outcome of the [[Vietnam War]]. In 1968 the Communist forces in [[South Vietnam]], facing defeat, staged massive kamikaze attacks on U.S. positions in Saigon and elsewhere during the Chinese New Year celebration called Tet. This suicidal "[[Tet Offensive]]" was a military disaster that cost the lives of 100 Communist fighters for every American killed. But as a top Communist general said years later on the Public Broadcasting Service documentary series Vietnam, those on the left in the American press turned this Marxist military defeat into a political victory for the Communist side.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1795 WALTER CRONKITE], [[Discover the Networks]]</ref>

In addition to his biased reporting on the war, FBI documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act by [[Yahoo]] news, evidence that legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even promising that CBS News would rent a helicopter to take liberal Senator [[Edmund Muskie]] to and from the site of an anti-war rally.<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2010/05/14/fbi-files-cbss-walter-cronkite-aided-vietnam-protestors-1960s FBI Files: CBS's Walter Cronkite Aided Vietnam Protestors in 1960s], [[Newsbusters]]</ref><ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/walter-leland-cronkite/Walter%20Leland%20Cronkite%20Part%201%20of%201/view</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100518130059/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2067</ref>

Cronkite's influence on the America's public perception of the Vietnam War was recognized by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] when he stated after a critical report on the war, "if we've lost Walter Cronkite, we've lost the country."<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/28/rs.00.html Interview With Walter Cronkite], [[CNN]]</ref>
{{cquote|'''''However nice a person he may have been, Walter Cronkite was, more importantly, a model voice for liberal-progressives’ brand of socialism. His lack of understanding about the nature of the Constitution and about the founding ethos of the United States allowed him to warp the minds of millions of Americans with the historicism that characterizes liberal-progressivism. -- Thomas E. Brewton'''''<ref>[http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/walter_cronkite_quintessential_liberal_progressive/ Walter Cronkite: Quintessential Liberal-Progressive]</ref>}}

There were rumors that in 1972 left-wing Democrat presidential nominee [[George McGovern]] asked Cronkite to be his Vice Presidential running mate.<ref>''The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age'', By James David Barber, New York, W.W. Norton and Co., 1980, pg. 102.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879139-8,00.html McGovern's First Crisis: The Eagleton Affair], ''[[Time magazine]]'', Aug. 07, 1972.</ref> {{dead link}} However, Cronkite denied that he was asked.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2009/07/mcgoverncronkite_in_1972.html|title=McGovern-Cronkite in 1972?|work=slate.com|date=July 25, 2009|accessdate=Aug. 28, 2017}}</ref>

Cronkite took other left-wing positions, such as supporting tax increases, supporting giving up U.S. sovereignty to the [[United Nations]], wishing for a [[one-world government]], supporting gun control, among other liberal positions.<ref name="mrc">[http://www.mrc.org/Profiles/cronkite/welcome.asp Walter Cronkite: Liberal Media Icon], [[Media Research Center]]</ref> During and following his anchorage tenure, Cronkite has placed a disproportionate amount of criticism towards Conservatives while aligning himself with liberal figures such as [[Bill Clinton]], [[Jimmy Carter]], and [[John Kerry]].<ref name="mrc" /> With two exceptions, Cronkite was not a political campaign contributor according to Federal Election Commission records. In 2000, he donated $1,000 to the [[NARAL]] Pro Choice America PAC and in 2004, he donated to an unsuccessful Congressional candidate in Kentucky.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121016020901/http://newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Walter_Cronkite.php CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION SEARCH], [[Wayback Machine]]</ref>

In 2004, he appeared in the liberal documentary ''[[Outfoxed]]'', in he which criticized [[Fox News Channel]] and claimed it had a conservative bias.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41604-2004Jul10.html Tilting at the Right, Leaning to the Left ], [[Washington Post]]</ref>

Cronkite was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He died on July 17, 2009, at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533660,00.html Famed CBS News Anchorman Walter Cronkite Dies at 92], [[Fox News]]</ref>

On October 17, 2025, the [[Daily Mail]] published an article showing Walter Cronkite appeared in the newly released [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] Island flight logs.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15203685/Legendary-broadcast-journalist-called-trusted-man-America-appears-newly-released-Epstein-flight-logs.html<ref/>

<center>
"And that's the way it is"

</center>

==See also==
*[[Bernard Redmont]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Broadcasters]]
[[Category:Journalism]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
[[Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom award winners]]
[[Category:Best Selling Authors]]
[[Category:Globalists]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cronkite, Walter}}

[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]

Wars provoked by Deep State

2025-10-19T00:03:53Z

MattF: /* US proxy wars */

All of the major wars involving the United States in the 20th century and the 21st century by far were provoked by the [[deep state]]. When the Bushes got the [[United States]] involved in the Iraq Wars and Afghanistan, this was the first time since [[William McKinley]] that a [[Republican Party]] administration got the United States involved in major armed conflicts. Republicans [[Dwight Eisenhower]] and [[Richard Nixon]] won two terms by pledging withdrawal from no-win wars in Korea and Vietnam, with three out of four landslide victories except for 1968. When conservative Republican [[Donald Trump]] pledged to withdraw from America's endless wars in the [[Middle East]], he won the 2016 and 2024 elections, but [[Joe Biden]] stole the 2020 election from him.

==Wars involving the United States==

===World War I===
The [[Lusitania]] was sunk with some US passengers, but Germany said that there were illegally smuggled weapons on it, and later proven right. As for the Zimmermann Telegram to [[Mexico]], it said "IF" the US attacks us and you help, we will help you in turn." In [[February Revolution]], [[Czar Nicholas II]] was succeeded by Georgy Lvov and later President [[Alexander Kerensky]]. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Anthony C. Sutton documents records from the US state department how the United States backed the second or October Revolution - the hijacking of Russia's democratic February Revolution by the [[Bolsheviks]]. [[Woodrow Wilson]] bribed Kerensky to stay in World War I, and even gave [[Leon Trotsky]] a passport to go to Russia. The new Bolshevik regime concluded a treaty with Germany, conceding the [[Ukraine]] to Germany. During the Russian Civil War, the foreign allies, including the United States, fought the communist Reds by sending invasion forces during land grab attempts while giving the democratic Whites little assistance (a small faction of the Whites supported restoration of the monarchy). At the Treaty of Versailles, the democratic principle of self-determination was only applied to the [[Central Powers]] and the former [[Russian Empire]], but not the other allied victors including colonial powers such as [[Britain]] and [[France]].

=== World War II ===
[[Franklin Roosevelt]] used the [[Lend-Lease Act]] to fund the British before using oil sanctions on [[Japan]] to trigger Pearl Harbor, as Japan had zero chance of defeating the United States, and even [[China]], which was in a warlord period, was too large for the python to swallow, and Japan would have lost either way. There is also speculation that Roosevelt intentionally allowed Pearl Harbor to happen, and that his ultimate goal was to start a conflict with Japan in order to justify intervening in Europe. A counterargument or defense to said speculation is that the Axis could not have been defeated unless the United States got involved. That is certainly a possibility in the case of Germany (but not Japan), but what cannot be ignored is that 85% of [[Nazi]] causalities (including most before [[D-Day]]) occurred in the hands of the Soviet Army, which no doubt was emboldened by the country having suffered approximately 27 million deaths (one-third were soldiers) during the course of the war, and 60% of causalities of the Imperial Japanese Army took place at the hands of China, which suffered 20 million causalities (one-fourth soldiers). This is the same Soviet Union that Woodrow Wilson helped to create. And regardless of which side of that argument is correct, at the end of the day the absolute truth is that Roosevelt wanted to get involved in the war from the beginning, perhaps if not likely in the name of interests that had nothing to do with American interests or even basic morality (remember, this is the same man who had previously refused German Jews entry into the United States when it was already clear that Hitler had genocidal intentions towards them, and even based parts of the New Deal on foreign counterparts established by fascist regimes). And of course, the lack of sincere moral outrage towards the genocidal policies of the Axis countries has continued well beyond the war and even to this day, as the CIA has consistently forged covert alliances with neo-Nazi groups and in some cases unrepentant former members of the ''original'' Nazis, and during [[Operation Paperclip]], former Nazis were brought to work for [[NATO]] and United States government departments and agencies, but their records were scrubbed so they can look clean. To this day, the United States has put little to no pressure on Japan to acknowledge its wartime crimes to the extent that Germany has, as Germany has released their records on the crimes committed during the Holocaust, and UNESCO was going to release records on Japan's war crimes in 2015 until Tokyo threatened to withhold funding.

=== Korean War ===

On January 12, 1950, President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[Deep State]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] gave his carefully written "defensive perimeter" speech at the National Press Club, which [[communist]]s interpreted as allowing communist [[North Korea]] to invade [[South Korea]]. Acheson's speech notably excluded South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) from the defensive perimeter that extended from [[Japan]]’s Ryukyu Islands to the [[Philippines]]. As explained by the ''World Tribune'':
{{cquote|According to Soviet eyewitness accounts made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, Acheson’s speech was rushed to Stalin’s desk for a careful study. Stalin then immediately held secret deliberations with Mao, who had been in the USSR since late December 1949, about the seemingly changed military assessment concerning Korea. [North Korea dictator Kim Il-Sung] had been begging Stalin to approve his plan to attack South Korea, only to be repeatedly rejected by him on account of an assumed American military response. But only two weeks after Acheson’s speech, as the post-Soviet Union archival releases have indicated, on January 30, 1950, Stalin finally issued a general approval for Kim Il-Sung to launch the attack on the South.<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/dean-achesons-fateful-speech-and-the-outbreak-of-the-korean-war-on-june-25-1950/</ref>}}

Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> During his address to the UN General Assembly, Truman said, “The men who laid down their lives for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our memory, and in the memory of the world, forever. They died in order that the United Nations might live.” <ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207324.htm</ref>

===Vietnam War===
After stealing the 1960 election, [[John F. Kennedy]] authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed attempt to overthrow Cuban dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. Following this incident, he later told reporter James Reston, "We have trouble making our power look credible and Vietnam looks like the place to do it.” While it's debatable whether he had a change of heart on that matter between then and his assassination, what cannot be disputed is that his successor [[Lyndon Johnson]], a total Deep State puppet, remained committed to war. Once the false-flag [[Gulf of Tonkin]] incident occurred, the mainstream media led by [[CBS]] reporter [[Walter Cronkite]] beat the drums for entering the war, only to switch sides later on when it was too late. They would later play these same games during Iraq War II.

=== Gulf War ===

On July 25, 1990, the [[Deep State]] U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, declared during discussions with Iraqi officials and amid a massive troop buildup by it on the [[Kuwait]] border that the U.S. is "inspired by the friendship and not by confrontation, does not have an opinion" on the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. "We [the U.S.] have no opinion on the Arab–Arab conflicts," she reportedly declared to [[Saddam Hussein]]. She reportedly also told him that the U.S. did not intend "to start an economic war against Iraq." Saddam Hussein apparently construed these comments as a green light for him to invade Kuwait, which he did soon thereafter. [[George H.W. Bush]] subsequently pursued war on false pretenses, accusing Saddam of undermining the global order when his true motivations was protecting the petrodollar in preparation for his envisioned "New World Order."

With the above in mind, one cannot help but wonder whether Glaspie's baiting of Saddam was not accidental, but rather an intentional act done as a favor to [[Saudi Arabia]], the benefactor of the petrodollar and by extension the "New World Order."

===Bosnian War===
During his first term as president, [[Bill Clinton]] deceived the public into believing that [[Serbia]] was committing genocide in [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41373/</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315650006_The_impact_of_Islam_on_the_Bosnian_problem_The_myth_of_harmonious_multiethnicity_revisited</ref><ref>https://mightynose.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-explains-former-deputy-chief-of-mission-of-un-military-observers-in-bosnia-and-croatia/</ref>

===Kosovo War===
During his second term, [[Bill Clinton]] launched the [[Kosovo War]] after he falsely accused Serbia of genocide,<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/01/clinton-wag-dog-no-kosovo-genocide.html</ref><ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/18/balkans3</ref> as the Clinton State Department claimed that 100,000 Kosovo Albanians were killed or missing, when the causalities was actually 11,000,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/world/early-count-hints-at-fewer-kosovo-deaths.html</ref> and later 3,000.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> Previously, the Clinton State Department once admitted that the Kosovo Liberation Army is a terrorist organization.<ref>https://apjjf.org/site/make_pdf/3578</ref><ref>https://www.newenglishreview.org/Ares_Demertzis/How_To_Dismember_A_Country/</ref>

===Afghan War===
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both deliberately ignored the many warnings from various foreign intelligence agencies about the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the former missed multiple opportunities to take bin Laden out before he could strike. Once 9/11 had occurred, Bush then falsely labeled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as being the government which bore ultimate responsibility (the actual guilty party was Saudi Arabia, who Bush continued to prop up as an ally).

===Iraq War===
Like the first Iraq War, the second one was started on false pretenses in order to prevent Saddam Hussein (who was then trying to sell oil for Euros as opposed to dollars) from undermining the petrodollar.

Three years after the start of the war, Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] announced Colonel Ralph Peters New Middle East Project, a continuation of the [[World War I]] Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which he admits to the title "Blood Borders".<ref>http://armedforcesjournal.com/blood-borders/</ref><ref>http://www.defenddemocracy.press/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/</ref><ref>https://brilliantmaps.com/new-middle-east/</ref><ref>http://www.behindthenews.co.za/2018/04/11/the-greater-middle-east-project/</ref>

===Libya War===
As [[WikiLeaks]] showed in the Clinton emails, [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was overthrown to prevent the adoption of gold back currency. <ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=%E2%80%9CThis+gold+was+accumulated+prior+to+the+current+rebellion+and+was+intended+to+be+used+to+establish+a+pan-African+currency+based+on+the+Libyan+golden+Dinar.+This+plan+was+designed+to+provide+the+Francophone+African+Countries+with+an+alternative+to+the+French+franc+%28CFA%29.&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0</ref>

===Syrian War===
The Syrian War was the consequence of a failed attempt by the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] regime to overthrow Syrian leader [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Like Saddam and Gaddafi before him, Assad posed a threat to the petrodollar by supporting oil and gas pipelines that undermined Saudi dominance of the regional energy market.

==US proxy wars==
===Donbas war===
{{See also|Donbas war}}
Along with the [[United States Department of State]] and [[George Soros]], many NGOs funded the 2013-2014 [[Maidan coup]] in which neo-Nazis took over [[Ukraine]].

===NATO war in Ukraine===
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
After engaging in human trafficking and genocidal extermination in [[Donbass]] for eight years, [[Russia]] begun special military operations to purge the deep state neo-Nazis in which it also destroyed a lot of bio warfare labs. For the deep state, this delayed their plans to start future pandemics.

===2023-24 Islamuc Republic of Iran continuous war on Israel===
The origins of the Iran-Israel conflict, which began with the [[October 7 War|October 7, 2023 attacks]] on [[Israel|Israeli]] territory by the [[Iran|Iranian]] proxy [[Hamas]], (followed by its [[Hezbollah]], though on a larger scale, the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution saw Israel as an extension of the US and it interrupts its dominance in the Middle East), yet, some might argue that the signing of the [[Abraham Accords]], which were intended to be the framework for a future [[Arab]]-Israeli military alliance, as well as against Iran. Someone suggested the Iranian didn't like this alliance, as the American so called [[Deep State]] had long wished destruction upon Iran for its resistance to their agenda in Eurasia, just as they wish destruction upon [[China]] and [[Russia]] on similar grounds. Accordingly Iran plotted a [[First strike|first strike]] in hopes of killing the alliance before it came into being. It might possibly be argued that it was done, asides from religious fanaticism (just as they targeted Jews outside of Israel, including in the 1990s attacks in Latin America and in Bulgaria a few yeats back) for [[pragmatic]] reasons as well, especially as there were rumors of Saudis getting closer with Israel, which indeed, it stopped it.

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[[Category:Mass Murderers|*]]

==References==

Wars provoked by Deep State

2025-10-19T00:02:46Z

MattF:

All of the major wars involving the United States in the 20th century and the 21st century by far were provoked by the [[deep state]]. When the Bushes got the [[United States]] involved in the Iraq Wars and Afghanistan, this was the first time since [[William McKinley]] that a [[Republican Party]] administration got the United States involved in major armed conflicts. Republicans [[Dwight Eisenhower]] and [[Richard Nixon]] won two terms by pledging withdrawal from no-win wars in Korea and Vietnam, with three out of four landslide victories except for 1968. When conservative Republican [[Donald Trump]] pledged to withdraw from America's endless wars in the [[Middle East]], he won the 2016 and 2024 elections, but [[Joe Biden]] stole the 2020 election from him.

==Wars involving the United States==

===World War I===
The [[Lusitania]] was sunk with some US passengers, but Germany said that there were illegally smuggled weapons on it, and later proven right. As for the Zimmermann Telegram to [[Mexico]], it said "IF" the US attacks us and you help, we will help you in turn." In [[February Revolution]], [[Czar Nicholas II]] was succeeded by Georgy Lvov and later President [[Alexander Kerensky]]. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Anthony C. Sutton documents records from the US state department how the United States backed the second or October Revolution - the hijacking of Russia's democratic February Revolution by the [[Bolsheviks]]. [[Woodrow Wilson]] bribed Kerensky to stay in World War I, and even gave [[Leon Trotsky]] a passport to go to Russia. The new Bolshevik regime concluded a treaty with Germany, conceding the [[Ukraine]] to Germany. During the Russian Civil War, the foreign allies, including the United States, fought the communist Reds by sending invasion forces during land grab attempts while giving the democratic Whites little assistance (a small faction of the Whites supported restoration of the monarchy). At the Treaty of Versailles, the democratic principle of self-determination was only applied to the [[Central Powers]] and the former [[Russian Empire]], but not the other allied victors including colonial powers such as [[Britain]] and [[France]].

=== World War II ===
[[Franklin Roosevelt]] used the [[Lend-Lease Act]] to fund the British before using oil sanctions on [[Japan]] to trigger Pearl Harbor, as Japan had zero chance of defeating the United States, and even [[China]], which was in a warlord period, was too large for the python to swallow, and Japan would have lost either way. There is also speculation that Roosevelt intentionally allowed Pearl Harbor to happen, and that his ultimate goal was to start a conflict with Japan in order to justify intervening in Europe. A counterargument or defense to said speculation is that the Axis could not have been defeated unless the United States got involved. That is certainly a possibility in the case of Germany (but not Japan), but what cannot be ignored is that 85% of [[Nazi]] causalities (including most before [[D-Day]]) occurred in the hands of the Soviet Army, which no doubt was emboldened by the country having suffered approximately 27 million deaths (one-third were soldiers) during the course of the war, and 60% of causalities of the Imperial Japanese Army took place at the hands of China, which suffered 20 million causalities (one-fourth soldiers). This is the same Soviet Union that Woodrow Wilson helped to create. And regardless of which side of that argument is correct, at the end of the day the absolute truth is that Roosevelt wanted to get involved in the war from the beginning, perhaps if not likely in the name of interests that had nothing to do with American interests or even basic morality (remember, this is the same man who had previously refused German Jews entry into the United States when it was already clear that Hitler had genocidal intentions towards them, and even based parts of the New Deal on foreign counterparts established by fascist regimes). And of course, the lack of sincere moral outrage towards the genocidal policies of the Axis countries has continued well beyond the war and even to this day, as the CIA has consistently forged covert alliances with neo-Nazi groups and in some cases unrepentant former members of the ''original'' Nazis, and during [[Operation Paperclip]], former Nazis were brought to work for [[NATO]] and United States government departments and agencies, but their records were scrubbed so they can look clean. To this day, the United States has put little to no pressure on Japan to acknowledge its wartime crimes to the extent that Germany has, as Germany has released their records on the crimes committed during the Holocaust, and UNESCO was going to release records on Japan's war crimes in 2015 until Tokyo threatened to withhold funding.

=== Korean War ===

On January 12, 1950, President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[Deep State]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] gave his carefully written "defensive perimeter" speech at the National Press Club, which [[communist]]s interpreted as allowing communist [[North Korea]] to invade [[South Korea]]. Acheson's speech notably excluded South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) from the defensive perimeter that extended from [[Japan]]’s Ryukyu Islands to the [[Philippines]]. As explained by the ''World Tribune'':
{{cquote|According to Soviet eyewitness accounts made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, Acheson’s speech was rushed to Stalin’s desk for a careful study. Stalin then immediately held secret deliberations with Mao, who had been in the USSR since late December 1949, about the seemingly changed military assessment concerning Korea. [North Korea dictator Kim Il-Sung] had been begging Stalin to approve his plan to attack South Korea, only to be repeatedly rejected by him on account of an assumed American military response. But only two weeks after Acheson’s speech, as the post-Soviet Union archival releases have indicated, on January 30, 1950, Stalin finally issued a general approval for Kim Il-Sung to launch the attack on the South.<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/dean-achesons-fateful-speech-and-the-outbreak-of-the-korean-war-on-june-25-1950/</ref>}}

Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> During his address to the UN General Assembly, Truman said, “The men who laid down their lives for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our memory, and in the memory of the world, forever. They died in order that the United Nations might live.” <ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207324.htm</ref>

===Vietnam War===
After stealing the 1960 election, [[John F. Kennedy]] authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed attempt to overthrow Cuban dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. Following this incident, he later told reporter James Reston, "We have trouble making our power look credible and Vietnam looks like the place to do it.” While it's debatable whether he had a change of heart on that matter between then and his assassination, what cannot be disputed is that his successor [[Lyndon Johnson]], a total Deep State puppet, remained committed to war. Once the false-flag [[Gulf of Tonkin]] incident occurred, the mainstream media led by [[CBS]] reporter [[Walter Cronkite]] beat the drums for entering the war, only to switch sides later on when it was too late. They would later play these same games during Iraq War II.

=== Gulf War ===

On July 25, 1990, the [[Deep State]] U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, declared during discussions with Iraqi officials and amid a massive troop buildup by it on the [[Kuwait]] border that the U.S. is "inspired by the friendship and not by confrontation, does not have an opinion" on the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. "We [the U.S.] have no opinion on the Arab–Arab conflicts," she reportedly declared to [[Saddam Hussein]]. She reportedly also told him that the U.S. did not intend "to start an economic war against Iraq." Saddam Hussein apparently construed these comments as a green light for him to invade Kuwait, which he did soon thereafter. [[George H.W. Bush]] subsequently pursued war on false pretenses, accusing Saddam of undermining the global order when his true motivations was protecting the petrodollar in preparation for his envisioned "New World Order."

With the above in mind, one cannot help but wonder whether Glaspie's baiting of Saddam was not accidental, but rather an intentional act done as a favor to [[Saudi Arabia]], the benefactor of the petrodollar and by extension the "New World Order."

===Bosnian War===
During his first term as president, [[Bill Clinton]] deceived the public into believing that [[Serbia]] was committing genocide in [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41373/</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315650006_The_impact_of_Islam_on_the_Bosnian_problem_The_myth_of_harmonious_multiethnicity_revisited</ref><ref>https://mightynose.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-explains-former-deputy-chief-of-mission-of-un-military-observers-in-bosnia-and-croatia/</ref>

===Kosovo War===
During his second term, [[Bill Clinton]] launched the [[Kosovo War]] after he falsely accused Serbia of genocide,<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/01/clinton-wag-dog-no-kosovo-genocide.html</ref><ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/18/balkans3</ref> as the Clinton State Department claimed that 100,000 Kosovo Albanians were killed or missing, when the causalities was actually 11,000,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/world/early-count-hints-at-fewer-kosovo-deaths.html</ref> and later 3,000.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> Previously, the Clinton State Department once admitted that the Kosovo Liberation Army is a terrorist organization.<ref>https://apjjf.org/site/make_pdf/3578</ref><ref>https://www.newenglishreview.org/Ares_Demertzis/How_To_Dismember_A_Country/</ref>

===Afghan War===
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both deliberately ignored the many warnings from various foreign intelligence agencies about the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the former missed multiple opportunities to take bin Laden out before he could strike. Once 9/11 had occurred, Bush then falsely labeled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as being the government which bore ultimate responsibility (the actual guilty party was Saudi Arabia, who Bush continued to prop up as an ally).

===Iraq War===
Like the first Iraq War, the second one was started on false pretenses in order to prevent Saddam Hussein (who was then trying to sell oil for Euros as opposed to dollars) from undermining the petrodollar.

Three years after the start of the war, Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] announced Colonel Ralph Peters New Middle East Project, a continuation of the [[World War I]] Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which he admits to the title "Blood Borders".<ref>http://armedforcesjournal.com/blood-borders/</ref><ref>http://www.defenddemocracy.press/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/</ref><ref>https://brilliantmaps.com/new-middle-east/</ref><ref>http://www.behindthenews.co.za/2018/04/11/the-greater-middle-east-project/</ref>

===Libya War===
As [[WikiLeaks]] showed in the Clinton emails, [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was overthrown to prevent the adoption of gold back currency. <ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=%E2%80%9CThis+gold+was+accumulated+prior+to+the+current+rebellion+and+was+intended+to+be+used+to+establish+a+pan-African+currency+based+on+the+Libyan+golden+Dinar.+This+plan+was+designed+to+provide+the+Francophone+African+Countries+with+an+alternative+to+the+French+franc+%28CFA%29.&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0</ref>

===Syrian War===
The Syrian War was the consequence of a failed attempt by the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] regime to overthrow Syrian leader [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Like Saddam and Gaddafi before him, Assad posed a threat to the petrodollar by supporting oil and gas pipelines that undermined Saudi dominance of the regional energy market.

==US proxy wars==
===Donbas war===
{{See also|Donbas war}}

===NATO war in Ukraine===
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
Along with the [[United States Department of State]] and [[George Soros]], many NGOs funded the 2013-2014 [[Maidan coup]] in which neo-Nazis took over [[Ukraine]]. After engaging in human trafficking and genocidal extermination in [[Donbass]] for eight years, [[Russia]] entered the war to purge the deep state neo-Nazis in which it also destroyed a lot of bio warfare labs. For the deep state, this delayed their plans to start future pandemics.

===2023-24 Islamuc Republic of Iran continuous war on Israel===
The origins of the Iran-Israel conflict, which began with the [[October 7 War|October 7, 2023 attacks]] on [[Israel|Israeli]] territory by the [[Iran|Iranian]] proxy [[Hamas]], (followed by its [[Hezbollah]], though on a larger scale, the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution saw Israel as an extension of the US and it interrupts its dominance in the Middle East), yet, some might argue that the signing of the [[Abraham Accords]], which were intended to be the framework for a future [[Arab]]-Israeli military alliance, as well as against Iran. Someone suggested the Iranian didn't like this alliance, as the American so called [[Deep State]] had long wished destruction upon Iran for its resistance to their agenda in Eurasia, just as they wish destruction upon [[China]] and [[Russia]] on similar grounds. Accordingly Iran plotted a [[First strike|first strike]] in hopes of killing the alliance before it came into being. It might possibly be argued that it was done, asides from religious fanaticism (just as they targeted Jews outside of Israel, including in the 1990s attacks in Latin America and in Bulgaria a few yeats back) for [[pragmatic]] reasons as well, especially as there were rumors of Saudis getting closer with Israel, which indeed, it stopped it.

{{Deep State}}
[[Category:Politics]]
[[Category:Corruption]]
[[Category:Threats]]
[[Category:Mass Murderers|*]]

==References==

Philip Giraldi

2025-08-07T02:11:43Z

MattF:

'''Philip Giraldi''' is a recognized authority on international security and counterterrorism issues. Giraldi was awarded PhD from the University of London in European History. He is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest. Giraldi is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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[[Category:International Relations]]

Douglas Macgregor

2025-08-07T02:08:41Z

MattF:

[[File:Doug MacGregor.png|right|225px|thumb|U.S. Col. Doug Macgregor.<ref>https://omny.fm/shows/the-charlie-kirk-show/the-nord-stream-truth-you-won-t-hear-on-msm-with-c</ref>]]
United States Col. '''Douglas Macgregor''', PhD is a former [[Trump administration]] advisor, [[conservative]] media commentator, consultant, and author.<ref>[https://www.douglasmacgregor.com/ Douglas MacGregor website]</ref> He was commissioned in the Regular Army in 1976 after 1 year at Virginia Military Institute and 4 years at [[West Point]]. [[President Donald Trump]] appointed Macgregor to serve as Senior Advisor to the [[Secretary of Defense]], a post he held until 2021. He is the former Chief of Strategic Planning and Director of the Joint Operations Center at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia. Macgregor is an outspoken critic of [[globalist]] and [[neocon]] [[warmonger]]ing and [[Russophobia]]. He is fluent in [[German]].<ref>https://www.state.gov/Macgregor-Douglas-A-Federal-Republic-of-Germany-july-2020/</ref> Macgregor is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

== CEO of Our Country Our Choice media company ==

''See also:'' [[Our Country Our Choice LLC]]

[[Our Country Our Choice LLC]] (OCOC) is a newly established [[conservative]] media company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The American conservative Douglas Macgregor is the CEO of the media company.<ref>[https://rumble.com/v3wtyzm-our-contry-our-choice-douglas-macgregor.html Our Contry Our Choice - Douglas Macgregor]</ref>
== Colonel Douglas MacGregor's influence on the Israel Defense Force ==

In 2019, Aviv Kochavi, Chief of the [[Israel]]i Defense Force (IDF) General Staff made Colonel Douglas MacGregor's 2003 book, ''Transformation under Fire'', required reading for all high-ranking officers. In 2020, Macgregor traveled to Israel to meet with the IDF General Staff and many of its senior officers to discuss General Kohavi's ongoing initiative to transform the IDF for future warfighting missions in the 21st century.<ref>Ran Kochev [@idfspokesperson] (February 17, 2020). "[https://twitter.com/idfspokesperson/status/1229371307105624065 הבוקר אירח פורום המטה הכללי את אל״ם בדימוס, דאגלאס מקגרגור לשיח אודות ספרו ״השתנות תחת אש״, שנבחר ע״י הרמטכ״ל לספר קריאה חובה לשנת 2019.‏מקגרגור, ממנתחי האסטרטגיה וההוגים הצבאיים של התקופה, תודה לך על שי מרתק!]" (Tweet). Retrieved December 11, 2022 – via Twitter.</ref>
 
[[File:Colonel Douglas MacGregor.jpg|thumbnail|center|350px|Colonel Douglas Macgregor's meeting with [[Israel Defense Force]] Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi.]]
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==References==
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== External links ==

*[https://www.douglasmacgregor.com/ Douglas Macgregor website]
*[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/col-macgregor-dear-president-trump-keep-america-first-not-israel-first-not-ukraine Col. MacGregor: Dear President Trump, Keep America First - Not Israel first, Not Ukraine First], Jun 15, 2025

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Larry Johnson

2025-08-07T02:07:52Z

MattF:

[[File:Larry Johnson, Dugin and Zakharova.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Larry Johnson speaking at the 2024 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Behind him [[Alexander Dugin]] and [[Maria Zakharova]].]]
'''Larry C. Johnson''' is a veteran of the [[CIA]] and the [[U.S. State Department]]’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Johnson provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. Johnson is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Johnson has been included on the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) [[Myrotvorets|kill list]].

Johnson summarized [[the West]]'s relationship with [[Russia]] as such:
{{quotebox-float|[[Western alliance|Western leaders]] locked themselves into a narrative. And the narrative is basically, "Here's poor [[Ukraine]], just minding its own business when this [[rape|rapist]] thug that's [[Russia]] came along and decided to invade it. And they invaded in 2014. And the heroic Ukrainian people have been fighting back. And that's who we're fighting with" - that has no relationship to [[reality]], at all. That is just complete manufactured [[crap]].

It is [[the West]] that has been constantly meddling in [[Russia]]'s internal affairs. It's been the West that has put together an organized [[intelligence agency|intelligence effort]] to try to [[subvert]] and destroy Russia. But the way we sell that in the [[United States]] is we flip it, and maintain that that's exactly what Russia's doing to us. "Russia's trying to destroy us". [[Truth]] be told, if we had our hands in our pockets and were minding our own business, we wouldn't have a problem with Russia. But that's not the case.

The [[United States]], not [[Russia]], has launched [[war]], after war, after war, in the aftermath of the [[Second World War]], which was supposed to put an end to this kind of madness. And whenever Russia gets punched in the face, and then decides to defend itself, then [[the West]] hollers, "Ah, see, it's an aggressor." I'm tired of it, frankly.<ref>https://youtu.be/pDD7xwLS25Q?t=1426</ref>}}

==External link==
*[https://sonar21.com/ Son of the New American Revolution]

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[[Category:Bloggers]]

Larry Johnson

2025-08-07T02:07:23Z

MattF:

[[File:Larry Johnson, Dugin and Zakharova.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Larry Johnson speaking at the 2024 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Behind him [[Alexander Dugin]] and [[Maria Zakharova]].]]
'''Larry C. Johnson''' is a veteran of the [[CIA]] and the [[U.S. State Department]]’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Johnson provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years.

Johnson has been included on the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) [[Myrotvorets|kill list]].

Johnson summarized [[the West]]'s relationship with [[Russia]] as such:
{{quotebox-float|[[Western alliance|Western leaders]] locked themselves into a narrative. And the narrative is basically, "Here's poor [[Ukraine]], just minding its own business when this [[rape|rapist]] thug that's [[Russia]] came along and decided to invade it. And they invaded in 2014. And the heroic Ukrainian people have been fighting back. And that's who we're fighting with" - that has no relationship to [[reality]], at all. That is just complete manufactured [[crap]]. Johnson is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

It is [[the West]] that has been constantly meddling in [[Russia]]'s internal affairs. It's been the West that has put together an organized [[intelligence agency|intelligence effort]] to try to [[subvert]] and destroy Russia. But the way we sell that in the [[United States]] is we flip it, and maintain that that's exactly what Russia's doing to us. "Russia's trying to destroy us". [[Truth]] be told, if we had our hands in our pockets and were minding our own business, we wouldn't have a problem with Russia. But that's not the case.

The [[United States]], not [[Russia]], has launched [[war]], after war, after war, in the aftermath of the [[Second World War]], which was supposed to put an end to this kind of madness. And whenever Russia gets punched in the face, and then decides to defend itself, then [[the West]] hollers, "Ah, see, it's an aggressor." I'm tired of it, frankly.<ref>https://youtu.be/pDD7xwLS25Q?t=1426</ref>}}

==External link==
*[https://sonar21.com/ Son of the New American Revolution]

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King James Only

2025-07-03T01:40:40Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]]
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their hateful views and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

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Worst College Majors

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The '''worst college majors''' are fields of study that leave the student with relatively few job opportunities and often a distorted or ultra-[[liberal]] view of the world. Students incur an average debt in excess of $25,000 for attending college, and these college majors can leave such students without the ability to pay off their loans, which are typically not dischargeable in bankruptcy. [[Conservative]] Congressman [[Madison Cawthorn]] (R-NC) advised college students who are not seeking to be engineers, physicians, or lawyers, to drop out of college because, in his words, college is a "scam".<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/madison-cawthorn-urges-fellow-conservatives-leave-college-i-am-proudly-dropout-1661932</ref> By 2022, major employers including [[IBM]], [[Google]], [[Delta]], and the State of [[Maryland]] had dropped college degrees as a requirement for many of their jobs.

Courses on [[witchcraft]] are commonly offered as part of women’s studies at many public universities, even in [[conservative]] states.

Adding insult to injury, many public colleges have begun charging students more if they decline one of the Worst College Majors, and study something of value instead.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-24/differential-tuition-increase-major/54513940/1</ref> Incidentally, a study by ''USA Today'' and the non-profit Education Sector showed that 514 colleges are more likely to produce defaults in student loans than graduates.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/03/514-Colleges-Have-Higher-Default-Rates-Than-Graduation-Rates</ref>

College matters less and less to employers, and some of the staff on [[Capitol Hill]] opted against completing college. The number of degree-less hires trended up at [[Google]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1& In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal, NYTimes, June 19, 2013]</ref> The President of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “Many liberal-arts graduates, even from the best schools, aren’t getting jobs in part because they didn’t learn much in school.”<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2013/02/10/sorry-left-and-right-no-job-requires-a-college-degree/ Sorry Left AND Right, No Job Requires A College Degree, Forbes.com, February 10, 2013]</ref> The most valuable degrees are certain fields in [[STEM]] subjects.
== Decline of students picking the worst college majors ==
In 2022, amidst a decline in students attending college, liberal-leaning Vox.com reports concerning college students moving away from the worst college majors:
{{Cquote|..students have moved away from the traditional [[humanities]] toward degrees in business, health care, and IT.

The enrollment crisis will shift this trend into overdrive. [Shippensburg University] is responding to all the distribution centers out on I-81 by developing programs in logistics and supply chain management. It’s looking to create more short-term, job-focused certificates that lead up to a bachelor’s degree, and others that supplement BA’s after graduation. Other nearby colleges are expanding nursing programs, developing professional master’s degrees, and creating new courses for adults looking to change careers.

Colleges won’t just be going along with the strengthening alignment of the higher education experience with the labor market. They will be actively promoting it, jettisoning “unprofitable” majors that used to be sheltered inside universities with more than enough students. The next generation of higher education leaders will take scarcity as a given and “return on investment” as both a sales pitch and state of mind.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash The incredible shrinking future of college], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}}

==Undergraduate majors==
# American Indian/Native/Indigenous studies
# Animal Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Anthropology/Archeology<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Art History<ref name=kiplinger>[http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/college/T012-S001-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/index.html] Kiplinger, May 2015</ref><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Black studies
# Business Administration/Management<ref name=yahoo2>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-worst-majors-for-finding-a-good-job-211340394.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2013</ref>
# Child and Family Studies<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Climatology
# Comedic Arts <ref>[http://www.hngn.com/articles/102255/20150619/emerson-college-boston-offer-comedy-major-2016.htm Emerson College in Boston to Offer Comedy Major in 2016]</ref>
# Commercial Art/Graphic Design<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Communications<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Comparative Religion
# Creative Writing
# Criminal Justice<ref name="yahoo2" />
# Culinary Arts<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Dance<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Drama/Theater<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Economics (without a numerate bias)<ref name="yahoo2" />
# English [[Literature]]/Literary Criticism<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Environmental Studies
# Exercise Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Fashion Design
# Film/Video<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name=georgetown>[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth?] Georgetown University, July 2011</ref>
# Fine Arts<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>http://www.artcareer.net/faqs/job-market-outlook-for-artists-and-designers/</ref>
# Forestry/Range Management/Wildlife Management
# Gaming Management<ref name="cat">[http://www.umac.mo/iscg/courses/gmdiphome.html 10 Worst College Majors for Employment]</ref>
# Gender Studies<ref>https://www.ncf.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies/</ref>
# Golf Management – University of Birmingham / Florida Gulf Coast University
# Graphic design<ref> https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/t012-s001-worst-college-majors-for-a-lucrative-career-2019/index.html?amp</ref>
# Hispanic studies
# History<ref name="yahoo1" />
# History of Music
# Horticulture<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Human Resources
# Interior Design
# Islamic Studies<ref>http://colleges.collegetoolkit.com/colleges/browse/majors/byid/islamic_studies/38.0205.aspx</ref>
# Journalism<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/slideshow/personal-finance/2010/06/28/worst-fields-graduates/#slide=4</ref>
# Latin<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Leisure Studies<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Liberal Arts<ref name=yahoo1>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-worst-college-majors-143200704.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2014</ref>
# [[Homosexuality|LGBT]] studies<ref>http://www.yale.edu/lgbts/</ref><ref>http://www.lgbts.umd.edu/</ref>
# Music<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Music/Art Therapy<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Outdoor Adventure Leadership - Laurentian University
# Paralegal studies/prelaw
# Philosophy<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php]</ref>
# Photography<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Psychology<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Physical Fitness/Education<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Puppetry
# [[Atheism|Secularism]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/us/08secular.html Pitzer College in California Adds Major in Secularism]</ref><ref>In their book ''Encyclopedia of Social Deviance'', which was published in 2014, authors Craig J. Forsyth and ‎Heith Copes wrote: "Atheism as a subject of social science has also generally been ignored in comparison with the scholarly work on religion" (see page 41 of their book). Social Scientists are often generally reluctant to study atheists and it is considered not a great thing to have on your resume for future employment as far as graduate students (see: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk Why is Psychology Silent When it Comes to Atheism? - Dr. Melanie Brewster - Skepticon 7], Published on Nov 27, 2014). According to the atheist Dr. Melanie Brewster, "Good peer-reviewed psychology journals are kind of hesitant to take studies on atheism."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk] Hunsberger was the first social scientist to do a fairly intensive look at atheists and a book on his study was published in 2006.[https://www.amazon.com/Atheists-Groundbreaking-Study-Americas-Nonbelievers/dp/1591024137] One of the great ironies of this state of affairs is that the very well-known psychiatrist [[Sigmund Freud]] was an atheist (much of his work is now considered [[pseudoscience]]).[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/defender-of-a-damaging-pseudo-science/157101.article] (See also: [[Sigmund Freud's view of religion]]).</ref><ref>[[Global atheism|Global atheism/agnosticism is declining]] and the trend of [[desecularization]] is expected to continue in the 21st century. Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth] In the [[Western World]] and the world as a whole [[internet atheism|interest in internet atheism is declining]].</ref> ''(See also: [[Views on atheists]])''
# Sequential Art<ref>http://www.scad.edu/sequential-art/index.cfm</ref>
# Social Work<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Sociology
# Urban Planning
# Video Game Design
# [[Feminism|Women's studies]]<ref name=collegecrunch>[http://www.collegecrunch.org/advice/the-10-most-expensive-but-useless-degrees-in-americ/] College Crunch, December 2008</ref>
#Justice and Peace Studies

==Graduate programs==
#Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology<ref name=bankrate>[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx 5 Graduate Degrees That Don't Pay Off] Bankrate.com</ref>
#Computer Engineering<ref name="bankrate" />
#Fine Arts<ref name="bankrate" />
#Law (from a low-ranked, especially tier 4 law school)<ref name="bankrate" />(Note: Tier 1 = US News ranking 1-50, Tier 2 = US News Ranking 50-100, Tier 3 = US News Ranking 100-150, Tier 4 = US News Ranking 150-200)<ref name=Law School Advice>[http://lawschooladvice.com/law-school-tiers/]Lawschooladvice.com</ref>
#PR, Advertising & Mass-Media<ref name="bankrate" />

== Various vocations and income/wealth ==

''See also:'' [[Vocation]]

The Cambridge Dictionary defines vocation as "a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you...".<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vocation Vocation]</ref>

=== Highest paying vocations/occupations ===

*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-occupation-produces-lot-millionaires-mukesh-kumar What occupation produces a lot of millionaires?]
*[https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/top-100-highest-paying-jobs 100 High-Paying Careers To Consider (With Average Salaries) ], Indeed, 2023
*[https://www.creditkarma.com/income/i/highest-paying-trade-jobs 24 of the highest-paying trade jobs in 2023], Credit Karma, 2023

==Courses==
# "Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections" - [[University of Maryland]] (oversubscribed with a long waiting list)<ref>https://app.testudo.umd.edu/soc/202501/WGSS/WGSS315</ref>
# 100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses - New York University<ref>100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses</ref>
# All the Single Ladies - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# American Indian Environmental Studies - Laurentian University
# American Witches - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Angry White Men<ref>https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12058</ref>
# Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft - Los Angeles City College<ref>https://www.lacitycollege.edu/Academics/Classes/documents/Fall/Fall-2018-Class-Schedule</ref>
# Arguing with Judge Judy - UC Berkeley
# Beer and Spirits - Boston University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Beyoncé Nation - Cornell University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Brain Like Berkeley: An Insight into the Artistry of Frank Ocean - UC Berkeley<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World - University of Washington-Seattle<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Physiology and Medicine
# Communicating Bullshit - University of Southern Maine<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Contemporary American Culture: The Fifty Shades Trilogy - American University<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/12/29/American-Univeristy-to-Offer-Course-on-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey UNIVERSITY TO OFFER COURSE STUDYING 'FIFTY SHADES OF GREY' TRILOGY, Breitbart, December 29, 2012]</ref>
# Cyber Feminism - Cornell University
# Dracula - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://slavic.as.virginia.edu/course-descriptions-2</reF>
# Ecology of Renewable Natural Resources - Texas Tech University<ref>[http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/courses/NRM.php Texas Tech University Course Listing]</ref>
# Emotional Literacy<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076368/Schools-councils-waste-300-000-useless-emotional-literacy-course-faraway-island-sun.html</ref>
# [[Evolution]]
# Feminist New Black Man - Occidental College<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvlL_lDk4ko Jason Mattera At CPAC, YouTube]</ref>
# Field Equipment Operation (tractor driving) - UC Davis
# Football Culture
# From DNA to ''Homo sapiens'' - MCLA
# Game of Thrones: Re-Imagining Medieval History as an Allegory of the Present -Dartmouth<ref>https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/02/class-ice-and-fire</ref>
# Gaga for Lady Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/lady-gaga-college-class_n_712540.html</ref>
# Getting dressed - Princeton University<ref>http://www.universitynavigator.com/university-blog/most-ridiculous-courses-you-can-opt-for.html</ref>
# Happiness - Xavier University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Harry Potter Studies - University of Central Florida<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture - UC San Diego
# History of Surfing - UC Santa Barbara
# History of Weaving - UC Berkeley
# Ice Cream 101: Introduction to Frozen Desserts - Penn State–State College, Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Intro to Cannabis - University of Cincinnati<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Introduction to Social Networking
# Labor Studies - UM Saint Louis & UM Kansas City<ref>[http://www.thehotjoints.com/2011/04/25/video-college-course-teaches-violent-union-tactics/ Video: College Course Teaches Violent Union Tactics, The Hot Joints, April 25, 2011]</ref>
# Marijuana Law and Policy - Vanderbilt University Law School <ref>https://law.vanderbilt.edu/courses/341</ref>
# Media Genres (studies zombies) - University of Baltimore<ref>[http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/university-of-baltimore-pop-culture-class-focuses-on-zombies/19625044?test=latestnews College Course Preps Pupils for Zombie Apocalypse, AOL News, September 9, 2010]</ref>
# Medicinal Plant Chemistry - Northern Michigan University<ref>https://www.nmu.edu/chemistry/why-medicinal-plant-chemistry</ref>
# Monsters - University of Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/undergraduate/2018/fall/engl102.402</ref>
# Native American Feminism - University of Michigan
# Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement - Columbia University<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/02/occupy-101/ Columbia University to Offer ‘Occupy 101′ Course, January 2, 2012]</ref>
# Nonhuman Subjects: Monsters, Aliens, Ghosts, and Others - The University of Arizona<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Philosophy and Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington<ref>[http://courses.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&CourseID=PHIL-180 Georgetown University Course Listing]</ref>
# Physiology of Cannabis, Spring - UC Davis <ref>https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/yu-fung-lin</ref>
# Pilot Brewery (brewmaster) - UC Davis
# Politicizing Beyoncé - Rutgers University class from the Department of Women's and Gender Studies<ref>[http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/higher-education-rutgers-university-offers-class-on-beyonce/ Higher Education: Rutgers University Offers Class on Beyonce, Jammie Wearing Fools, Jan 31, 2014]</ref>
# Queer Musicology – UCLA
# Quidditch - Oberlin College
# Revolutionary Marxism - Portland State University<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/portland-state-university-offering-revolutionary-marxism-course-and-wait-until-you-see-the-syllabus/</ref>
# Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing, and Wakeboarding - UCSD<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - UC Berkeley
# Seeing with a Native Eye - Laurentian University
# Self-Esteem - Cal State Fresno
#Skateboard Culture and Popular Culture - University of Oregon<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Spongebobology - Oberlin College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/2018/FA/idsem-ug1972_001.html</ref>
# The Colbert Report: American Satire Writing Seminar - Boston University<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cody-brotter/bu-offers-stephen-colbert_b_810122.html Class Credit for Colbert College Course, Huffington Post, January 18, 2011]</ref>
# The Science of Harry Potter – Frostburg University<ref>CBS News: ''Harry Potter Goes To College: Professor Uses Boy Wizard To Explores Links Between Magic, Science'', by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, Sept. 26, 2003 [https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/19/national/main584456.shtml] ''...Frostburg State President Catherine R. Gira said she isn't worried that some may view a Harry Potter class as trivial. "Irrespective of the specific title of the course, the 'magic' in the fiction is being analyzed by applying concepts of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. This honors course creatively packages scientific principles in a contemporary way that will interest today's students," Gira said.''</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Marine Science of SpongeBob SquarePants - University of Georgia<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Mythology of Harry Potter - UCLA
# The Real Game of Thrones—Culture, Society, and Religion in the Middle Ages - Harvard University<ref>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/19/the-real-game-of-thrones/</ref><ref>https://time.com/4798917/harvard-game-of-thrones-class/</ref>
# The Science of Superheroes - UC Irvine<ref>[http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/14/the-top-8-california-schools-that-are-like-totally-wasting-your-money/ The Top 8 California Schools that Are, Like, Totally Wasting Your Money, NewsRealBlog, November 14, 2010]</ref>
# The Simpsons and the American Family - Hampshire College
# The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Odyssey of Jay-Z – Georgetown University<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz1fPkYhzqX Jay-Z's street rhymes a Georgetown college course]</ref>
# The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media - Skidmore College<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2014/03/27/your-kids-new-college-course-the-sociology-of-miley-cyrus/#ixzz2xE9fPqF4 Your kid’s new college course: ‘The Sociology of Miley Cyrus’ DailyCaller.com, March 27, 2014]</ref>
# U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness - Arizona State University<ref>[http://campusreform.org/?ID=6225 White professor teaches 'problem of whiteness' course at Arizona State]</ref>
# Understanding Obama - Harvard Law School<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/harvard-law-offering-understanding-obama-course-taught-by-obama-mentor/</ref>
# Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance - New York University<ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/09/n-y-u-to-offer-classes-on-occupy-wall-street/ N.Y.U. To Offer Classes On Occupy Wall Street], [[Weasel Zippers]], December 9, 2011.</ref>
# Wine and Beer in Western Culture - Ohio State University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Witch Hunt! - Amherst College<ref>https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1819F/ENGL/ENGL-370-1819F</ref>
# History of Evolutionary Thought - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<ref>https://www.coursicle.com/utc/courses/BIOL/4550/</ref>

==Anti-racism==
Multiple colleges and universities have workshops on white privilege. In response to the demands of black students in the 1970s, many universities established academic programs in "black studies" or "Africana Studies." These programs were structured as conventional departments that offered majors, master's degrees and even doctorates in the field. Specialized journals reported on their scholarship and research. However, as a part of the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, black students are demanding new programs in "anti-black racism", mandatory training in "anti-racism" during new student orientation and even for-credit mandatory classes in [[anti-racism]]. This raises the logical question of whether these demands are an implicit rejection of the prior black studies programs as ineffective or illegitimate. For example, will the student's demands be satisfied if the new graduation requirement was to take one of a number of classes offered by an area studies or Africana Studies program? What is the value of an Africana Studies major's degree awarded over the past fifty years now that the current academic fashion has embraced anti-racism? It is unclear how anti-racism studies differ from black studies or African studies.
* During the summer of 2020, Martha Pollack, President of [[Cornell University]] recommended that all students, faculty and staff engage in a "community book read" of ''How to Be an Antiracist'' by [[Ibram X. Kendi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statements.cornell.edu/2020/20200603-support-strengthen-community.cfm|title=Immediate actions to support and strengthen our community|date=June 3, 2020|accessdate=2020-08-21}}</ref>
* The [[University of Pittsburgh]] requires a one-credit-hour course, "Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210)" to indoctrinate all students in [[anti-racism]]. Students are automatically enrolled in the class and cannot drop it for any reason.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.provost.pitt.edu/anti-black-racism-history-ideology-and-resistance-final-course-syllabus|title=Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210) — Final Course Syllabus|accessdate=2020-08-25}}</ref>

==Workshops==
#Multiple schools have a Condom Olympics, where students to be involved in a condom-wrapped egg toss, condom water balloon toss, condom art, and a condom scavenger hunt.<ref>https://uwm.edu/welcome/event/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=5437</ref><ref>http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/115262-meanwhile-university-arizona-plans-condom-olympics/ Meanwhile, University Of Arizona Plans ‘Condom Olympics’, IJReview.com, February 15, 2014]</ref><ref>https://csceagle.com/2010/11/10/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-uvas-condom-olympics-lacked-reliable-educational-component/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/schoolchildren-exposed-to-giant-penis-sex-games-at-uc-berkeley/</ref><ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/condom-update.php</ref><ref>https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/st-olaf-college-and-the-condom-olympics</ref><ref>https://apps.carleton.edu/student/orgs/sarc/photos/sexsaturdayphotos/?image_id=1019516</ref><ref>https://www.upressonline.com/2014/02/not-with-a-bang-but-with-a-blow-fau-condom-olympics-closing-ceremony/</ref>
#Arizona State University hosts a masturbation workshop titled "Go F--- Yourself".<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/01/31/arizona-state-hosts-masturbation-workshop-titled-go-fck-yourself/</ref>
#Hamilton College in New York and University of Minnesota host Orgasm workshop for female undergrad students.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5104 College to host orgasm workshop for female undergrads, CampusReform.com, September 25, 2013]</ref>
#Michigan State University has a "Make your own Dildo Student Event" where students learn to create sex toys.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-state-cancels-make-your-own-dildo-student-event</ref>
#Harvard University hosts a workshop called 'What What in the Butt: Anal 101', to teach that the butthole is the greatest "equalizer"<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/08/harvard-hosts-anal-sex-workshop-entitled-what-what-in-the-butt/</ref>
#Marquette University, Brown University and Columbia University to host Femsex workshop. Topics include orgasms, masturbation, sex, kink and explicit coloring books.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5050 Catholic college to host controversial 'Femsex' workshop with 'C--t Coloring' and 'pleasure point' CampusReform.com, September 10, 2013]</ref>
#New York University sponsors Strap-On Play, Sex Toys 101, and Oral Sex Tips, part of the bigger event called “Babeland: Queer Student Night with NYU LGBTQ Student Center.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5019 NYU offers ‘Strap-On Play,’ ‘Sex Toys 101’ workshops for LGBTQ students, CampusReform.com, August 27, 2013]</ref>
#Multiple schools have all sorts of sex week events,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2013/03/ivy-league-offers-prostate-pleasuring-lessons/</ref> as Brown University includes "The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure." to teach male students how to attain ‘prostate pleasure’,<ref>http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4668</ref> the University of Tennessee sponsors a six-day event called 'Sex Week'. <ref>[http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/university-of-tennessee-uses-student-fees-to-host-lesbian-bondage-expert.html University of Tennessee Uses Student Fees to Host Lesbian Bondage Expert]</ref> and worst of all, Yale hosts a workshop on the acceptance of bestiality, incest and prostitution.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4646 Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality, CampusReform.org march 5, 2013]</ref>

== References ==
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== See also ==
*[[Academia and intellectual development]]
*[[Atheism and academia]]
*[[Atheist indoctrination]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx?ec_id=m1117367#slide=1 5 graduate degrees that don't pay off]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Unemployment.Final.update1.pdf Unemployment rates and earnings for college majors - Georgetown University report - 2012]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors] - Comprehensive report at [[Georgetown University]] website
*[http://learnfinancialplanning.com/best-worst-college-majors-degree/ Best and Worst College Majors]
*[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php Top 10 Useless College Degrees & Classes]
*[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/10-college-majors-lowest-unemployment-rates-163049193.html College majors with lowest unemployment]
*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/11/the-10-worst-college-majors/#332061d953c9 The 10 Worst College Majors]
*[https://prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3034 50 College Courses That Show America's Students Indoctrinated Into Socialism]

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Worst College Majors

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The '''worst college majors''' are fields of study that leave the student with relatively few job opportunities and often a distorted or ultra-[[liberal]] view of the world. Students incur an average debt in excess of $25,000 for attending college, and these college majors can leave such students without the ability to pay off their loans, which are typically not dischargeable in bankruptcy. [[Conservative]] Congressman [[Madison Cawthorn]] (R-NC) advised college students who are not seeking to be engineers, physicians, or lawyers, to drop out of college because, in his words, college is a "scam".<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/madison-cawthorn-urges-fellow-conservatives-leave-college-i-am-proudly-dropout-1661932</ref> By 2022, major employers including [[IBM]], [[Google]], [[Delta]], and the State of [[Maryland]] had dropped college degrees as a requirement for many of their jobs.

Courses on [[witchcraft]] are commonly offered as part of women’s studies at many public universities, even in [[conservative]] states.

Adding insult to injury, many public colleges have begun charging students more if they decline one of the Worst College Majors, and study something of value instead.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-24/differential-tuition-increase-major/54513940/1</ref> Incidentally, a study by ''USA Today'' and the non-profit Education Sector showed that 514 colleges are more likely to produce defaults in student loans than graduates.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/03/514-Colleges-Have-Higher-Default-Rates-Than-Graduation-Rates</ref>

College matters less and less to employers, and some of the staff on [[Capitol Hill]] opted against completing college. The number of degree-less hires trended up at [[Google]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1& In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal, NYTimes, June 19, 2013]</ref> The President of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “Many liberal-arts graduates, even from the best schools, aren’t getting jobs in part because they didn’t learn much in school.”<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2013/02/10/sorry-left-and-right-no-job-requires-a-college-degree/ Sorry Left AND Right, No Job Requires A College Degree, Forbes.com, February 10, 2013]</ref> The most valuable degrees are certain fields in [[STEM]] subjects.
== Decline of students picking the worst college majors ==
In 2022, amidst a decline in students attending college, liberal-leaning Vox.com reports concerning college students moving away from the worst college majors:
{{Cquote|..students have moved away from the traditional [[humanities]] toward degrees in business, health care, and IT.

The enrollment crisis will shift this trend into overdrive. [Shippensburg University] is responding to all the distribution centers out on I-81 by developing programs in logistics and supply chain management. It’s looking to create more short-term, job-focused certificates that lead up to a bachelor’s degree, and others that supplement BA’s after graduation. Other nearby colleges are expanding nursing programs, developing professional master’s degrees, and creating new courses for adults looking to change careers.

Colleges won’t just be going along with the strengthening alignment of the higher education experience with the labor market. They will be actively promoting it, jettisoning “unprofitable” majors that used to be sheltered inside universities with more than enough students. The next generation of higher education leaders will take scarcity as a given and “return on investment” as both a sales pitch and state of mind.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash The incredible shrinking future of college], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}}

==Undergraduate majors==
# American Indian/Native/Indigenous studies
# Animal Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Anthropology/Archeology<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Art History<ref name=kiplinger>[http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/college/T012-S001-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/index.html] Kiplinger, May 2015</ref><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Black studies
# Business Administration/Management<ref name=yahoo2>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-worst-majors-for-finding-a-good-job-211340394.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2013</ref>
# Child and Family Studies<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Climatology
# Comedic Arts <ref>[http://www.hngn.com/articles/102255/20150619/emerson-college-boston-offer-comedy-major-2016.htm Emerson College in Boston to Offer Comedy Major in 2016]</ref>
# Commercial Art/Graphic Design<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Communications<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Comparative Religion
# Creative Writing
# Criminal Justice<ref name="yahoo2" />
# Culinary Arts<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Dance<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Drama/Theater<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Economics (without a numerate bias)<ref name="yahoo2" />
# English [[Literature]]/Literary Criticism<ref name="yahoo1" />
# Environmental Studies
# Exercise Science<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Fashion Design
# Film/Video<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name=georgetown>[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth?] Georgetown University, July 2011</ref>
# Fine Arts<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>http://www.artcareer.net/faqs/job-market-outlook-for-artists-and-designers/</ref>
# Forestry/Range Management/Wildlife Management
# Gaming Management<ref name="cat">[http://www.umac.mo/iscg/courses/gmdiphome.html 10 Worst College Majors for Employment]</ref>
# Gender Studies<ref>https://www.ncf.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies/</ref>
# Golf Management – University of Birmingham / Florida Gulf Coast University
# Graphic design<ref> https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/t012-s001-worst-college-majors-for-a-lucrative-career-2019/index.html?amp</ref>
# Hispanic studies
# History<ref name="yahoo1" />
# History of Music
# Horticulture<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Human Resources
# Interior Design
# Islamic Studies<ref>http://colleges.collegetoolkit.com/colleges/browse/majors/byid/islamic_studies/38.0205.aspx</ref>
# Journalism<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/slideshow/personal-finance/2010/06/28/worst-fields-graduates/#slide=4</ref>
# Latin<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Leisure Studies<ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Liberal Arts<ref name=yahoo1>[http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-worst-college-majors-143200704.html] Yahoo Finance, June 2014</ref>
# [[Homosexuality|LGBT]] studies<ref>http://www.yale.edu/lgbts/</ref><ref>http://www.lgbts.umd.edu/</ref>
# Music<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Music/Art Therapy<ref name="collegecrunch" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Outdoor Adventure Leadership - Laurentian University
# Paralegal studies/prelaw
# Philosophy<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref>[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php]</ref>
# Photography<ref name="kiplinger" /><ref name="yahoo1" />
# Psychology<ref name="yahoo2" /><ref name="georgetown" />
# Physical Fitness/Education<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name="collegecrunch" />
# Puppetry
# [[Atheism|Secularism]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/us/08secular.html Pitzer College in California Adds Major in Secularism]</ref><ref>In their book ''Encyclopedia of Social Deviance'', which was published in 2014, authors Craig J. Forsyth and ‎Heith Copes wrote: "Atheism as a subject of social science has also generally been ignored in comparison with the scholarly work on religion" (see page 41 of their book). Social Scientists are often generally reluctant to study atheists and it is considered not a great thing to have on your resume for future employment as far as graduate students (see: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk Why is Psychology Silent When it Comes to Atheism? - Dr. Melanie Brewster - Skepticon 7], Published on Nov 27, 2014). According to the atheist Dr. Melanie Brewster, "Good peer-reviewed psychology journals are kind of hesitant to take studies on atheism."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7Dlwaufyk] Hunsberger was the first social scientist to do a fairly intensive look at atheists and a book on his study was published in 2006.[https://www.amazon.com/Atheists-Groundbreaking-Study-Americas-Nonbelievers/dp/1591024137] One of the great ironies of this state of affairs is that the very well-known psychiatrist [[Sigmund Freud]] was an atheist (much of his work is now considered [[pseudoscience]]).[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/defender-of-a-damaging-pseudo-science/157101.article] (See also: [[Sigmund Freud's view of religion]]).</ref><ref>[[Global atheism|Global atheism/agnosticism is declining]] and the trend of [[desecularization]] is expected to continue in the 21st century. Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth] In the [[Western World]] and the world as a whole [[internet atheism|interest in internet atheism is declining]].</ref> ''(See also: [[Views on atheists]])''
# Sequential Art<ref>http://www.scad.edu/sequential-art/index.cfm</ref>
# Social Work<ref name="kiplinger" />
# Sociology
# Urban Planning
# Video Game Design
# [[Feminism|Women's studies]]<ref name=collegecrunch>[http://www.collegecrunch.org/advice/the-10-most-expensive-but-useless-degrees-in-americ/] College Crunch, December 2008</ref>
#Justice and Peace Studies

==Graduate programs==
#Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology<ref name=bankrate>[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx 5 Graduate Degrees That Don't Pay Off] Bankrate.com</ref>
#Computer Engineering<ref name="bankrate" />
#Fine Arts<ref name="bankrate" />
#Law (from a low-ranked, especially tier 4 law school)<ref name="bankrate" />(Note: Tier 1 = US News ranking 1-50, Tier 2 = US News Ranking 50-100, Tier 3 = US News Ranking 100-150, Tier 4 = US News Ranking 150-200)<ref name=Law School Advice>[http://lawschooladvice.com/law-school-tiers/]Lawschooladvice.com</ref>
#PR, Advertising & Mass-Media<ref name="bankrate" />

== Various vocations and income/wealth ==

''See also:'' [[Vocation]]

The Cambridge Dictionary defines vocation as "a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you...".<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vocation Vocation]</ref>

=== Highest paying vocations/occupations ===

*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-occupation-produces-lot-millionaires-mukesh-kumar What occupation produces a lot of millionaires?]
*[https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/top-100-highest-paying-jobs 100 High-Paying Careers To Consider (With Average Salaries) ], Indeed, 2023
*[https://www.creditkarma.com/income/i/highest-paying-trade-jobs 24 of the highest-paying trade jobs in 2023], Credit Karma, 2023

==Courses==
# "Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections" - [[University of Maryland]] (oversubscribed with a long waiting list)<ref>https://app.testudo.umd.edu/soc/202501/WGSS/WGSS315</ref>
# 100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses - New York University<ref>100 Years of Courting, Dating & Hooking Up on College Campuses</ref>
# All the Single Ladies - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# American Indian Environmental Studies - Laurentian University
# American Witches - Tufts University Experimental College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Angry White Men<ref>https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12058</ref>
# Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft - Los Angeles City College<ref>https://www.lacitycollege.edu/Academics/Classes/documents/Fall/Fall-2018-Class-Schedule</ref>
# Arguing with Judge Judy - UC Berkeley
# Beer and Spirits - Boston University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Beyoncé Nation - Cornell University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Brain Like Berkeley: An Insight into the Artistry of Frank Ocean - UC Berkeley<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World - University of Washington-Seattle<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Cannabis and Cannabinoids in Physiology and Medicine
# Communicating Bullshit - University of Southern Maine<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Contemporary American Culture: The Fifty Shades Trilogy - American University<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/12/29/American-Univeristy-to-Offer-Course-on-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey UNIVERSITY TO OFFER COURSE STUDYING 'FIFTY SHADES OF GREY' TRILOGY, Breitbart, December 29, 2012]</ref>
# Cyber Feminism - Cornell University
# Dracula - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://slavic.as.virginia.edu/course-descriptions-2</reF>
# Ecology of Renewable Natural Resources - Texas Tech University<ref>[http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/courses/NRM.php Texas Tech University Course Listing]</ref>
# Emotional Literacy<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076368/Schools-councils-waste-300-000-useless-emotional-literacy-course-faraway-island-sun.html</ref>
# [[Evolution]]
# Feminist New Black Man - Occidental College<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvlL_lDk4ko Jason Mattera At CPAC, YouTube]</ref>
# Field Equipment Operation (tractor driving) - UC Davis
# Football Culture
# From DNA to ''Homo sapiens'' - MCLA
# Game of Thrones: Re-Imagining Medieval History as an Allegory of the Present -Dartmouth<ref>https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/02/class-ice-and-fire</ref>
# Gaga for Lady Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity - University of Virginia-Charlottesville<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/lady-gaga-college-class_n_712540.html</ref>
# Getting dressed - Princeton University<ref>http://www.universitynavigator.com/university-blog/most-ridiculous-courses-you-can-opt-for.html</ref>
# Happiness - Xavier University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Harry Potter Studies - University of Central Florida<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture - UC San Diego
# History of Surfing - UC Santa Barbara
# History of Weaving - UC Berkeley
# Ice Cream 101: Introduction to Frozen Desserts - Penn State–State College, Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Intro to Cannabis - University of Cincinnati<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Introduction to Social Networking
# Labor Studies - UM Saint Louis & UM Kansas City<ref>[http://www.thehotjoints.com/2011/04/25/video-college-course-teaches-violent-union-tactics/ Video: College Course Teaches Violent Union Tactics, The Hot Joints, April 25, 2011]</ref>
# Marijuana Law and Policy - Vanderbilt University Law School <ref>https://law.vanderbilt.edu/courses/341</ref>
# Media Genres (studies zombies) - University of Baltimore<ref>[http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/university-of-baltimore-pop-culture-class-focuses-on-zombies/19625044?test=latestnews College Course Preps Pupils for Zombie Apocalypse, AOL News, September 9, 2010]</ref>
# Medicinal Plant Chemistry - Northern Michigan University<ref>https://www.nmu.edu/chemistry/why-medicinal-plant-chemistry</ref>
# Monsters - University of Pennsylvania<ref>https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/undergraduate/2018/fall/engl102.402</ref>
# Native American Feminism - University of Michigan
# Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement - Columbia University<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/02/occupy-101/ Columbia University to Offer ‘Occupy 101′ Course, January 2, 2012]</ref>
# Nonhuman Subjects: Monsters, Aliens, Ghosts, and Others - The University of Arizona<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Philosophy and Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington<ref>[http://courses.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&CourseID=PHIL-180 Georgetown University Course Listing]</ref>
# Physiology of Cannabis, Spring - UC Davis <ref>https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/yu-fung-lin</ref>
# Pilot Brewery (brewmaster) - UC Davis
# Politicizing Beyoncé - Rutgers University class from the Department of Women's and Gender Studies<ref>[http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/higher-education-rutgers-university-offers-class-on-beyonce/ Higher Education: Rutgers University Offers Class on Beyonce, Jammie Wearing Fools, Jan 31, 2014]</ref>
# Queer Musicology – UCLA
# Quidditch - Oberlin College
# Revolutionary Marxism - Portland State University<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/portland-state-university-offering-revolutionary-marxism-course-and-wait-until-you-see-the-syllabus/</ref>
# Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing, and Wakeboarding - UCSD<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - UC Berkeley
# Seeing with a Native Eye - Laurentian University
# Self-Esteem - Cal State Fresno
#Skateboard Culture and Popular Culture - University of Oregon<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Spongebobology - Oberlin College<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/2018/FA/idsem-ug1972_001.html</ref>
# The Colbert Report: American Satire Writing Seminar - Boston University<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cody-brotter/bu-offers-stephen-colbert_b_810122.html Class Credit for Colbert College Course, Huffington Post, January 18, 2011]</ref>
# The Science of Harry Potter – Frostburg University<ref>CBS News: ''Harry Potter Goes To College: Professor Uses Boy Wizard To Explores Links Between Magic, Science'', by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, Sept. 26, 2003 [https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/19/national/main584456.shtml] ''...Frostburg State President Catherine R. Gira said she isn't worried that some may view a Harry Potter class as trivial. "Irrespective of the specific title of the course, the 'magic' in the fiction is being analyzed by applying concepts of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. This honors course creatively packages scientific principles in a contemporary way that will interest today's students," Gira said.''</ref>
# The Legacy of Harry Potter - New York University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Marine Science of SpongeBob SquarePants - University of Georgia<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# The Mythology of Harry Potter - UCLA
# The Real Game of Thrones—Culture, Society, and Religion in the Middle Ages - Harvard University<ref>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/19/the-real-game-of-thrones/</ref><ref>https://time.com/4798917/harvard-game-of-thrones-class/</ref>
# The Science of Superheroes - UC Irvine<ref>[http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/14/the-top-8-california-schools-that-are-like-totally-wasting-your-money/ The Top 8 California Schools that Are, Like, Totally Wasting Your Money, NewsRealBlog, November 14, 2010]</ref>
# The Simpsons and the American Family - Hampshire College
# The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Odyssey of Jay-Z – Georgetown University<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz1fPkYhzqX Jay-Z's street rhymes a Georgetown college course]</ref>
# The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media - Skidmore College<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2014/03/27/your-kids-new-college-course-the-sociology-of-miley-cyrus/#ixzz2xE9fPqF4 Your kid’s new college course: ‘The Sociology of Miley Cyrus’ DailyCaller.com, March 27, 2014]</ref>
# U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness - Arizona State University<ref>[http://campusreform.org/?ID=6225 White professor teaches 'problem of whiteness' course at Arizona State]</ref>
# Understanding Obama - Harvard Law School<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/stories/harvard-law-offering-understanding-obama-course-taught-by-obama-mentor/</ref>
# Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance - New York University<ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/09/n-y-u-to-offer-classes-on-occupy-wall-street/ N.Y.U. To Offer Classes On Occupy Wall Street], [[Weasel Zippers]], December 9, 2011.</ref>
# Wine and Beer in Western Culture - Ohio State University<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/college-life/fun-college-classes/amp/</ref>
# Witch Hunt! - Amherst College<ref>https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/1819F/ENGL/ENGL-370-1819F</ref>
# History of Evolutionary Thought - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<ref>https://www.coursicle.com/utc/courses/BIOL/4550/</ref>

==Anti-racism==
Multiple colleges and universities have workshops on white privilege. In response to the demands of black students in the 1970s, many universities established academic programs in "black studies" or "Africana Studies." These programs were structured as conventional departments that offered majors, master's degrees and even doctorates in the field. Specialized journals reported on their scholarship and research. However, as a part of the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, black students are demanding new programs in "anti-black racism", mandatory training in "anti-racism" during new student orientation and even for-credit mandatory classes in [[anti-racism]]. This raises the logical question of whether these demands are an implicit rejection of the prior black studies programs as ineffective or illegitimate. For example, will the student's demands be satisfied if the new graduation requirement was to take one of a number of classes offered by an area studies or Africana Studies program? What is the value of an Africana Studies major's degree awarded over the past fifty years now that the current academic fashion has embraced anti-racism? It is unclear how anti-racism studies differ from black studies or African studies.
* During the summer of 2020, Martha Pollack, President of [[Cornell University]] recommended that all students, faculty and staff engage in a "community book read" of ''How to Be an Antiracist'' by [[Ibram X. Kendi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statements.cornell.edu/2020/20200603-support-strengthen-community.cfm|title=Immediate actions to support and strengthen our community|date=June 3, 2020|accessdate=2020-08-21}}</ref>
* The [[University of Pittsburgh]] requires a one-credit-hour course, "Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210)" to indoctrinate all students in [[anti-racism]]. Students are automatically enrolled in the class and cannot drop it for any reason.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.provost.pitt.edu/anti-black-racism-history-ideology-and-resistance-final-course-syllabus|title=Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance (PITT 0210) — Final Course Syllabus|accessdate=2020-08-25}}</ref>

==Workshops==
#Multiple schools have a Condom Olympics, where students to be involved in a condom-wrapped egg toss, condom water balloon toss, condom art, and a condom scavenger hunt.<ref>https://uwm.edu/welcome/event/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=5437</ref><ref>http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/115262-meanwhile-university-arizona-plans-condom-olympics/ Meanwhile, University Of Arizona Plans ‘Condom Olympics’, IJReview.com, February 15, 2014]</ref><ref>https://csceagle.com/2010/11/10/condom-olympics/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-uvas-condom-olympics-lacked-reliable-educational-component/</ref><ref>https://www.thecollegefix.com/schoolchildren-exposed-to-giant-penis-sex-games-at-uc-berkeley/</ref><ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/condom-update.php</ref><ref>https://www.exposingtheelca.com/exposed-blog/st-olaf-college-and-the-condom-olympics</ref><ref>https://apps.carleton.edu/student/orgs/sarc/photos/sexsaturdayphotos/?image_id=1019516</ref><ref>https://www.upressonline.com/2014/02/not-with-a-bang-but-with-a-blow-fau-condom-olympics-closing-ceremony/</ref>
#Arizona State University hosts a masturbation workshop titled "Go F--- Yourself".<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/01/31/arizona-state-hosts-masturbation-workshop-titled-go-fck-yourself/</ref>
#Hamilton College in New York and University of Minnesota host Orgasm workshop for female undergrad students.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5104 College to host orgasm workshop for female undergrads, CampusReform.com, September 25, 2013]</ref>
#Michigan State University has a "Make your own Dildo Student Event" where students learn to create sex toys.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-state-cancels-make-your-own-dildo-student-event</ref>
#Harvard University hosts a workshop called 'What What in the Butt: Anal 101', to teach that the butthole is the greatest "equalizer"<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/08/harvard-hosts-anal-sex-workshop-entitled-what-what-in-the-butt/</ref>
#Marquette University, Brown University and Columbia University to host Femsex workshop. Topics include orgasms, masturbation, sex, kink and explicit coloring books.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5050 Catholic college to host controversial 'Femsex' workshop with 'C--t Coloring' and 'pleasure point' CampusReform.com, September 10, 2013]</ref>
#New York University sponsors Strap-On Play, Sex Toys 101, and Oral Sex Tips, part of the bigger event called “Babeland: Queer Student Night with NYU LGBTQ Student Center.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5019 NYU offers ‘Strap-On Play,’ ‘Sex Toys 101’ workshops for LGBTQ students, CampusReform.com, August 27, 2013]</ref>
#Multiple schools have all sorts of sex week events,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2013/03/ivy-league-offers-prostate-pleasuring-lessons/</ref> as Brown University includes "The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure." to teach male students how to attain ‘prostate pleasure’,<ref>http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4668</ref> the University of Tennessee sponsors a six-day event called 'Sex Week'. <ref>[http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/university-of-tennessee-uses-student-fees-to-host-lesbian-bondage-expert.html University of Tennessee Uses Student Fees to Host Lesbian Bondage Expert]</ref> and worst of all, Yale hosts a workshop on the acceptance of bestiality, incest and prostitution.<ref>[http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4646 Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality, CampusReform.org march 5, 2013]</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Academia and intellectual development]]
*[[Atheism and academia]]
*[[Atheist indoctrination]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/graduate-degrees-dont-pay-off.aspx?ec_id=m1117367#slide=1 5 graduate degrees that don't pay off]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Unemployment.Final.update1.pdf Unemployment rates and earnings for college majors - Georgetown University report - 2012]
*[http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf What's It Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors] - Comprehensive report at [[Georgetown University]] website
*[http://learnfinancialplanning.com/best-worst-college-majors-degree/ Best and Worst College Majors]
*[http://www.toptenz.net/to-10-useless-college-classes-degrees.php Top 10 Useless College Degrees & Classes]
*[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/10-college-majors-lowest-unemployment-rates-163049193.html College majors with lowest unemployment]
*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/11/the-10-worst-college-majors/#332061d953c9 The 10 Worst College Majors]
*[https://prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3034]

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King James Only

2025-02-11T03:23:25Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]]
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*Most Primitive Baptist churches, including [[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their homophobia and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

Yesoe Yoon

2025-01-30T18:42:54Z

MattF:

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor, and then left to become the CDO Loan Asset Administrator at US Bank. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref>

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Yesoe}}
[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2025-01-30T18:40:32Z

MattF:

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor, and then left to become the CDO Loan Asset Administrator at US Bank. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref>

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Yesoe}}
[[Category:Living People]]

Yesoe Yoon

2025-01-30T18:34:26Z

MattF: /* Education and Experiences */

[[File:YesoeYoon.jpg|right|thumb|Yesoe Yoon]]
'''Yesoe Yoon''' (윤예서 in Korean), was born '''EunJoo Yoon''' (윤은주 in Korean) (nickname Yes Yoon) is a Korean American host and anchor of the talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5) in Chicago.

==History and life==

Yesoe was born March 18, 1983 in [[Busan]], [[South Korea]]<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> After she graduated from Gyeongnam Foreign Language High School in 2002 where she majored in English but also learned [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], she attended [[University of Waikato]] in [[Hamilton, New Zealand]], where she studied language from 2002 to 2003. Yesoe then got her BA in English/International languages at [[Busan University of Foreign Studies]] during the 2003–2004 school year. After that, her first step in journalism was when she became a TV reporter for KBC Ch 41 WOCH Asian American Network News from 2004 to 2005.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> Yesoe was a reporter for Chicago Korean broadcaster KBC TV (WOCH 41) and an English reporter for Asia America Network News (2004–2005)<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> In 2020, she became the [[Republican]] candidate for the 17th district of the Illinois state House of Representatives, which covers all or parts of Skokie, Evanston, Glenview, Golf, Morton Grove, Wilmette, and Northbrook, all located in Cook County and not far north of Chicago,<ref>https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/interesting-matchups-take-shape-as-candidates-file-for-march-primary-election/</ref> and got endorsements from New Trier Republican Organization, Illinois Federation for Right to Life, Illinois Family Action, and the Illinois Right to Life.<ref>https://ivoterguide.com/candidate?elecK=764&raceK=-49926&primarypartyk=ZZZZ&canK=-388218</ref> She won her Republican primary on March 17, 2020.<ref>https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/ElectionVoteTotals.aspx?ID=%2bzMIuj2TEvA%3d&OfficeType=Mzn1hIdK%2bXutYfUM2d1xMWiS86JkPgwC9%2b%2fR01%2frhdc%3d&T=637227616126692218</ref> As of November 3, 2020, her Democratic opponent Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, received 67.6% of the popular vote, Yoon received 29.8%, and Green Party candidate Christopher Kruger received 2.6%.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2020</ref>

==Education and Experiences==

When immigrating to the United States in 2005, she briefly started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin then went to Chicago, Illinois. She went to [[Northeastern Illinois University]] from 2007 to 2011, where she majored in Communications/Media Vocal Performance with a minor in music, then went back to [[Busan]] from 2012 to 2013, as she studied [[Russian language|Russian]] for four months in the second year.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> While attending [[DePaul University]] from 2013 to 2017, Yesoe got her Master's in Public Administration & International Management.<ref>https://www.yoonyesoe.com/about-yesoe-yoon.html</ref> She is also known as an opera singer and occasionally sang the American national anthem,<ref name="patch">{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/jesse-white-hosts-asian-pacific-american-heritage-celebration|title=Jesse White hosts Asian Pacific American Heritage celebration | Des Plaines, IL Patch|website=patch.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> performed a number of opera songs for charities and American politicians.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref> From December 2017 to April 2023, Yesoe worked at Neiman Marcus as a client advisor, and then left to become the CDO Loan Asset Administrator at US Bank. In July 2023, she was admitted at Concordia University where she is currently getting her Doctor in Business Administration: Strategic Leadership Innovation.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1568515482&sr=8-1</ref> On January 28, 2025, she became a member of the finance committee of Niles, Illinois.<ref>https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/niles/2d88d52b-960f-11ef-ab4b-005056a89546-1a926250-3551-4a5b-bb27-9f3f35227c9b-1737755196.pdf</ref>

==Community Work==

She helped prisoner Andrew Suh (Korean name Seo Seung-mo), a fellow [[Korean-American]] who was manipulated by his sister into committing murder, in getting clemency so he can have a second chance to start life all over again, as he is currently in process of regaining his freedom.<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-met-20170708-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-andrew-suh-clemency-hearing-met-2-20170712-story.html</ref>

==Musician==

While she was noted for singing American songs with US politicians and performing many opera songs for charities, and being a TV commercial/print model in Chicago.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161223/submitted/161229496/</ref><ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161220/submitted/161229914/</ref><ref>http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1558069</ref> In addition, she served as Asian Advisor to [[Illinois Secretary of State]] [[Jesse White (politician)|Jesse White]] helping to chair events,<ref name="koreadaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=4257237|title=시카고 아시안 커뮤니티 하나 됐다 - 미주 중앙일보|website=koreadaily.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> Yesoe Yoon honored with President's Call to Service Volunteer Award<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161122/submitted/161129663/</ref> In 2017, she was appointed as Human Relations Commissioner in Skokie by Mayor George VanDusen and again in 2019.<ref>https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170324/submitted/170329209/</ref>

==Journalist==

She was the host and anchor of the English talk show on the Global Leaders Network (Channel 24.5), launched May 16, 2019, and is aired every Thursday at 9 pm on public TV WinTV 24.5 in Chicago, [[Illinois]].<ref name="dailyherald2">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190507/global-leaders-network-tv-program-will-air-to-potential-audience-for-chicagoland-community|website=dailyherald.com|title=Global Leaders Network TV Program will air to potential audience for Chicagoland Community|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-HjNgwJXB7qpAJrAFzDIw|website=youtube.com|title=WIN-TV Chicago|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> As part of her political career in 2019, she is a Republican candidate for Illinois State Representative, 17th district for the 2020 elections.<ref name="yoonyesoe">{{cite web|url=https://www.yoonyesoe.com/|title=Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative - Home |website=yoonyesoe.com|accessdate=2019-09-14}}</ref> On Global Leaders Network, featured guests include Morse Tan, nominated by [[Donald Trump]] as the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbps06MKqPs&t=7s</ref> Illinois House of Representatives [[Republican Party|Republican]] Minority Leader [[Jim Durkin]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVB-Kwkn55w</ref> Illinois [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] State Senator [[Ram Villivalam]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfdJN56Ku4&t=1s</ref> professional boxer Fres Oquendo<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DMvYGHHsM</ref> Willard S. Evans, Jr. the Illinois Toll Road Chairman and Former Peoples Gas Chairman/CEO,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qANnntZjU&t=23s</ref> [[Easter Seals]] President Tim Muri,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI8cVaOlTU&t=3s</ref> Indonesia Consul General Rosmalawati Chalid,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCVTeGBXRU</ref> [[Pacific Garden Mission]] president Phil Kwiatkowski,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQi_2p1iWc&t=3s</ref> Northbrook [[YMCA]] President Howard Schultz.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zR1vsv9l9Q&t=3s</ref> two mayors in the Chicago suburbs, which are George VanDusen of Skokie,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ8uCaGYHw</ref> Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rby6jyJzQKs</ref> former US senator from Illinois [[Mark Kirk]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzNL-i16GM</ref>, Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1DV7ELwRk
</ref>, [[Jeanne Ives]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytSV_C_84</ref>, who ran against Illinois Governor [[Bruce Rauner]] and narrowly lost but is now running for US house of Representatives from Illinois 6th congressional district, and Jim Oberweis, an Illinois state senator who started a dairy business<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFJ8rd63GE</ref>.

On July 15, 2020, Yesoe was appointed the United States correspondent columnist to Why Times, a South Korean newspaper.<ref>[http://whytimes.kr/news/list_r.php?idx=6807](Korean)</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.yoonyesoe.com/ Yesoe Yoon for IL. House of Representative]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Who-Yesoe-Yoon-Matt-Farag/dp/1089920210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yesoe+yoon&qid=1565883779&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Who is Yesoe Yoon?]

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Charlie Kirk

2024-12-24T06:35:30Z

MattF:

'''Charlie Kirk''' (born October 14, 1993) is an American political activist, as well as founder and executive director of [[right-wing]] political [[activist]] group [[Turning point usa|Turning Point USA]], a group that advocates for low taxes, smaller government, and free market capitalism. Kirk has been the target of [[FBI]] [[entrapment]] on numerous occasions.<ref>https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1453386780800081927</ref>

Kirk's organization appears to be influenced or controlled by the [[Koch network]], siding with it and against [[Donald Trump]] and the [[conservative movement]] on several fundamental issues. For example, Kirk has endorsed the [[Koch network]]-funded project to convene an Article V convention called the "[[Convention of States]]," which would allow [[Leftist]]s to rewrite the [[U.S. Constitution]].<ref>https://conventionofstates.com/news/25-year-old-phenom-charlie-kirk-endorses-the-convention-of-states-project</ref> Charlie Kirk has before expressed support for same-sex marriage and same-sex couples adopting children.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIwmOx0GtmA</ref>
== Background ==
Kirk grew up in Prospect Heights, [[Illinois]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Kirk, Charlie, and Hamachek, Brent|title=Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=838mDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22charlie+kirk%22+%22PRospect+heights%22&source=bl&ots=hj6VPuzx8q&sig=zaJYp1kUnpHy4Moz09-a4yNOpPY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3w4bwiqHYAhUmxlQKHW9dB_oQ6AEIQjAG#v=onepage&q=%22charlie%20kirk%22%20%22PRospect%20heights%22&f=false|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2016|page=4}}</ref> and became politically active during high school. Like the vast majority of [[American]]s, Kirk did not graduate from college.

In 2012 when he was a high school senior, Kirk wrote an essay for ''[[Breitbart News]]'' alleging liberal bias in high school textbooks leading to an appearance on the [[Fox Business Network]]. At a subsequent speaking engagement at Benedictine University's "Youth Empowerment Day," Kirk met Bill Montgomery, a retiree more than 50 years his senior, who was then a [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]]-backed legislative candidate. Montgomery encouraged Kirk to get engaged in political activism full-time. He subsequently founded Turning Point USA. At the 2012 [[Republican National Convention]], Kirk met Foster Friess, a prominent Republican donor, and persuaded him to finance the organization.<ref name="atlantic">{{cite news|author=Nelson, Rebecca|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-21-year-old-becoming-a-major-player-in-conservative-politics/451110/|title=The 21-Year-Old Becoming a Major Player in Conservative Politics|date=March 25, 2015|newspaper=[[The Atlantic Monthly]]}}</ref>

Kirk addressed the 2016 Republican National Convention. In an interview with ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine during the convention, Kirk said that while he "was not the world's biggest Donald Trump fan," he would vote for him, and that Trump's candidacy made Turning Point's mission more difficult.<ref name="Wired RNC">{{cite news|title=At the Republican Convention, Millennials Search for Signs of the Future|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/07/republican-convention-millennials-search-signs-future/|work=Wired|date=July 20, 2016}}</ref> ''The Dallas Morning News'' described Kirk as leading the "millennial assault" for [[Donald Trump]]'s 2016 presidential campaign.<ref name="DMN">{{cite news|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/11/11/two-young-dallas-guns-helped-deliver-white-house-trump|title=How two Dallas young guns helped deliver the White House to Trump|date=November 11, 2016|work=Dallas Morning News}}</ref>

==External links==
* [https://www.tpusa.com TPUSA.com]
* [https://www.charliekirk.com CharlieKirk.com]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirk, Charlie}}
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Charlie Kirk

2024-12-24T06:35:03Z

MattF:

'''Charlie Kirk''' (born October 14, 1993) is an American political activist, as well as founder and executive director of [[right-wing]] political [[activist]] group [[Turning point usa|Turning Point USA]], a group that advocates for low taxes, smaller government, and free market capitalism. Kirk has been the target of [[FBI]] [[entrapment]] on numerous occasions.<ref>https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1453386780800081927</ref> Charlie Kirk has before expressed support for same-sex marriage and same-sex couples adopting children.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIwmOx0GtmA</ref>

Kirk's organization appears to be influenced or controlled by the [[Koch network]], siding with it and against [[Donald Trump]] and the [[conservative movement]] on several fundamental issues. For example, Kirk has endorsed the [[Koch network]]-funded project to convene an Article V convention called the "[[Convention of States]]," which would allow [[Leftist]]s to rewrite the [[U.S. Constitution]].<ref>https://conventionofstates.com/news/25-year-old-phenom-charlie-kirk-endorses-the-convention-of-states-project</ref>
== Background ==
Kirk grew up in Prospect Heights, [[Illinois]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Kirk, Charlie, and Hamachek, Brent|title=Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=838mDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22charlie+kirk%22+%22PRospect+heights%22&source=bl&ots=hj6VPuzx8q&sig=zaJYp1kUnpHy4Moz09-a4yNOpPY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3w4bwiqHYAhUmxlQKHW9dB_oQ6AEIQjAG#v=onepage&q=%22charlie%20kirk%22%20%22PRospect%20heights%22&f=false|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2016|page=4}}</ref> and became politically active during high school. Like the vast majority of [[American]]s, Kirk did not graduate from college.

In 2012 when he was a high school senior, Kirk wrote an essay for ''[[Breitbart News]]'' alleging liberal bias in high school textbooks leading to an appearance on the [[Fox Business Network]]. At a subsequent speaking engagement at Benedictine University's "Youth Empowerment Day," Kirk met Bill Montgomery, a retiree more than 50 years his senior, who was then a [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]]-backed legislative candidate. Montgomery encouraged Kirk to get engaged in political activism full-time. He subsequently founded Turning Point USA. At the 2012 [[Republican National Convention]], Kirk met Foster Friess, a prominent Republican donor, and persuaded him to finance the organization.<ref name="atlantic">{{cite news|author=Nelson, Rebecca|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-21-year-old-becoming-a-major-player-in-conservative-politics/451110/|title=The 21-Year-Old Becoming a Major Player in Conservative Politics|date=March 25, 2015|newspaper=[[The Atlantic Monthly]]}}</ref>

Kirk addressed the 2016 Republican National Convention. In an interview with ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine during the convention, Kirk said that while he "was not the world's biggest Donald Trump fan," he would vote for him, and that Trump's candidacy made Turning Point's mission more difficult.<ref name="Wired RNC">{{cite news|title=At the Republican Convention, Millennials Search for Signs of the Future|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/07/republican-convention-millennials-search-signs-future/|work=Wired|date=July 20, 2016}}</ref> ''The Dallas Morning News'' described Kirk as leading the "millennial assault" for [[Donald Trump]]'s 2016 presidential campaign.<ref name="DMN">{{cite news|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/11/11/two-young-dallas-guns-helped-deliver-white-house-trump|title=How two Dallas young guns helped deliver the White House to Trump|date=November 11, 2016|work=Dallas Morning News}}</ref>

==External links==
* [https://www.tpusa.com TPUSA.com]
* [https://www.charliekirk.com CharlieKirk.com]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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King James Only

2024-11-15T00:41:39Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

[[File:Richard Bancroft.png|thumbnail|right|250px|Archbishop Richard Bancroft was the "chief overseer" of the production of the King James Bible (Also called the Authorized Version).]]
'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]]
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Texe Marrs, who is known for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*[[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their homophobia and protesting at funerals
*Sam Gipp
*[[David Cloud]]
*Edward Hills
*D.A. Waite

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

King James Only

2024-11-11T06:14:23Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]]
*Sam Gipp
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*D.A. Waite
*Edward Hills
*[[David Cloud]]
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*[[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their homophobia and protesting at funerals

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity.

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

King James Only

2024-11-11T06:11:55Z

MattF: /* Supporters of the Movement */

'''King James Only''', also called '''King James Version Only''' and shortened to '''KJV Only''', is a movement that promotes the [[King James Version]] of the Bible as the only translation which is faithful to the Greek and Hebrew texts, including the Hebrew ''[[Masoretic Text]]'' and the Greek ''[[Textus Receptus]]''.

It is the predominant view within [[Independent Baptist]] churches, but is otherwise uncommon.

The KJV Only view was originally articulated by Benjamin G. Wilkinson (1872–1968), a [[Seventh Day Adventist]] missionary, in the book ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated'' (1930).

Wilkinson's book was openly plagiarized by Jasper James Ray (1955) and by [[Peter Ruckman]] (1964).

In 1970, Wilkinson's writing was republished by David Otis Fuller in ''Which Bible?'', properly attributed this time. The book is a collection of essays edited by Fuller. Fuller added numerous footnotes to correct errors and misunderstandings in the Wilkinson text, some of which involve basic matters of church history. However, Fuller presents the footnotes as if they were written by Wilkinson, so Wilkinson's lack of expertise is not as apparent in this edition as it was in earlier editions.<ref>Kutilek, Doug, "[http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_wilkinson_incred.htm Wilkinson's Incredible Errors]", ''Baptist Biblical Heritage'', Vol. I, No. 3; Fall, 1990.</ref>

In 1971, several major Bible translations appeared on the scene, such as the [[New American Standard Bible]] (NASB) and [[Living Bible|The Living Bible]] (a paraphrase) along with the second edition of the [[Revised Standard Version]] New Testament. For this reason, Fuller's book got far more attention than earlier works on this subject. As such, it is considered responsible for starting the KJV Only movement.

==The KJV Only View==
Generally speaking, KJV Only proponents claim that the Greek ''Textus Receptus'' used in translating the KJV New Testament is a more reliable text than the texts that are used by modern translations. (The Hebrew ''Masoretic Text'' is generally used in most modern translations, though there are exceptions. The majority of KJV Only discussion focuses on the New Testament.)

Modern translations are based on ''Codex Vaticanus'' and ''Codex Sinaiticus'', both fourth century manuscripts. These two manuscripts are said to be "Alexandrian" because they have same type of text as ''Codex Alexandrinus'', a fifth century manuscript. ''Textus Receptus'', meanwhile, was compiled in the 16th Century from Byzantine manuscripts dating back to the 12th Century.

The underlying textual dispute in the KJV Only debate started in 1881, when Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892) produced a Greek Text based on these two manuscripts, commonly referred to as the ''Critical Text''. Westcott and Hort figure prominently (and are frequently demonized) in KJV Only writings.<ref>Stringer, Dr. Phil, "[http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/wh-only.htm The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy]"</ref> Modern Bible translations are based on Greek texts edited by [http://www.nestle-aland.com ''Nestle Aland''] and the [http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org ''United Bible Societies (UBS)'']. These are similar to the ''Critical Text'', but take into account manuscripts and papyrus fragments that were discovered later.

The main point of the argument is that the more modern translations have been "purposely corrupted" so as to sow doubt in God's Word, specifically the removal of certain passages from the modern texts found in ''Textus Receptus'', such as:
*The [[Johannine Comma]] (the ending of I John 5:7, and the beginning of I John 5:8)
*The Ethiopian eunuch's confession of faith before baptism (Acts 8:37)
*The ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)

===The [[New King James Version]]===
In response to KJV Only critics over the use of the newer Greek texts in modern translations, the ''New King James Version (NKJV)'' was published in 1982. This translation is based on the King James Version and the underlying texts used therein, but with the language partly updated into modern English. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts; this justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV.

However, KJV Only advocates refuse to accept the NKJV as an update, claiming that it too is based on the same "corrupt texts" as all the other modern translations.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=38.htm</ref>

===Variant Views===
Apologist [[James White]], in his book on the subject, notes five differing views on the subject:<ref>James White, ''The King James Only Controversy'', Chapter 1. White also references a (very minor and very extreme) sixth view, that being that Hebrew is actually KJV English; adherents will not even use a word in everyday use not appearing in the KJV.</ref>
*'''I Like the KJV Best''': Adherents simply consider KJV to be the best (or at least their preferred) translation due to such things as rhythmic beauty or historical significance. Generally they don't engage in discussions on the subject, and probably don't fit the true definition of a KJV Only adherent.
*'''The Textual Argument''': Adherents believe that the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek [[Textus Receptus]] are the best underlying Biblical texts (as opposed to the Alexandrian-type texts).
*'''Received Text Only''': Adherents believe the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Textus Receptus are the supernaturally inspired texts (over others), and refuse to accept any translation not based on those texts. A notable adherent is [[David Cloud]], head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada).<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref><ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
*'''The Inspired KJV Group''': Adherents believe in "double inspiration" (i.e. both the Hebrew Masoretic/Greek Textus Receptus and the KJV are supernaturally inspired). Their view can be summarized as "The KJV Alone = The Word of God Alone". The [[Independent Baptist]] publication ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' officially holds to this position.<ref>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php</ref>
*'''The KJV as New Revelation''': Adherents believe that where the KJV differs from the Greek/Hebrew, the differences are "advanced revelation". This view is commonly referred to (sometimes pejoratively) as "Ruckmanism" after its founder, the late [[Peter Ruckman]].

Adherents in the first three groups generally would not oppose a modern translation from the underlying texts of the KJV (though surprisingly they refuse to accept NKJV as such a translation in some instances), while those in the latter two groups are adamant that no modern translation is needed. Those in the latter two camps are highly vocal of their position on social media platforms and elsewhere; they will not hesitate to attack anyone who opposes even a small portion of their viewpoint.<ref>As an example, KJV Only advocate David Cloud, in reviewing Gail Riplinger's ''New Age Bible Versions'', pointed out numerous issues with the book, though he generally agreed with much of it; he was accused of "character assassination", "sowing discord among brethren", and being "[s]omeone who can’t see the numerous Catholic slants in the new versions ... couldn’t see a bowling ball in a bathtub at high noon on a sunny day". See https://www.wayoflife.org/database/newagebibleversions.html</ref>

As a consequence, some KJV Only advocates publicly go so far as to state that if any other translation besides the KJV was used in the soul winning process, then the potential convert was not genuinely saved.<ref>https://www.christianforums.com/threads/incorruptible-seed-or-no-salvation-without-kjv.4519056/</ref> However, others in the KJV Only movement would consider someone led to Christ using a different translation to be genuinely saved.<ref>http://samgipp.com/answerbook/?page=18.htm</ref>

== Criticism ==
The KJV Only movement is comprehensively rejected by religious authorities from nearly all other branches of Protestant Christianity.

Even notable fundamentalist authorities, who used the King James Version in their preaching and writings, originally rejected the viewpoint, and some groups still reject it.

Dr. [[John Rice]], editor of ''[[The Sword of the Lord]]'' and the best known fundamentalist writer of the 1960s and 1970s, wrote:<ref>However, upon Dr. Rice's death in 1980, ''The Sword of the Lord'' changed its official position and now supports the King James Only Movement.</ref>

<blockquote>
And now to have many, many common and rather ignorant people - more women than men -- writing that Westcott and Hort, St. Augustine, any Catholic who had any part in the translation, anybody who now raises a question about the proper wording of some passage in the King James, are perverts or modernists or hypocrites or ignorant fools (much of the language which they got from Dr. __________),<ref>No name is shown in the letter, but it is commonly believed to be a reference to [[Peter Ruckman]], an extremist KJV Only supporter known for his caustic and sometimes profane language.</ref> is a sorry business, and you and I will be answerable to God if we develop that kind of attitude among common Christians.

I do not want to grow a generation of Christians, who, if you show them that the word "Easter" in Acts 12:4 of the King James Version is not the proper translation but it ought to be "passover," as is true, will decide that we have no Bible, there is no authority in the Bible. To have anybody making such weighty decisions on an immature judgment about a word or two is not right, and I do not want to put a burden on common people that they must assume a scholarship they do not have, in order to understand the Bible.<ref>"[http://www.kjvonly.org/bob/ross_rice_reply_to_fuller.htm Dr. John R. Rice's reply to Dr. David Otis Fuller on the KJV]", ''The Sword of the Lord'', November 28, 1975</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Bob Jones University]], which though officially non-denominational is associated with the Independent Baptist movement, has the following statement on its site:
<blockquote>
Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927 ... [w]e have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.<ref>"[http://www.bju.edu/about/what-we-believe/translation.php Statement about Bible Translations]", Bob Jones University.</ref>
</blockquote>

==Supporters of the Movement==
The KJV-only stance is supported by a few institutions of higher education including [[Pensacola Christian College]] (PCC), Hyles–Anderson College, and West Coast Baptist College, and a few organizations such as Trinitarian Bible Society, Andersonville Theological Seminary, Dial-the-Truth Ministries, and ''[[The Sword of the Lord|Sword of the Lord Publications]]''.

Prominent supporters, many of whom are known to have a Pharisee-like nature, include:

*Chick Publications founder [[Jack Chick]] (falsely claims that the Roman Catholic Church is behind Islam, even though Islam predates the Great Schism of 1054), and his successor [[David Daniels]]
*Sam Gipp
*[[Peter Ruckman]] and his Pensacola Bible Institute (not to be confused with PCC) (He was largely responsible for the "King James Only" dispute that split fundamentalism in the 1980s. Despite claiming to be a fundamentalist, he held to a pro-choice view on abortion, namely the false claim that a baby is not a person until birth. He was well-known for his caustic attitude and verbiage used toward his critics; even his alma mater Bob Jones University was not spared his criticism and was often the brunt of it. He was married three times; his first two marriages ended in divorce.)
*[[Gail Riplinger]], who was not honest about her past
*[[Kent Hovind]], who was guilty of domestic abuse and is currently married to his fourth wife
*D.A. Waite
*Edward Hills
*[[David Cloud]]
*[[Steven Anderson]], who began New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement after establishing Faithful Word Baptist Church, is a Holocaust denier who does not believe that repentant LGBT can be saved, and has been barred from travelling to a small number of countries
*Ralph Gordon "Brother" Stair, known to have a criminal record of sexual assaults
*Jimmy Swaggert, known for prostitution scandals in 1988 and 1991
*[[Westboro Baptist Church]], whose founder [[Fred Phelps]] was a friend of [[Al Gore]], is known for their homophobia and protesting at funerals

The cults that adopted the KJV-only stance are The Shepherd's Chapel, which adheres to Christian Identity, and Alamo Christian Foundation, a self-created cult started by Tony Alamo, and neither can be counted as true Christianity

==References==
{{Reflist|1}}

==Further reading==
*Carson, D. A., ''The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism'', Baker Book House Company (1979).
* John Ankerberg, John Weldon, ''Facts on King James Only Debate'', Harvest House, (2010).
*Ruckman, Peter, ''The Alexandrian Cult'', Bible Baptist Bookstore (1978-1981).
*White, James R., ''The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations'', Bethany House, (2009).
*Wilkinson, George Wilkinson, ''A Review of or Objections to 'Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''' (2000).
*Holland, Thomas, ''Crowned With Glory: The Bible from Ancient Text to Authorized Version'' (2000).
*McElroy, Jack, ''Which Bible Would Jesus Use? The Bible Version Controversy Explained and Resolved'', McElroy Publishing (2013, 2015).

==External links==
*[http://www.kjvonly.org The King James Only Resource Center] "Dedicated to the defense of the Bible as originally written."
*[http://tiny.cc/kjo-debate KJO Debate at TheologyOnline.com] with never before publicized photos of translators notes from a 1602 Bishops' Bible
*[http://av1611.com/kjbp/ The King James Bible Page]
*[http://www.biblebelievers.com/BibleVersions.html "Bible Versions" Page at BibleBelievers.com]
*[http://standardbearers.net/uploads/The_King_James_Version_Defended_Dr_Edward_F_Hills.pdf The King James Verson Defended, Dr. Edward F. Hills (standardbearers.net)] pdf

[[Category:Bible Study]]

Wars provoked by Deep State

2024-07-13T19:43:18Z

MattF: /* 2022 Russian Intervention in the Ukraine */

All of the major wars involving the United States in the 20th century and the 21st century by far were provoked by the [[deep state]]. When the Bushes got the [[United States]] involved in the Iraq Wars and Afghanistan, this was the first time since [[William McKinley]] that a [[Republican Party]] administration got the United States involved in major armed conflicts. Republicans [[Dwight Eisenhower]] and [[Richard Nixon]] won two terms by pledging withdrawal from no-win wars in Korea and Vietnam, with three out of four landslide victories except for 1968.

==Wars involving the United States==

===World War I===
The [[Lusitania]] was sunk with some US passengers, but Germany said that there were illegally smuggled weapons on it, and later proven right. As for the Zimmermann Telegram to [[Mexico]], it said "IF" the US attacks us and you help, we will help you in turn." In [[February Revolution]], [[Czar Nicholas II]] was succeeded by Georgy Lvov and later President [[Alexander Kerensky]]. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Anthony C. Sutton documents records from the US state department how the United States backed the second or October Revolution - the hijacking of Russia's democratic February Revolution by the [[Bolsheviks]]. [[Woodrow Wilson]] bribed Kerensky to stay in World War I, and even gave [[Leon Trotsky]] a passport to go to Russia. The new Bolshevik regime concluded a treaty with Germany, conceding the [[Ukraine]] to Germany. During the Russian Civil War, the foreign allies, including the United States, fought the communist Reds by sending invasion forces during land grab attempts while giving the democratic Whites little assistance (a small faction of the Whites supported restoration of the monarchy). At the Treaty of Versailles, the democratic principle of self-determination was only applied to the [[Central Powers]] and the former [[Russian Empire]], but not the other allied victors including colonial powers such as [[Britain]] and [[France]].

=== World War II ===
[[Franklin Roosevelt]] used the [[Lend-Lease Act]] to fund the British before using oil sanctions on [[Japan]] to trigger Pearl Harbor, as Japan had zero chance of defeating the United States, and even [[China]], which was in a warlord period, was too large for the python to swallow, and Japan would have lost either way. There is also speculation that Roosevelt intentionally allowed Pearl Harbor to happen, and that his ultimate goal was to start a conflict with Japan in order to justify intervening in Europe. A counterargument or defense to said speculation is that the Axis could not have been defeated unless the United States got involved. That is certainly a possibility in the case of Germany (but not Japan), but what cannot be ignored is that 85% of [[Nazi]] causalities (including most before [[D-Day]]) occurred in the hands of the Soviet Army, which no doubt was emboldened by the country having suffered approximately 27 million deaths (one-third were soldiers) during the course of the war, and 60% of causalities of the Imperial Japanese Army took place at the hands of China, which suffered 20 million causalities (one-fourth soldiers). This is the same Soviet Union that Woodrow Wilson helped to create. And regardless of which side of that argument is correct, at the end of the day the absolute truth is that Roosevelt wanted to get involved in the war from the beginning, perhaps if not likely in the name of interests that had nothing to do with American interests or even basic morality (remember, this is the same man who had previously refused German Jews entry into the United States when it was already clear that Hitler had genocidal intentions towards them, and even based parts of the New Deal on foreign counterparts established by fascist regimes). And of course, the lack of sincere moral outrage towards the genocidal policies of the Axis countries has continued well beyond the war and even to this day, as the CIA has consistently forged covert alliances with neo-Nazi groups and in some cases unrepentant former members of the ''original'' Nazis, and during Operation Paperclip, former Nazis were brought to work for [[NATO]] and United States government departments and agencies, but their records were scrubbed so they can look clean. To this day, the United States has put little to no pressure on Japan to acknowledge its wartime crimes to the extent that Germany has, as Germany has released their records on the crimes committed during the Holocaust, and UNESCO was going to release records on Japan's war crimes in 2015 until Tokyo threatened to withhold funding.

=== Korean War ===

On January 12, 1950, President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[Deep State]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] gave his carefully written "defensive perimeter" speech at the National Press Club, which [[communist]]s interpreted as allowing communist [[North Korea]] to invade [[South Korea]]. Acheson's speech notably excluded South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) from the defensive perimeter that extended from [[Japan]]’s Ryukyu Islands to the [[Philippines]]. As explained by the ''World Tribune'':
{{cquote|According to Soviet eyewitness accounts made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, Acheson’s speech was rushed to Stalin’s desk for a careful study. Stalin then immediately held secret deliberations with Mao, who had been in the USSR since late December 1949, about the seemingly changed military assessment concerning Korea. [North Korea dictator Kim Il-Sung] had been begging Stalin to approve his plan to attack South Korea, only to be repeatedly rejected by him on account of an assumed American military response. But only two weeks after Acheson’s speech, as the post-Soviet Union archival releases have indicated, on January 30, 1950, Stalin finally issued a general approval for Kim Il-Sung to launch the attack on the South.<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/dean-achesons-fateful-speech-and-the-outbreak-of-the-korean-war-on-june-25-1950/</ref>}}

Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> During his address to the UN General Assembly, Truman said, “The men who laid down their lives for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our memory, and in the memory of the world, forever. They died in order that the United Nations might live.” <ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207324.htm</ref>

===Vietnam War===
After stealing the 1960 election, [[John F. Kennedy]] authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed attempt to overthrow Cuban dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. Following this incident, he later told reporter James Reston, "We have trouble making our power look credible and Vietnam looks like the place to do it.” While it's debatable whether he had a change of heart on that matter between then and his assassination, what cannot be disputed is that his successor [[Lyndon Johnson]], a total Deep State puppet, remained committed to war. Once the false-flag [[Gulf of Tonkin]] incident occurred, the mainstream media led by [[CBS]] reporter [[Walter Cronkite]] beat the drums for entering the war, only to switch sides later on when it was too late. They would later play these same games during Iraq War II.

=== Gulf War ===

On July 25, 1990, the [[Deep State]] U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, declared during discussions with Iraqi officials and amid a massive troop buildup by it on the [[Kuwait]] border that the U.S. is "inspired by the friendship and not by confrontation, does not have an opinion" on the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. "We [the U.S.] have no opinion on the Arab–Arab conflicts," she reportedly declared to [[Saddam Hussein]]. She reportedly also told him that the U.S. did not intend "to start an economic war against Iraq." Saddam Hussein apparently construed these comments as a green light for him to invade Kuwait, which he did soon thereafter. [[George H.W. Bush]] subsequently pursued war on false pretenses, accusing Saddam of undermining the global order when his true motivations was protecting the petrodollar in preparation for his envisioned "New World Order."

With the above in mind, one cannot help but wonder whether Glaspie's baiting of Saddam was not accidental, but rather an intentional act done as a favor to [[Saudi Arabia]], the benefactor of the petrodollar and by extension the "New World Order."

===Bosnian War===
During his first term as president, [[Bill Clinton]] deceived the public into believing that [[Serbia]] was committing genocide in [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41373/</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315650006_The_impact_of_Islam_on_the_Bosnian_problem_The_myth_of_harmonious_multiethnicity_revisited</ref><ref>https://mightynose.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-explains-former-deputy-chief-of-mission-of-un-military-observers-in-bosnia-and-croatia/</ref>

===Kosovo War===
During his second term, [[Bill Clinton]] launched the [[Kosovo War]] after he falsely accused Serbia of genocide,<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/01/clinton-wag-dog-no-kosovo-genocide.html</ref><ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/18/balkans3</ref> as the Clinton State Department claimed that 100,000 Kosovo Albanians were killed or missing, when the causalities was actually 11,000,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/world/early-count-hints-at-fewer-kosovo-deaths.html</ref> and later 3,000.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> Previously, the Clinton State Department once admitted that the Kosovo Liberation Army is a terrorist organization.<ref>https://apjjf.org/site/make_pdf/3578</ref><ref>https://www.newenglishreview.org/Ares_Demertzis/How_To_Dismember_A_Country/</ref>

===Afghan War===
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both deliberately ignored the many warnings from various foreign intelligence agencies about the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and the former missed multiple opportunities to take bin Laden out before he could strike. Once 9/11 had occurred, Bush then falsely labeled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as being the government which bore ultimate responsibility (the actual guilty party was Saudi Arabia, who Bush continued to prop up as an ally).

===Iraq War===
Like the first Iraq War, the second one was started on false pretenses in order to prevent Saddam Hussein (who was then trying to sell oil for Euros as opposed to dollars) from undermining the petrodollar.

Three years after the start of the war, Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] announced Colonel Ralph Peters New Middle East Project, a continuation of the [[World War I]] Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which he admits to the title "Blood Borders".<ref>http://armedforcesjournal.com/blood-borders/</ref><ref>http://www.defenddemocracy.press/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/</ref><ref>https://brilliantmaps.com/new-middle-east/</ref><ref>http://www.behindthenews.co.za/2018/04/11/the-greater-middle-east-project/</ref>

===Libya War===
As [[WikiLeaks]] showed in the Clinton emails, [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was overthrown to prevent the adoption of gold back currency. <ref>https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=%E2%80%9CThis+gold+was+accumulated+prior+to+the+current+rebellion+and+was+intended+to+be+used+to+establish+a+pan-African+currency+based+on+the+Libyan+golden+Dinar.+This+plan+was+designed+to+provide+the+Francophone+African+Countries+with+an+alternative+to+the+French+franc+%28CFA%29.&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0</ref>

===Syrian War===
The Syrian War was the consequence of a failed attempt by the [[Barack Hussein Obama]] regime to overthrow Syrian leader [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Like Saddam and Gaddafi before him, Assad posed a threat to the petrodollar by supporting oil and gas pipelines that undermined Saudi dominance of the regional energy market.

==US proxy wars==

===2022 Russian Intervention in the Ukraine===
Along with the [[United States Department of State]] and [[George Soros]], many NGOs funded the 2013-2014 [[Maidan coup]] in which neo-Nazis took over [[Ukraine]]. After engaging in human trafficking and genocidal extermination in [[Donbass]] for eight years, [[Russia]] entered the war to purge the deep state neo-Nazis in which it also destroyed a lot of bio warfare labs. For the deep state, this delayed their plans to start future pandemics.

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==References==

Maria Zakharova

2024-07-04T04:11:31Z

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[[File:Zakharova.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Maria Zakharova]]
'''Maria Zakharova''' is the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. In this capacity, Zakharova is not just a mouthpiece, but a [[foreign policy]] advisor, decision maker, and policy maker.

She was born in [[Moscow]] and grew up in [[Beijing]]. The daughter of two diplomats, she too is a [[diplomat]], has a PhD in history, and speaks [[Chinese]]. From 2005 to 2008, Zakharova served as press secretary of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the [[United Nations]] and got married in [[New York City]]. In 2013 she was appointed head of the Department of Press and Information in the Russian Foreign Ministry, Additionally, she became responsible for the official pages of the Ministry in [[social network]]s and provided information support to Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] while he was traveling abroad. Zakharova was awarded the rank of diplomatic adviser of the highest class and admission to the Council for Foreign Policy and Defense of Russia. In 2019, Zakharova said that no one can talk to [[Donald Trump]] without him worrying that Democrats will leak something.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8V3KCq7ro</ref>

Zakharova appears on the U.S.-taxpayer-supported [[Ukrainian Nazi kill list]].<ref>https://youtu.be/auWl1JTJmz0</ref>

==Response to Lindsey Graham==
On [[CBS]] ''[[Face the Nation]]'' on June 9, 2024 US Sen. [[Lindsey Graham]] explained why he was such an ardent [[warmonger]] and excited about exterminating the adult [[male]] population of Ukraine,<ref>[https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.MA.ZS?locations=UA Population, male (% of total population) - Ukraine]. World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.</ref> stating that Ukraine sat on $10-12 trillion of [[mineral]] wealth that [[Western alliance|Western]] [[oligarchs]] and investors wanted to plunder.<ref>[https://rumble.com/v50owkz-lindsey-graham-ukraine-has-trillions-of-dollars-worth-of-critical-minerals-.html Lindsey Graham: Ukraine has trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals in their country], June 9, 2024.</ref> Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded that $10-12 trillion in Ukrainian mineral resources and wealth would wipe out one third of the [[US national debt]].<ref>[https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/petrodollar-dead-rumors-swirl-as?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-d1bdd787-1e3d-416b-9e97-eece36ebd99e Zakharova responds to Lindsey Graham], June 14, 2024.</ref>

==References==
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Liberal denial

2024-06-05T07:49:37Z

MattF: /* General Denial */

[[Image:Obama messiah.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Cover of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' Magazine, one of many published "halo-effect" photos of Barack Obama; the emphasis is on the claims that he is a "messiah," and is an example of liberal deification of a government official in accordance with point #26.]]
'''Liberal denial''' is the tendency of [[liberals]] to conceal, [[denial|deny]], or [[Censorship|censor]] the facts for ideological reasons. The root cause of liberal denial is a desire to marginalize and exclude religion, especially [[Christianity]], from society. Liberal denial promotes a secularized, politically liberal one-world [[government]], as well as illogical denial of the [[Bible|Biblical]] [[God]] and [[Jesus]].

First [[liberal denial]] requires denying [[Christ]], then [[God]], then the greatness of accomplishments by those inspired by Christ, then the superiority of political systems based on [[Christianity]], and so on, ultimately resulting in underachievement and selfishness.

A list of examples of '''liberal denial''' is the following:

#[[Shakespeare]] and the [[Bible]] of his time (the [[Geneva Bible]]) use the powerful concept of "infinite", but [[liberal]] professors in control of translations today omit it.
#Denial that the sudden death of many athletes and others could be due, or even possibly ever be due, to the [[Covid vaccine]], despite published medical studies showing its adverse effects on some recipients' hearts.
#Denial by the [[liberal media]] of many instances of public [[prayer]] by winning athletes, such [[ESPN]] refusing to describe correctly a public [[prayer]] by the 19-year-old [[American]] winner (Coco Gauff) of the women's tennis U.S. Open, and instead falsely mischaracterizing it as “a moment to soak it all in.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/09/10/tony-dungy-corrects-espn-on-coco-gauff-moment-she-was-praying/</ref>
#Amid overwhelming evidence that [[COVID-19]] leaked from a [[China|Chinese]] lab, and the Energy Department even admitting that,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/covid-virus-likely-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department</ref> [[liberal]] [[Fauci]] continues the liberal denial by saying "we may never know."<ref>https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/fauci-says-we-may-never-know-origin-of-covid-despite-report/</ref>
#Denial by [[liberal]]s that [[Jesus]] taught in [[Greek]], the language of scholars, even though the evidence is overwhelming that Jesus did.<ref>https://tyndalehouse.com/explore/articles/did-jesus-speak-greek/#:~:text=So%20did%20Jesus%20speak%20Greek,alongside%20Aramaic%20in%20Roman%20Palestine.</ref>
#[[Marijuana]] crops are wasteful of water (nearly twice the consumption of commodity crops), and the pesticides commonly used to grow pot are harmful to the environment.
#Use of the [[memory hole]] to marginalize or erase films, books, and even events disfavored by [[liberal]]s.
# While hiding data from the public, the [[CDC]] tweets statements about issues it has not properly researched, like this: "There is no evidence that any vaccines, including #COVID19 [[vaccine]]s, cause fertility problems in women or men."<ref>https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1501281102354268165</ref> There is often no evidence where there is no earnest search for it, and in fact there is overwhelming evidence of harm.<ref>https://vaersanalysis.info/2022/03/05/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-2-25-2022/</ref>
# The sensational movie ''[[The Exorcist]]'', which broke the box office record at the time, was snubbed with only two very minor [[Oscar]]s because of [[liberal denial]] about the existence of the [[devil]]. See [[Essay:Worst Liberal Snubs|Worst Liberal Snubs]].
# Nearly two years after the spread of the [[COVID-19]] virus began, and despite NO evidence of any natural origin while there is evidence of its manmade origin, the [[liberal]] medical journal ''The Lancet'' shamelessly says that the jury about the issue is still out (and always will be, if liberals get their way).
# Denial of [[eternity]] leads to false denial of the powerful reach and uses of [[infinity]], ''see'' [[Talk:Pi#Pi_contains_every_other_number.3F|Pi contains pi]] and [[Infinity denial]].
# Liberals deny that the abrupt termination of the tyrannical statewide shutdown by [[Leftist]] [[California]] Gov. [[Gavin Newsom]] was because a [[recall election|recall petition]] approached the 1.5M signatures needed to hold an election to remove him from office.
# Liberals deny the dangers and harms caused by sexually transmitted diseases, downplaying them as minor irritations when in fact they are incurable illnesses with severe consequences.
# Liberals deny or downplay the deadly harm caused by floods, in an attempt to steer people away from accepting the truth of the [[Great Flood]].
# The [[liberal media]] typically react to a mass murder with a flood of stories denying that there any warning signs or addiction to drugs or violent [[video game]]s by the perpetrator, and the truth can only leak out through [[conservative]] news or [[British]] newspapers.
# Liberals continue to deny that [[Donald Trump]] legitimately defeated [[Hillary Clinton]] for president in 2016, and earlier that [[George W. Bush]] defeated [[Al Gore]] for president in 2000 (e.g., Joe Biden denied it in remarks on June 12, 2013; Al Gore himself denied it in remarks on August 4, 2017).<ref>https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/06/11/liberals-blind-to-donald-trumps-wins/</ref>
# Liberals deny that vaccines cause severe, even deadly, side effects despite how warnings on package inserts which parents rarely see admit to that fact.
# [[European migrant crisis|Mass immigration to Europe from the Middle East]] has brought an increased threat and the greater occurrence of [[terrorism]]. Yet European leaders deny the threat of [[Islam]]ic terrorism, and terrorist attacks have shown how poorly prepared and secured their countries and facilities are.<ref name="Denial">Scarborough, Rowan (May 23, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/23/manchester-bombing-reveals-europes-denial-of-islam/ Europe’s denial of Islamic terrorism threat perplexes security specialists]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 24, 2017.</ref> When attacks occur, the leaders often state that they "are a part of daily life", and they refuse to admit that the motive of the terrorists is Islamic radicalism.<ref name="Denial"/> This is likely due to [[political correctness]] and the blindness that comes with liberalism and their pet goal for a utopian [[one-world government]] where nations and borders are abolished.
# Lies about a false armed robbery were spread by the [[liberal media]] in smearing the gracious host of the [[2016 Summer Olympics]], and yet [[liberals]] did not fully correct and apologize for the lies even after [[Brazil]]ians worked hard to uncover the truth.
# [[Terrorism]] was not mentioned once during the entire first day of the [[Democratic National Convention]] in 2016, while increasing numbers of widely reported terrorism occurred in Florida, France, and elsewhere.
# [[Obama]] refused to mention ISIS, radical Islam, or Islamic extremism in his comments on the worst attack since [[9/11]]—a mass murder committed by an admitted supporter of ISIS in a Florida gay nightclub in June 2016.
# Liberals deny that the much-publicized "proof" of the [[general theory of relativity]] in 1919 was, in fact, scientific misconduct by [[Arthur Eddington]] who "cherry-picked"<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brooks/scientists-behaving-badly_b_1448729.html</ref> his data to reach his desired result, which would have him expelled from any Ph. D. program worth its salt today.
# Liberals deny the lack of racial diversity on the women's [[World Cup]] 2015 team, which had an all-white coaching staff and an all-white starting line-up.
# Falsification of a theory, for which a [[Nobel Prize]] has been awarded, is never admitted by the English [[lamestream media]].<ref>http://en.yibada.com/articles/26197/20150412/nobel-prize-physics-2011-falsified-universe-dark-energy-expanding-rapid.htm</ref>
# Multiple murders committed by an atheist is neither a hate crime nor terrorism, but a rarely occurring murder committed by a Christian must be both.
# Liberals deny whenever there is a cold winter, as well as the fact that the world has not significantly warmed for many years.
# Liberals deny that violent [[video games]] incite and train [[young mass murderers]] to go on unspeakable killing rampages.
# Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the mass murderer who perpetrated the [[Boston Marathon]] bombing, likely committed a gruesome triple murder in 2011 on the 10th anniversary of [[9/11]], but liberals refuse to admit it, and the U.S. government insists the investigation is still ongoing.
# Liberals refuse to admit that "crime [has become] a major part of [[South Africa]]n life, be it violent robberies or drive-by shootings."<ref>http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-15-south-africas-criminal-underworld-is-the-media-reporting-the-real-story/#.UqNvpMRDtHS</ref>
# Liberals deny that [[Abraham Lincoln]] developed a strong faith in the [[Lord]] in the last few years of life, as proven by his declaration of [[Thanksgiving Day]] as an official holiday, his insertion of "under [[God]]" into the [[Gettysburg Address]], and in his personal comments.<ref>http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/faithquotes.htm</ref>
# Liberals deny that a shutdown of the federal government is a good thing.
# Liberals deny that some disciples likely wrote down teachings of Jesus while he was living, as a means to deny Jesus's words. (Ironically, liberal theologians then use those same "red letter" words to make the claim that, since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality anywhere in them, all other Biblical condemnation of the topic can be ignored - while those same theologians choose to ignore that the words of Jesus are also the words of God and that Jesus, in pointing out that the only acceptable sexual relations are that of one man and one woman in marital union, ''did'' in fact condemn homosexuality.)
# Liberals deny even the possibility of women having different aptitude for math than men, even though every [[Fields Medal]] recipient has been male, nearly every Putnam fellow has been male, and the highest achievers on the SAT math exam are predominantly male.
# Liberals deny that the [[Apostle Paul]] wrote most of the epistles which, in their opening, clearly state that he was the author. Similarly they deny that the [[Apostle John]] was the author of the gospel account bearing his name, all three epistles bearing his name, and the Book of Revelation (they usually concede the gospel account was his, are divided on the epistles, and almost universally deny his authorship of Revelation).
# Liberals deny that human intelligence inevitably and demonstrably declines from generation to generation, and that if there were another 100 generations into the future, the people of that time would not be able to understand simple concepts.
# Liberals deny the very real existence of [[fetal pain]] during [[abortion]].
# Liberals deny that there are only two genders – male and female – and that they are born different<ref name="5ScientificFacts">Bokhari, Allum (April 23, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/04/23/5-scientific-facts-the-science-march-refuses-to-acknowledge/ 5 Scientific Facts The ‘Science March’ Has Yet to Acknowledge]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 30, 2017.</ref>
# Liberals deny the very real existence of [[Hell]], which [[Jesus]] referenced more than Heaven.
# Liberals deny how they censor the [[Bible]] from their daily activities, and encourage the censorship for others too.
# For nearly three months after his death, liberals denied that [[Hugo Chavez]] had died.
# Liberals deny the [[Nobel Prize]] is an award given by liberals to other liberals, sometimes even granted in an awkward manner to punish a critic of liberal falsehoods.<ref>For instance, a Nobel Prize was granted to an understudy of [[Fred Hoyle]] to punish him.</ref>
# Liberals deny how they deify government officials, similar to how communists continue to deify Stalin, Lenin, and Castro.<ref>For example, they have adulated [[Ted Kennedy]] despite his paucity of achievements.</ref>
# Liberals deny how fellow travelers engage in [[deceit]], or at least refuse to admit it.
# Liberals deny they are [[liberal]] and that most of the media are [[liberal]].
# Liberals deny that [[Hollywood values]], [[professor values]], and general [[liberal]] values have consequences for their believers and any victims of the believers.
# Liberals deny that they have censored [[prayer]] in [[public school]].<ref>A [[public school]] student who once "tape recorded a teacher making religious remarks to his students" to complain about it then later objected to a textbook explaining how prayer is censored from [[public school]] schools by court decisions. [https://abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=4614012]</ref>
# Liberals deny that a woman significantly reduces her risk of [[breast cancer]] by having children rather than [[abortions]]
# Liberals deny that about half of promiscuous people carry sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and that those STDs cause infertility.<ref>"Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing -- 40 percent had an STD."[http://www.tulsaworld.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?articleID=20080312_1_C12_hUShe15125]</ref>
# Liberals deny that the strident promoters of [[evolution]] generally have weaker credentials than advocates of [[intelligent design]]<ref>See, e.g., [[Richard Sternberg]]</ref>
# Liberals deny that college faculties at nearly every American school are dominated by [[liberals]] and have virtually no [[conservatives]].
# Liberals deny that [[Homosexuality]] shortens lifespan or increases risk fo disease for a wide variety of reasons.
# Liberals deny that reducing the number of guns, which are primarily defensive weapons, results in an increase in crime.
# Liberals deny that [[Hitler]] and the [[Nazi]] party were in fact [[Liberals]] (anti-Semitism is a well-documented characteristic of [[Liberal Christianity]] as is the [[PETA]]-like Green wing of the Third Reich.<ref>[http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html Fascist Ecology: The "Green Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents]</ref>).
# Liberals, such as [[Joe Biden]], deny that [[China]] poses any threat to the U.S.<ref>Tomlinson, Lucas; Pappas, Alex (May 3, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-bidens-assessment-of-china-says-country-is-a-strategic-competitor Pentagon disputes Biden's assessment of China, says country is a 'strategic competitor']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 3, 2019.</ref><ref>Spiering, Charlie (May 1, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/01/cmon-man-joe-biden-scoffs-at-china-threat/ ‘C’mon Man!’ Joe Biden Scoffs at China Threat]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 3, 2019.</ref>
#Denying that Hitler's [[evolutionary belief]] played a part in the [[Holocaust]]

== Liberal denialism and Donald Trump ==
''See also:'' [[Liberal denialism and Donald Trump]]

After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, many liberals went into in denial that [[Donald Trump]] was going to be the President of the United States. Before the election, liberal media outlets took the line that Donald Trump could not win the [[Republican]] primary and could not win the presidential election.<ref>
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/the-wrongest-media-predictions-about-donald-trump/?utm_term=.febb2623a89f The wrongest media predictions about Donald Trump The wrongest media predictions about Donald Trump], ''Washington Post'', 2016</ref>

== General Denial ==
Generally, liberals deny that:

'''Abortion'''
# Choosing [[abortion]] over childbirth increases the risk of [[breast cancer]].
# They support taxpayer-funded [[abortion]].
# A child in a mother's womb has rights established by the [[Constitution]].
# A person is not insane for disagreeing with abortion and homosexuality.

'''Atheism'''
# People like [[young mass murderers]] who take [[atheistic]] beliefs to their logical conclusions are not delusional but are true believers.
# [[Young mass murderers]] fit the profile of [[public school]]-trained [[atheism]].
# Atheism is a nontheistic religion, not an absence of religion.
# Atheists were and still are responsible for the deaths of millions of people through the decades. Nevertheless, liberals resort to [[moral equivalence]] by falsely making the same claims about [[Christianity]], ridiculously exaggerating the numbers of people murdered by those claiming to be Christian while conveniently ignoring that Christian teachings forbid murder.

'''Crime'''
# [[Gun control]] motivates people to commit more gun-related [[crime]]s.
# Illegal immigrants contribute to crime and poverty in the towns and cities they occupy.
# Legalizing drugs will increase crime because drug addiction causes thievery and murder.
# A [[border wall]] is the most effective and, ultimately, the most peaceful way to protect the large southern border separating the U.S. and Mexico from illegal immigrants.
# Aggressive interrogation is often the best way to obtain answers from [[terrorists]].
# Socially dangerous people exhibit a well-documented pattern of reading habits.

'''Economics'''
# Reducing taxes stimulates the [[economy]].
# Privately run [[transport]] is more efficient than government-run transport.
# [[Labor union|union]]s interfere with [[employment]] opportunities.
# Free trade strengthens global democracies.
# Americans can drill oil to avoid high gas prices.
# Americans can't fully replace oil with green technologies; both oil and green technologies are needed to solve energy crises.

'''Education'''
# [[Homeschoolers]] are more likely to succeed than those who attend [[public school]].
# A school having few to no [[conservative]] teachers and a majority of [[atheists]] and/or [[liberals]] is a [[liberal]] school.
# [[Liberals]] attempt to intimidate and ostracize [[conservatives]], particularly in school environments and some occupations.<ref>See [[liberals and friendship]].</ref>
# The [[liberal]] ideology is pushed on unsuspecting others, particularly young people.
# [[Lawrence Summers]] was fired as President of [[Harvard]] for making a [[political correctness|politically incorrect]] suggestion about women and mathematical aptitude.
# [[Public Schools]] are breeding grounds for indoctrination and are a waste of taxpayers money.
# [[Children]] require [[disciplining|discipline]] and [[spanking]] is an effective way to correct their behaviour. This is denied by liberals even though a clear majority of American adults believe spanking is sometimes necessary, and despite the the fact that the effectiveness of spanking is backed by both scientific research<ref>[https://sites.oxy.edu/clint/learn/articles/ComparingChildOutcomesofPhysicalPunishmentandAlternativeDisciplinary.pdf]Larzelere and Kuhn (2007) Comparing Child Outcomes of Physical Punishment and Alternative Disciplinary
Tactics: A Meta-Analysis</ref> and the bible.

'''Environment'''
# Modern technology can make [[coal]] clean.
# Modern drilling methods result in minimal environmental impact, even if they were implemented in uninhabited lands such as the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]].
# [[Global Warming|Human-caused climate change]] is [[junk science]].
# Companies like [[Exxon]] should pay billions of dollars in damages to the general public ''in addition'' to the money they spend to clean up industrial accidents and to recompense those directly affected.
# [[Selective logging]] keeps forests healthier by reducing the risk of wildfire.
# High food prices are not caused by [[ethanol]] production but rather by the million acres of cropland and pastureland that have been taken out of production in the interest of wildlife conservation.
# The life of a human is more important than the life of an animal or plant.

'''Health and medicine'''
# [[Socialized medicine|State run health care]] has lead to Islamic terrorism in Britain and would do so in the US.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMu6wCqdeyQ ''FOX News analyzes the new terror in state healthcare.''</ref>
# Obesity is a bigger problem than hunger in the Western world.
# Eating [[meat]] and [[dairy]] is important for physical and mental health.
# Using [[marijuana]] or other mind- or mood-altering drugs has lasting negative psychological effects.
# [[Universal health care]] is inferior medical care and will lead to crowding in hospitals.
# Girls and women in sports have debilitating ACL knee injuries at 3-4 times the rate of men,<ref>''Compare'' [http://www.universityhealthmatters.com/article.php?artid=50] (with an explanation of why there is a big difference) ''with'' [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/health/18knee.html?ex=1204088400&en=3a5abfaa6104ac63&ei=5070&emc=eta1 New York Times] (downplaying the difference and pretending that no one knows why). The New York Times denies overwhelming evidence, including the following:
:"Female athletes, particularly basketball players, are far more likely than their male counterparts to suffer ACL [Anterior Cruciate Ligament] injuries." Stephen Hargis, "Girls have more torn ACLs," Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee), D1 (Feb. 4, 2005). According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the risk of women tearing their ACL is 1 in 100. This number drops significantly to only 1 in 500 for men. See Nikki Usher, "Knee injury takes toll on girls playing soccer five times more likely than males to suffer a torn ACL," Philadelphia Inquirer, A01 (Nov. 29, 2004). "Compared with guys, female athletes run an eight-times-greater risk of tearing the ACL, a fibrous band that connects the shinbone (tibia) to the thighbone (femur). Basketball, soccer and other sports that require cutting moves or jump shots can put athletes at risk." Kathleen Fackelmann, "Girls face higher knee injury risk," USA Today, 15B (Aug. 24, 2004). Timothy Hewett, PhD, the lead researcher on a definitive study at the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at the University of Cincinnati, says this is "close to a billion-dollar problem in girls and women in the USA. ... Even after girls have recovered from the acute injury, the changes in the joint may set the stage for osteoarthritis of the knee ...." ''Id.'' That obvious suspicion was quickly confirmed: a study subsequently published in Arthritis & Rheumatism demonstrated that "more than half of ... 103 soccer players, who were ages 14 to 28 at the time of the ACL injury, suffered osteoarthritis of the knee at the time of the study -- about 12 years later." Kathleen Fackelmann, "Girls' knee injuries have later consequences," USA Today, 9D (Oct. 7, 2004). "Many of the women, who were about 31 by that time, also said they had pain or some other disability that made it hard to conduct daily activities." ''Id.''</ref> and are vulnerable to other injuries<ref>"Amber Scull ruptured her spleen after she was tackled during a practice drill at Nature Coast Tech in Brooksville 2 1/2 months ago. Had she [not] arrived at the hospital 30 minutes later, doctors told her mother, she might have died." [http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/06/news_pf/Sports/Girls_face_dangers_on.shtml]</ref>

'''History'''
# America's [[founding fathers]] were devout Christians.
# The American model of [[democracy]] succeeded because it was founded on [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Christianity]].<ref>[http://www.apologetics.com/default.jsp?bodycontent=/articles/cultural_apologetics/snyder-democracy1.html Calvinism and the Success of Liberal Democracy, by John Snyder]</ref>
# The [[Democratic National Party]] founded the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and supported it for decades, and that the Democrats not only championed slavery of blacks before and during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], plus segregation and suppression of blacks for decades afterward, but still champion a form of slavery and suppression against blacks (in the form of the [[welfare state]]) and still have the same attitudes toward blacks today as they did 150 years, 100 years, and even 50 years ago.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2017/06/dsouza-dems-want-to-shift-blame-with-confederate-crusade/ D'Souza: Dems want to "shift blame" with Confederate crusade] at [[WorldNetDaily]]</ref>

'''Homosexuality'''
# [[Same sex adoption]] is harmful to children.
# Banning [[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] is analogous to banning [[polygamy]].
# Opposing same-sex "marriage" is justified (though they try to prove otherwise by drawing absurd connections to decriminalized interracial marriage bans).
# Homosexuals can be switched back into heterosexuals. (See [[ex-homosexuals]])

'''Liberalism'''
# They are [[intolerant]] of opposing viewpoints and then try to stifle further discussion.
# [[Socialism]] and liberalism have the same political agenda.
# They suppress any criticism rather acknowledge it.
# They make sweeping generalizations about conservatives.
# Ideas do matter and can cause great harm, including liberal falsehoods.

'''Media'''
# The [[mainstream media]] is [[bias]]ed.
# Wikipedia has a systematic bias.
# Liberal media tycoons such as [[Ted Turner]] support population control.
# Restricting free speech by the [[Fairness Doctrine]] is actually neither fair nor democratic.

'''Politics'''
# [[Barack Hussein Obama]] ran the dirtiest campaign since [[Lyndon Johnson]].
# Former President Bill Clinton committed adulterous behavior while in office.
# Politicians who proclaim 'change' actually do not break very far from policies of the past.
# [[God]] and religion should be allowed a place in government.
# [[Ronald Reagan]]'s public exhortation, "[[Mikhail Gorbachev|Mr. Gorbachev]], tear down this wall," helped cause the nearly 30-year-old [[Berlin Wall]] later be torn down.
# They support [[Totalitarianism]].
# Their leaders engage in shocking wrongdoing, [[Liberal hypocrisy|hypocrisy]], and abuse of power<ref>See, e.g., leading [[liberal]] [[Eliot Spitzer]] and how fellow [[liberals]] downplayed or were silent about his misconduct.</ref>
# A [[vote]] for (yea) or a vote against (nea) is an absolute position.
# People can be held accountable for the statements uttered in a vote.
# Former President George W. Bush being in power did not cause Hurricane Katrina.
# Former President Bill Clinton was responsible for Rwanda inaction.
# The Democratic party discriminates against African-Americans.
# [[Fidel Castro]] could have died a decade earlier than his disclosed death date, specifically around the last time he was seen in public in 2006.

'''Religion'''
# [[Islam]]ic extremism is a threat to the [[Western civilization]]<ref>Leftist [[Sam Harris]] admitted and complained about this liberal denial [http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061009/REPOSITORY/610090301/1028/OPINION02 here].</ref>
# Faith and logic are compatible.
# Both God and Jesus, the Lord and Savior, exist (in the case of secular liberals). Some secular liberals do acknowledge that Jesus walked among humans, but they deny that he performed any miracles.
# Morality should be objective.
# [[Heavy metal]] music is generally sacrilegious and has themes such as mind- or mood-altering drugs, sexual perversion, and [[Satan]] worship.

'''Science'''
# Life begins at conception.<ref>Williams, Thomas D. (November 5, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/05/abortion-lobby-denies-science-concerning-beginning-of-human-life/ Abortion Lobby Denies Science Concerning Beginning of Human Life]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 5, 2017.</ref>
# There are only two genders, and men and women are different, even from birth.<ref name="5ScientificFacts"/>
# Green energy is nowhere near as efficient as advertised.<ref name="5ScientificFacts"/>
# [[Entropy]] – including [[genetic entropy]] – is increasing, which confounds several liberal theories.
# Virtually all fossil evidence for evolution has been proven wrong and affirms Biblical creation.
# The intellectual justification for [[Hitler]]'s attempt to build a master Aryan race was the [[theory of evolution]].
# Evolution and human-caused climate change are scientifically dubious at best.
# There is scientific accuracy contained in the Bible.
# Climate forecasts 50 years from now are as inaccurate as 15 days from now.

'''Social issues'''
# More than 80% of child molesters are [[pornography]] addicts.
# [[Feminists]] censor discussion about differences between men and women, and boys and girls.
# The [[nuclear family]] is beneficial to children.
# [[Culture]] affects [[politics]] as well as people's views and lifestyles.
# The numerous premature deaths of [[Hollywood]] stars are the result of [[Hollywood values]]<ref>Liberal [[Wikipedia]] lists numerous [[actor]]s who died of drug overdoses, but will not acknowledge the role played by [[Hollywood values]], for which Wikipedia does not even have an entry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths]</ref>
# That English will cease being the language of the United States in 20 years unless it is protected as the [[official language]] (and that this would be a loss if it happened).

Often, [[liberal]]s refuse to admit that they are [[liberal]]s in the hope of appearing more "reasonable". [[Hillary Clinton]] refused to admit in a presidential debate in 2007 that she is a [[liberal]]. Similarly, [[Michael Dukakis]] refused for a while to admit that he was a [[liberal]] during the 1988 presidential campaign. Only out of desperation did Dukakis admit that he was a [[liberal]], and even then, he admitted only that was a liberal like President [[Harry Truman]], who served 40 years earlier.

Liberals like to bash President George W. Bush as a war monger and cite [[President Bill Clinton]] for his eight years of peace and prosperity. Liberals will deny record low unemployment, more people owning their homes, and President Bush going after [[terrorists]] while protecting Americans from further attacks. Liberals will selectively forget that during Clinton's term, the [[Rwanda]] massacre, the bombing of the USS Cole, the war in the [[Balkans]], the two US embassies bombed in [[Africa]], the Kobar tower bombing in Saudi Arabia, the [[Somalia]] conflict, the missile strike against [[Afghanistan]], and the bombing campaign against Iraq all occurred. Moreover, [[liberals]] deny that Clinton's economic policy ignored a series of high-profile companies that eventually collapsed due to fraud: Enron, Tyco, Worldcom and Qwest.

As part of their denial, liberals often use the word "denial" pejoratively against conservatives. Alleging that conservatives are "[[racist]]" and "reject [[science]]", they use terms like "[[global warming]] deniers" and "[[climate change]] deniers" in an attempt to link conservative viewpoints with [[Holocaust denial]], [[Nazism]], [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], and [[pseudoscience]].

== References ==
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== See also ==
*[[ACLU]]
*[[Longest liberal denials]]

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Andrei Belousov

2024-05-25T20:20:12Z

MattF:

'''Andrei Removich Belousov'''<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789991230232756304.html</ref> was appointed Minister of Defense of the [[Russian Federation]] on May 12, 2024 by [[President Vladimir Putin]].

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[[Category:Russian People]]

Vladimir Lenin

2024-04-02T06:51:50Z

MattF: /* Identity Politics */

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'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born either Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref> known as Volodya as a child<ref name="The Truth about Vladimir Lenin">http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2017/6/11/the-truth-about-vladimir-lenin-the-father-of-post-truth-politics#.YL00l4WSmUk=</ref>) ([[April]] 22, [[1870]] – [[January]] 21, [[1924]]) was the leader of Russian [[Communism]] and an important theoretician of [[Marxism]]. Coming to power in 1917, he became dictator of the [[Soviet Union]]. All over the Soviet Union and even to some extent some Western countries, there were statues and paintings honoring his memory; some were removed when Communism collapsed in 1991. Lenin repudiated and tried to stop his successor [[Joseph Stalin]], who was an even worse tyrant, although his reasons were implied to be more due to Stalin's lower-class upbringing than any moral objections to Stalin, due to his dismissing Stalin as a "Georgian peasant" when someone suggested him to take Lenin's place. In addition, [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], one of the few members of Stalin's inner circle to serve both Lenin and Stalin, when asked about who was harsher, indicated that Lenin was more severe than Stalin.<ref>https://fee.org/articles/the-unknown-lenin-from-the-secret-archive-edited-by-richard-pipes/</ref><ref>https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink</ref>

==Early life==
Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 (first [[Earth Day]] was established on what would have been his 100th birthday) to a middle-class Russian family; his parents Ilya Ulyanov and Maria Ulyanova were school teachers. According to a note by his older sister Anna that was uncovered in 2000, he had a big head and weak legs, which resulted in him toppling over onto the carpet and even the floorboards of their house, and constantly banging his head in tantrums as a result, with the wooden structure of their house acting as an echo chamber and amplifying his tantrums. In addition, even as a child, he was unruly and disturbed, including deliberately trampling over his younger brother Dmitry's theater poster collection as well as terrorizing his younger sister Maria, and on his third birthday, when given a small, papier-mache horse as a gift, he secluded himself to his room and spent his time trying to twist off its legs, ultimately leaving the room satisfied after he had done so. His own parents also had no idea on how to control him, with his mother Maria even thinking he'll likely grow up mentally retarded.<ref name="The Truth about Vladimir Lenin" /> In 1889, he became a [[Marxist]] after his older brother Aleksandr was hanged for the attempted murder of Tsar Aleksandr III. Lenin obtained a law degree shortly afterward, and hints at his more callous nature, including his intention of using starvations to foster his Marxist agenda, started showing itself by 1891 during the Volga famine. Acting as a high ranking member of the socialist intelligentsia at that time, he was the one voice who opposed supplying any relief aid to them, even going as far as to ruin the Samara charity committee in the process, citing that starving the peasantry would bring death to the old peasant economy and hasten their goal of Marxist revolution, or as he put it, "one shouldn’t improve [the peasants'] lives, but instead let them become bestial and unleash monstrous violence."<ref>https://canadafreepress.com/article/vladimir-lenin-russias-original-cold-blooded-communist-revolutionary</ref><ref>https://www.rferl.org/amp/lenin-at-150-even-without-covid-19-russia-was-set-to-snub-the-soviet-union-s-founder/30568383.html?fbclid=IwAR2s0upNQ-WaEeeXyJBcVF3mL1InW2ynJmOoqg7PkC7Y9OzPSL2X5bXaMDY</ref> By 1895, Lenin was a [[subversion (political)|subversive]] who was arrested and sent to a prison in [[Siberia]] as punishment. He was in exile 1900-1917, during which time he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. He collaborated with Georgy Plekhanov and others to set up the clandestine newspaper ''Iskra'' (The Spark), designed to "ignite" radical consciousness. In the pages of ''Iskra'', Lenin denounced any alliance with liberals or other elements of the bourgeoisie because they would keep power in the hands of the middle class. He emphasized social democracy—equality of condition, rather than political democracy, as the basis for individual freedom. His major theoretical publication was the pamphlet "What Is to Be Done?" (1902). In 1903 he organized and controlled the '''"Bolshevik"''' wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor party, fighting the opposition "Mensheviks." Lenin, like his populist predecessors in the Russian radical movement, stressed the need for a small elite vanguard to lead the revolution

Despite the disapproval of the Mensheviks, Lenin's followers continued to raise money through a mixture of bank robberies, kidnapping, extortion, terrorism, and murder. Unlike the leaders of other Marxist organizations, Lenin did not spend the money on his own lifestyle and carefully strengthened his movement.

With German help, he returned to Russia after the [[Tsar]] abdicated in March 1917 and a short-lived liberal democracy allowed for free elections. At the time, most Bolsheviks were more interested in using the ballot box to gain political power. Lenin rejected elections, and declared, "History will not forgive us if we do not take power now." In addition, he did attempt to use the ballot box later on, although the Bolsheviks ended up losing in a landslide, causing him to take over via a coup.

==Revolution==
In 1917 Lenin opposed Russia's continued participation in World War I and advocated proceeding directly to a socialist revolution, bypassing bourgeois rule. He rejected cooperation with the Provisional Government and drove some old Bolsheviks out of the party, while co-opting many younger, more radical members. [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Grigori Zinoviev]], and others rallied to Lenin's side during the elections to the party's Central Committee during the 7th Party Conference in April 1917 and became the new leadership. The Bolsheviks were allowed free expression of disagreements until a decision by the Central Committee was reached, and then no opposition or disagreement was permitted. Lenin now ruled the Bolsheviks from his base in Petrograd (St. Petersburg).

In October 1917, Lenin masterminded a [[coup d'état]] which overthrew the [[Provisional Government]] which had replaced the [[Russian Empire]]. In what historian [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]] has described as a comedy of errors, the Winter Palace was shelled and the Provisional Cabinet was placed under arrest by a mixture of Red Guards and radical sailors from the Kronstadt Naval Base.

He ultimately wasn't content with merely having Russia be under Communist rule, as he sought to back the Communists in Germany in the hopes of subjecting the entirety of Western Europe at a bare minimum to Communism, proving he had no loyalty to the Imperial Germans despite their role in his gaining power. To this end, he planned to have two divisions of the Red Army invade Germany, which ultimately resulted in the [[Polish-Soviet War]].<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/communisms-first-defeat-john-radzilowski/</ref>

==Dictator==
Lenin ruled the [[Soviet Union]] under Marxism–Leninism, until 1922, when he had a debilitating stroke and retired.

{{Cquote|A wide campaign of "education" was undertaken to show the people why "workers' rule" meant, in practice, [[Nomenklatura|managers]]' rule. Where necessary, the education by the word was supplemented with education by [[firing squad]] or [[concentration camp]] or forced labour battalion.<ref>James Burnham, ''The Managerial Revolution'', (1940).</ref> }}

In 1918 Lenin ordered to kill all prostitutes.<ref>http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/aug/09gff.htm</ref> One of his more infamous orders was the 1918 Hanging Order where he ordered the Cheka in Penza to find and publicly hang at least 100 kulaks, and derogatorily referred to them as "bloodsuckers".<ref>Translation of 'hanging order' by Robert Service, p. 365, ''Lenin a Biography'' (2000). London: Macmillan </ref>

==Mass murderer==
{{Main|Atheism and Mass Murder}}

Like Stalin and Mao, and despite his more positive reputation among Leftists, Lenin also wished to exterminate the peasant class, even orchestrating famines to do so, in order to force his will on Socialism. This also proves that Communism, despite the PR, never cared at all for the poor.<ref name="Russia's Original Cold-Blooded Communist Revolutionary">http://canadafreepress.com/article/vladimir-lenin-russias-original-cold-blooded-communist-revolutionary</ref> On a similar note, he also actively encouraged the use of terror for the revolution, to such an extent that when the second Soviet congress passed a resolution to abolish the death penalty without his knowledge due to being absent that time, he flew into a rage and screamed "Nonsense, how can you make a revolution without firing squads? Do you expect to dispose of your enemies by disarming yourself? What other means of repression are there? Prisons? Who attaches significance to that during a civil war?" That said, however, he made sure to avoid publicly endorsing the terror, having others sign the death warrants in his stead, which resulted in the false myth that he was the good and gentle ruler of the Soviet Union who was isolated from the Red Terror.<ref>https://erenow.net/modern/a-peoples-tragedy-russian-revolution/44.php</ref>

The [[Russian Civil War]] was fought between the [[Bolshevik]]-led [[Red Army]] and the [[White Army]], which had many factions. As both sides committed gross atrocities, the White Army had only a small one wanted to restore the [[monarchy]].

Aside from this, he and the USSR are particularly notorious as being the first state leader and country, respectively to issue unlimited and unrestrained abortions,<ref>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/17/november-1920-2020-a-century-of-abortion-in-russia/</ref> which shocked even the likes of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and disturbed even the likes of Joseph Stalin enough to have him temporarily make abortion illegal largely because it would have ensured Russia as a country no longer existed otherwise. This was in keeping with Marx and Engels' demand for, among other things, the abolishment of the family unit.

==Death==
Lenin, a workaholic who avoided vacations and downtime, died in 1924 following a series of progressively more serious strokes. However, recent studies indicate that his "strokes" were actually the terminal effects of syphillis that he got from interacting with a prostitute during his exile.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222209/Lenin-died-syphilis-NOT-stroke-claims-historian.html</ref> [[Joseph Stalin]] was his even more brutal successor.

==Interpretations==
:{{See also|Marxism-Leninism|Leninthink}}
===Lenin on revolution===
Before 1917, Lenin thought that revolution was more likely to break out in Russia than in any other country on the continent, and he expected the outbreak of other revolutions in Europe, or at least in Central Europe, after the Russian Revolution. During the Civil War, he considered a short period of War Communism as an extension of the revolutionary situation from which a direct path might open toward socialism. However, after the failure of War Communism he returned to his earlier viewpoint, that is, to the necessity of a transition period. This was reflected in the New Economic Policy (NEP) - which meant a transition including both private enterprise and a market economy. Stalin deemed the transition favored by Lenin to be too dangerous, because it carried with it the threat of a defeat and an eventual restoration of capitalism. In addition, Lenin advocated perpetual civil war to eliminate all "class enemies", with this being in effect with brief pauses until 1953. He also wrote that "Revolutions are the locomotive of history…Revolutions are the holiday of the oppressed and exploited."<ref name="Russia's Original Cold-Blooded Communist Revolutionary" />

===Dictatorship of the proletariat===
see also [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]
Lenin saw the Marxist concept of the "Dictatorship of the proletariat" in terms of a dictatorship exercised not by a democratically chosen majority but by a [[Revolutionary Vanguard|vanguard minority revolutionary party]], ruthlessly controlled by a few leaders like himself. He eventually accepted the need for a state bureaucracy, and his more extreme opposition to the bourgeoisie led him to favor their exclusion and disenfranchisement to the benefit of the urban working class.

==Leninism as a religion==
Lenin's utopian design of a revolutionary community of virtuosi was a typical political religion of an intelligentsia longing for an inner-worldly salvation, a socialist paradise without exploitation and alienation, to be implanted in the backward Russian society at the outskirts of the industrialized and modernized Western Europe. The Russian Revolution of October 1917 accomplished the institutionalization of a political religion combining a political and sacral monopoly of power and belief. Consequently, the Leninist policy of social extermination of political opponents, ideological rivals, and stigmatized social classes became a sacral obligation to be fulfilled by the new ideological orthodoxy. The beginning iconography of a Leninist sacral tradition praised Lenin as a messianic and numinous leader. This process of iconographic work in progress culminated after Lenin's death in the sacral Lenin cult. The Lenin mausoleum served as the monumental centerpiece of sacral rites and practices to be enacted by the Stalinist orthodoxy. Joseph Stalin's invention of a sacral tradition of Marxism–Leninism qualified him as the only true disciple of Lenin. Therefore, Stalin claimed the monopoly of the infallible interpretation of the holy scriptures, summarized in his own dogmatic performances. In this sense, Stalin's Leninism became itself the religion of the Soviet state.<ref>Klaus-Georg Riegel, "Marxism-Leninism as a Political Religion," ''Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions'' 2005 6(1): 97-126 in [[EBSCO]]</ref>

==Identity Politics==

Lenin turned Russia into autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power; communist theory denies the existence of race, but the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another. This explains why leftists support racial quotas, especially affirmative action. [[Rules for Radicals]] by [[Saul Alinsky]], whose disciples include Democrats like [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]], borrowed his approach to identity politics, with concepts such as critical race theory, which teaches that white people are privileged, supporting groups such as Black Lives Matter which create racial and ethic divisons, and endorsing safe spaces on higher education campuses. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893, and then when the Ukrainian People's Republic gained independence after the first Russian Revolution in 1917, he retook the country the next year and expanded it's territory, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> As a consequence, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref> In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref> When splitting the Transcaucasian republics in 1922, he gave the [[Armenian]] territory of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]] to [[Azerbaijan]]. In addition, Lenin and his Bolshevik followers created Central Asian republics, some of which never existed before, like [[Kazakhstan]], gave them many Russian lands that did not belong to them, like Orenburg and other territories populated by Ural Cossacks and provided for building their infrastructure, hospitals, schools etc., by those in the Russian workforce, with Russians being qualified specialists.

==Image and memory==
After his death in 1924, Stalin portrayed Lenin as an infallible humanitarian; his writings were viewed as gospel. Museums were devoted to his life and work, cities were named for him, and huge statues and monuments honored his memory. Beginning in 1985, however, the Lenin cult began to crumble. Party chairman [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] was a faithful disciple of Lenin, but he now faced the reality that the economically bankrupt Communist state was rapidly decaying. As the Communist nation unraveled, so did the Lenin personality cult. Leningrad residents voted to restore the St. Petersburg name; the once-crowded museums attracted few visitors; and Lenin's philosophy and actions were found less than perfect. In 1991 as Communism fell, the statues and paintings went into cold storage. By 1995 plans were being made to bury Lenin's corpse, which was finally acknowledged to be putrefying just as the remains of any other mortal, as the cult itself fell into "the dustbin of history."<ref>Trevor J. Smith, "The Collapse of the Lenin Personality Cult in Soviet Russia, 1985-1995," ''Historian'' 1998 60(2): 325-343, in [[EBSCO]]</ref> His memory also faltered, ironically enough ending up being behind Stalin, largely because of more exposure to his unprincipled and horrific crimes.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/amp/lenin-at-150-even-without-covid-19-russia-was-set-to-snub-the-soviet-union-s-founder/30568383.html?fbclid=IwAR2s0upNQ-WaEeeXyJBcVF3mL1InW2ynJmOoqg7PkC7Y9OzPSL2X5bXaMDY</ref>

==Legacy==
His transformation of Russia into the Soviet Union ultimately led to Communism being exported throughout most of the world, and leading to well over tens of millions of death. In addition, there is evidence to suggest the anti-cop violence during the 2010s often encouraged by [[Barack Obama]] were derived from similar rhetoric by Lenin.<ref>http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3365/Lenin-Crush-Smash-the-Police.aspx</ref><ref>[http://www.marx.be/sites/default/files/documents/EN/texts/sr_and_sq.PDF The State and Revolution] by Vladimir Lenin "...at a certain stage in the development of democracy, it first welds together the class that wages a revolutionary struggle against capitalism -- the proletariat -- and enables it to crush, smash to smithereens, wipe off the face of the earth the bourgeois, even the republican-bourgeois, state machine -- the standing army, the police and the bureaucracy -- and to substitute for it a more democratic state machine, but a state machine nevertheless, in the shape of the armed masses of workers who develop into a militia in which the entire population takes part."</ref><ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/iii.htm What Is To Be Done?] by Vladimir Lenin "...the Social-Democrat’s [Communist's] ideal should not be the trade union secretary, but the tribune of the people, who is able to react to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears, no matter what stratum or class of the people it affects; who is able to generalise all these manifestations and produce a single picture of police violence and capitalist exploitation; who is able to take advantage of every event, however small, in order to set forth before all his socialist convictions and his democratic demands, in order to clarify for all and everyone the world-historic significance of the struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat."</ref>

== Quotes from Lenin ==
* "We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth... We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us."

* "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

* "The best revolutionary is youth devoid of [[moral]]s."

* "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

* "The goal of [[socialism]] is [[communism]]."

* "There are no morals in [[politics]] there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."

* "Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a [[Bolshevik]] forever." (see [[Public school values]] and [[Professor values]])

* "Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of [[atheism]]."

* "It matters not if 90% of the Russian people perish so long as 10% bring about a world revolution."<ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717663,00.html</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Karl Marx]]
* [[Joseph Stalin]]
* [[Dictatorship]]
** [[List of dictators]]
** [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]
** [[List of Communist States]]
** [[Death toll of communism]]
* [[Cult of personality]]
* [[Single-party state]]
* [[Mobocracy]], [[Social Effects of the Theory of Evolution]], [[Anti-Semitism]], [[Communist Racism]], [[Genocide]], [[Holocaust]]
* [[Nazi Party|National Socialist German Workers' Party]] (Nazi Party)
* [[National Socialism]] - the Nazis were elitist [[Police state]] [[liberals]] not [[conservative]]s
* [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Police state]]: [[Globalist]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[Communist]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
** [[Leninthink]] - a specific subset of liberal totalitarianism coined by its founder Vladimir Lenin.

==References==
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==Further reading==
===Biography===
* Clark, Ronald W. ''Lenin'' (1988). 570 pp.
* Service, Robert. ''Lenin: A Biography'' (2002), 561pp; standard scholarly biography; a short version of his 3 vol detailed biography
* Volkogonov, Dmitri. ''Lenin: Life and Legacy'' (1994). 600 pp.
===Specialized scholarly studies===
* Anderson, Kevin. ''Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study'' (1995) 311 pp.
* Copleston, Frederick Charles. ''Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev'' (1986). 445pp. by a conservative
* Debo, Richard K. ''Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921'' (1992).
* Marples, David R. ''Lenin's Revolution: Russia, 1917-1921'' (2000) 156pp. short survey
* Pipes, Richard. ''A Concise History of the Russian Revolution'' (1996) [https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Russian-Revolution/dp/0679745440/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232393501&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search], by a leading conservative
* Pipes, Richard. ''Communism: A History'' (2003), by a leading conservative
* Pipes, Richard. ''Russia under the Bolshevik Regime.'' (1994). 608 pp.
* Pomper, Philip. ''Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power.'' (1990). 446 pp.
* Schapiro, Leonard and Reddaway, Peter, eds. ''Lenin: The Man, the Theorist, the Leader - a Reappraisal'' (1987). 317 pp.
* White, James D. ''Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution'' (2001) 262pp.

===Primary sources===
* Desai, Meghnad, ed. ''Lenin's Economic Writings.'' (1989). 363 pp.
* Pipes, Richard, ed. ''The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive.'' (1996). 185 pp.

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Ukraine

2024-04-02T06:45:38Z

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'''Ukraine''' (''From Polish, u kraya = borderlands'') is a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for it own defense in money or manpower, it has lost its independence and [[sovereignty]], and is commonly referred to as a "stooge state" or "puppet regime."</ref> since coming under the tutelage of [[NATO]] and the [[United States]] in an illegal [[coup]] in 2014. It is rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine</ref> After the U.S.-backed coup under [[Barack Obama]], the Ukrainian regime became increasingly fascist and [[xenophobic]]. As late as 2020, the UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident, the country's official coat of arms, next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]."<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref> Ukraine is one of Europe's most notorious human and child trafficing centers.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-human-traffciking-416319 Ukraine's Shame: An Epidemic of Human Trafficking], LUKE A. DRABYN, ''Newsweek'', 1/16/16.</ref>

A "Ukrainian state" was created by the [[Bolshevik]]s with remnants of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires. No entity known as "Ukraine" existed prior to 1918. Other territories were seized by Stalin from Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia - countries that provided troops to the German invasion of Russia during World War II. Later the Ukrainian-born Soviet communist and premier [[Nikita Khruschev]] severed the [[Crimean Peninsula]] from Russia proper, which had been a Russian territory for 400 years. The word itself, "Ukraine" literally means "border" or "borderlands".

Post World War I, Ukraine consisted of many nationalities, linguistic, and religious groups<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080418030322/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30078/Ukraine Interwar Soviet Ukraine], ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> with "ethnic Ukrainians" only dominating the western regions. Ukrainian nationalists led a wholesale [[genocide]] against Poles, Gypsies, Jews, and Russians residing in those same territories under Nazi tutelage during World War II. Many Ukrainian Nazis were resettled in Canada and the United States to avoid prosecution for [[war crime]]s. The Ukrainian diaspora community residing in [[North America]] became the core anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance organized by the [[CIA]] after 1947. The people who spoke the borderlands dialect of Russian, one of many groups occupying the borderlands, previously were known as Galicians.

The territories were ceded to Germany by [[Lenin]] and [[Trotsky]] after the [[October Revolution]] in 1917, were non-aligned after the French and Angelo-American powers redrew the map and stiped Germany of its territorial possessions at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919, a Bolshevik Republic from 1922 to 1941,<ref>[https://dzen.ru/media/id/5f073d34db00016bd74b3365/kak-unr-plavno-uvelichilas-do-ussr-6309bf75f90f894d66c1b6ce HOW UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC BECAME UKRAINIAN SSR], Yuri Turkul, 29 August 2022.</ref> a Nazi ally from 1941 to 1944, and again an independent Soviet Republic from 1944 to 1991 with a seat in the [[United Nations]] General Assembly. By the 21st century, Ukraine had no independent history or literature of its own outside of the [[Russian World]].

Of the 50 million plus lives lost in [[World War II]], at least 30 million of various ethnicities came from, or will killed in, the territories of the borderlands, or "Ukraine". World War II occurred essentially in Ukraine, and not in [[France]] or [[Belgium]] or in the skies over [[Great Britain]]. The war set neighbor against neighbor, with local Ukrainian, Lithuanian and [[Baltic group|Baltic]] [[partisan]] groups fighting with the Nazis against local Russian, Belarussian and other partisan resistance groups defending themselves from Nazi aggression. While the German [[SS]] overlords implemented [[Hitler]]'s policy of extermination, it was Ukrainian and [[Lithuanian]] collaborators who did much of the dirty work in fingering their neighboring [[Jews]] and assisting in executions.

World War II did not end in Ukraine with the fall of [[Berlin]] and German surrender in 1945. Active resistance by nationalists against the Soviet Union continued until 1954, aided by the [[CIA]] from 1947 onward. Unlike the more urbanized territory of [[East Germany]], the Russian and Soviet peoples never were able to fully de-Nazify the Ukrainian Nazi Galicians of the more rural areas of western Ukraine. Like modern Russians who trace their ancestry back to [[Red Army]] soldiers who defeated fascism, Ukrainian nationalists today boast of their grandfathers who collaborated with the [[Third Reich]] and resisted Soviet Communism. Since the US-backed [[Maidan coup]] of 2014, monuments and memorials to Soviet soldiers who defeated fascism have been defaced and torn down while Ukrainian nationalists glorify their Nazi past.

Unlike [[Russia]], Ukraine advances the [[Soros]]-backed [[homosexual agenda]] with [[gay pride]] parades.<ref>[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/keep-spirit-maidan-alive George Soros Ukrainian youths sit near a fire late into the night in Kyiv's Maidan on February 25,]</ref> Also in contrast with Russia, Ukraine's leadership is [[liberal]] under the influence of western [[globalist]]s.

Ukraine has always possessed much ethnic [[diversity]]. It is the crossroads of East and West, Europe and Asia, North and South, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, Christendom and Islam. It had a significant Russian population in its eastern provinces, and many of these Russians declared independence after the Maidan coup and the NATO-backed ethninc cleansing campaign. Ukraine has significant Tatar, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, and Rusyn populations in its southern and western provinces. Throughout history Ukraine has been the site of some of the worst [[human rights]] atrocities on the planet. The former territory of Crimea was once populated by Crimean Tatars, but their presence was drastically reduced by the de-population policies of [[Joseph Stalin]].

To the north and east Ukraine shares a border with [[Russia]]; it shares a border with [[Belarus]] to the north and [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]] to the west. The counties of [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]] are to the southwest. The [[Black Sea]] is to the south, offering access to the [[Mediterranean]] via the Dneiper River. The capital city is [[Kyiv]] and the main religion is [[Eastern Orthodox]] Christianity. Ukrainians accentuate Kyiv different from how Russians do (Keev, not the Russian KEY-ev).<ref>https://www.polygraph.info/a/hey-daily-mail-it-s-ky--yeev-not-keev-/30281142.html</ref>

Ukraine is frequently in the news in the [[United States]] due to politicians, most notably [[Joe Biden]]'s family, personally profitting from the country since the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government. President [[Donald Trump]] was criticized by [[liberal]]s for asking Ukrainian leaders to investigate the potential corruption, which Ukrainian leaders failed to do. The United States Department of Defense has funded 11 biological research laboratories in Ukraine. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the [[North Korean]] ballistic missile capable of a [[nuclear bomb]] attack on [[Seattle]] and [[Los Angeles]] is based upon a design that came from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html</ref> The [[Biden regime]] has argued that each nation is free to build military alliances with whatever nation is chooses. In 2022, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky suggested Ukraine should acquire or base nuclear weapons there.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550057-zelensky-dangerous-nuclear-ukraine/</ref>

Ukraine is run by an oligarchy, with a small group of people amassing enormous fortunes as most of the nation labors in poverty. In 2014, the Pro-EU bloc with outside interference from the [[Western alliance]] overthrew the internal domestic pro-Russian bloc to seize power, resulting in massive chaos, the [[Crimean Annexation]], the ongoing [[Donbas conflict]] and a lingering economic crisis. This is in addition to how:
* The worldwide [[Recession of 2008]] hit Ukraine hard and it is seeking international aid.
* Politics has been chaotic recently.
* Russia has used its oil and gas exports to influence Ukrainian politics and economics.
* A strong (20%) Russian minority (mostly in the south and east) is campaigning for partition.
* The legal and economic systems are still controlled by powerful and secretive oligarchs.

The Ukrainian government which was installed in a [[coup]] in 2014 by the [[Obama administration]] worked with the [[Democratic National Committee]] to gin up the [[Russia Collusion hoax]], demonize [[Vladimir Putin]], interfere in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]], and turn American public opinion against [[Russia]] for [[propaganda]] purposes. Since the 2014 [[Maidan coup]], euphemistically referred to as the "revolution of dignity" by globalists and leftists, Ukrainian operatives working in the [[Democratic party]] of the United States and the U.S. [[intelligence community]] have sought to drive the United States to war with Russia to prevent the breakaway republics of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk from seceding from the globalist-backed Kyiv regime and joining the [[Russian Federation]].
[[File:OUN swastika.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Foreground: Ukrainian Coat of Arms. Background: Nazi swastikas.]]
[[File:Self proppelled canon.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Captured Pion (“peony”) ultraheavy self-propelled cannon that was previously aimed at Donetsk in the Donbas war. Note the Ukrainian trident symbol inside of an [[Imperial German]] “[[Iron Cross]]” painted on the side. This is very similar to the emblem of the [[Ukraine Security Service]], the local successor to the Soviet [[KGB]]. Modern Ukraine loves its German/Nordic-inspired symbols and imagery, in line with the post-2014 Maidan coup trend towards a forced and artificial but nonetheless complete break with all Russian/Soviet history, symbolism, and nomenclature, as if Ukraine has more in common with [[Germany]] than with Russia.]]
==Geography==
The total area of Ukraine is 603,700 km2 (233,090 sq. mi), making it, after Russia, the second largest country in [[Europe]]. Its coastline is 2,782 km.

The land of Ukraine is mostly [[steppe]]s and plateaus. There are mountains in the west of the country, the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]], and in the Crimean peninsula in the south. The main rivers in Ukraine are the [[Dnieper]] and the [[Dniester]].

The Ukrainian climate is considered temperate continental, but in the Crimea it is [[Mediterranean]]. The levels of precipitation are highest in the west and north, and lower in east and southeast. The winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland, and the summers are warm across the greater part of the country, and hot in the south.

==Demography==
[[File:Russian language in Ukraine.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Russian language spoken in Ukraine]]
[[File:Ukraine 2010 election.jpg|200px|right|thumb|2010 election results]]
There were at least 18 different nationalities totaling a pre-2014 population of about 46.5 million living within the territorial borders of the Ukraine in the early 21st century, with a population density of about 80 per square kilometer (200 people per square mile). Since the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup]] in 2014, more than 10.5 million people fled the country, 3.5 million of those seeking refuge in [[Russia]], more than any other country. Another 11.2 million residents of [[Crimea]], [[Sevastopol]], the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] people’s republics and the [[Zaporozhye]] and [[Kherson]] regions voted in open referendums to join the Russian Federation]]. Ukraine has lost 53.7% of its population since 2014.

The population was 73% Ukrainian and 22% Russian (with under 1% each of Poles, Jews, Bulgarians and others). Historically the countryside was heavily Ukrainian, while Russians dominated the cities, but in recent decades many Ukrainians have moved to the cities.

The country has been in demographic crisis since the 1980s. The population is shrinking 150,000 a year because of the lowest birth rate in Europe combined with one of the highest death rates in Europe. Life expectancy is falling. The nation suffers high mortality from environmental pollution, poor diets, widespread smoking, extensive alcoholism, and deteriorating medical care.<ref>Hanna H. Starostenko, "Economic and Ecological Factors of Transformations in Demographic Process in Ukraine" ''Uktraine Magazine'' #2 1998 online at [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/2_98/economic.htm]</ref>

The phenomenon of lowest-low fertility, defined as total fertility below 1.3, is emerging throughout Europe and is attributed by many to postponement of the initiation of childbearing. Ukraine, where total fertility (a very low 1.1 in 2001), is one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest-low fertility. Although Ukraine has undergone immense political and economic transformations during 1991–2004, it has maintained a young age at first birth and nearly universal childbearing. Analysis of official national statistics and the Ukrainian Reproductive Health Survey show that fertility declined to very low levels without a transition to a later pattern of childbearing. Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. These findings include the persistence of traditional norms for childbearing and the roles of men and women, concerns about medical complications and infertility at a later age, and the link between early fertility and early marriage.<ref>Brienna Perelli-Harris, "The Path to Lowest-low Fertility in Ukraine" ''Population Studies'' 2005 59(1): 55-70. Issn: 0032-4728; not online</ref>

According to data published by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Ukraine's fertility rate in 2023 dropped to 0.7.<ref>[https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/living-conditions-in-ukraine-are-resembling-a-new-slavery-a Living conditions in Ukraine are resembling a new slavery, a triumph of Western 'democracy' in the 21st century], Dmitri Kovalevich, Al Mayadeen, 20 Aug 2023</ref>

The government-imposed famines of the 1930s, followed by the devastation of World War II, comprised a demographic disaster. Life expectancy at birth fell to a level as low as ten years for females and seven for males in 1933 and plateaued around 25 for females and 15 for males in the period 1941–44.<ref>Jacques Vallin; Meslé, France; Adamets, Serguei; and Pyrozhkov, Serhii. "A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses During the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s." ''Population Studies'' (2002) 56(3): 249-264. Issn: 0032-4728 Fulltext in [[Jstor]]</ref>

Despite high rates of poverty, Ukraine is in the forefront of the global high-tech information and propaganda war.

Under Ukraine's fascist [[discriminatory]] laws, if a native Russian-speaking clerk-cashier in a convenience store attempts to sell you so much as a candy bar, the transaction must be conducted in the Ukrainian language. If both the cashier and customer are native Russian-speakers, both must put on fake Ukrainian accents under the [[racist]] regime's [[politically correct]] laws or suffer often cruel sanctions, up to and including public humiliation and violent beatings.

==Language, Religion, Culture==
In terms of societal structure, the territory of Ukraine is often referred to as a [[cleft country]] sitting on a "civilizational" fault line.

In 2022, the Russian language was banned from public life by the fascist Ukrainian regime which is totally dependent upon the financial assistance from the [[United States Congress]] to continue its existence. People whose first and only language is Russian were made second-class citizens in the country of their birth.

According to studies conducted by the Razumkov Center, 61% of Ukrainian citizens considered Ukrainian to be their native language, Russian - 36%, other languages - 2%. According to a survey conducted by Research & Branding Group, 68% of Ukrainian citizens are fluent in Russian (Ukrainian - 57%). According to a study by the American Gallup Institute, 83 percent of citizens surveyed chose Russian to communicate with the interviewer.

At least two-thirds of those living in Ukraine have one or more known relatives living in Russia. The fascist-controlled Maidan regime indoctrinates [[public school]] children with racial theories about no blood relationship between Russians and Ukrainians.
[[File:Ukrainian collaborators worldwartwo.filminspector.com 3.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Ukrainians welcome Nazi liberators from Soviet oppression.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
The religion is predominately [[Eastern Orthodox]]. In 1992 the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] split into two rival denominations, the Moscow Patriarchate and the unrecognized Kiev Patriarchate. In 2023 the Zelensky regime attempted to outlaw the Moscow Patriarchate. About 10%, primarily in the west, belong to Uniate churches with eastern rites but affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church of Rome. Poles are Roman Catholics of the Latin rite. The Tatars are Muslims. About 4% are atheists.

Ukraine is widely known for its lively Cossack-style dancing ("hopak") and elaborately batiked Easter eggs ("pysanky")

There are not only clear regional differences on questions of identity but historical cleavages remain evident at the level of individual social identification. Attitudes toward the most important political issue, relations with Russia, differed strongly between L'viv, identifying more with [[Ukrainian nationalism]] and the Greek Orthodox religion, and Donetsk, predominantly Russian and favorable to the [[Russian world]], while in central and southern regions, as well as Kyiv, such divisions were less important. However, prior to the overthrow of the democratically elected government by the Obama administration in 2014, all were united by an overarching Ukrainian identity based on shared economic difficulties, showing that other attitudes are determined more by culture and politics than by demographic differences.<ref>Oksana Malanchuk, "Social Identification Versus Regionalism in Contemporary Ukraine." ''Nationalities Papers'' 2005 33(3): 345-368. Issn: 0090-5992 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

Prior to 2022, Ukrainian civilian gun ownership was limited to 84th in the world.<ref>https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/cp/ukraine</ref>

Important Ukrainian literary figures include Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka.

===Social conditions===

In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> According to a 2017 survey, 63% of the population spoke Russian, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170822212837/http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref>

===Attacks on the church===

Unreported in the Western media propaganda complex were Zelensky regime's attacks on the Chirstian church. Priests were arrested and property seized in a fruitless hunt for weapons stored in churches. Jacob Driezen, who is fluent in Russian, summarized the attacks in December 2022:
[[File:SBU raids chuch.PNG |right|300px|thumb|Zelensky regime [[Ukrainian gestapo|gestapo]] raid on the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the preeminent center of Christianity since 1051 A.D. Other raids were carried out on the Cyril and Methodius Convent in Transcarpathia, and in Rovno, Vinnitsa, and Zhitomir oblasts looking for "Russian spys" and propaganda.<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/11/25/dreizin-retires/</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"The head (by other accounts, the press office) of the Ukraine’s military intelligence, the G.U.R., suggested the priests be traded for Ukrainian soldiers held by Russia....In reality, the church is GUILTY of sermonizing for peace, and emphasizing (in its prayers and sermons) the historic bonds between Russians and Ukrainians which is seen as a THREAT to the post-2014 regime as, among other sins, it contradicts the “official narrative” (as per school history textbooks) that Ukrainians are an autochthonous ethnos with a distinct lineage and an integral, unified history separate from Russia’s.

In particular, the regime hates that the church, per 1000-plus year tradition refers to “Rus” or “Holy Rus” in its prayers and sermons (e.g., “we pray for the peace of Rus“). Even though (long story short) “Rus“—later Rossiya, or Russia in English—was basically founded in Kiev.

But, the regime hates that word. Regime official history is that the Ukraine has been the Ukraine, since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

As I wrote before, the church (which is nominally under the Moscow Patriarchate) is also the last cultural bond between the Ukraine and Russia, that is not yet totally suppressed or illegal. So, it has to go. I won’t even be surprised if they dissolve the entire church soon, put its assets under the regime-approved breakaway faction....

It appears, there are now plans to confiscate the Kiev-[[Pechersk Lavra]] and hand it over to the regime-approved breakaway faction. The head of the Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, [[Oleksiy Danilov]], a former racketeer from Lugansk, has said something along the lines of, “the site never really belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, it belongs to the people, and now we’ll see who gets to use it.” Speculation is, the first stage of confiscation will involve allowing the regime-approved breakaway faction to use the site co-equally with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church… before the latter is pushed out entirely.

In general…Anyone, today, in the Ukraine, who challenges the narrative or speaks out in any way is basically GUARANTEED to suffer physical harm and/or detention and prosecution for treason, perhaps disappearance, even death."<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/11/25/dreizin-retires/</ref>}}

==Goverment 1991 - 2014==
[[File:Ukrainians greet Nazis 1941.PNG|right|500px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalists welcome Nazis, 1941 with banners saying "Heil Hitler".]]
By the time the territory of Ukraine was separated from the former Soviet Union in 1992, its landmass ranked as the world's 17th largest in Gross Domestic Product with no attributable foreign debt. The Russian Federation paid off the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's share of the USSR foreign debt — as it did for other former Soviet republics. At the beginning of 2020, after exploitation by Western oligarchs, Ukraine's debt to mostly Western foreigners exceeded 125 billion dollars. In terms of GDP per capita, Ukraine ranked last among European countries. By 2021, Ukraine showed the highest level of corruption among European countries.

Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' (2004) and 'Euromaidan' or 'Revolution of Dignity' (2014) both started at the central 'Maidan' square in Kiev, as had the earlier
'Revolution on Granite' (1990), and the word maidan is nowadays often applied to any massive anti-government street protests not only in Ukraine but in other post-Soviet countries as well.

===Pre-Maidan regime===
[[File:Galitchina.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The inscription in Ukrainian reads: "Join up with the SS Infantry
Division Galitchina for the defense of the fatherland — become brothers-in-arms with the best warriors of the world!"]]
Prior to the Maidan coup Ukraine had a parliamentary-presidential system of government with separate executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The president nominates the defense and foreign ministers, and the Prosecutor General and Chief of the State Security Service ([[SBU]]), each of whom must be confirmed by the parliament. Beginning in 2006, the 450-member unicameral parliament (Supreme Rada) names the prime minister, who in turn nominates other ministers. The Supreme Rada initiates legislation, ratifies international agreements, and approves the budget. Its members are elected to five-year terms. Following free elections held on December 1, 1991, Leonid M. Kravchuk, former chairman of the Ukrainian Rada, was elected to a five-year term, and became Ukraine's first president. At the same time, a referendum on dissolution from the Soviet Union was approved by more than 90% of the voters.

Shortly after splitting off from the Soviet Union, Ukraine named a parliamentary commission to prepare a new constitution, adopted a multi-party system, and adopted legislative guarantees of civil and political rights for national minorities. A new, constitution was adopted on June 28, 1996, which mandates a pluralistic political system with protection of basic human rights and liberties. Amendments that took effect January 1, 2006, shifted significant powers from the president to the prime minister and Supreme Rada. These reforms were nullified and rescinded by President Volodymyr Zelensky and the fascist-dominated parliament in March 2022 with the banning of opposition parties, imposition of censorship, and arrest, detention, and assassination of pollical opponents and dissidents.

Freedom of religion was guaranteed by law by the 1996 constitution, although religious organizations were required to register with local authorities and with the central government. Minority rights were respected in accordance with a 1991 law guaranteeing ethnic minorities the right to schools and cultural facilities and the use of national languages in conducting personal business until the U.S.-backed Maidan regime began a policy of extermination and removal of ethnic Russian citizens and Russian culture from public life. According to the constitution, Ukrainian is the only official state language.

Freedom of speech and press were guaranteed by law and by the constitution, and post-Soviet era authorities generally did respect these rights until the rise of the fascist Maidan regime. Prior to the "Orange Revolution," however, authorities sometimes interfered with the news media through intimidation and other forms of pressure. In particular, the failure of the government to conduct a thorough, credible, and transparent investigation into the 2000 disappearance and murder of independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, in which then-government officials have been credibly implicated, negatively affected Ukraine's international image. Freedom of the media and respect for citizens’ rights have increased markedly since the government of President [[Viktor Yushchenko]] took office in January 2005. During the final months of his Presidency, Yuschenko made the following declaration:
{{Cquote|In conclusion I would like to say something that is long awaited by the Ukrainian patriots for many years I have signed a decree for the unbroken spirit and standing for the idea of fighting for independent Ukraine. I declare [[Stepan Bandera]] a national hero of Ukraine.}}

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===Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists===
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUNb) worked hard to start a war between the US and Russia for the last 50 years. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'' in a rare open statement of their existence in 2011, “Other statements were issued in the Ukrainian language by the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (B) and the International Conference in Support of Ukraine. The [[OUN|OUN (Bandera wing)]] called for." OUNb follow the same political policy and platform that was developed in the 1930s by '''[[Stepan Bandera]]'''. When these people go to a '''[[Holocaust]] memorial they are celebrating both the dead and the OUNb [[SS]] that killed.'''<ref>http://www.infoukes.com/galiciadivision/</ref> The OUNb have no concept of democratic values and want an [[authoritarian]] [[fascism]].

[[Alexandra Chalupa]] (Ali Chalupa) is a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the [[Democratic National Committee]]. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'',<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>

{{Anchor|Ivan Katchanovski}}
{{quotebox-float|"… The effort, known as Digital Maidan, gained momentum following the initial [[Twitter]] storms. Leading the effort were: Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, [[Alexandra Chalupa]], Constatin Kostenko and others.” The Digital Maidan was also how they raised money for the coup. This was how the Ukrainian emigres bought the bullets that were used on Euromaidan. Ukraine’s chubby nazi, [[Dima Yarosh]] stated openly he was taking money from the Ukrainian emigres during Euromaidan and [[Pravy Sektor]] still fundraises openly in [[North America]]. The “Sniper Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine by '''Dr. Ivan Katchanovski''', University of Ottawa shows clearly detailed evidence how the massacre happened.<ref>Ivan Katchanovski (2023) The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine, Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685</ref> It has [[Pravy Sektor]] confessions that show who created the “[[heavenly hundred]]. Their admitted involvement as leaders of Digital Maidan by both Chalupas is a clear violation of the [[Neutrality Act]] and has up to a 25 year prison sentence attached to it because it ended in a [[coup]].}}

Andrea Chalupa-2014, in a ''Huff Post'' article Sept. 1 2016, Andrea Chalupa described Sviatoslav Yurash as one of Ukraine's important “dreamers.” He is a young activist that founded Euromaidan Press. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yurash was [[Dmitri Yarosh]]'s spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the deputy director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in Kiev.
[[File:Azov-bn.gif|left|350px|thumb|The Obama State Department colluded with the fascist Azov Battalion to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine in the [[Euromaidan Rebellion]] and install a corrupt regime that was sympathetic to, and included, fascists.]]

In January, 2014 when he showed up at the Maidan protests he was 17 years old. He became the foreign language media representative for [[Vitali Klitschko]], [[Arseni Yatsenyuk]], and Oleh Tyahnybok. All press enquiries went through Yurash. To meet Dimitri Yurash you had to go through Sviatoslav Yurash as a ''Macleans'' reporter found out.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yurash became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under [[Andrei Paruby]]. He was Dimitri Yarosh's spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Yurash.

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yurash's ''[[Euromaidan Press]]'' which is associated with [[Informnapalm]].org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.

From her bio, Irena Chalupa is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is also a senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where she has worked for more than twenty years. Irene Chalupa previously served as an editor for the [[Atlantic Council]], where she covered Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Irena Chalupa is also the news anchor for Ukraine's propaganda channel org She is also a Ukrainian emigre leader.

According to Robert Parry's article,<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2016/10/22/washingtons-new-lock-step-march-of-folly/</ref> "At the forefront of people that would have taken senior positions in a Clinton administration and especially in foreign policy are the Atlantic Council. Their main goal is still a major confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia."

The [[Atlantic Council]] is the think tank associated and supported by the CEEC (Central and Eastern European Coalition). The CEEC has only one goal which is war with Russia. Their question to candidates looking for their support in the election was “Are you willing to go to war with Russia?” Hillary Clinton has received their unqualified support throughout the 2016 campaign. Since the Atlantic Council would have taken senior cabinet and policy positions in a [[Hillary Clinton]] administration, Dimitri Alperovitch own fellowship status at the Atlantic Council and relationship with Irene Chalupa creates a definite [[conflict of interest]] for [[Crowdstrike]]'s investigation in May 2014 [[DNC]] hack which Crowdstrike blamed on Russia and the [[Comey]] [[FBI]] unquestionably accepted without investigating. Donald's Trump's campaign was gaining ground and Clinton needed a boost.

{{Anchor|Kyiv regime}}

==Maidan regime 2014 - present==
{{See also|Maidan coup}}
[[File:Yuzov field.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Yuzov shale gas field in Donbas.<ref>https://archive.ph/24KHx/a9869d7aa7b9d9c072e4957f1b8ea963fa512126.jpg</ref>]]
The Maidan regime outlawed political opposition parties in 2022 arrested members of parliament. Additionally, it implemented draconian measures against all opposition including arrests, disappearances, beatings, public humiliation, and murder. There is no free press in Ukraine, and Ukrainian security services has gone so far as to hunt down critics of the regime outside its borders.

With the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government in 2014, foreign capital and investors invaded the country causing the collapse of Ukrainian "mom-and-pop" enterprises which flourished after 1991, creating widespread poverty and unemployment, making resource rich Ukraine the poorest nation in Europe.

{{Anchor|Ukrainian Nazis}}
The U.S.-backed coup brought to power neo-Nazis, which Western media dubbed "moderate rebels". Extrajudicial killings, harassment, arbitrary detentions by the [[Security Service of Ukraine]], beatings and disappearances take place on a regular basis. Repressive measures accelerated and became even more brutal after anti-democratic dictator Volodymyr Zelensky declared martial law in February 2022. In April 2022, Efraim Zuroff, the Director of the [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] in [[Israel]] said, “There is no doubt that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine in various forms, whether in the Azov Regiment or other organizations,” he added.<ref>https://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2022&mm=04&dd=14&nav_id=113531</ref> The Ukrainian authorities and deputized ultra-nationalist groups seek out people who openly expressed political views on the former post-Soviet government as well as criticism of the current U.S.-backed Maidan regime. Threats, harassment and calls for violence have been and continue to be made against those who:
*publicly supported the [[Minsk Agreements]],
*are against “de-communization”,
*highlight human rights abuses,
*advocate for a settlement of the Donbas conflict,
*are deemed to be “pro-Russian”,
*church representatives and clergy,
*read news in Russian.
[[File:Head of Ukraine's Supreme Court arrested.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Head of Ukraine's [[Supreme Court]] arrested in 2023 for large scale corruption.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption</ref>]]
Add into this maelstrom another layer of extrajudicial repression, in the form of impromptu justice being meted out to civilians, bound up, tied to posts,<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/4CshCEPBhZQI/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlCFEDxkZz3T/</ref> beaten, humiliated and even killed by lower level Nazi groups in the "Territorial Defense".<ref>https://youtu.be/OAyWmOcj0q8</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/MtOig6UsjC72/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/VMS5cET98HOU/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/w1zvj2TAyWhL/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SIf9NgzIi4fG/</ref> There are simply hundreds and hundreds of video clips and photos showing these events. People are not only being tied up to street posts as suspected looters, but people are being bound up or arrested for being pro-Russian, for not being able to pronounce the word ''Palyanytsya'' (bread) in Ukrainian. Not every ethnic Russian speaker in Ukraine can speak good Ukrainian, and some have trouble pronouncing certain words in Ukrainian. People have been reportedly killed for not pronouncing the shibboleth word correctly and thus assumed to be part of subversive Russian reconnaissance groups.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/7OZHz7ncIRb1/</ref>

The so-called "international community” has expressed no interest or desire to take a closer look at this disturbing situation in Ukraine and in fact has supported the fascist regime with money, weapons and military training. A highly repressive with systematic serious human rights abuses committed against civilians, by members of the military and police, has not been an impediment to being part of the European and NATO family.

After the Maidan coup, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported in April 2017 that [[North Korea]] obtained its [[ballistic missile]] [[technology]] with the ability to strike the continental Western United States from the NATO puppet state of "democratic" Ukraine, in violation of non-proliferation treaties..<ref>[https://archive.is/nckTN#selection-341.0-341.52 North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say], By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, ''New York Times'', Aug. 14, 2017.</ref>

===Racial theories and discrimination===
[[File:Tymoshenko meeting Hillary.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Yulia Tymoshenko meeting [[Hillary Clinton]] during one of her many [[criminal]] trials.]]
Ukraine has the world's only national Constitution that includes genetic (or ‘racial’) purity as a responsibility of the Government to protect and maintain. Article 16 of Ukraine Constitution says "to preserve the genetic heritage of the Ukrainian people is the responsibility of the state."<ref>https://constituteproject.org/constitution/Ukraine_2019.pdf</ref>
The cultural and domestic godfather of Ukrainian nationalism was Taras Shevchenko. This writer essentially formed the main line of Ukrainian nationalist ideology - Russophobia, elevated to the state level, to the level of the leading and prime ideology. A successor of such ideas was the ideologist of the [[OUNb]], Dmytro Dontsov, called the dissolution of the personality of the "Ukrainian" in the nationalist ideology and collective consciousness of the nationalist movement "a great self-dedication to the idea." His works had a huge impact on the subsequent ideologists of Ukrainian Nazism, [[Shukhevych]] and Bandera. Dontsov, who, on the basis of the works of [[Hitler]] and [[Mussolini]], developed the concept that Ukrainians differ from Russians not only in ethnic, cultural and linguistic ways, but also in racial characteristics.

On February 22, 2014, V. Yavorivsky, a member of the Batkivshchyna faction, introduced in Ukraine's [[Verkhovna Rada]] draft legislation proposing that standards of accountability for expressing personal opinions on Fascist crimes be abolished. Within days after the anti-democratic seizure of power, the provisional Maidan parliament passed legislation that declared Russian speakers no longer have equal rights with Ukrainians, legalizing [[discrimination]] against Russians. On February 24, 2014, in Zaporozhye, four extremists attempted to burn down a [[synagogue]]. On March 11, 2014, a bill was introduced in parliament by the Svoboda party proposing a 7-year sentence for speaking Russian in government offices and public places in Ukraine.

In March 2014 Y. Perebiynis, head of the Information Policy Department of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Russians are not an indigenous people of Ukraine and therefore do not have the right to [[self-determination]] on Ukrainian territory. He also said that in Ukraine there are only four indigenous peoples: Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks. Ethnic [[Czech]]s living in [[Volyn]] and Zhytomyr provinces (there is an estimated 10,000 and 20,000 Czechs live in Ukraine) appealed to the government of the [[Czech Republic]] for repatriation. Chair of the Society of Volyn Czechs E. Snidevich said, "We fear for our lives. There are bandits who call themselves ‘self-defense units.’ Nothing good will come of this."

Beginning on March 20, 2014, Russians living in Ukraine started to complain ''en masse'' to the Consulate General of Russia in [[Kharkiv]] about pressure from Maidan authorities who demanded that they formalize their renunciation of Russian citizenship or leave Ukraine.

On March 24, 2014 a recording appeared on the internet of a telephone conversation between former Ukrainian prime minister and current presidential candidate [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] and former deputy secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine N. Shufrich. In it, Tymoshenko said,
{{quotebox-float|"We have only one way to destroy Moscow. This is what we live for, we have come into this world to destroy [[Moscow]]. And not just the Muscovite in our country, but the whole black hole of European security, and delete them from the world map. Sh*t, we have to resort to arms, and the G*d d**n Kazapi-Russians<ref>Ukrainian ethnic slur for Kazakhs, Turks, Taters and Russians.</ref> together with their leader, kill. I will stir the whole world to action as soon as I can, in order that Russia, the s*n of a b**ch, no burnt field remains (scorched earth). You have to shoot them with [[nuclear weapon]]s."<ref>https://www.kla.tv/22511</ref><ref>https://archive.vn/QX2Ks</ref>}}
On January 16, 2022, Ukraine mandated that all print media are to switch to the Ukrainian language. State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin said in a [[Facebook]] post, "In accordance with the law, print mass media can be produced in other languages, on the condition that the number of copies issued in a foreign language is equal to the number of copies issued in the state language [Ukrainian]. All language versions must be issued under the same name and be equal to each other in terms of content, volume, printing techniques. They must enter circulation under the same number and on the same day."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

In March 2022 the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, a governmental entity, published in both Russian and English a series of arguments claiming Ukrainians are pureblood [[Slavs]], while the Russian nation was formed through race mixing with Asiatic tribes, "the Ugro-Finnish tribes: Muroma, Mernia, Wes, Meshchera, Moksha, Perm, Narova, and others,” it stated. The difference apparently is “visible to the naked eye”. Despite the common language, alphabet, history, society, culture, and literary traditions, the Institute denies that Ukrainians and Russians are "fraternal brothers," and states that Ukrainians are European, unlike "russian nomads" (spelled with a lower case "r". Several cabinet ministers in the Zelensky regime make a habit of always spelling "Russia" with a lower case "r".)
[[File:Ukrainian nazi propaganda.jpg|left|400px|thumb|Official Maidan regime nazi propaganda posted to Twitter. It was later deleted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220315202518/https://twitter.com/Uinp_gov_ua/status/1503439897025204224</ref>]]
In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref><ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

Secretary of the Security Council Alexei Danilov said on the air of the NTA TV channel that the Russian language must be completely eradicated on the territory of Ukraine. According to Danilov, the Russian language is allegedly hostile to Ukrainians, so it has no place in this country. "The Russian language in general should disappear from our territory as an element of hostile propaganda and brainwashing of our population," Danilov said on a national talk show.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/10/21/national-security-and-defense-council-of-ukraine-the-russian-language-must-disappear/</ref> Danilov claimed that the "narrative" about the need to reach mutual understanding with Russian-speaking Ukrainians is highly dangerous for the state. "To plant these Russian narratives here is a very, very dangerous thing. Presumably, we have to understand each other, who they are, what they are. Look, we don’t want anything from them [Russians]. Why don’t they leave us alone? Let them go to their swamps and croak in the Russian language,” he stated.

Danilov complained about a large number of Ukrainian political experts who regularly appear on television using Russian as the main language. In response to this, the show host proposed to create and broadcast a list of Ukrainian public figures that speak Russian. He also said that the state-owned Ukrainian channel Freedom will abandon the Russian language and start broadcasting in English. “I would like to draw your attention to something else – we have a lot of experts who go from channel to channel and use Russian as the main language of their communication. Moreover, they are rated in some studies, they claim, they say that they will go to the president, somewhere else. Look, the Russian language should disappear from our territories altogether as an element of enemy propaganda and brainwashing for our population,” Danilov added.

In October 2022 it was reported that Ukrainian nationalists tore down statues of Hungarian historic figures. Ukraine sperm banks advertised specimens from "pure blood' Ukrainians.

On November 10, 2022 the Kyiv City Council voted to remove the Russian language from the Maidan regime capital’s public school curriculum citing "[[national security]]."<ref>https://insideeducation.co.za/2022/11/11/kiev-introduces-new-restrictions-on-the-russian-language/</ref>

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Ukraine, which never existed prior to 1918, first applied to join the European Union in 988 A.D. ([[Anno Domini]]).<ref>https://youtu.be/6ryrNQibEGo?t=1378</ref> The European Union, which was founded as a coal and steel consortium in 1957, did not adopt the name "European Union" until 1992 A.D. after going through a series of other name changes.

Soldiers of the Ukrainian regime were given a leaflet from the [[Kiev Patriarchate]] that read,
{{quotebox-float|"You are a defender of Ukraine. Your duty is to defend [[Nezalezhnaya|Independence]] and fight Russian occupants. Your duty is to wipe the Russian nation from the face of the Earth. Your enemy is the [[Russian World]] which was created by defective sinful souls. To kill a Russian is not a [[sin]]."<ref>https://youtu.be/cl0Fh2p_cT4?t=142</ref>}}
On September 28, 2023, Vovan & Lexus, the famous radio DJs and pranskters, posing as ex-President [[Petro Poroshenko]], spoke with the [[transgender]] Ukrainian [[Territorial Defense]] spokesperson [[Sarah Ashton-Cirillo]] (American born Michael Cirillo, stated what is taught in Ukrainian [[public school]]s:
{{quotebox-float|"Russians are not Europeans… Russians are Asian, and ultimately, they do come from the [[Mongol]]s. They do come from a grouping of people who want to be [[slave]]s and want to be led, just as it was from the days of [[Genghis Khan]]. I wish the rest of Europe and the [[Western civilization|Western world]] understood that Europe ends at Ukraine. We are protecting European values and Western values the same way those did hundreds and thousands of years ago when the Mongols came in…. Every Russian that supports Vladimir Putin’s decisions are not human. These people are not human. They are enemies of [[humanity]], in fact… we’ve been asking the Western world since the days of your presidency, sir, to make certain they understood the threat of these non-humans."<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/justin-trudeau-and-the-banderites/ Justin Trudeau and the Banderites], C.B. Forde, ''The Postil Magazine'', October 1, 2023.</ref>}}
In November 2023 November 9, 2023 Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, stated that the issue of protecting the Russian minority is not raised in the negotiations with the EU on minority rights. "There is no Russian minority in Ukraine. It does not exist! There is not a single legally registered community that identifies itself as a Russian minority." The day before, the [[European Commission]] also stated at a closed briefing in [[Brussels]] that it would not take into account the "rights of Russian speakers" on Ukraine's path to the EU.<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/no-russian-minority-ukraine-rights-092554145.html There is no Russian minority in Ukraine, so its "rights" do not come up in negotiations with EU – Ukraine's senior official], ''Ukrainska Pravda'', November 9, 2023.</ref>

===Nazi paramilitary groups===

In April 2014, the 25th separate airborne brigade of the High Mobility Assault Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was sent to Donetsk to wage war on its residents. However, in the words of the embittered interim-president Turchynov on April 17, 2014, at the Verkhovna Rada, “the 25th separate Airborne Brigade, whose military showed cowardice and surrendered arms, will be disestablished… The Defense Ministry has received this instruction.”<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/</ref>
[[File:National Militia.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[BBC]] report on the National Militia, April 4, 2018.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6b4ao8gAQ Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia], Jonah Fisher reports, ''BBC Newsnight'', April 4, 2018.</ref>]]
Turchynov sent a corresponding order to the Prosecutor-General's office demanding the criminal punishment of the disobedient servicemen. While the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denied that the brigade defected to the side of the separatists, the unit's tanks began to fly the flag of the DNR, as even mainstream Western media reported.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/ukraines-offensive-falters-as-elite-units-defect-to-pro-russia-side</ref>

Days after the interim President “disbanded” the 25th Brigade, the newly installed “deputy governor” of Dnipropetrovsk</ref> announced the formation of “special forces” in order to “protect the oblast” from falling into “Russia’s hands.” While the median Ukrainian salary for 2014 was 3480₴ (US$117), “volunteers” for these battalions, according to the Deputy Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Hennadiy Korban, received 29528₴ ($1000) per month. That's nearly ten times the average salary in Ukraine.

After the loss of parts of the Oblasts of Lugansk and Donetsk and the entire peninsula of Crimea, Kiev believed that Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with its large Russian-speaking population, would be the next Oblast to declare independence. Unable to rely on the Ukrainian military, nor the current police force, which they deemed to be “infiltrated by pro-Russian separatists,” Kiev officially deputized the fascistic paramilitary forces that functioned as street muscle during the Maidan coup.

In March 2014, Kiev passed a law establishing a “national guard” which was to be overseen by the Ministry of the Interior.<ref>https://cis-legislation.com/document.fwx?rgn=66315</ref> With the consent of the then-Interior Minister [[Arsen Avakov]], Ukrainian billionaire [[Igor Kholmoisky]] bankrolled the creation of some of the country's more notorious [[Territorial Defense]] forces.

===US role: National Endowment for Democracy===
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[[Washington D.C.]]’s regime-change arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED), spent $16.8 million from 2007 through 2012, to stimulate civic activity and fund election watchdogs and non-state run reporting outlets in Ukraine. These funds have gone to organizations that played a role in the 2004 Orange Revolution and have since continued to monitor elections, investigate government corruption and educate youth about Western "democratic" government.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-foreign-aid-ukraine_n_4914682</ref> Since the Maidan coup of 2014 NED spent $22.4 million on operations inside Ukraine, when democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor regime handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational corporations, all in an effort to secure U.S. control over the country that NED President Carl Gershman called “the biggest prize” in Europe.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/</ref>
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[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|3O0px|thumb|Maidan coup conspirators [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), U.S. Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).<ref>https://youtu.be/vtKgW2DSIb0</ref>]]
The National Endowment for Democracy was set up in 1983 after a series of scandals undermined both the credibility and the public image of the [[CIA]]. The organization was established as a cutout doing much of the agency's dirtiest work. “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA,” Gershman himself said, explaining its creation. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1991.

NED is almost entirely funded by Congress and is staffed largely by ex-national security state leaders. Its president as of 2022 is Damon Wilson. The NED published a video of Wilson at a rally outside the [[White House]], declaring "Glory to Ukraine" – the salute used by Nazi collaborator [[Stephan Bandera]]'s [[OUN-B]], which carried out [[mass murder]] of [[Jews]] and [[Polish|Poles]] during [[World War II]].<ref>https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1500899917300129795</ref> Other top officials pepper NED's board of directors, including [[Biden regime]] CIA Director [[William Burns]], Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution mastermind [[Victoria Nuland]], as well as veteran national security official Elliott Abrams. Its private non-profit status means that its affairs do not fall under the same legal scrutiny as those of government organizations like the CIA. It has no congressional oversight. It is harder to acquire documents under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA), meaning that the group's actions remain shrouded in secrecy.

Studying the NED grants database reveals that the organization has approved 334 separate grants to Ukraine, a country the group's 2019 annual report identified as its “top priority,” owing to “its size and importance for the Europe region.” The report notes that NED is focused on “counter[ing] foreign [i.e., Russian] malign influence, particularly disinformation and corrosive capital.” Of the European nations, only Russia itself has been the target of more NED money ($37.7 million to Ukraine's $22.4 million). NED is rather hazy about where its money is going, yet scrutinizing the vague project outlines, it becomes clear that NED has two major objectives in Ukraine:
[[File:Oleh Tyanhbok.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Tyahnybok: "[[Moscow]]-[[Jewish]] mafia" is running Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/05/corporate-medias-about-face-on-ukraines-neo-nazis/</ref>]]
:Pushing through a mass privatization of the country’s state-owned businesses.
:Building up political parties that will represent elite U.S. interests.

Of the $22.4 million, over $2.9 million has been awarded to the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an offshoot of the [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]. One NED grant to the CIPE — worth $500,000 described the project's goal as “enhanc[ing] the role of leading business associations and the private sector in public policy decision-making, and improv[ing] the capacity of the private sector and officials to cooperate to develop and implement economic reforms.” In other words, to hand over government decision-making to big business, something many might argue is the antithesis of [[democracy]].<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>

The post-2014 government, installed after the Maidan Revolution, has already implemented a course of economic shock therapy, selling off many of the country's state-owned assets, in the process turning Ukraine into, by quite some margin, the poorest nation in Europe (although it has also helped create many new billionaires). Nevertheless, the U.S. wants to see further privatizations, along the lines of what it helped implement in Russia in the 1990s.

NED has also been key in building up pro-U.S. political forces in Ukraine, notably awarding the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) nearly $2.2 million towards this endeavor. Congress established NDI in tandem with NED; and NDI, like its sister organization, claims to be a non-governmental organization, despite being affiliated with the [[Democratic Party]]. Its chairperson is [[Madeline Albright]], secretary of state under the [[Clinton administration]].

One $595,000 grant describes how NDI will “help political parties develop into inclusive, national movements,” and will “assist parties in the development of inclusive, internal communication and decision making procedures” and “conduct public opinion research and trainings to help parties better understand and respond to citizens, including those outside of their traditional geographical bases of support.” A less charitable interpretation of the grant would be that the U.S. government is taking over the political direction and organization of Ukrainian political parties, molding them as they see fit.
[[File:Biden and neo-nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Biden shaking hands with [[Oleh Tyanhbok]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1112498132489814017</ref> Following the 2011 conviction of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk as an accessory to murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp, Tyahnybok met with Demjanjuk's lawyer, presenting Demjanjuk as a Ukranian national hero, a victim of persecution ‘’who is fighting for truth."<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukraine-fascisms-toe-hold-in-europe/</ref>]]
In tandem with the support of political blocs also comes the grooming of young political and social activists who NED hopes will become the leaders of tomorrow. To this end, it has given at least $385,000 to the European Institute for Democracy in Warsaw, in order to, in its words, “support a new generation of political leaders in Ukraine,” by conducting training courses for their handpicked proteges, flying them out of the country to provide lessons in “election campaigning, women empowerment, effective governing, and crisis management,” among other skills.

The point, of course, is to develop a cadre of pro-Western [[neoliberal]] thought leaders who will ally themselves to the United States and its vision for Ukraine. Left unstated in all this is that the U.S. is deciding who exactly this new generation of leaders comprises. And for all the nods towards [[diversity]] and [[liberalism]], the U.S.’ record in Eastern Europe shows they are happy to support [[fascist]]s and other highly anti-democratic forces. Those who do not share Washington’s goals for Ukraine need not apply.
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Another key focus for NED is to establish and support pro-Western media outlets and [[NGO]]s that backed both the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych and the new government's privatization agenda. This is all couched as “promoting independent media.” But in reality, it is creating a network largely dependent on and answerable to Washington. One example of this is the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, which consistently publishes studies about “Russia’s efforts to distort facts” and scare stories about an impending Russian invasion, while inviting the British ambassador to give talks at its headquarters. Ukraine Crisis describes its vision of Ukraine as an “outpost of freedom and democratic development in Eastern Europe,” and an “integral part of the West.” Ukraine Crisis is directly funded by a number of different U.S. governmental organizations, as well as by NATO and the governments of Germany, [[Canada]], the United Kingdom, [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Poland]], [[Finland]] and the [[Netherlands]].

Most of the media organizations NED funds also maintain English-language versions of their websites. This is because many of these groups are used to influence Western audiences as well as individuals inside the target country, Ukraine. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), for example, has been supported financially since 2016 and has received at least $204,000 from NED. It plays an important role in injecting U.S. government narratives into American media reporting, having been presented simply as a “human rights group” in a wide range of outlets, including ''The Washington Post'', ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[The New York Post]]''. None of these articles inform readers that CCL is directly in the pay of a CIA front group, precisely because it would undermine their credibility.

Media networks directly owned and operated by the U.S. state, including [[Radio Free Europe]]/Radio Liberty and [[Voice of America]], also frequently use CCL as an expert source. This gives the impression that there is a sizable groundswell of individuals all focusing on the same issue when, in reality, it is simply operatives from the same source (the U.S. government) all interacting with each other.

====False flag: "Heavenly hundred"====
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref>

On February 20, 2014, a sniper firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine. Oligarchic and Ukrainian nationalist elements were involved in this massacre. The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref>
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
The official forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014, the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref>Katchanovski</ref>

A female Maidan medic during the massacre was pointing to the top of a building and shouting about snipers. But her words were translated in a [[BBC]] report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Government ballistic experts confirmed this during on-site investigative experiments.

These revelations were not reported by any Western media. This includes ''The New York Time'', which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting Kiev regime that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.” It also includes [[CNN]], which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces.

The Maidan regime investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.
[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]
The official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings.
<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/</ref>

Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to defense lawyers of police from the former regime in the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. They also said that they received instructions from an ex-U.S. Army sniper and then saw Georgian, Baltic States, and Praqvy Sektor-linked snipers shooting from specific Maidan-controlled buildings.

Western media silence also ignored a statement by Anatolii Hrytsenko, who was a Maidan politician and minister of defense, that the investigation of the massacre was stonewalled because of the involvement of someone from the current leadership of Ukraine in the mass killing.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171019101358/http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/ukraine-parliament-yanukovych-kiev-deal/</ref>

===Maidan coup===
{{See also|Maidan coup|Obamunism}}
[[File:McCain Tyahnybok2.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[John McCain]] with Oleh Tyahnybok during the Euromaidan coup.]]
On February 21, 2014, President Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition that he would not seek re-election the following February since his removal was the protesters primary demand. German Foreign Minister [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], Polish Foreign Minister [[Radosław Sikorski]], a head of department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian observer Vladimir Lukin were witnesses. It was hoped the agreement with opposition leaders would bring ton an end the crisis situation in Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?], By MAX BLUMENTHAL, FEBRUARY 25, 2014.</ref>

In the evening of the same day, on Maidan Square, the radicals rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the neo-fascist Pravy Sektor, [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.
[[File:Neocon cookie monster Victoria Nuland and Pyatt.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Amidst the slaughter on Maidan Square, neocon cookie monster Victoria Nuland hands out cookies. Behind her is State Dept. psycho Geoffrey Pyatt.]]
Soon the security forces were withdrawn from the government quarter. This was taken advantage of by [[revolution]]ary militants, deciding not to wait for the expiration of their announced deadline. Neo-nazi [[activist]]s and participants of the "[[Maidan Self-Defense]]" stormed the Presidential Administration, Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the evening of February 21, 2022 Yanukovych, together with the heads of the Verkhovna Rada and the presidential administration – Volodymyr Rybak and Andriy Kliuyev – fled Kiev to [[Crimea]] for their own personal safety. Throughout Ukraine, massacres unfolded between supporters and opponents of the U.S.-appointed [[Maidan junta]].

====Unconstitutional impeachment====
According to the procedure of impeachment defined in Article 111 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Rada must establish a special investigatory commission to formulate charges against the president, seek evidence to justify the charges and come to conclusions about the president's guilt for the Rada to consider. To find the president guilty, at least two-thirds of Rada members must assent.

Prior to a final vote to remove the president from power, the procedure requires

*the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to review the case and certify that the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration has been followed, and

*the Supreme Court of Ukraine to certify that the acts of which the President is accused are worthy of impeachment.

To remove the president from power, at least three-quarters of Rada members must assent.

The Rada didn't make any pretense of following this procedure. No investigatory commission was established, and the Courts were not involved.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/president-yanukovych_b_7647102.html</ref> On 22 February 2014, the Rada simply passed a resolution purporting to remove Yanukovych from office in accordance with the Constitution.

The constitutionality of Yanukovych's removal from office has been questioned by constitutional experts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yanukovych's removal was unconstitutional|url=https://gpforecasts.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/yanukovychs-removal-was-unconstitutional/|website=wordpress.com|date=March 2014|access-date=}}</ref> According to Daisy Sindelar from Radio Free Europe, the impeachment may have not followed the procedure provided by the constitution: "[I]t is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers." The vote, as analyzed by Sindelar, had ten votes less than those required by the constitutional guidelines. The decision to remove Yanukovich was supported by 328 deputies. Article 11 maintains that a vote on impeachment must pass by two-thirds of the members, and the impeachment itself requires a vote by three-quarters of the members. In this case, the 328 out of 447 votes were about 10 votes short of three-quarters.<ref name="RadioFreeEurope">{{cite web|last=Sindelar |first=Daisy |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274346.html |title=Was Yanukovych's Ouster Constitutional? |publisher=Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (Rferl.org) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Kyiv Post |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html |title=Parliament votes 328–0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election; [[Tymoshenko]] free (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

Two days later Ukraine's parliament dismissed five judges of the Constitutional Court for allegedly violating their oaths, who were then investigated for alleged malpractice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/rada-dismisses-constitutional-court-judges-appointed-from-its-quota-337523.html |title=Rada dismisses Constitutional Court judges appointed from its quota |work=Kyiv Post |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

====Korsun massacre====

On February 19, 2014, eight busloads of people from Crimea, who had come into Ukraine's capital Kyiv and were holding signs there demonstrating in opposition to the Maidan movement, were violently attacked by Pravy Sektor people who were leading the Maidan movement; and those terrified Crimeans then scrambled back into their buses, which promptly sped southward, home toward Crimea.
[[File:Korsun massacre 2-20-2014.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Massacre of Russian Crimeans at Korsun by the Pravy Sektor, February 19, 2022.]]
The buses were fired upon and stopped at barricades near the town of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky (Cherkassy region) where flags of the [[UPA]], the [[UDAR]] (Strike) party and AUU Svoboda were flying. Both men and women were dragged out of the buses through a corridor of militants who beat them with bats and entrenching shovels. The passengers were knocked down in a heap on the roadside, doused with
gasoline, and threatened to be set on fire. According to witnesses, militants from the crowd shouted: "Just wait, we’re going to come and get you in Crimea. We are going to stab you and shoot you, that is, those of you who we haven’t already beaten to a pulp and shot up yet". Many Crimeans were forced to take off their shoes "for the needs of Maidan soldiers", and driven around the buses like cattle and forced to pick up the broken glass. The humiliation and abuse continued for several hours. There were casualties among the victims. Most of the buses were burned. The local police, who arrived at the scene, did not intervene.

The Ukraine Human Rights organization posted to the internet on August 14, 2014, a 25-minute video, with English subtitles, telling these people's stories. It's titled ''The Pogrom of Korsun'',<ref>https://youtu.be/loKajkXoTBU</ref> and it reports, with testimony and some of the videos from survivors, the attacks against those buses when a gang of Ukraine's Right Sector members caught up with those escaping Crimeans, near the Ukrainian town of Korsun.

Private cellphone videos that were taken of these incidents were shown in the compilation by Ukraine Human Rights, but one other striking cellphone video, which was posted to YouTube on August 15, 2014, isn't fully available anymore, and it showed the view from the rear seat of a car as it was approaching a blockage, and the blocked buses, some of which were aflame. A few car-drivers were standing watching at a distance, while the Right Sector people beat and killed Crimeans alongside their buses.<ref>https://archive.ph/pgUkP#selection-719.0-719.16</ref>

====Crimean Spring====
[[File:Crimea Referendum.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Billboard advertising the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum to apply for admission to the Russian Federation.]]
On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref> Because the majority of the people living in Crimea were ethnic Russian speakers, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> Crimeans did not support the fascist overthrow of the democratically elected government. On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March 16, 2014, on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine's constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

In response to the annexation, Sen. [[John McCain]] introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion. On March 6, 2015, the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

====Odessa Trade Unions House massacre====
[[File:Revolution of Dignity.PNG|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/1XFO5</ref>]]
On April 16, 3014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref> Two weeks later on May 2, 2014, Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 42 Russians, most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref>

According to eyewitnesses the Maidan fascists outnumbered the anti-Kyiv protesters 10 to 1. First the Maidan activists burnt down the tents of anti-Kiev regime protesters outside the building. The anti-Kiev protesters retreated into the building and tried to blockade the door. A group of Maidan girls filled up Molotov cocktails.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref> The Maidan protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails. Soon the building was engulfed in flames. A Maidan activist was shooting at people trying to escape from the windows.<ref>https://youtu.be/s-bpkx0d1fM</ref> The Maidan fascist crowd began cheering as they set the building ablaze and beat those who tried to escape.<ref>[https://youtu.be/wuOptWUTR3w Odessa, Ukraine: Right sector attacks trade union building, kills 43], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> A fire station less than a kilometer away couldn't respond. The Maidan activists blocked the lone fire truck and wouldn't let the firefighters operate.

Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>https://archive.fo/Gt4UV</ref> The Western-backed Kyiv regime covered up the atrocities, most victims being ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine. Sixteen months later after conducting in independent outside investigation, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the Kyiv regime's [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

The Maidan regime failed to investigate and prosecute any neo-Nazi [[murderer]]s who burnt alive at least 48 ethnic and cultural Russians in [[Odessa massacre]] on May 2, 2014.

====Economic impact of coup====
After the 2014 coup Ukraine and Russia severed economic ties leading to a shutdown of high value-added manufacturing that had been geared to the Russian market.

This included the shuttering of national flagship industries such as the Yuzhmash space rocket and engine plant in Dnepropetrovsk, which had employed tens of thousands, as well as the Nikolaev shipyard, and the Motor Sich helicopter engine plant in Zaporozhye. Also, whatever was left of the Antonov concern in the Kiev area, to name the biggest and best-known.

Some of these and other factories were partially converted, on a small scale, to produce lower-end military hardware, which the state bought with American money. Many other industries (e.g., electromechanical parts and instruments, building materials, processed foods, etc.) lost their Russian market, and their wares and produce was not wanted in Europe. Some of these enterprises survived, but shrunk. in doing so.

As the higher-value-added industries and all other exports to Russia shut down, the knock-on effects were felt in other sectors (e.g., services, construction), pulling down everything. The Kyiv regime was intent on selling off state owned or subsidized enterprises to foreign investors and driving local Mom n Pop enterprises out of business to make way for Western producers, wholesalers, retailers, and chain franchises.

Overall, the economy shrank by about half. Many people, mostly young people of working age, left the country. Between the loss of territories in 2014, natural deaths, male and female emigration between 2014 and 2021, Ukraine lost at least 12 million of its 46 million residents. Ukrainians have a word for those who have left the country in search of work and fortune elsewhere - ''zarobitchany''. Since 2014, at least 6 million males of military service age have been living in Russia, Poland, Italy, Czechia, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Portugal, UK, etc. Not more than 65,000 ever returned to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine after 2021.

===Donbas war===
The [[Donbas war]] began in 2014 when the [[Obama administration]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] overthrew the [[democracy|democratically]] elected president of Ukraine.<ref>https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/03/how-why-us-government-perpetrated-2014-coup-ukraine/</ref> [[President Viktor Yanukovych]]'s election had been certified by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He was the first democratically elected official overthrown in a violent revolution in recent memory. The U.S.-backed [[coup]] was accomplished with the aid of anti-Russian [[neo-Nazi]]s in Ukraine. It was an unconstitutional [[regime change]].

[[Crimea]] held a referendum and rejoined Russia rather than live under an illegal government. However, Russia did not accept the results of the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] referendums in the Don River Basin, collectively known as Donbas. [[Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk]] declared independence from [[Kyiv]] and became known as the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

The people of the Donbas refused to recognize the legitimacy of the illegal [[coup]], so the newly installed government sent the army to quell protests. The army refused to follow the new regime's orders to fire on civilian protesters. Some units even joined the protests. With the army proving itself unreliable, the U.S.-installed Kyiv regime incorporated neo-Nazi militias into official Ukrainian government armed forces, entrusted to perform the tasks that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Kyiv wanted. On May 17, 2014, the International Observatory of Ukrainian Crisis posted:
[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk during the 8 years of the [[Donbas war]].<ref>https://youtu.be/zlrYBnttnt4</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|“Reporting that militants of neo-nazi “Right Sector” have murdered a group of soldiers (members of the Ukrainian army) near Kramatorkaya Starovavarke (Kramatorsk)...The soldiers [of Ukraine’s army in Kramatorsk] didn’t want to kill civilians. Then at midnight a squad of neo-nazis have fallen on them and murdered the soldiers. This is how the [[USA]]-EU impose democracy in Ukraine!!! Killing their own soldiers! And just because they didn’t want to kill civilians!!!”<ref>https://archive.ph/BG5xK</ref>}}
Hromadske TV media is one of the most-watched networks in Ukraine. Hromadske is funded by the [[Dutch]] and US Embassies in Kyiv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the European Endowment for Democracy, and Free Press Unlimited. [[Silicon Valley]] [[oligarch]] Pierre Omidary was also involved in creating the outlet.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/</ref> Hromadske hosted Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> during the Maidan coup demanding [[genocide]] of ethnic Russians saying Donbas,
{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED.<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}
A truce was negotiated between the two separatist Republics and the Kyiv regime in 2015 in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]] and known as the Minsk Agreements. The Agreements were negotiated with the help of [[France]] and [[Germany]]. [[Moscow]] backed the Minsk Agreements which Kyiv also agreed to, and the [[United Nations Security Council]] endorsed the agreements as well. The Minsk Agreements would give autonomy to the two provinces while remaining part of Ukraine. However the Ukraine regime did nothing to further implement the agreements after 2015, and only a ceasefire for the use of heavy weapons (tanks and artillery) remained in place.

As of 2021, 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict.<ref>https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/29thReportUkraine_EN.pdf</ref>

Under Ukrainian law, physicians in Donbas risked a 15-year prison sentence for treating gun shot wounds of members of the Donbas militia.<ref>https://youtu.be/VGUYInNeaqU</ref>

====Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas====
{{See also|Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas}}

====Torture and human rights violations====
Journalist Dan Cohen reports:<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zelensky-secret-police-hunted-down-opposition-anatoly-shariy/280200/</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"On 21 July 2016, Amnesty International had issued ''“Torture and secret detention in Ukraine – new report”''. It said, for example: “The Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kiev paramilitary groups have detained civilians suspected of involvement with or supporting Russian-backed separatists, while the separatist forces have detained civilians suspected of supporting or spying for the Ukrainian government, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch found. In one case, ‘Vadim,’ 39, was detained and tortured first by one side, then the other. In April last year, armed men seized him at a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces, pulled a bag over his head, and questioned him about his alleged connections with Russia-backed separatists. Vadim spent more than six weeks in captivity, most of the time in a facility apparently run by Ukraine’s Security Service ([[SBU]]) personnel. His interrogators tortured him with electric shocks, burned him with cigarettes, and beat him, demanding that he confess to working for Russia-backed separatists. After they finally released him, Vadim returned to [[Donetsk]] and was immediately detained by the local de facto authorities, who suspected him of having been recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service during his time in captivity. He spent more than two months in incommunicado detention in an unofficial prison in central Donetsk, where his captors also beat and ill-treated him.”

The entire report is 42 pages, and Vadim’s case is summarized on its page 6, at the start of the Report’s “Summary.” Nowhere in the Report is that term “ill-treated” defined. However, that same page also employs the phrase “torture and other forms of ill-treatment.” Consequently, one may reasonably infer that “torture” relates to only the worst forms of “ill-treatment.” Though “torture” was alleged regarding Vadim’s allegations against Ukraine’s government, the term “ill-treatment” was alleged regarding his allegations against the breakaway republics.

There is every indication that Ukraine’s present Government is nazi-controlled, but neither in the breakaway republics nor in Crimea is the Government [[racist]]-[[fascist]] (or “[[nazi]]”): they are the exact opposite — intensely anti-nazi — and so, too, is Russia’s Federal Government. Whereas America and its [[CIA]] brought in and protected many thousands of Nazis after [[WW II]], the [[Soviet Union]] did the opposite: searched for them and killed them. Today’s Russia is continuing that aspect of its predecessor’s policies. Allegations in [[The West]] to the contrary are not merely [[lie]]s: they are [[obscene]], vicious, anti-historical, lies, which come from the true heirs of (in fact, the modernized versions of) [[Hitler]], Gehlen, and [[Goebbels]]."}}
The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded on June 29, 2022, that the Armed Forces of the Ukraine used civilians as human shields in Stara Krasnyanka when Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside a nursing home, effectively making the building a legitimate military target.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/10/un-human-rights-report-shows-ukraine-military-used-nursing-home-residents-as-human-shields/</ref> Civilians throughout the war zone made the same allegations.

===Russiagate and Trump impeachment===
{{See also|Russia collusion|Ukrainian collusion|Laptop from hell}}
[[File:Alexander-vindman.jpg|350px|thumb|Col. Alexander Vindman was a deep state operator in the White House conspiring for President Trump's removal in 2019. Vindman earlier had been offered the position of Minister of Defense in the [[Kyiv regime]].]]
In January 2016 the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington.<ref>[https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost].</ref> The meeting brought some of Ukraine's top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with [[Eric Ciaramella]]<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> and members of former President Obama's National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ). Ukrainian participants said it didn't take long to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one involving Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and one involving Paul Manafort's lobbying firm, linked closely to then-candidate Trump.

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U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said [[Andrii Telizhenko]], then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting. Telizhenko said U.S. officials said that they had an interest in reviving a closed 2014 investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine's Russia-backed Party of Regions. That 2014 investigation was focused on Manafort. The FBI closed the case without charging Manafort. DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine's '''National Anti-Corruption Bureau''' ('''NABU''') if they could help find new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans. “It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” Telizhenko said.
[[File:Azov Battalion.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Members of the [[Azov Battalion]] with the NATO flag (left) Azov mascot (center) and [[Swastika]] (right). The NATO flag represents [[globalism]]; the ''[[Cyrillic]]'' A3OB in the center spells AZOV; and the swastika represents the NATO and globalists' [[Russophobic]] allies in Ukraine. A Ukrainian court found elements in the Ukrainian government [[collude]]d with the [[DNC]] to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 12, 2018. National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director '''[[Artem Sytnyk]]''' and legislator '''[[Serhiy Leshchenko]]''' broke the law by revealing [[Manafort]]'s name. The disclosure “led to interference in the electoral processes of the [[United States]] in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state,” the court said. https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html In October 2019, an audiotape of Sytnyk was release discussing his efforts to help Hillary during the 2016 election. He and Leschenko were responsible for publishing the Black Ledger which forced Paul Manafort to resign from Trump’s campaign. https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-audio-email-evidence-shows-dnc-colluded-with-ukraine-to-boost-hillary-by-harming-trump-report-says</ref>]]
Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine's chief anti-corruption prosecutor, said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the NABU, after Manafort was named Trump's campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.” Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. “I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort. For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial.”
[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Burisma Board Director Hunter Biden, appointed April 14, 2014 at $163,000 per month.<ref>https://archive.fo/aNhttps://archive.fo/wip/aNyOqyOq</ref> Biden spoke no Ukrainian nor had any knowledge or experience in the oil and gas field.]]

Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general's international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case. “Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public.” Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel [[Gregory Craig]], also received money from Yanukovych's party. But the Americans weren't interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”
Manafort joined Trump's campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016. NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016.

A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU's release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine's parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Hillary Clinton.

The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden and [[Devon Archer]]'s firm in 2014–15, bank records show.
U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire [[Victor Shokin]], Ukraine's chief prosecutor in March 2016. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions. "Unfortunately, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., was not invited to join the DOJ and other law enforcement-sector meetings."

Telizhenko's claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ's own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]], his wife, [[Nellie Ohr]], and ex-British spy [[Christopher Steele]]. Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for [[Fusion GPS]], that was hired by Clinton's campaign and DNC to find dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband Bruce during the election.

DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband Bruce and two DOJ prosecutors to the discovery of the “Black Ledger” files that led to Manafort's prosecution. “Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.

Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele. The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.

''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton's campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.

==Zelensky regime==
{{See also|Zelensky regime}}
[[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]]
In late September 2023 Canadian dictator [[Justin Trudeau]] and Canadian House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed Zelensky to address the Canadian parliament. A former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka was also invited to attend the address. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and the British Commonwealth during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, were fighting the armed forces of [[Nazi Germany]], of which the Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] were part. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces.

Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947.

International affairs analyst Dr. Andrew Korybko observed that in one fell swoop, Trudeau discredited himself as a so-called “champion of [[human rights]]”, while Zelensky proved beyond any doubt that an ethnic [[Jew]] can indeed glorify the Nazis’ [[genocidal]] allies despite having family who were murdered in the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[https://korybko.substack.com/p/jews-poles-and-russians-have-united Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi], ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.</ref> After being vetted to attend Zelensky's speech by the Canadian government and Trudeau's office, Hunta was introduced by the Speaker as a “Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” and received two extended standing ovations while Zelensky raised a clenched fist in solidarity. To its credit, even ''[[Politico]]'' reported on the number of Jewish organizations that condemned the [[fascist]] ceremony.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/nazi-linked-veteran-ovation-zelenkyy-canada-visit-00117857 Nazi-linked veteran received ovation during Zelenskyy’s Canada visit], By KYLE DUGGAN, ''Politico'', 09/24/2023.</ref> Hunta's family had [[tweet]]ed out days in advance that a separate private meeting had been arranged for Hunta to meet and speak privately with Trudeau and Zelensky.<ref>Mark Sleboda, [https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/canadian-parliament-trudeau-and-zelensky Canadian Parliament, Trudeau & Zelensky Praise and Give Standing Ovation to West Ukrainian Waffen SS Veteran Who "Killed Russians"], Radio Interview on the Critical Hour 25/09/23.</ref>

===Russia-Ukraine war===

''See also:'' [[Russia-Ukraine war]]

[[File:Ukrainian Nazi pig fat.PNG|right|300px|thumb|A Ukrainian National Guardsman dips bullets in lard saying "Muslim friends, you won’t be allowed into heaven in our country.” The threat was aimed at Chechen fighters in the Russian Army. Twitter labeled it hateful content in the public interest.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550815-pork-bullets-muslims-ukraine/</ref> Azov nationalist Artyom Bonov, who threatened the Chechen army and promised to play football with their heads, fled to Poland.<ref>https://fr.news-front.info/2022/03/21/le-nationaliste-dazov-artyom-bonov-se-cache-en-pologne-video/</ref>]]
In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> At the same time, the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE) reported more frequent use of heavy weapons, prohibited under the [[Minsk Agreements]], by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) against the breakaway regions.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/464961-How-the-Western-Press-has-for-years-hidden-Ukraines-neo-nazi-war-on-Donbass?</ref> Trump-Russia hoaxer and Biden [[DNI]] [[Avril Haines]]<ref>https://the-war-economy.medium.com/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6</ref> alleged that Russia had massed 100,000 troops at the border with Ukraine and was planning an invasion. By April 2022, Western analysts began saying the earlier estimates of Russian forces were exaggerated.<ref>https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-3/</ref> In late December 2021 [[Jake Sullivan]] said a four-week window was left to prevent such an invasion and that if it were to happen the sanctions against Russia "would be overwhelming, immediate and inflict significant cost on the Russian economy and their financial system."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-obama-2014/index.html</ref> Germany had called upon the US not to impose sanctions, insisting that doing so will "damage transatlantic unity", ''Axios'' reported,<ref>[https://www.axios.com/germany-nord-stream-sanctions-congress-ukraine-4d28940b-dc3b-4b19-9d16-c122da6d113c.html Scoop: Germany urges Congress not to sanction Putin’s pipeline], Zachary Basu, ''Axios'', Nov 28, 2021.</ref> citing newly obtained German documents dated November 19, 2021 and marked as "classified":
{{quotebox-float|"US Sanctions targeting [[Nord Stream 2]] would undermine the commitment given to [[Germany]] in the Joint Statement, weaken the credibility of the US government, and endanger the achievements of the Joint Statement, including the provisions supporting Ukraine."<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21118732-germany-non-paper</ref>}}
The ongoing reality was a massive buildup and activity of [[NATO]] forces inside Ukraine, which Putin had warned about crossing Russia's red line days before Haines panicked statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-accuses-nato-of-ignoring-russian-warnings-about-red-lines</ref> [[CIA]] leaker [[David Ignatius]] told the ''Washington Post'' that the US was supporting an anti-Russian military insurgency in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/biden-ukraine-insurgents-russia/</ref> <ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref>

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref> In light of all the threatening activity on its border, on December 17, 2021, President Putin presented two treaties to be signed, one with the US<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en</ref> the other with NATO,<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en&clear_cache=Y</ref> the essence of which is that [[the West]] pledges not to threaten Russia's borders by offering membership to Ukraine or by arming and basing missiles in Ukraine. Putin stated, "You are on our doorstep. We cannot back down." Putin promised a response if the NATO powers do not stop their offensive actions. NATO General Secretary Stoltenberg rejected them out of hand. Russia's deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said on December 18, 2021, that NATO has been living in a fantasy world and that Europeans must think about whether they mean to turn their continent into a field of military confrontation.
[[File:Ukrainian ambush in civilian neighborhood.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Armed Forces of Ukraine ambush point (purple circle) set up in a civilian residential neighborhood.<ref>https://rumble.com/vx17yd-jason-goodman-and-i-discuss-ukrainian-bioweapon-labs.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2</ref> The Ukrainian flag is visible in this photo before Russian forces arrived.]]
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021, that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers. Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been. Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine. Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could
easily turn out to be a suicidal course. He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike. Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders. 60 years ago [[president John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country." President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove
and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref>

President Putin's agreement proposed to Biden on December 7, 2021, was that the United States ensure that Ukraine would not join NATO and thereby have U.S. and NATO forces and missiles of various types placed right on Russia's border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to Russia.

Since April 15, 2022, [[Gonzalo Lira]], a Chilean-American Citizen Journalist, that criticized Western Media and the Zelenski Regime, is missing.

Dozens of videos began appearing on [[social media]] of whole units of Ukrainian servicemen appealing to the Kyiv commanders to withdraw them from the battlefield. Many had been deserted by their battlefield commanders.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/qlR1P8jJcTAC/</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/kg58INeiPN4 Servicemen of the Vinnitsa Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the actual state of affairs in the troops of Ukraine 1,071,758 views May 5, 2022]. [https://youtu.be/exubjkiNQhI?t=529]</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/Vj9lH00pK-M</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/5YrrdDtycrk</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/pa_0_bGRwQw</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/9eC9rrsDCkw ANOTHER UKRAINIAN UNIT DOESN'T WANT TO BE CANNON FODDER]</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/tz3rvyUOdHw</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/OPyKrfU55TKG/ "A SHOCKING VIDEO FROM THE PHONE OF A DEAD MILITANT FROM LIMAN"], "They threw us to the slaughter. For 4 days already, artillery, tanks, hailstones. We ask you to take us out, but they don't take us out. We are not meat with Kalash against artillery."</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/efgPrzzuhWY</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/OEePRNQZtuk5/</ref>

Amongst a raft of casualties and desertions, as untrained soldiers were placed at the front in impossible and hopeless situations with no artillery or armor and given orders to fight on and not surrender, two members of Zelensky's Servant of the people Party introduced a bill (No. 7351) allowing AFU officers to kill their own soldiers who refused to follow orders.<ref>https://archive.ph/SWdge</ref>

====US & UK sabotage peace negotiations====
{{See also|2022 Istanbul peace negotiations}}
''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April], Tyler Durden, SEP 01, 2022. zerohedge.com</ref>}}
Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by [[the West]] to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and the Russian Federation itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides were being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal, not of conquest, but of bringing the [[Kiev regime]] to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.<ref>[https://aearnur.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-the-western-powers-have IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES], AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com</ref>
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died needlessly in the following months.]]
[[File:Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Ukrainian troops training in North Yorkshire.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Boris Johnson posing with Ukrainian special forces. Most were killed in an unsuccessful NATO raid on the [[Zaporozhye nuclear power plant]].]]
The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as [[HIMAR]]s. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what [[Genghis Khan]], [[Napoleon]], and [[Hitler]] could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened:
{{quotebox-float|"I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally.

I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by [[sociopath]]s who do not understand the consequences".<ref>[https://twitter.com/Andromeda11711/status/1670500664403951616 Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:]💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March."

Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences.

Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow.

Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media.

Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty.

Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster.

There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397</ref>}}

On October 11, 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with ''60 Minutes'':<ref>[https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1833291/?lang=en Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the programme 60 Minutes, Moscow, October 11, 2022].</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"We sat at the negotiating table with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonised in [[Istanbul]]. These principles suited us for that moment but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London.

This conflict is overrun with [[Anglo-Saxon]]s that fully control the Vladimir Zelensky regime. The Poles and people from the Baltics are trying to fit in on their team.

Since then the Ukrainian President has said many times that he is not going to hold talks with the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin. Recently, he codified this ban in law. We have never sought negotiations. The Istanbul round completed the process started at Ukraine’s request. Russia positively reacted to the proposal to enter a dialogue, but its initiators cut it off with a shout from overseas or London.

We are hearing statements by [[White House]] representative John Kirby, my colleague Antony Blinken and other members of the US administration. They are saying that they are completely open to talks with the Russian Federation, that they favor a political settlement of the current situation in Ukraine but Russia (the “troublemaker”) is rejecting proposals to establish contact. I can say straight away that this is a lie. We have not received any serious proposals to establish any such contact. There were some attempts that were not very serious, but we didn’t reject them, either. Instead, we suggested that they formulate specific proposals. Some people made them to us by proxy but in this case, we didn’t receive any clear explanations from anyone, either. No need to lie. We were taught in a kindergarten then lying is bad. Apparently, American kindergartens are not so advanced as they were in the [[Soviet Union]] and are now in Russia."}}
{{Clear}}

====Denazification====
{{See also|Operation Denazification}}
[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]
While the Soviet Union was successful in denazifying the German population of [[East Germany]] in the post-World War II period, armed resistance by Ukrainian fascists continued until 1954.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/6387532/War_against_the_UPA_1944_1954_Soviet_Counterinsurgency_Challenge_in_Western_Ukraine</ref> The Soviet Union never was completely successful in denazifying the Ukrainian population as it had the German. This was due to a resistance insurgency spread out over a much greater expanse. Schools, the [[civil service system]], and the military were de-nazified, and the armed fascist resistance went underground. Some moved abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora. Display of Nazi flags, insignia, and [[holocaust denial]] were made illegal in Soviet times as it had been in [[West Germany]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Denmark]] and much of Western Europe. Since 1991 however the freedom of expression has allowed the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators to move above ground again and express a lingering [[xenophobic]] hatred for anything Russian after the experiences of the [[holodomor]] and the unjust persecution of the families of Nazi collaborators in the [[Cold War]] period by the Soviet communist regime.

Many of these children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators moved back into the Ukrainian civil service after 1991, or became active leaders of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora, in the United States, in the [[UK]], in the Atlantic alliance, in NATO, and in Western Europe. Ex-patriot Ukranian nationalists were instrumental in organizing the 2014 [[Euromaidan coup]], and beginning in late 2015, the [[Trump-Russia collusion]] hoax in an effort to solidify the [[regime change]] in a Clinton administration.

====US aid====
{{See also|Ukraine aid}}
[[File:FTX Democrats Ukraine.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Tens of billions of dollars were transferred to Ukraine then laundered back to Democrats in advance of the [[2022 Midterm elections]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-exclusive-tens-billions-transferred-ukraine-using-ftx-crypto-currency-laundered-back-democrats-us/</ref>]]
According to [[CNN]],<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/</ref> the US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it sent into Ukraine. US officials and defense analysts say some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm. Privately, officials recognize that Ukraine has an incentive to give only information that will bolster their case for more aid, "everything they do and say publicly is designed to help them win the war. Every public statement is an information operation, every interview, every Zelensky appearance broadcast is an information operation."

The Biden regime and NATO countries say they are providing weapons to Ukraine based on what the Ukrainian forces say they need, whether it's portable systems like Javelin or Stinger missiles. Javelin and Stinger missiles and rifles and ammunition are harder to track than larger systems shipped by rail. Although Javelins have serial numbers, there is little way to track their transfer and use in real time. "I couldn't tell you where they are in Ukraine and whether the Ukrainians are using them at this point," a senior defense official told reporters. "They're not telling us every round of ammunition they're firing and who and at when." Trucks loaded with pallets of arms provided by the US Defense Department are picked up by Ukrainian armed forces—primarily in Poland—and then driven into Ukraine. The weapons then are transported back across the border in civilian vehicles. Some weapons ended up on the black market including anti-aircraft Stinger missiles, the same kind that shot down [[TWA Flight 800]].

Other weapons have ended up arming US adversaries. Much of what the US left behind to help Afghan forces became part of the Taliban arsenal after the collapse of the Afghan government and military. In 2020, the Defense Department inspector general released a report raising concerns about the end-use monitoring of weapons being sent to Ukraine.

====Martial law====
Charli Carpenter wrote in ''Foreign Policy'' magazine:
{{quotebox-float|"Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men’s freedom of movement, calling on all those “liable for military service” to remain in their home districts....one Ukrainian tweeted, “Now we can’t even leave our cities without permission from military recruitment centers.” Another tweeted, “Animals have more rights in Ukraine than men.”....Another wrote to me on Twitter, “All men in Ukraine now are prisoners … Even more, [a] lot of them have lost their jobs because [of] war, and [the] government doesn’t allow them to go for a job abroad, and can’t give a job inside the country.”....This has left civilian men feeling acute psychological distress: as Andrij wrote to me, “It seems to me that the whole world does not care about men, I feel like a piece of meat that they want to send to death.”...When women and children flee alone, being separated from their male relatives makes them vulnerable to trafficking and heightens their economic and psycho-social stress.

But when it comes to the martial law, [[gay]] men I spoke with say unequivocally that the [[discrimination]] they face is not because they are gay, but simply because they are men. One gay man, who requested anonymity, told me he had attempted to leave the country with his husband. “When we got to the border it was a female guard who turned us back,” he said. “It’s not because I’m gay, it’s because I have a penis,” he added. His husband, an American attorney, was permitted to leave but chose to stay in harm’s way with his husband. [[Transgender]] women misidentified as men get similar treatment."<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/15/ukraine-war-conscription-martial-law-men-gender-human-rights/</ref>}}

====Western propaganda apparatus====
{{See also|Ukrainian propaganda war}}
[[File:Time fake news Denisova.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ukraine Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova was actually fired in an unprecedented move for manufacturing fake news reports about alleged Russian [[rape]]s and bringing disrepute on the Ukrainian regime.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2022 |title='This will not help us defeat the enemy' A new report looks at Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova, who was fired after officials couldn't confirm her stories of rape committed by Russian soldiers |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/28/we-work-on-the-information-front |access-date= |website=Meduza |language=en}}</ref>]]
The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.” The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref> This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>

[[Oleksiy Arestovych]], senior advisor to Ukrainian fascist [[dictator]] Volodymyr Zelensky said “One of the central ideas of Ukraine is to lie to yourself and others as much as possible. Because if you tell the truth, everything will collapse.”<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1516554925907619843</ref>

====Bucha massacre====
[[File:Safari.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]]
Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha. This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page. The translated post accompanying the video says:
{{quotebox-float|“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers."<ref>https://youtu.be/BL8R6K5VdtI?t=519</ref>}}
There was no mention of a massacre of hundreds of civilians littering the streets. Evidence of crimes appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/</ref>
[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym killing civilians in the Bucha massacre, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]
''The New York Times'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022, and did not report a massacre. Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper's photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings:
{{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:

:''‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’''<ref>https://en.lb.ua/news/2022/04/02/12441_special_forces_regiment_safari.html</ref>

The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”}}
On April 3, 2022, when the story broke, Russia immediately requested a meeting if the [[UN Security Council]] for the following Monday, April. The [[United Kingdom]], another permanent member of the Security Council, [[veto]]ed holding a Security Council meeting in the matter.
Russian UN Ambassador said in a statement:
{{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}}
The [[Pentagon]] refused to confirm the Ukrainian government's claim that Russians were responsible for the massacre.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-military-intelligence-official-refutes-russian-atrocities-claims/comments/page/5/</ref>

Former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva said that the story in Bucha was planned and prepared in advance by the [[counterintelligence]] of Ukraine, with the assistance of the British [[MI6]]. Kiva said,
{{quotebox-float|"The whole story in Bucha was prepared and planned in advance by the SBU and [[MI6]]. They arrived early in the morning, cordoned off the area, scattered the corpses and then sent [[journalist]]s there. That's why that clown Zelensky even came back. To raise the interest of the international press in the alleged tragedy, but it's all a pure fake. Why didn't such a situation take place in other areas? Don`t you understand that it was staged in advance, which was supposed to arouse the aggression and hatred in you first of all. But it didn't happen."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot894JsANM</ref>}}
All the corpses wore white arm bands which were distributed by the Russian military to identify civilian non-combatants, who then became the victims of Ukrainian security forces as collaborators in reprisal actions. Some alleged corpses sat up after television cameras filmed them.<ref>https://rumble.com/vzl3qf-evidence-of-bucha-false-flag.html</ref><ref>https://southfront.org/leaked-recording-allegedly-confirms-massacre-in-bucha-was-staged-by-ukrainian-militants/</ref> Ukrainian television showed footage of Ukrainian security forces dragging corpses into place for the TV cameras.

====Ukrainian dirty nuke====
{{See also|Radiological dispersal device}}
In March 2022 Russia accused Ukraine of gathering nuclear waste from the [[Chernobyl disaster site]] for use in a [[nuclear dirty bomb]].<ref>https://www.india.com/news/world/what-is-nuclear-dirty-bomb-that-russia-claims-ukraine-is-making-in-chernobyl-5271056/</ref>

On October 19, 2022, UK defense minister Ben Wallace flew to [[Washington, D.C.]] to discuss an important matter face-to-face with unknown persons that could not be handled over NATO's regular electronic secure communications. Neither Washington nor the UK defense ministry issued a press release on the substance of the discussions. On October 21, Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu had his first phone call with US defense minister [[Lloyd Austin]] since May 2022. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense read out on the call, the two "discussed issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine."

On October 23, 2022, at 1:30 PM [[Moscow]] time it was reported that Russian defense minister Shoigu conveyed to his [[France|French]] counterpart his concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a nuclear dirty bomb. At 2:46 PM local time another update from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported that defense minister Shoigu conveyed to his [[Turkish]] counterpart his concerns about a possible provocation with the use of a dirty bomb. At 5 PM local time there was a third conversation between the Russian defense minister and the minister of defense of the [[United Kingdom]] about the possible provocation by Ukraine with a dirty nuclear bomb. At 6:30 PM local time there was a final conversation between Shoigu and the Biden minister defense.

Russian media reported that according to credible sources in various countries - including in Ukraine - the [[Kyiv regime]] is preparing a provocation on its territory related to the detonation of the so-called "[[dirty bomb]]" or low-yield [[nuclear weapon]]. The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using [[weapons of mass destruction]].<ref>https://seemorerocks.is/what-russian-media-is-saying/</ref> According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Volodymyr Zelensky has been in contact with the [[UK]] "to obtain nuclear weapons technology," Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces said on October 23, 2022. Gen. Kirillov alleged that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) plan on using a [[false flag]] provocation to detonate a "dirty bomb," a nuclear weapon with explosives, such as dynamite, with [[radioactive]] powder or pellets. The provocation was being prepared to subsequently accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction. "We have information about the contacts of the office of the President of Ukraine with representatives of [[Great Britain]] regarding the possibility to obtain a [[technology]] to build nuclear weapons,” Gen. Kirillov said.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/zelenskyy-contacted-uk-to-obtain-nuclear-technology-claims-russias-defence-ministry-articleshow.html</ref>

====Ukraine missile attack on Poland====
[[File:FT Zelensky.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The globalist mouthpiece ''Financial Times'' of London, which led the world in spreading Russophobia and cheerleading for war, openly criticized Zelensky's lying about Ukraine's false flag attack on a NATO ally to incite direct NATO involvement with troops and risk global thermonuclear war.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-open-thread-2022-201.html</ref>]]
On November 15, 2022, two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian [[cruise missile]], were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The Polish government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref>

However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR aircraft (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the Kyiv regime had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its CIA counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021.

When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down. Both socialist premier Joe Biden and NATO chief warlord Jens Stoltenberg blamed Ukraine for the attack. Zelensky refuted the Western leaders' statements that the missile which killed two innocent civilians in Poland was Ukrainian. "I have no doubt that it was not our missile or our missile strike." Zelensky insisted that he received reports from the corrupt Armed Forces of Ukraine command that told him the missile attacks did not come from Ukraine," he told the people in a live nationwide address on Ukrainian state-controlled media.<ref>https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376663/</ref> The [[Russophobic]] ''Financial Times'' of [[London]] quoted a [[diplomat]] from a NATO country in Kyiv saying: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the [[missile]].”<ref>https://archive.ph/mxQ5K#selection-2029.34-2029.282</ref>

====Treatment of Russian POWs====
[[File:Ukrainian nazis castrate Russians.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Former Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers instructed doctors to castrate Russian POWs "because they are cockroaches, not human."<ref>https://youtu.be/15UjP-H2CMA</ref>]]
Gennadiy Druzenko, a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute and fellow at the Wilson Center in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/gennadiy-druzenko</ref> head of the Center for Constitutional Design,<ref>https://ccd.group/en/team/gennadiy-druzenko/</ref> a former researcher at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University, and served as the Government Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<ref>https://independent.academia.edu/GennadiyDruzenko/CurriculumVitae</ref> who now operates a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine told a Ukrainian Channel 24 TV interviewer that he had instructed his doctors to castrate captured Russian POWs. Druzenko said:
{{quotebox-float|"I have always been a great humanist and said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an enemy but a patient. But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10636597/Ukrainian-doctor-tells-TV-interviewer-ordered-staff-CASTRATE-Russian-soldiers.html</ref>}}
Since 2014 when the Kyiv regime initiated the Donbas war against Russian civilians, some 500 doctors have worked with Druzenko's mobile hospital.

On March 27, 2022, very disturbing videos emerged of mistreatment of Russian POWs by Armed Forces of Ukraine. One video shows Russian soldiers with canvas bags over their heads and then beaten in the face with rifle butts. The prisoners are shot in the kneecaps and genitals, and they are left on the ground to bleed to death. Several vans then arrive at the Ukraine military compound in Kharkiv, and as each POW is removed from the van they are shot in the knees. A second video shows Russian POW's lying face down in a paved courtyard, or compound, and then being shot in the knees from the rear.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/27/zelenskyy-worried-about-western-financial-support-after-video-surfaces-showing-ukraine-military-torturing-russian-pows/</ref>

====Refugees and human trafficking====

A group 30-40 child refugees disappeared between the Ukraine and the [[Canary Islands]] raising fears they may have become victims of Western child sex traffickers.<ref>https://www.kiratas.com/the-mysterious-journey-of-the-ukrainian-children-lost-between-huelva-and-the-canary-islands/</ref> Ukrainian girl refugees have been exploited in the West in the organized sex trade.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60891801</ref>

In March 2022, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that a group of Polish nationalists attacked and abused groups of African, south Asian and [[Middle East]]ern people who fled Ukraine.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/02/people-of-colour-fleeing-ukraine-attacked-by-polish-nationalists</ref>

In April 2022 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) instructed the government of the [[United Kingdom]] to stop matching lone Ukrainian females with single British men. The UN agency intervenes claimed predatory men were using their homes in a scheme to target vulnerable women.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/stop-matching-lone-female-ukraine-refugees-with-single-men-uk-told</ref>

On May 8, 2022, in [[Warsaw]], a group of intoxicated Ukrainians were harassing a young woman. A Polish man intervened on her behalf and was beaten to death. Polish citizens questioned why the media covered up the nationality of the suspects when they clearly spoke Ukrainian on the video of the killing.<ref>https://rrussianews.com/news/video-18-ukrainian-refugees-beat-pole-to-death-in-warsaw/</ref>

Refugees who drove to Germany were granted temporary asylum and received 4,000 euros per month for the first two months; the third month they were notified that because they had an asset, a car, they needed to sell their cars to reimburse the state for the government assistance they had received.<ref>https://youtu.be/Wz7MrO64k2o</ref>

In the heart of Nazi Ukraine - Lviv - Russian speaking refugees were denied humanitarian aid.<ref>https://youtu.be/jlw2ZYtf26E</ref>

On May 31, 2022 [[Bulgaria]] evicted 35,000 refugees from Black Sea resort hotels.<ref>https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/05/12/black-sea-hoteliers-face-evicting-ukrainian-refugees-or-the-prospect-of-financial-ruin-our-breaking-point/</ref>

A group of Ukrainian boys were beaten up by [[Arab]]-speakers and told to go back where they came from.<ref>https://youtu.be/yf5q85z1cGw</ref>

The UK ''[[Guardian]]'' reported UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] saying on June 23, 2022, that Ukrainian refugees could be deported to [[Rwanda]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/23/ukrainians-who-come-to-uk-illegalPeter%20Navarroly-could-be-sent-to-rwanda-johnson-says</ref>
{{Anchor|Ukrainian refugees}}

====Racist treatment of refugees by Ukrainian officials====
[[File:Africans denied exit from Ukraine.jpeg|left|350px|thumb|The Western-backed fascist regime of Ukraine denied Blacks access to refugee trains.<ref>https://afronews.de/world-news/african-students-ukraine-racism-polish-border/</ref>]]
[[Africa]]ns, [[Indian]]s, and other people of color were denied access to refugee trains by the fascist and [[xenophobic]] Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-refugee-discrimination.html</ref><ref>You're on your own": African students stuck in Ukraine seek refuge or escape route</ref> Ukrainian border guards demanded bribes.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/africans-say-they-are-facing-racial-discrimination-in-ukraine/</ref> Indian students were told by Ukrainian government officials they were being discriminated against because the Indian government failed to back the U.S.-sponsored [[UN Security Council]] Resolution condemning Russia.<ref>https://youtu.be/YC597ikCl64</ref> ''[[Reuters]]'' reported African students were told, "You're on your own."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/youre-your-own-african-students-stuck-ukraine-seek-refuge-or-escape-route-2022-02-25/</ref> Only [[white privilege]]d Ukrainians were allowed to board trains first and [[Black]]s forced to wait.<ref>https://youtu.be/EmT6KHIwup4</ref> The government of [[Nigeria]] condemned Ukraine's treatment of Nigerian citizens according to the [[BBC]].<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60555650</ref>

First, Blacks were denied access to trains until all the white people boarded and Blacks were allowed to fill the remaining empty seats. Some people had to wait for days in frigid temperatures. Upon arriving at the [[Polish]] boarder, then were denied crossing the border Ukrainian government fascist officials.

U.S. Speaker of the House, [[Democrat]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] claimed U.S. support for Ukraine was to defend [[democracy]]. Vladimir Putin stated the invasion was to denazify Ukraine.
[[File:Denys Kiryeyev.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Denys Kiryeyev (circled in red), Ukrainian peace negotiator murdered by the Security Service of Ukraine with a bullet to the back of the head and his body dumped in the street.<ref>https://archive.is/SbEW8</ref>]]
In response to a Russian proposal to set up humanitarian corridors for civilians to escape the fighting in cities, Ukrainian security services murdered Denys Kiryeyev, a Ukrainian peace negotiator.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10582805/Ukrainian-peace-negotiator-shot-dead-amid-claims-Russian-spy.html</ref>

In Poland, [[Kamala Harris]] responded with her signature cackling laughter at the plight of refugees. The former press secretary for Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Twitter “It would be a tragedy if this woman won the presidency."<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/03/11/zelenskys-former-press-sec-levels-kamala-over-cackling-on-refugee-question-n534536</ref>

In a case of [[racial profiling]], Ukrainian fascist border guards murdered a refugee who was an [[Israel]]i citizen, with the Kyiv regime claiming the victim was mistaken for a Chechen.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-dead-as-convoy-escaping-kyiv-comes-under-ukrainian-fire/</ref>

[[Christian]] refugees from Ukraine were turned away from the [[Biden border crisis|U.S. Southern border]] by the Biden regime.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323842</ref>

Reports indicate 30 per cent of ‘Ukrainian refugees’ arriving in [[Western Europe]] claiming asylum status actually were from other countries, mostly from [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/15/30-per-cent-of-ukrainian-refugees-are-actually-from-other-countries/</ref>

[[Roma]] citizens of Ukraine faced [[discrimination]] by Ukrainian officials while attempting to flee the fighting.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/ukraines-roma-refugees-recount-discrimination-on-route-to-safety</ref> Ukraine has a long history of discrimination, mistreatment, and [[violence]] against the Roma, or [[Gypsies]].<ref>https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/attacks-roma-ukraine</ref>

=====Racist Western media reporting=====
{{See also|Systemic racism}}
Western journalists were criticized for their [[racism]] while reporting on the refugee migration from Ukraine. While Arab refugees were villainized and arrested, Ukrainians were welcomed with lavish benefits.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ministers-historical-deal-protect-ukraine-refugees/</ref> Western reporters said they are "Europeans with blue eyes and blonde hair" and from a "civilized" country.<ref>https://youtu.be/KBRwmTVVKQk</ref> The [[European Union]] was also criticized for welcoming displaced Ukrainians but holding back [[Syria]]ns and other refugees since 2015. The Ukrainians were being offered [[visa]]s and benefits, while Syrian refugees were still sleeping in tents. Critics called it a blatant [[double standard]].<ref>https://youtu.be/i1I1mhnJ-MQ</ref>

=====Ukrainian refugees refuse to go to Sweden=====
Ukrainian refugees refused to go to the [[rape]] capital of [[Europe]], Sweden.<ref>[http://conservative-headlines.com/2011/02/immigration-turns-sweden-into-rape-capitol-of-europe/ Immigration turns Sweden into rape capitol of Europe.]. conservative-headlines.com</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/uS7FqFuHYt8</ref> In 2021 the German newspaper ''Bild'' ran a headline, "Sweden is the most dangerous country in Europe."<ref>https://rmx.news/article/sweden-is-the-most-dangerous-country-in-europe-writes-germanys-top-selling-newspaper/</ref> Female refugees who were housed in a hostel in Sweden revealed how they were stalked, sexually harassed and intimidated by groups of [[Somali]] migrant men. After the experience, some of those involved said they’d prefer to take their chances and return home to war-torn Ukraine. “When there are bombs, I know at least that I can go down to the basement and hide there,” one woman told Swedish news outlet Samnytt.<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/25/ukrainian-refugees-dont-want-to-go-to-sweden-over-fears-for-their-safety/</ref>

Ukrainian mothers also heard rumors that in the so-called 'Western democracy' of Sweden, their children could be taken away by a corrupt liberal regime.

Ukrainian female refugees in Sweden were warned not to dress in a way provocative to [[Muslim]] men.<ref>https://rmx.news/article/ukrainian-women-in-sweden-warned-not-to-dress-in-a-way-that-could-provoke-muslim-men/</ref> A group of Ukrainian boys were beaten up by Arab-speakers and told to go back where they came from.<ref>https://youtu.be/yf5q85z1cGw</ref>

====Ceasefire negotiations====

On March 6, 2022, during ceasefire negotiations to arrange humanitarian corridors for civilian safe passage out of urban areas, a Ukrainian negotiator was shot dead by the Ukrainian intelligence agency. The Ukrainian government then hailed him as a hero.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/4831656/ukraine-peace-negotiator-spy-shot-russia-kireev/</ref>
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian solders died needlessly in the following months.]]
On March 29, 2022, ''Tass'' reported<ref>https://tass.com/world/1429119</ref> negotiations in [[Istanbul]] with the Kyiv regime included:
*permanent neutrality and non-aligned status
*guarantees of security
*demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine
*recognition of contemporary territorial realities
*restoration of the status of Russian language and rights of Russian-speakers

''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal</ref>}}

=====Referendums=====
The [[Zelensky regime]] threatened to end peace negotiations if referendums were held in the territories liberated from the Maidan regime and the people were allowed to exercise their democratic rights.<ref>https://ukranews.com/en/news/851974-ukraine-will-withdraw-from-negotiations-with-russia-if-invaders-hold-referendum-in-kherson-media</ref>

=====Escalation=====
On June 1, 2022, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister [[Sergey Ryabkov]] told ''RIA Novosti'' news that Biden's decision to arm Ukraine with [[HIMAR]] missile launchers increases the risk of direct confrontation between Russia and the United States. Foreign secretary [[Blinken]] said the weapons, which have a precision range of up to 300 kilometers, were given on the pretext of a promise by Zelensky not to use the HIMARs against Russian territory. However Zelensky's transgender chief propagandist [[Alexei Arestovich]] immediately threatened, "Crimea is ours…It belongs to Ukraine…And they know it…Therefore, it will fly to Crimea double-time."<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/468500-US-to-allow-Ukraine-to-decide-range-of-missiles-Kiev-threatens-to-strike-Crimea-should-the-need-arise?</ref> Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council [[Dmitry Medvedev]] retorted, “If those types of weapons are used against the territory of Russia, the armed forces of our country will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers...It is obvious what those decision-making centers are: the defense ministry, the general staff and so on...But it should be understood that, in this case, the ultimate decision-making centers are regretfully not even on the territory of Kiev." <ref>https://tass.com/politics/1459891</ref>

===Ministry of Digital Transformation===
{{See also|Ministry of Digital Transformation}}
=====Digital ID=====
{{See also|Digital ID}}
The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits. In Ukranian, the word “Diia” means “action,” but it's also an acronym in that language, standing for “The State and Me.” Digital passports and other official documents are now considered legally equivalent to their paper versions, making Ukraine the first country to accomplish this. Some of the documents available via the app include citizens’ national identification card, a biometric passport, drivers’ licenses, vehicle registration certificates and insurance policies, voter ID, tax documents, birth certificates and [[COVID vaccine]] passport.<ref>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ukraine-government-converting-digital-id-system-wartime-tool/</ref>

''Wired'' magazine described Ukraine's digital ministry, which operates the Diia app, as a “formidable war machine.” The Diia app includes the following war-related features:
*A quick way to donate money to the Ukrainian military, including via cryptocurrency.
*A chatbot for submitting images and video of Russian troop movements in Ukraine.
*24-hour streaming access to television stations and newscasts from Ukraine.
*A chatbox where users can submit photos and videos that resembles a similar tool employed by [[New York City]] fascist authorities in 2020 for the reporting of [[social distancing]] violations.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/social-distancing-rules-coronavirus.html</ref>

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was praised by the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) for his work, in establishing the Diia app.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/people/mykhailo-fedorov</ref> Fedorov called for a crew of developers, designers, marketers and “security specialists” to join a volunteer “IT Army” — with 300,000 volunteers having been attracted. The online army's tasks include sharing the IP addresses of Russian websites and companies, in order for them to be targeted by [[DDoS]] (directed denial of service) attacks in an effort to knock them offline.

Fedorov described [[Twitter]] as “part of our war effort.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60608222</ref> Fedorov described the digital battlefield as “our home turf,” while ''The New York Times'' also reported on how Fedorov “has turned technology, cryptocurrency and social media into modern weapons of war.” According to the ''Times'', Fedorov stated: “They [the Russians] have failed to notice that… governments must move towards becoming more and more like tech companies, rather than being rigid like a tank, like a war machine.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/technology/ukraine-minister-war-digital.html</ref>

=====Cryptocurrency=====
{{See also|FTX scandal}}

=====Hackers and IT specialists=====
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The so-called "[[Ukrainian crisis|Revolution of Dignity]]" which the [[Obama administration]] supported. Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]]
''The Washington Post'' reported that Ukrainian officials ran thousands of facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the first 50 days of the Russian incursion, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of families in Russia for what may be "one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/</ref>

The country's IT Army, a force of hackers and [[activist]]s that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.

The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI. Some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers.

Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London, said it is “classic [[psychological warfare]]” and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts. “If it were Russian soldiers doing this with Ukrainian mothers, we might say, ‘Oh, my God, that’s barbaric.’ And is it actually working? Or is it making them say: ‘Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys?’ ”

Clearview AI’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told ''The Washington Post'' that more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge. Clearview employees held weekly, sometimes daily, training calls over Zoom with new police and military officials looking to gain access. Ton-That recounted several “‘oh, wow’ moments” as the Ukrainians witnessed how much data — including family photos, social media posts and relationship details — they could gather from a single cadaver scan. Some of the Ukrainins used Clearview's mobile app to scan faces while on the battlefield.

=====2024 conscription law=====

===Partitioning===
[[File:Ukraine 2022.jpeg|right|300px|thumb]]
When referendums For the Donbas, [[Kherson]], and [[Zaporozhye]] regions finally were held in September 2022, Russian Federation Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly: “The people living there are essentially only reacting to what President Zelensky recommended for them to do in one of his interviews in August 2021…Back then, he advised everyone who feels Russian to go to Russia for the benefit of their children and grandchildren…That’s what the residents of said regions are doing now, taking their lands, on which their ancestors lived for centuries, with them”.
[[File:A Skeptic's Best Guess On Final Map (Revised).PNG|right|300px|thumb|Military blogger A Skeptic's best guess estimate of final borders, revised June 2023.]]

====Polish revanchism====

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) stated that the Polish military’s priority “combat tasks” would include the gradual seizure of control over strategic facilities in West Ukraine. Poland discussed with the Biden regime an action to “reunite” with West Ukraine. According to [[Warsaw]]'s estimates, the entrenchment of the Polish military in West Ukraine would amount to a partitioning of Ukraine. On April 28, 2022 FIS spokesman Sergei Naryshkin said that Washington and Warsaw were planning to deploy a Polish “peacekeeping contingent” in the western part of Ukraine.
{{quotebox-float|“According to information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish tight military and political control over ‘their historical possessions’ in Ukraine,”}}
According to the FIS, the first stage of the “reunification” should be the introduction of Polish troops into the western regions of Ukraine under the guise of 'peacekeepers' with the participation of ‘willing states’. Warsaw has not yet been able to agree on potential participants in a ‘coalition of like-minded’,” the FIS said.

At the same time, the FIS pointed out, the Polish leadership is not interested in “unnecessary spies” in its operation. “The so-called peacekeeping contingent is planned to be deployed in those parts of Ukraine where the threat of direct clash with the Russian Armed Forces is minimal. And the priority “combat tasks” of the Polish military will include gradual interception of control over strategic objects located there from the National Guard of Ukraine. Polish special services are already searching for “agreeable” representatives of the Ukrainian elite to form a Warsaw-oriented “democratic” counterweight to the nationalists,” the FIS said in its report.

Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Jaroslaw Mika signed on order to bring the Polish Army into a state of full combat readiness for the invasion of western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/DzHlHaphi3I</ref> This document was published online by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.<ref>https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/9303</ref> According to the Polish government’s estimates, a deployment into western Ukraine is highly likely to split the country. Warsaw will essentially gain control of the territories where Polish "peacekeepers" will enter. Essentially, it is an attempt to repeat the historical “deal” for Poland after the [[First World War]], when the collective West, represented by the [[Triple Entente|Entente]], recognized Warsaw’s right first to occupy part of the Ukraine to protect its population from the “[[Bolshevik]] threat”, and then to incorporate those territories into the Polish state. The events that followed were a clear illustration of the [[colonialism|colonial]] order and forced Polonization as the main methods of building a ‘Greater Poland’,” the FIS concluded.<ref>https://southfront.org/transnistria29042022/</ref>

On May 3, 2022, Polish President [[Andrzej Duda]] said in a nationally televised speech,
{{quotebox-float|"I hope that Ukraine will be a brotherly state to Poland; that it will not have a [[border]] between them, that there will in fact be no border; that we will live together on this land, rebuilding ourselves and building our common happiness, our common strength."<ref>https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1521652429024120832</ref>}}
Other reports indicated that Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] and his entire cabinet had been offered UK citizenship, by-passing the ordinary process for acquiring citizenship and in preparation for a government-in-exile of a shrunken landlocked Ukrainian rump state.<ref>https://cmio.org/en/world/660051-representatives-of-zelenskys-office-received-british-citizenship-kiva-said</ref>

====Polish deployments====
In late July 2023 Poland deployed two military brigades to the border with Belarus, as announced by the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. "We are talking about the 12th and 17th brigades. One of them is stationed in Kolna, at a new base opened last Saturday, the second is in Biała Podlaska, that is, near the border with Belarus," Blaszczak said.
[[File:Polish revanchism.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Putin warns against joint NATO-Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian attempts to occupy Western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/ADfNeXnMBGs</ref>]]
At a televised meeting of the Russian Security Council on July 21, 2023 the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said: "The Polish leadership is strengthening its intention to control the western territories of Ukraine, in the western regions, by deploying its troops there." According to him, such a step is planned to be formalized as the fulfillment of allied obligations within the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative - the so-called "Lublin Triangle". Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response, said that Poland expects to form a coalition "under the NATO umbrella", "tear off a fatter piece" in Ukraine. Putin also made a fairly deep excursion into the history of Poland of the twentieth century. He recalled how this country pursued an aggressive policy, occupying the Rusyn-populated part of [[Austria-Hungary]], the [[Vilnius]] region of Lithuania, annexed some historical Russian provinces, and in 1938 participated in the division of [[Czechoslovakia]] as a result of the [[Munich Agreement]] with [[Hitler]], occupying Cieszyn [[Silesia]]. Putin added, "I also want to remind you of how such an aggressive policy ended for Poland as a result. It ended with the national tragedy of 1939, when Poland was abandoned by the Western Allies to be devoured by the German war machine and actually lost its independence and statehood, which was restored to a large extent thanks to the Soviet Union. And it was thanks to the Soviet Union, thanks to [[Stalin]]'s position, that Poland received significant lands in the West, the lands of Germany. This is exactly right: the western territories of present-day Poland are Stalin's gift to the Poles. Have our friends in Warsaw forgotten about it? We will recall," the Russian president said.

On Saturday, July 22, 2023 Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev was urgently summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Yablonski told the media that the meeting was "very short." And according to Andreev, the Russian side rebuffed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. According to Andreev, the Polish Foreign Ministry did not hand him any formal note, "limiting himself to verbal expressions of his displeasure." As Andreev informed, in Warsaw, the greatest attention is paid to the words of the Russian leader that Poland received its western lands thanks to the position of Joseph Stalin at the [[Yalta conference|Yalta]] and [[Potsdam conference]]s despite the objections of the WWII Western allies. According to Andreev, it is difficult to say why Warsaw concentrated on this particular moment. "Perhaps the reasons were an emotional reaction or lack of professionalism," Andreev concluded.

And in the Polish Foreign Ministry, where they are accustomed to the restrained reaction of the Russian Federation to anti-Russian actions such as the seizure of a school in Warsaw or an attack on the ambassador during the laying of wreaths at a military cemetery, a change in Moscow's position was noticed. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland said: "The attitude of the ambassador indicates that Russia does not intend to achieve any goals through diplomatic means."

French journalist Jean-Dominique Marchais confirmed reports on Poland's preparations to invade western Ukraine: "I confirm that there are reflections, particularly in Poland and in the [[Baltic States]], about the creation of one of the multinational divisions, let's say including Ukrainian forces, Polish forces, if Russia could break through the front and resume the offensive there. I think there would indeed be such a division, as Poland and others, they would send troops outside of NATO.

Jean-Dominique Merchet cites many official sources. This is not the first time this possibility has been mentioned. A few weeks ago Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former head of NATO, already confirmed this with our ''Guardian'' colleagues: 'We know that Poland is very committed to supporting Ukraine, and I don't rule out that Poland will be more involved on a national basis and that the Baltic states will follow with a possible ground troop intervention'."

According to a report by the Myśl Polska news agency in late August 2023, the number of Polish casualties in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine exceeded 10,000. This staggering figure has serious implications for both Poland and its military establishment, especially given that a significant proportion of the dead have been identified as Polish army reservists. This number of deaths would be more than 15% of all Polish ground forces. While some of these victims are referred to as volunteers and mercenaries, the majority are identified as Polish active duty soldiers and reservists.<ref>https://www.voiceofeurope.com/recorded-polish-casualties-in-ukrainian-conflict-exceed-10000/</ref>
{{Clear}}
===Gotterdammerung===
[[File:Mural in Ukraine - Israel in a bed of US dollars while the Nazi regime freezes.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Mural in Ukraine - Israel in a bed of US dollars while the Ukrainian Nazi regime freezes.]]
Simon Schuster of [[TIME magazine]] reported on the grim Führerbunker stage of the conflict in late October 2023:<ref>[https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/time-magazine-profile-depicts-grim TIME Magazine Profile Depicts Grim Führerbunker-Stage of Zelensky's Conflict ], Simplicius the Thinker, November 2, 2023. simplicius76.substack.com</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"The usual sparkle of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to liven up a meeting in the war room with a bit of banter or a bawdy joke, none of that has survived into the second year of all-out war. “Now he walks in, gets the updates, gives the orders, and walks out,” says one longtime member of his team. Another tells me that, most of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his [[Western alliance|Western allies]]. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.

But his convictions haven’t changed. Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”

[...]

“We’re not moving forward,” says one of Zelensky’s close aides. Some front-line commanders, he continues, have begun refusing orders to advance, even when they came directly from the office of the President. “They just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line,” he says. “But we can’t win a war that way.”

When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October [2023], he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of [[Horlivka]], a strategic outpost in [[eastern Ukraine]] that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”<ref>[https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/ ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight], BY SIMON SHUSTER, OCTOBER 30, 2023.</ref>}}
Alexander Mercouris of ''The Duran'' also gave an insightful review of the ''TIME'' magazine piece.<ref>[https://youtu.be/rVcvizqrjvQ?t=3637 Israel Operation Gaza; UN BRICS versus US; Zelensky Deluded, Ukr Defeated, Ukr Troops Demoralised], Alexander Mercouris, November 1, 2023. YouTube</ref> The consensus among observers was that the [[CIA]] was ready to throw Zelensky overboard, and perhaps [[Zaluzhny]] as well, and the ''TIME'' magazine piece along with other recent [[MSM]] reports was preparing the American public for the eventual 'cut and run' strategy of the United States.

{{Anchor|AFU}}

==Military, foreign intelligence, and internal security forces==
[[File:Ukrainian Nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Ukrainian nazi flag.<ref>https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraine-uses-pig-fat-bullets-to-counter-russian-aggression/</ref>]]
Ukrainian security services combine the structure and methods of both the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and in recent years has adopted NATO advisors.

Security forces are controlled by the president, although they are subject to investigation by a permanent parliamentary commission. Surveillance is permitted for reasons of national security.

In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) under the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior has its own armed forces which consists of the Security Service of Ukraine ([[Ukrainian Gestapo]]), which oversee the National Guard of which the [[Azov Battalion]] is only one such neo-Nazi entity, and the [[Territorial Defense]] consisting of ordinary citizens and various local neo-Nazi thugs and hooligans.

After 1991, Ukraine established its own military forces of about 780,000 from the troops and equipment inherited from the Soviet Union. Under defense reform legislation passed in 2004, Ukraine is strengthening civilian control of the military, professionalizing its non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps, adding neo-Nazi paramilitary groups to the national guard, modernizing force structure to improve interoperability with NATO, all with an eye toward achieving NATO standards. Current force levels are approximately 225,000 (plus 90,000 civilian workers in the Ministry of Defense). The Ministry of Defense plans to continue force reductions by approximately 20,000 personnel per year to reach a final end state of 143,000 by 2011. Ukraine's stated national policy is Euro-Atlantic integration, including with both NATO and the European Union. NATO offered Ukraine an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" in April 2005. Ukraine had previously signed an agreement with NATO on using Ukraine's strategic airlift capabilities and has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace exercises, in Balkans peacekeeping, and Coalition operations in Iraq. Ukrainian units have been serving in the U.S. sector in he illegal [[Kosovo]] invasion, and served in the Polish-led division in Iraq. Ukraine participated in six United Nations peacekeeping missions and has up to 50 troops serving in supporting roles in Iraq.

In 2018, ''Israeli National News'' reported that the World War II Nazi collaborator greeting became the official Ukraine army salute, "Slava Ukraine!" (''Cyr:'' СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ; ''Eng:'' Glory to Ukraine!)" These words and greeting became Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) official military greeting.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/250641</ref> While the Ukrainian fascist salute glorifies a single national identity group<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/new-glory-to-ukraine-army-chant-invokes-nationalist-past/a-45215538</ref> - Ukraine - the Russian response is "Glory to the Heroes", or all the heroes of whichever national identity group contributed to the defeat of fascism and Nazism in World War II.

===Biological weapons research labs===
{{See also|U.S. funded biological labs abroad}}
[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the [[Pentagon]]; [[Victoria Nuland]] later confirmed 46 locations.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ydSf57SRtcQ Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control: US], Mar 11, 2022.</ref>]]
Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the US DoD and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the US Department of Defense (DoD) dangerous [[pathogen]]s for biological research.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref> The Pentagon has been granted access to certain state secrets<ref>Likely the identities of US contacts and counterparts in the Ukranian government with knowledge of the arrangements and authority to act in a given situation.</ref> of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement.

Only three laboratories in Ukraine had the required safety criteria to undertake the type of research they were doing, according to the Russian military. Captured Ukrainian government documents point to a series of problems at one of those sites in Odessa.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radioactive, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces, accused the Kyiv regime of carrying out “inhumane experiments” on Ukrainian patients and of launching a biological attack against the Lugansk Peoples Republic in early May 2022. Other evidence suggests that when Russia moved soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, attempts were made to weaponize drones to spread pathogens and to destroy compromising materials. In response to the revelations by Russia's Investigative Committee, the Pentagon fessed up in June 2022 to funding 46 biological research facilities in Ukraine over the last 20 years.<ref>https://greatgameindia.com/pentagon-admits-biolabs-ukraine/</ref>

Two years before the war started, [[CGTN]] discussed US biolabs around the world.<ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Biolabs-around-the-world-QpgMAnwV0I/index.html</ref><ref>https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-16/Time-to-reveal-what-s-going-on-in-U-S-biolabs-QwpxrRTI7C/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-21/U-S-deployed-over-200-military-biological-laboratories-worldwide-QFtLkqhuVy/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-04-30/The-U-S-needs-to-open-up-about-its-biological-labs-in-the-former-USSR-Q6ud6hO84E/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Do-U-S-biolabs-hold-up-to-scrutiny--Qp3jQrmvoQ/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-11/Global-netizens-reveal-growing-list-of-U-S-bio-security-labs-ReT49fqZEs/index.html</ref>

====DTRA====
The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine. The official documents confirm that the Pentagon, represented by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), is organising work with a clear military-biological focus.
{{quotebox-float|𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚𝘈… 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 … 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘣𝘪𝘰-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺-𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘰𝘷, 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘷 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰-𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴, 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴.. 𝘐𝘯 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 2017, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬-𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦’𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 1997, 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 (𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥). 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘹 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢.}}
[[File:Obama biolabs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|On August 29, 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Pentagon signed the "Treaty on Countering the Threat of Bioterrorism and Preventing the Spread of Bacteriological Weapons, Technology, Materials and Knowledge."<ref>https://badvolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/US-Biolabs-in-Ukraine-BadVolf-Investigation.pdf</ref>]]
One of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died from Flu-like virus in just two days with 200 more being hospitalized.<ref>https://dninews.com/article/deadly-virus-leaked-us-laboratory-donbass-dpr-army-and-intelligence</ref> The Ukrainian government did not report on the dead Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths have been reported across Ukraine (81.3% caused by Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09 – the same strain which caused the world pandemic in 2009).<ref>http://old.moz.gov.ua/ua/portal/pre_20160311_0.html</ref>
[[File:DTRA contractors in Ukraine.png|left|250px|thumb|Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca partnership with the [[CCP]], receives the lion's share of Defense Department funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.<ref>https://archive.fo/fVtcf</ref>]]
A highly suspicious Hepatitis A infection spread rapidly in just few months across South East Ukraine where most of the Pentagon biolabs are located. 37 people were hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv as of January 2018.<ref>https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/others/vspyshkoy-gepatita-v-nikolaeve-zainteresovalas-policiya-1103357.html</ref> Local police launched an investigation into “infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases”. In addition, in 2016 more than 100 people in the same city became infected with [[Cholera]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K47S1DarhTE</ref> Both diseases are alleged to have spread through contaminated drinking water. In the summer of 2017, 60 people with Hepatitis A were admitted to hospital in the city of Zaporizhia,<ref>https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/others/vspyshkoy-gepatita-v-nikolaeve-zainteresovalas-policiya-1103357.html</ref> the cause of this outbreak is still unknown. In the Odessa region, 19 children from an orphanage were hospitalized for hepatitis A in June 2017.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/YOvCU</ref> 29 cases of Hepatitis A were reported in Kharkiv in November 2017. The virus was isolated in contaminated drinking water. One of the Pentagon bio-labs is located in Kharkiv which was blamed for the deadly Flu outbreak in 2018 which claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

In 2011 Ukraine was hit by a cholera outbreak.<ref>https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/area-in-ukraine-hit-by-cholera-outbreak-109266.html</ref> 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/10smv</ref> A second outbreak struck the country in 2014 when more than 800 people all across Ukraine were reported to have contracted the disease.<ref>https://youtu.be/K47S1DarhTE</ref>

In 2015 at least 100 new cases were registered in the city of Mykolaiv alone. A new highly virulent variant of the cholera agent Vibrio cholera, with a high genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, hit Moscow in 2014. According to a 2014 Russian Research Anti-Plaque Institute genetic study the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the bacteria which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.<ref>http://genomea.asm.org/content/5/8/e01640-16.full</ref> Southern Research Institute, one of the US contractors working at the bio-laboratories in Ukraine, has projects on Cholera, as well as on Influenza and Zika – all pathogens of military importance to the Pentagon.

A now deleted article originally posted on June 18, 2020, which has been recovered<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110522081423/http://www.bioprepwatch.com/news/213421-biolab-opens-in-ukraine</ref><ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/03/list-of-ukraine-biolab-documents-reportedly-removed-by-us-embassy/</ref> entitled ''Biolab Opens in Ukraine'' details how [[Barack Obama]], while serving as an Illinois Senator, helped negotiate a deal to build a level-3 bio-safety lab in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/08/obama-led-ukraine-biolab-efforts/</ref>

[[Metabiota]], a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the [[Communist Party of China]] and the [[Peoples Republic of China]]'s [[Peoples Liberation Army]], was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the DTRA program in Georgia and Ukraine.<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104</ref><ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/how-much-did-the-bidens-make-in-the-ukraine-biolabs/</ref>

===Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre===
Among the set of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) – an International organization funded mainly by the US government which has been accorded diplomatic status. The US personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic cover. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 million in funding and managing some 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.

According to captured documents by the Russian Ministry of Defense,<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-04-14</ref> the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre (STCU),
{{quotebox-float|"is headquartered in Kiev and has regional offices in [[Baku]], Chisinau and [[Tbilisi]], as well as in Kharkov and Lvov.

However, the Russian Ministry of Defence's Chemical and Biological Threat Expertise Centre found that the STCU's main activity is to act as a distribution centre for grants for research of interest to the Pentagon, including biological weapons research.

In recent years alone, Washington has spent more than $350 million on STCU projects.

The U.S. customers and sponsors of STCU are the [[Department of State]] and the [[Department of Defense]]. Funding is also provided through the [[Environmental Protection Agency]], the [[Department of Agriculture|US Departments of Agriculture]], [[HHS|Health]] and [[DOE|Energy]]....

Between 2014 and 2022, the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre implemented five hundred R&D projects in post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Georgia, [[Moldova]] and [[Azerbaijan]]).

US supervisors were primarily interested in dual-use research, such as project 6166, Development of Technologies for Modelling, Evaluation and Prediction of Effects of Conflicts and Threats of Mass Destruction Weapons Spread, and project 9601, Transfer of Ukrainian Technologies for the Production of Complex Dual-Use Materials to the European Union.

Many of them are aimed at studying potential biological weapons agents (plague, tularaemia) and pathogens of economic importance (pathogenic avian influenza, African swine fever).

Projects P-364, 444, and 781, aimed at studying the spread of dangerous pathogens through insect vectors, wild birds, and bats, were funded by the Centre directly in the interests of the military department.

Note the documents of Project 3007 "Monitoring of the epidemiological and environmental situation regarding hazardous diseases of aquatic origin in Ukraine".

During the work, Ukrainian specialists, supervised by American scientists, systematically collected water samples in a number of major Ukrainian rivers, including the Dnepr, [[Danube]] and Dniester, as well as in the North Crimean Canal, to determine the presence of particularly dangerous pathogens, including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and E pathogens, and draw conclusions about their possible waterborne spread.

The project assessed the damage properties of the selected samples and deposited the strains in a collection and subsequently exported them to the USA.

...the results of this work can be used to create an unfavourable biological situation not only in the Russian Federation, but also in the Black Sea and the [[Sea of Azov]], as well as in [[Eastern Europe]] - [[Belarus]], Moldova and [[Poland]]....

Thus, during the special operation in Ukraine, it was established that US scientists from a laboratory in Merefa (Kharkov Region) were testing potentially dangerous biological drugs on patients of the regional clinical [[psychiatric]] hospital No 3 in Kharkov between 2019 and 2021.

Persons with mental disorders were selected for the experiments on the basis of their age, nationality and immune status. Special forms were used to record the results of 24-hour patient monitoring. The information was not entered into the hospital database and the staff of the medical institution signed a non-disclosure agreement.

In January 2022, the laboratory in Merefa was shut down and all equipment and preparations were moved to western Ukraine."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUO-bDDGZcg</ref>}}

===Nuclear fuel and waste===
As of 2022 Ukraine holds a large amount of spent nuclear fuel that has not been removed from the territory of Ukraine since 2020 and that has been stored on the territory of nuclear power plants awaiting the construction of a nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. In addition, the Kyiv regime had accumulated 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

===Neo-Nazi groups===
''The Postil'' reported that in 2007, the [[CIA]] put together a “conference” of various anti-Russian factions in Ukraine whose purpose was nothing other than to groom neo-Nazis and [[jihad]]ists, both groups being solidly [[anti-Russian]]. Overseeing the conference was [[Dmytro Yarosh]], who led the Trident and the [[Pravy Sektor]], both neo-Nazi organizations.<ref>https://www.thepostil.com/the-nazis-of-ukraine/</ref>

These various neo-Nazi units, trained by [[the West]], were integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). After 2014 Maidan coup, the West actively protected these neo-Nazi groups. Victoria Nuland, in 2021, told Volodymyr Zelensky to appoint Dmytro Yarosh as adviser to the [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the Ukrainian army—because no one can fight Russians better than Nazis. Here are the larger units of neo-Nazis, or Banderites which fought Russians in Ukraine:
[[File:Kraken nazis.png|right|350px|thumb|Photo of football hooligans squad of the neo-Nazi [[Kraken unit|Kraken regiment]] of the [[Maidan regime|Ukraine regime forces]]: KCP ([[Kharkiv]]), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineCrisis2022/comments/y99cg5/photo_of_football_hooligans_squad_of_neonazi/ Photo of Football Hooligans squad of neoNazi Kraken regiment of Ukraine regime forces: KCP (Kharkiv), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro], October 2022. reddit.</ref>]]
*Members of Svoboda (formerly the “Nation-Social Party of Ukraine,” which curiously rhymes with Hitler's “National-Socialist German Workers Party”)
*The AZOV Battalion (based in Mariupol)
*C14 of Kyiv
*The [[Aidar Battalion]] (in Luhansk)
*The Wotanjugend (who are actually Russian in origin)
*Ukraine Patriot (co-founded by Parliament Speaker [[Andriy Parubiy]])
*The National Militia
*[[Karpatska Sich]]
*Freikorps

There are also many other smaller units (more than 30) that have merged with the larger ones, and all have been integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the various symbols of these organizations are common-place in Ukraine (i.e., the Sonnenrad, the Totenkopf, the Wolfsangel). After 2014, Ukraine also became the main “exporter” of Nazi ideology throughout the world.

Fighting alongside the neo-Nazis and the Ukrainian army are a slew of jihadis and mercenaries, many of whom are from other Western neo-Nazi groups like the Misanthropic Division. These mercenaries are known as the International Legion of [[Territorial Defense]] of Ukraine.

{{Anchor|Euromaidanpress}}

===US/Ukrainian intelligence collaboration===
Within the NATO bloc, the Cyber Defense Systems Development Fund and the Armed Forces of Ukraine Command, Control and Communications Systems Modernization Fund were among the trust funds established to assist Ukraine in 2014.

According to information announced in April 2017 by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), [[Vasyl Hrytsak]], the first stage of cooperation with the Ukraine-NATO Trust Fund in the field of cyber defense included a total of one million euros, which was used to purchase equipment and software to equip computer incident response centers of key Ukrainian state institutions, in particular, the Situation Center of the SBU and the Cyber Incident Response Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.<ref>https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/433693.html</ref>

====2016 US presidential election interference====
{{Anchor|InformNapalm}}
Not Russia, but Ukraine interfered in the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. The purpose was twofold: (1) rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton; (2) a negative propaganda campaign against Russia to turn the American people against the Russian Federation and perceive it as a threat.

[[File:Surkov-leaks-with-Crowdstrike-390x400.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Although this profile says Virginia, tweets are from the Sofia, Bulgaria time zone and he writes in Russian. Another curiosity considering the Fancy Bear source code is in Russian. This image shows Crowdstrike in their network. Crowdstrike is part of Ukrainian nationalist hacker network. In the image it shows a network diagram of Crowdstrike following the Surkov leaks. The network communication goes through a secondary source.]]
Dimitri Alperovitch's relationship with Andrea Chalupa's efforts and Ukrainian intelligence groups is where things really heat up. Alexandra Chalupa works with '''Euromaidanpress.com''' and '''Informnapalm.org''' which is the outlet for Ukrainian state-sponsored hackers. InformNapalm and Censor.net are media outlet that are controlled by the Ministry of Defense and Main Intelligence Department.<ref>https://thesaker.is/former-sbu-employee-revealed-information-about-secret-prisons-in-donbass-and-kievs-involvement-in-downing-mh17/</ref>

Investigating Dimitri Alperovitch's twitter relationships, the question arises as to why the CEO of a $150 million company like Crowdstrike follows Ukrainian InformNapalm and its hackers individually. There is a mutual relationship. When you add up his work for the OUNb, Ukraine, support for Ukraine's Intelligence, and to the hackers it needs to be investigated to see if Ukraine is conspiring against the US government. Crowdstrike is also following their hack of a Russian government official after the DNC hack. It closely resembles the same method used with the DNC because it was an email hack.
[[File:Gerashchenko.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Deputy Gestapo head Anton Gerashchenko is one of the Zelensky regime's chief Nazi propagandists.]]
Crowdstrike's product line includes Falcon Host, Falcon Intelligence, Falcon Overwatch and Falcon DNS. In an interview with Euromaidanpress these hackers say they have no need for the CIA.<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/11/02/ukraine-hackers-cyberhunta-surkov-putin-ruh8-cyberalliance/</ref> They consider the CIA amateurish. They also say they are not part of the Ukrainian military Cyberalliance is a quasi-organization with the participation of several groups – RUH8, Trinity, Falcon Flames, Cyberhunta. There are structures affiliated to the hackers – the [[Myrotvorets]] site, Informnapalm analytical agency.”

[[File:Osint-image-and-tweet-400x117.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Although OSINT Academy sounds fairly innocuous, it’s the official twitter account for Ukraine’s Ministry of Information head Dimitri Zolotukin. It is also Ukrainian Intelligence. The Ministry of Information started the Peacekeeper or [[Myrotvorets]] website that geolocates journalists and other people for assassination. If you disagree with OUNb politics, you could be on the list.]]
Should someone tell Dimitri Alperovitch that [[Anton Gerashchenko]], who is now in charge of the [[Peacekeeper kill list]] recently threatened president-elect Donald Trump that he would put him on his “Peacemaker” site as a target? The same has been done with [[Silvio Berlusconi]] in 2015.

Trying not to be obvious, the Head of Ukraine's Information Ministry (UA Intelligence) tweeted something interesting that ties Alperovitch and Crowdstrike to the Ukrainian Intelligence hackers and the Information Ministry even tighter. This single tweet on a network chart shows that out of all the Ukrainian Ministry of Information Minister's following, he only wanted the 3 hacking groups associated with both him and Alperovitch to get the tweet. Alperovitch's story was received and not retweeted or shared. If this was just Alperovitch's victory, it was a victory for Ukraine. It would be shared heavily. If it was a victory for the hacking squad, it would be smart to keep it to themselves and not draw unwanted attention.

These same hackers are associated with Alexandra, Andrea, and Irene Chalupa through the portals and organizations they work with through their OUNb. The hackers are funded and directed by or through the same OUNb channels that Alperovitch is working for and with to promote the story of Russian hacking.

When you look at the image for the hacking group in the euromaidanpress article, one of the hackers identifies themselves as one of [[Dimitri Yarosh]]'s Pravy Sektor members by the Pravy Sektor sweatshirt they have on. Noted above, [[Pravy Sektor]] admitted to killing the '[[Heavenly Hundred]]' at the Maidan protest and sparked the coup.

Going further with the linked Euromaidanpress article the hackers say "Let’s understand that Ukrainian hackers and Russian hackers once constituted a single very powerful group. Ukrainian hackers have a rather high level of work. So the help of the USA… I don’t know, why would we need it? We have all the talent and special means for this. And I don’t think that the USA or any NATO country would make such sharp movements in international politics.”

What sharp movements in international politics have been made lately? Let me spell it out for the 17 US Intelligence Agencies so there is no confusion. These state sponsored, Russian language hackers in [[Eastern Europe]]an time zones have shown with the Surkov hack they have the tools and experience to hack states that are looking out for it. They are also laughing at US intel efforts.

The hackers also made it clear that they will do anything to serve Ukraine. Starting a war between Russia and the USA is the one way they could serve Ukraine best, and hurt Russia worst. Given those facts, if the [[DNC]] hack was according to the criteria given by Alperovitch, both he and these hackers need to be investigated.

According to the ''Esquire'' interview “Alperovitch was deeply frustrated: He thought the government should tell the world what it knew. There is, of course, an element of the personal in his battle cry. “A lot of people who are born here don’t appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they’ve never had it any other way,” he told me. “I have.”

While I agree patriotism is a great thing, confusing it with this kind of nationalism is not. '''Alperovitch seems to think by serving [[OUNb]] Ukraine's interests and delivering a conflict with Russia that is against American interests, he's a patriot. He isn't serving US interests. He's definitely a Ukrainian patriot.''' Maybe he should move to Ukraine.

The evidence presented deserves investigation because it looks like the case for [[conflict of interest]] is the least Dimitri Alperovitch should look forward to. If these hackers are the real Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, they really did make sharp movements in international politics. By pawning it off on Russia, they made a worldwide embarrassment of an outgoing President of the United States and made the President Elect the suspect of rumor.

====Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR)====
[[File:Budanov.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Kyrylo Budanov]].<ref>https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/ukraines-intelligence-boss-predicts</ref> By May 2023, this person was considered to be the top Nazi on the Russian Investigative Committees' most wanted list for terrorist activities.]]
Russian hacker group RAHDit leaked data of 2500 officers of the [[Main Intelligence Directorate]] (GUR) of the military department of Ukraine in July 2022. The hacker group revealed that the released information includes data about the relatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and people who received payments from GUR bank accounts.

The hackers claimed that the GUR officers include alleged [[drug addict]]s and former [[criminal]]s convicted of robbery, the illegal trafficking of [[weapon]]s and [[drug]]s as well as causing bodily injuries. They further revealed that they have given the information regarding the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) to [[law enforcement]] agencies. RAHDit said it was not intending to publish information related to underage relatives of Ukrainian officers.

====Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)====

RaHDIt leaked the personal information of more than 1500 employees of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Ukraine. An anonymous law enforcement source has "confirmed the authenticity" of the information released on the hacker group's website Nemezide (Nemesis) on September 26, 2022.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russian-hackers-release-data-of-over-1500-ukrainian-foreign-intelligence-service-agents-articleshow.html</ref> The information is related to Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) agents working under the cover of embassies in over 20 nations.

The information includes people working under the cover of embassies in France, [[Argentina]], Germany, [[Italy]], US, Poland, [[Azerbaijan]], [[Hungary]], [[Tajikistan]], [[South Africa]], [[Greece]], [[Iraq]], and other nations. Furthermore, RaHDIt hackers released information on Ukrainian SVR agents working in the missions of the United Nations, European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and 40 Ukrainian SVR locations within Ukraine, including one at an educational establishment.

==Foreign Relations==
The government has declared Euro-Atlantic integration to be its primary foreign policy objective and has sought to maintain good relations with Russia. The European Union's Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Ukraine went into force on March 1, 1998. After the 2004 round of EU expansion, the EU did not signal a willingness to consider Ukraine for an association agreement, as Ukraine had hoped for, but instead included it in a new "neighbor" policy, disappointing many Ukrainians. An agreement on intensified cooperation is possible after Ukrainian WTO accession. On January 31, 1992, Ukraine joined the then-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (now the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—OSCE), and on March 10, 1992, it became a member of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Ukraine signed a Charter Agreement with NATO in 1997, sent troops to Kosovo in close cooperation with NATO countries, signed an agreement for NATO use of Ukrainian strategic airlift assets, and has declared interest in eventual membership. It is the most active member of the Partnership for Peace (PfP). In April 2005, NATO offered an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" to Ukraine.

Relations with Russia are complicated by differing foreign policy priorities in the region, energy dependence, payment arrears, disagreement over compliance with the 1997 agreement on the stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in [[Sevastopol]], and a dispute over bilateral boundaries in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. Ukraine co-founded the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on December 8, 1991, but in January 1993 it refused to endorse a draft charter strengthening political, economic, and defense ties among CIS members. Ukraine was a founding member of GUAM (Georgia-Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Moldova) and has taken the lead with Georgia to promote cooperation among emerging democracies in the Community for Democratic Choice, which held its first summit meeting December 1–2, 2005 in Kyiv.

In 1999–2001, Ukraine served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics. Ukraine has consistently supported peaceful, negotiated settlements to disputes. It has participated in the five-sided (now "5+2") talks on the conflict in Moldova and under President Yushchenko actively boosted efforts to seek a resolution. Ukraine has also promoted a peaceful resolution to conflict in the post-Soviet state of Georgia.
[[File:Austin Milley Ukraine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Biden regime defaced the Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://olxpraca.com/the-pentagon-defaced-the-ukrainian-flag/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/busnitized/status/1529061445631193088</ref><ref>https://hiindia.com/2022/05/24/pentagon-messes-up-ukrainian-flag/</ref>]]
===Minsk II Agreement===

The Normandy Group comprised of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany negotiated a settlement regarding the autonomy of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk with the Minsk II Agreement, freely signed by Ukraine and approved by the United Nations in 2015. When the Biden regime seized power in 2021, it enticed Ukraine to break the agreement by offering Ukraine NATO membership, igniting a crisis with Russia.

===Relations with the United States===

====Ukranian collusion with DNC to interfere in US elections====
{{See also|Ukrainian collusion timeline}}
Evidence of [[DNC]] collusion with Ukraine to dig up dirt on the 2016 Trump campaign:
{{quotebox-float|From: Chalupa, Ali 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:56 PM 
To: Miranda, Luis 
Subject: Re: You saw this, right? 

A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the Library of Congress - the Open World Society's forum - they put me on the program to speak specifically about [[Paul Manafort]] and I invited [[Michael Isikoff]] whom I've been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something I'm working on you should be aware of. 

Since I started digging into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my password often: 

[image1.JPG] 

Sent from my iPhone 

On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: 

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/ 

<http://www.democrats.org/>[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director 
Democratic National Committee 
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC><ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>}}
According to the ''Kyiv Post'',
{{quotebox-float|“Chalupa said she first came across Manafort after she organized a meeting with then-U.S. President Barack Obama’s [[National Security Council]] and leaders of Ukrainian-American organizations in January 2014, to brief the [[White House]] about the [[Euromaidan Revolution]] that drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power on Feb. 22, 2014.”}}

In late 2015, [[Alexandra Chalupa]] expanded her research into Paul Manafort to include the Trump campaign and possible ties to Russia.
[[File:Alexandra-chalupa-and-ukraine-embassy-in-the-us.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman [[Marcy Kaptur]]’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy staff.<ref>https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/how-to-finance-your-congressional-campaign-with-arms-sales/</ref>]]
In January 2016, Chalupa informed an unknown senior [[DNC]] official that she believed there was a Russian connection with the Trump campaign. Notably, this theme would be picked up by the [[2016 Clinton campaign|Clinton campaign]] in the summer of 2016. Chalupa also told the official to expect Manafort's involvement in the Trump campaign.

Chalupa’s forecast proved prescient, as Manafort reached out to the Trump campaign shortly after, on Feb. 29, 2016, through a mutual acquaintance, Thomas J. Barrack Jr. According to Manafort, he and Trump hadn’t been in communication for years until the Trump campaign responded to Manafort’s offer. On March 28, 2016, Manafort was hired by the Trump campaign. He was reportedly initially hired to lead the Trump campaign’s delegate effort, but was soon promoted, and on May 19, 2016, Manafort became Trump’s campaign chairman and chief strategist.

Just days prior to Manafort’s hiring, on March 24, 2016, Chalupa spoke with the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, and told him of concerns she had regarding Manafort. Reportedly, her concerns were initially rebuffed as Chaly didn’t think Trump had a real chance of winning the presidency.

According to ''Politico'', the day after Manafort’s hiring, Chalupa provided a briefing on “Manafort, Trump and their ties to Russia” to the DNC's communications staff. Notably, “with the DNC’s encouragement,” Chalupa asked the Ukrainian Embassy staff to attempt to arrange an interview with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and have him discuss Manafort's ties to former Ukrainian President Yanukovych. The Ukrainian Embassy reportedly declined the request but, according to Chalupa, did begin working with reporters who were researching Trump.

[[Andrii Telizhenko]], who worked in the Ukrainian Embassy under one of Chaly's top aides, Oksana Shulyar, has repeatedly stated that Chalupa was working closely with the Ukrainian Embassy to obtain information on Trump.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/double-standards-on-ukraine/</ref> In an interview with the Gateway Pundit, Telizhenko said he met Chalupa in the spring of 2016 at the Ukrainian Embassy, where Chalupa told him she was “a DNC operative working for the DNC” and the “Clinton campaign.” Telizhenko continued, noting that Chalupa said she was “collecting any dirt or background information on Manafort, presidential candidate Trump or any other campaign official from the Trump campaign” and was looking for “connections to Russia or the FSB or Russian mob, or Ukrainian mob, etc.” According to Telizhenko, Chalupa said the information would “be used for committee hearings in Congress under a congresswoman.”<ref>Rep. [[Marcy Kaptur]].</ref> Telizhenko didn't disclose the identity of the congresswoman, noting, “I don’t want to mention her name on record.”

In January 2017, Telizhenko told ''Politico'' that Chalupa said, “If we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”

In a recent tweet, Telizhenko summed the situation succinctly, noting
{{quotebox-float|“The Clinton campaign had a Democratic operative working with Ukraine’s embassy in Washington to research Trump’s Russia ties, as well as a Ukrainian lawmaker feeding information to Fusion GPS.”}}

The “Democratic operative” refers to Chalupa, while the “Ukrainian lawmaker” refers to [[Leshchenko]].

====Crowdstrike====
{{See also|Murder of Seth Rich}}
[[File:Trump-convo-with-zelenskyy.jpg |right|350px |thumb |CrowdStrike interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.]]
[[File:Podesta-Emails-600x400.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Clinton campaign manager [[John Podesta]] was notified by [[Google]] that his emails were hacked, not by Russia, but by Ukraine during the 2016 presidential election.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899</ref>]]
[[CrowdStrike]] is an Irvine, [[California]] cyber security company founded in 2011. Crowdstrike was founded by [[Dimitry Alperovitch]], a [[Ukrainian]] [[oligarch]] and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Another owner and senior manager of Crowdstrike is a former senior [[FBI]] man [[Shawn Henry]], who was promoted by [[Robert Mueller]] to be the FBI's Head of Cyber Security in the 2000s.

Crowdstrike is funded by [[Google]],<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref> the arms industry, [[NATO]], the US Military, [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[UAE]], and another Ukrainian oligarch who donated $10 million to the [[Clinton Foundation]] named [[Victor Pinchuk]].<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> Pichuk hosted the September 2013 confabulation in [[Yalta]], [[Crimea]] attended by [[Bill Clinton]], [[Hillary Clinton]], and [[Tony Blair]] to discuss how Ukraine's assets would be carved up after the forthcoming [[Ukrainian coup]].

Russian hacking claims of DNC servers in the Spring of 2016 rely entirely on a report by CrowdStrike.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/think-tank-cyber-firm-center-russian-hacking-charges-misread-data</ref> Despite repeated requests from the FBI, Crowdstrike and the DNC refused to turn over evidence.<ref>https://slate.com/technology/2017/05/the-fbi-is-harder-to-trust-on-the-dnc-hack-because-it-relied-on-crowdstrikes-analysis.html</ref> The [[Obama administration]] never examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/</ref> On July 25, 2019, [[President Trump]] requested [[President Zelensky]] of Ukraine to assist in recovering evidence from Crowdstrike, which contracts with the Ukrainian military.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-mentioned-crowdstrike-to-ukrainian-president-and-crowdstrike-doesnt-seem-to-know-why-2019-09-25</ref>
:*According to journalist and DNC activist Andrea Chalupa on her Facebook page “After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington),<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref> it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a [[Democratic Party]] source who has been directly involved in the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”” July 25, 2016
:*If she was that close to the investigation Crowdstrike did how credible is she? Her sister Alexandra was named one of 16 people that shaped the election by Yahoo news. '''The DNC hacking investigation done by Crowdstrike concluded hacking was done by Russian actors based on the work done by Alexandra Chalupa? That is the conclusion of her sister Andrea Chalupa and obviously enough for Crowdstrike to make the Russian government connection.'''
:*How close is Dimitri Alperovitch to DNC officials? Close enough professionally he should have stepped down from an investigation that had the chance of throwing a presidential election in a new direction. According to Esquire.com, Alperovitch has vetted speeches for Hillary Clinton about cyber security issues in the past. Because of his work on the Sony hack, President Barrack Obama personally called and said the measures taken were directly because of his work.
:*Alperovitch’s relationships with the Chalupas, radical groups, think tanks, Ukrainian propagandists, and Ukrainian state supported hackers [show a conflict of interest]. When it all adds up and you see it together, we have found a Russian that tried hard to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in 2016.

====Fancy Bear is Ukrainian Intelligence====
[[File:Alperovitch-hacker-friends-400x118 (1).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Dimitry Alperovitch, the founder of Crowdstrike, tweeting with Fancy Bear. Crowdstrike claimed the Russians hacked the DNC. The FBI never verified the claim. Private investigators determined it was Ukrainian intelligence who were hired by Alexandra Chalupa, a member of the Democratic National Committee.]]
George Eliason has identified Fancy Bear as Ukrainian intelligence.

Alexandra Chalupa hired this particular hacking terrorist group, which Dimitry Alperovich and Crowdstrike dubbed "[[Fancy Bear]]", in 2015 at the latest. While the Ukrainian hackers worked for the DNC, Fancy Bear had to send in progress reports, turn in research, and communicate on the state of the projects they were working on. Let's face it, once you're in, setting up your Fancy Bear toolkit doesn't get any easier. This is why I said the DNC hack isn't the big crime. It's a big con and all the parties were in on it.

Hillary Clinton exposed secrets to hacking threats by using private email instead of secured servers. Given the information provided she was probably being monitored by our intrepid Ruskie-Ukie union made in hell hackers. [[Anthony Weiner]] exposed himself and his wife [[Huma Abedin]] using Weiner's computer for top-secret State Department emails. And of course Huma Abedin exposed herself along with her top-secret passwords at [[Yahoo]] and it looks like the hackers the DNC hired to do opposition research hacked her.

Here's a question. Did Huma Abedin have Hillary Clinton's passwords for her private email server? It would seem logical given her position with Clinton at the State Department and afterward. This means that Hillary Clinton and the US government top secret servers were most likely compromised by Fancy Bear before the DNC and Team Clinton hired them by using legitimate passwords.

===Relations with Belarus===
On March 1, 2022, the [[Zelensky regime]] threatened [[Belarus]] with a pre-emptive strike.<ref>https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ukraine-Threatens-Belarus-to-Launch-Preemptive-Attack-20220301-0010.html</ref>

On March 15, 2022, Belarus was hit with an organized [[sabotage]] campaign aimed at railroad lines carrying Russian troops and humanitarian supplies into Ukraine.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-699184</ref>

On October 14, 2022, Belarus went on high alert against a [[NATO]] terror attack.<ref>https://youtu.be/NFwID2qF3HY</ref>

On October 17, 2022, the Belarus defense ministry issued a statement saying it reserved the right for preemptive strategic deterrence measures.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1523983</ref>

===Relations with Argentina===
{{Main article|Javier Milei}}
[[File:Zelenski gives a menorah to Milei.jpg|thumbnail|[[Zelenski]] receives a Jewish [[menorah]] from Milei.]]
The Libertarian Argentinian President, [[Javier Milei]] shares religion with Zelenski who game him a [[menorah]] during the inauguration of the first. Milei is pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine. It was the first time Zelenski visited [[Latin America]].

[[Zelenski]] and [[Viktor Orbán]] were present in Milei's inauguration and they both discussed about [[Putin]] during the event.

==Economy==
[[File:96% of Burisma's production comes from Dniepr-Donets Basin.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The heart of Burisma Holdings' Yuzov field in the Dniepr-Dontes Basin.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IFk5wgMl2k8 BURISMA GROUP VIDEO 2018], BURISMA GROUP, Oct 4, 2018. YouTube.</ref>]]
[[File:Dniepr-Donets Basin.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The Dniepr-Donets Basin center of Burisma Holdings on the [[Kharkov front]] during the [[NATO war in Ukraine]].]]
With rich farmlands, a well-developed industrial base, highly trained labor, and a good education system, Ukraine has the potential to become a major European economy. After eight straight years of sharp economic decline from the early to late 1990s, the standard of living for most citizens declined more than 50%, leading to widespread poverty. Beginning in 2000 economic growth has averaged 7.4% per year, reaching 12.1% in 2004 and 7.0% in 2006. Personal incomes are rising. The macro economy is stable, with the hyperinflation of the early post-Soviet period now reduced to just over 11.6% (2006). Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, was introduced in September 1996 and has remained stable despite a small nominal appreciation in April 2005. While economic growth continues, Ukraine's long-term economic prospects depend on acceleration of market reforms. The economy remains burdened by excessive government regulation, corruption, and lack of law enforcement, and while the government has taken steps against corruption and small and medium enterprises have been largely privatized, much remains to be done to restructure and privatize key sectors such as energy and telecommunications and to allow the free sale of farmland.

Ukraine is rich in natural resources. It has a major ferrous metal industry, producing cast iron, steel, and steel pipe, and its chemical industry produces [[Coke from coal|coke]], mineral fertilizers, and sulfuric acid. Manufactured goods include airplanes, turbines, metallurgical equipment, [[Diesel fuel system|diesel]] locomotives, and tractors. It also is a major producer of grain, sunflower seeds, and sugar and has a broad industrial base, including much of the former U.S.S.R.'s space and rocket industry. Although proven onshore and offshore oil and natural gas reserves are small, it has important energy sources, such as coal, and large mineral deposits, and is one of the world's leading energy transit countries, providing transportation of Russian and Caspian oil and gas across its territory.

Ukraine encourages foreign trade and investment. The foreign investment law allows Westerners to purchase businesses and property, to repatriate revenue and profits, and to receive compensation in the event that property were to be nationalized by a future government. However, complex laws and regulations, poor corporate governance, weak enforcement of contract law by courts and particularly corruption have discouraged broad foreign direct investment in Ukraine. While there is a functioning stock market, the lack of protection for minority shareholder rights severely restricts portfolio investment activities. Total foreign direct investment in Ukraine was approximately $21.2 billion as of January 1, 2007. At $447 per capita, this was one of the lowest figures in the region.

While countries of the former Soviet Union remain important trading partners, especially Russia and Turkmenistan for energy imports, Ukraine's trade is becoming more diversified. Europe is now the destination of over one third of Ukraine's exports, while around one quarter of Ukraine's exports go to Russia and the CIS. Exports of machinery and machine tools are on the rise relative to steel, which constitutes over 30% of exports. Ukraine imports over 80% of its oil and 73% of its natural gas. Russia ranks as Ukraine's principal supplier of oil and Russian firms now own and/or operate the majority of Ukraine's refining capacity. Natural gas imports come from Russia and Turkmenistan, which deliver the gas through a pipeline system owned and controlled by [[Gazprom]], Russia's state-owned gas monopoly. In 2005 and 2006, Ukraine switched from barter to cash payments for gas imports. Ukraine controls the gas pipelines on its territory that are also used to transit Russian gas to Western Europe. The complex relationship between supplier, transporter, and consumer has led to some tensions, including Russia's decision to cut off gas supplies for three days in January 2006.

The Government of Ukraine's 12-month $605 million precautionary standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expired in March 2005, and Ukraine currently does not receive IMF financing. In Article IV Consultations, the IMF recommends fiscal discipline and structural reforms, particularly of Ukraine's pension system. In July 2005, the World Bank approved a $250 million Development Policy Loan (formerly a Programmatic Adjustment Loan) to support reforms to improve the investment climate, public administration and financial management, and social inclusion. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) project outlays more than doubled in 2005 to 530 million Euros, bringing its portfolio to 2.2 billion Euros.

In 1992, Ukraine became a member of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It is a member of the EBRD but not a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ukraine applied for membership in the WTO in 1995. Progress on its application had been slow but picked up momentum in 2006. The government has made accession to the WTO a priority in 2007.

===Economic data===
[[File:1-Russia-Ukraine-Biolabs.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. owned biological laboratories in Ukraine.]]
Ukraine is classified as a lower middle-income nation, evolving into a post-soviet developing economy.

Approximate economic statistics are as follows:
* Ukraine's GDP is $103 billion ($103,000,000,000), and has been growing at a rate of 6% fairly consistently.
* Per capita GDP is $2,200, with per capita purchasing power at $7,700.
* Foreign debt is 7% of GDP, and foreign investment is 2% of GDP.
* Average monthly salary is 200 euros per month.
* Commercial prime lending rate is 15%.
* The inflation rate is currently 10%.

The Ukrainian currency is the hryvnia (worth about 20 cents, in $USD), which was introduced 1996 to stabilize runaway inflation (and is currently trading at 5:1 for United States dollars, and at 6:1 for European Union euros).

Taxation rates are as follows:
* Personal income tax is 15%.
* Corporate income tax is 25%.
* Value-added tax (VAT) is 20%.
* Social insurance tax is 30%.

Import/export goods include:
* Metals (35%)
* Machinery (25%)
* Fuel & chemicals (10%)
* Agricultural (10%)
* Other (20%)

Mining includes fuel ores of coal, oil, and natural gas, and metal ores of iron, manganese, titanium, magnesium, nickel, and mercury.

Major trade partners are Russia (25%), then about 5% each for [[Germany]], [[Poland]], Italy, [[Turkey]], and [[China]], and others.

===Environmental Issues===
[[Image:Chornobyl radiation96.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Radiation-affected areas from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as of 1996]]
Ukraine is interested in cooperating on regional environmental issues. Conservation of natural resources is a stated high priority, although implementation suffers from a lack of financial resources. Ukraine established its first nature preserve, Askania-Nova, in 1921 and has a program to breed endangered species.

Ukraine has significant environmental problems, especially those resulting from the [[Chernobyl]] nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 and from industrial pollution. In accordance with its agreement with the G7 and European Commission in 1995, Ukraine permanently closed the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in December 2000. Urgent measures for radiation and worker safety as well as structural improvements to the "sarcophagus" erected by the Soviet Union are largely complete, and the contract for construction of the new shelter to be built around the sarcophagus is expected to be awarded in 2007.

Ukraine also has established a Ministry of Environment and has introduced a pollution fee system, which levies taxes on air and water emissions and solid waste disposal. The resulting revenues are channeled to environmental protection activities, but enforcement of this pollution fee system is lax. Ukraine ratified the Kyoto Protocol in April 2004.

Construction of a shipping canal through a UN-protected core biosphere reserve in the Danube Delta, which began in May 2004, is an environmental issue of international interest.

===Burisma Holdings===
Vice President [[Joe Biden]] oversaw the disbursement of $1 billion allocated by the U.S. to the new government of Ukraine. In 2014, Biden's son [[Hunter Biden]], was appointed to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the largest oil and gas company in Ukraine. Hunter Biden was hired by [[Mykola Zlochevsky]], who served as Ukraine's ecology minister in the previous administration. Hunter Biden was paid $166,000 per month. The money was split with the nephew of [[Whitey Bulger]].

Zlochevsky came under investigation by the new administration for alleged embezzlement of $5 billion while ecology minister. The prosecutor traced payments made to Hunter Biden. Vice President Biden threatened the new Ukrainian administration to withhold $1 billion in U.S. allocated funds unless the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden was fired.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>

Biden bragged about having caused the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor to a [[CFR]] conference.
[[File:Joe Biden at CFR meeting 2018 2.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Biden at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]: "‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired."<ref>https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/deep-dark-secrets-rich-famous-and-powerful-cliff-kincaid</ref>]]
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Joe Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine. Biden threatened Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending Ukraine toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son, Hunter. Biden recounted,
{{quotebox-float|"'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref name="thehill.com">https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref><ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>}}
Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaced Shokin as the prosecutor looking into Burisma, said the evidence in the Burisma case he'd like to present to [[William Barr]], particularly the vice president's intervention.

Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid out by Burisma to an account linked to Biden's and Devon Archer's Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in another case against Archer. The bank records show that, on most months when Burisma money flowed, two wire transfers of $83,333.33 each were sent to the Rosemont Seneca–connected account on the same day. The same Rosemont Seneca–linked account typically then paid Hunter Biden one or more payments ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 each. Ukrainian prosecutors reviewed internal company documents and wanted to interview Hunter Biden and Archer about why they had received such payments, but couldn't because of Joe Biden's intervention.

On September 4, 2019, former Prosecutor General [[Victor Shokin]] made a sworn affidavit outlining Joe Biden's shakedown.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement</ref>

==History==
[[File:Annexations to the territory of Ukraine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Annexations to the territory of Ukraine]]

{{See also|History of Ukraine}}
Modern Ukraine is largely the remains of the failed efforts of [[Bolshevik]] [[nation building]].

In December 2020, after torchlight parades took place all over Ukraine honoring [[Stepan Bandera]], head of the [[OUN-B]], Ukrainian national hero, who was a collaborator with the Nazis during the [[Second World War]], and whose men massacred [[Jews]] and [[Polish]] civilians, [[Poland]] and [[Israel]] issued a joint communiqué to complain about the glorification of Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, the head of the other branch of the OUN, the OUN-M, and all others who actively promoted the [[ethnic cleansing]] of Jews and Poles.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PLinUkraine/status/1212760669285736449 Joint statement of Ambassador of Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki and Ambassador of Israel in Ukraine Joel Lion].</ref>

===Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state===
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

Vladimir Putin: Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.

In 882, Rurik’s successor Prince Oleg, who was, actually, playing the role of regent at Rurik’s young son because Rurik had died by that time, came to Kiev. He ousted two brothers who, apparently, had once been members of Rurik’s squad. So, Russia began to develop with two centers of power, Kiev and Novgorod.

The next, very significant date in the history of Russia, was 988. This was the Baptism of Russia, when Prince Vladimir, the great-grandson of Rurik, baptized Russia and adopted Orthodoxy, or Eastern Christianity. From this time the centralized Russian state began to strengthen. Why? Because of a single territory, integrated economic ties, one and the same language and, after the Baptism of Russia, the same faith and rule of the Prince. The centralized Russian state began to take shape.

Back in the Middle Ages, Prince Yaroslav the Wise introduced the order of succession to the throne, but after he passed away, it became complicated for various reasons. The throne was passed not directly from father to eldest son, but from the prince who had passed away to his brother, then to his sons in different lines. All this led to the fragmentation and the end of Rus’ as a single state. There was nothing special about it, the same was happening then in Europe. But the fragmented Russian state became an easy prey to the empire created earlier by Genghis Khan. His successors, namely, Batu Khan, came to Rus’, plundered and ruined nearly all the cities. The southern part, including Kiev, by the way, and some other cities, simply lost independence, while northern cities preserved some of their sovereignty. They had to pay tribute to the Horde, but they managed to preserve some part of their sovereignty. And then a unified Russian state began to take shape with its centre in Moscow.

The southern part of the Russian lands, including Kiev, began to gradually gravitate towards another ”magnet“ – the centre that was emerging in Europe. This was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was even called the Lithuanian-Russian Duchy, because Russians were a significant part of its population. They spoke the Old Russian language and were Orthodox. But then there was a unification, the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. A few years later, another union was signed, but this time already in the religious sphere. Some of the Orthodox priests became subordinate to the Pope. Thus, these lands became part of the Polish-Lithuanian state.

During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (u kraya) they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

Tucker Carlson: I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

Vladimir Putin: It was in the 13th century.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

Tucker Carlson: It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

Vladimir Putin: But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.

As expected, the war with Poland began. It lasted 13 years, and then in 1654, a truce was concluded. And 32 years later, I think, a peace treaty with Poland, which they called ”eternal peace,“ was signed. And these lands, the whole left bank of the Dnieper, including Kiev, went to Russia, and the whole right bank of the Dnieper remained in Poland.

Under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands, including in the south and west. This all lasted until the Revolution. Before World War I, Austrian General Staff relied on the ideas of Ukrainianization and started actively promoting the ideas of Ukraine and the Ukrainianization. Their motive was obvious. Just before World War I they wanted to weaken the potential enemy and secure themselves favourable conditions in the border area. So the idea which had emerged in Poland that people residing in that territory were allegedly not really Russians, but rather belonged to a special ethnic group, Ukrainians, started being propagated by the Austrian General Staff.

As far back as the 19th century, theorists calling for Ukrainian independence appeared. All those, however, claimed that Ukraine should have a very good relationship with Russia. They insisted on that. After the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to restore the statehood, and the Civil War began, including the hostilities with Poland. In 1921, peace with Poland was proclaimed, and under that treaty, the right bank of the Dnieper River once again was given back to Poland.

In 1939, after Poland cooperated with Hitler — it did collaborate with Hitler, you know —Hitler offered Poland peace and a treaty of friendship and alliance (we have all the relevant documents in the archives), demanding in return that Poland give back to Germany the so-called Danzig Corridor, which connected the bulk of Germany with East Prussia and Konigsberg. After World War I this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Gdansk emerged. Hitler asked them to give it amicably, but they refused.

===Origins of Ukraine: 19th century and World War I===
In the 19th century the Ukrainian was a rural area largely ignored by Russia and Austria. With growing urbanization and modernization, and a cultural trend toward nationalism inspired by romanticism, a Ukrainian intelligentsia committed to national rebirth and social justice emerged. The serf-turned-national-poet [[Taras Shevchenko]] (1814-1861) and the political theorist [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]] (1841-1895) led the growing nationalist movement. Nationalist and socialist parties developed in the late 19th century. '''[[Austrian Galicia]]''', which enjoyed substantial political freedom under the relatively lenient rule of the [[Hapsburgs]], became the center of the nationalist movement. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893.<ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref> Before 1917, one could walk on foot from Kiev to Moscow without noticing any linguistic differences. Defeat in [[World War I]] and the Russian revolutions of 1917 destroyed the Hapsburg and Russian empires. The Ukrainian elite declared statehood: the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Kiev on Nov. 20, 1917, becoming independent on Jan. 22, 1918. The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Lviv on Nov. 1, 1918. A rival Ukrainian Soviet Republic was established at Kharkiv on Dec. 24, 1917. On Jan. 22, 1919, the two people's republics united. Lenin gave Ukraine Kharkiv, Donbass, and the coastal oblasts, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> By then, however, the military situation was desperate, as Polish and Bolshevik armies pressed the Ukrainian nationalists from west and east and the peasant anarchists led by Nestor Makhno took control of large areas. Because communist theory denies the existence of race as the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another, Lenin made the Soviet Union autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power.

===Bolshevik Ukraine===

The war in Ukraine continued for another two years; by 1921, however, most of Ukraine had been taken over by the Soviet Union, while Galicia and Volhynia were incorporated into independent Poland.

A powerful underground Ukrainian nationalist movement rose in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s, led by the Ukrainian Military Organization and the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUN). The movement attracted a militant following among students and harassed the Polish authorities. Legal Ukrainian parties, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an active press, and a business sector also flourished in Poland. Economic conditions improved in the 1920s, but the region suffered from the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The situation in Soviet Ukraine under Communist control were sharply different. The communists gave a privileged position to manual labor, the largest class in the cities, where Russians dominated. The typical worker was more attached to class identity than to ethnicity. Although there were incidents of ethnic friction among workers (in addition to Ukrainians and Russians there were Poles, Germans, Jews, and others in the Ukrainian workforce), industrial laborers had already adopted Russian culture and language to a significant extent. Workers whose ethnicity was Ukrainian were not attracted to campaigns of Ukrainianization or de-Russification in meaningful numbers, but remained loyal members of the Soviet working class. There was no significant antagonism between workers identifying themselves as Ukrainian or Russian; however, anti-Semitism was widespread.

Moscow encouraged a national renaissance in literature and the arts, under the aegis of the Ukrainization policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk (1872-1933).

===Holodomor===
see [[Ukrainian Famine]]

With Stalin's change of course in the late 1920s, however, Moscow's toleration of Ukrainian national identity came to an end. Systematic state terror of the 1930s destroyed Ukraine's writers, artists, and intellectuals; the Communist Party of Ukraine was purged of its "nationalist deviationists"; and the peasantry was crushed by means of collectivization, resulting in the [[Great Famine]] or "Holodomor" (Голодомор) of 1932–1933, which claimed some 3-7 million lives as crops failed and remaining food wtocks were forcibly removed by the government. Besides Ukraine, [[Kazakhstan]] and the Volga region were also hit by the famine. Stalin had full knowledge of the destructive force of the famine. It was a by-product of his war on the peasantry that began with collectivization and dekulakization and as an attempt to eradicate peasant culture in its entirety. Ellman explains the causes for the excess deaths in rural areas of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan during 1931-34 by dividing the causes into three groups: objective nonpolicy-related factors, like the drought of 1931 and poor weather in 1932; inadvertent result of policies with other objectives, like rapid industrialization, socialization of livestock, and neglected crop rotation patterns; and deaths caused intentionally by a starvation policy. The Communist leadership perceived famine not as a humanitarian catastrophe but as a means of [[class struggle]] and used starvation as a punishment tool to teach peasants to work well in the collective farms.<ref>Michael Ellman, "The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1934." ''Europe-Asia Studies'' 2005 57(6): 823-841. Issn: 0966-8136 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

It was largely the same groups of individuals who were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivization, and the Great Terror. These groups were associated with Efim Georgievich Evdokimov (1891-1939) and operated in Ukraine during the civil war, in the North Caucasus in the 1920s, and in the Secret Operational Division within General State Political Administration (OGPU) in 1929–31. Evdokimov transferred into Communist Party administration in 1934, when he became Party secretary for North Caucasus Krai. But he appears to have continued advising Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov on security matters, and the latter relied on Evdokimov's former colleagues to carry out the mass killing operations that are known as the Great Terror in 1937–38.<ref>Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin's Great Terror." ''Australian Journal of Politics and History'' 2007 53(1): 20-43. Issn: 0004-9522 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]; Robert Conquest, ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine'' (1986). Mark B. Tauger, "The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933" ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 70-89, notes the harvest was unusually poor. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199121)50%3A1%3C70%3AT1HATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H online in JSTOR]; R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S. G. Wheatcroft, "Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933," ''Slavic Review,'' Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199523)54%3A3%3C642%3ASGSATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]; online in JSTOR; Michael Ellman. "Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932-33 Revisited," ''Europe-Asia Studies,'' Volume 59, Issue 4 June 2007 , pages 663-93.</ref>

===Nazi collaboration: 1941-1945===
{{See also|Volhynia massacre}}
In 1939, after Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Galicia and Volhynia were annexed to Soviet Ukraine. Northern Bukovina, formerly part of Romania, was incorporated into Ukraine in 1940, as was formerly Czechoslovakian Subcarpathian Ruthenia (the Transcarpathian Oblast) in 1945.
[[File:Ukrainian girls welcoming Germans.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainians girls welcome soldiers of the [[Third Reich]] with the traditional bread and salt peace offering.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
By mid-1941, the Ukrainian SSR had the largest population of Jews in Europe. The addition of the eastern provinces of Poland in late 1939 as well as the seizure of sections of Romanian territory in June 1940 led to some 2.7 million Jews living within the borders of the newly enlarged republic. About 85% lived in cities. By 1944, 1.6 million of these Jews had died at the hands of the Germans and their allies and auxiliaries. Unlike the majority of the [[Holocaust]]'s victims who died in the industrialized mass murder of the death camps, the overwhelming bulk of Ukraine's Jews died in mass shootings during the initial stages of the war.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was welcomed by many Ukrainians at first; the [[Stepan Bandera|OUN]] even attempted to establish a government under German auspices. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) considered Ukraine a strategically important region that should be occupied through capturing the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians. According to Rosenberg, everything should have been done to make the Ukrainians view the Germans as liberators. Though he presented his views on different occasions, [[Adolf Hitler]]'s anti-Slavic racial views prevailed and overrode strategic considerations, leading to a harsh occupation. Very soon the realization that Nazi policies were brutal toward all the Ukrainians, and not only the Jews and Communists, drove most Ukrainians into opposition to the Nazis. Germany forced many Ukrainians to work within the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) on tasks such as agriculture, road and railway building, and the construction of fortifications. The German authorities soon faced a serious local labor shortage, especially among skilled workers, as a result of Soviet evacuations before the invasion, the ongoing murder of the Jewish population, and the brutal recruitment, arrest, and deportation of other groups, usually with the cooperation of the local civilian, military, and police authorities. The pool of labor was further reduced as the Germans lost territory in the later stages of the conflict. Nazi administrator Fritz Sauckel's labor recruitment measures strained relations with local officials responsible for selecting the deportees, leading to bribery and corruption. The Kiev area was the main focus for recruitment and deportation, along with the Vinnitsa region of central Ukraine. Over a million locals and prisoners of war were forced into labor in the Ukrainian coal mines in the Donbas region ([[Donets Basin]]). The forced laborers endured fines, starvation, imprisonment, beatings, and hanging, but also had better chances for more food, money, and mobility.

In Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia the first stage of partisan development, from 1941 to the fall of 1942, was uncoordinated and resulted in a great many losses. The second stage, late 1942 to 1944, was better coordinated; partisan groups were better defined, and relatively large-scale operations were carried out, often in cooperation with the Red Army. Organized leadership and cadres were created, various forms of actions (such as diversions, sabotage, and direct attacks) were developed; the Germans responded with vicious punitive activities against the partisans. In all, more than 1.3 million partisans took part in actions in Germany's rear in 6,200 units; more than 300,000 received decorations for their actions. The OUN created a nationalist partisan fighting force, the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA); many Ukrainians also joined the Soviet partisans and fought in the Soviet Army against the Germans. After World War II, the OUN and the UPA continued a hopeless guerrilla struggle against Soviet rule until 1953. The devastation caused by the war included major destruction in over 700 cities and towns and 28,000 villages.

===Fascist insurgency: 1944-1954===
[[File:SBandera.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalist leader [[Stepan Bandera]].]]
In the June 1944, when Canadian, British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy, their Soviet allies rolled into the German-occupied Western Ukraine. The Red Army soldiers and officers quickly noticed a stark contrast in the attitude of locals compared to other recently liberated regions of the Soviet Union. Instead of cheering crowds of peasant women and children who would offer them water and the traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt, there was an eerie silence in many villages, and few locals would even talk to the new arrivals. Soon, chilling rumors started about murdered Red Army soldiers found hanged or decapitated in the woods. Rumors were soon followed by orders issued to troops stationed in the allegedly safe rear, far behind the frontline, to increase their vigilance, never to venture anywhere alone or unarmed, and to look out for “bandits” hiding in the forests. The [[NKVD]] (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs – as the law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1946 was known) units that followed close behind the Red Army quickly proceeded with their routine practice of rounding up numerous suspected Nazi collaborators, as well as members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground, in Lviv and other west Ukrainian cities. However, a number of feared Soviet secret policemen were soon found dead in Ukrainian villages and Galician forests, and in some areas of the countryside those who dared to venture there had to be heavily armed and in large numbers. This was the start of a brutal insurgency that lasted almost ten years in rural Western Ukraine and resulted in one of the toughest counterinsurgency challenges the Soviets ever faced.

When the [[CIA]] was created by the National Security Act in 1947, one of its top priorities was collaborating with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ([[Banderite]]s) to carry on an armed insurgency in western Ukraine against Soviet authorities which lasted until 1954. Many of these Banderite groups were former formations of the Nazi [[SS Galicia Division]] known for horrendous atrocities against Polish and Jewish civilians. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian himself, pacified the insurgency after Stalin's death and placed Russian Crimea, a famous resort area with a mild climate, under Kyiv administration. In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref>

===Denazificatrion and reconstruction: 1954 to 1991===
Stalin's death finally brought relief in many ways. The thaw initiated by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who had served as Ukrainian party chief in the 1930s, led to the emergence in the late 1950s and the early 1960s of the "sixties generation" of writers, artists, and intellectuals. In order to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954. Following Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Moscow, under [[Leonid Brezhnev]] initiated a series of crackdowns on Ukrainian dissidents, including [[Ivan Dziuba]] (b. 1931), the author of Internationalism or Russification?; Vyacheslav Chornovil (b. 1938), the editor of the underground ''Ukrainian Herald''; and Valentyn Moroz (b. 1936), the author of stinging attacks on Soviet policy. In 1972, Petro Shelest, the national-Communist Ukrainian party chief, was replaced by hardliner Volodymyr Shcherbytsky.

The Number Four reactor at Chernobyl exploded during a routine power test in April 1986. Radioactive contaminants from the [[Chernobyl disaster]] fell on northern Ukraine and several neighboring countries, reaching as far as Japan and the United States, causing casualties, sparking a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union, and inciting fears of nuclear energy.<ref>Jim T. Smith, and Nicholas A. Beresford, ''Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences.'' Springer, 2005. 310 pp.</ref>

The arrival of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1985 started a slow revolution. The [[Chernobyl]] nuclear accident in 1986 undercut trust in Moscow. "Glasnost" permitted Ukrainian intellectuals to discuss the "blank spots" in their history, and growing political liberalization led to the reemergence of dissident groups and the emergence of nationally minded cultural organizations. A major turning point occurred in late 1989, with the founding of Rukh and the removal of Shcherbytsky from power.

In the 47 years of Soviet control after the liberation of Ukraine from German occupation, the Soviet Union as never able to completely de-nazify Ukraine is it did in [[East Germany]].

===Dissolution of the Soviet Union: 1991===
{{See also|Nezalezhnaya‎‎}}
In 1990 [[Leonid Kravchuk]], formerly in charge of ideology in the CPU, was appointed chairman of the presidium of a revamped supreme soviet, one fourth of whose deputies were nationalists and "democrats" elected in the semifree elections of 1990. On July 16, 1990, Ukraine proclaimed its sovereignty, an ambiguous formula that meant independence to the nationalists and autonomy to the Russian minority. On Nov. 21, 1990, Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty recognizing each other's sovereignty and promising not to interfere in each other's affairs.

As the Communist system collapsed in 1991, Ukraine, Russia, and the other republics engaged in lengthy negotiations with Gorbachev over the form of a new union. In August 1991 an abortive coup by committed KGB operatives in Moscow destroyed Gorbachev's strength and impelled the republics to go their own way. The Ukraine national assembly declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991. Several days later the CPU was suspended and its property was confiscated. A popular referendum on independence was held on December 1, and over 90 percent of the voters supported the declaration. Most of the countries of the world recognized the new Republic of Ukraine in the months that followed. Ukraine became a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and after much controversy a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in 1994. As a consequence of the autonomous republics system, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref>
[[File:Ukrainian contractors in Afghanistan.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Although not a member of NATO, Ukrainian contractors served as part of [[George W. Bush]]s "coalition of the willing" in the [[Afghan war]]. The [[Biden regime]] abandoned them in [[Afghanistan]] in August 2021, along with contractors from Bulgaria, Romania, and the Georgian Republic. The Russian Federation evacuated them.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/200d714d-92c4-445e-b42e-a67fab991fd3</ref>]]
The nominal successor to the Soviet Union was the Commonwealth of Independent States; Ukraine joined on Dec. 8, 1991. Serious tensions soon emerged with Russia as Moscow took possession of the [[Black Sea]] fleet anchored at Sevastopol, while some Russian politicians wanted the [[Donbas]] and the Crimea; the latter, being in Russian hands since 1783, had been transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities without referendum or self-determination of peoples in 1954. The Ukrainian government responded by taking steps to create its own army and navy. Crimean secessionists elected Yuri Meshkov as president of the Crimea in early 1994. The Kiyv government established closer economic and political ties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Ukrainian nationalists fears of Russia led it to postpone action on its earlier promise to give up strategic nuclear missiles, prompting concern in the West. After the signing the Budapest Memorandum by the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and the United States in early 1994, Ukraine began shipping these weapons to Russia. Thereafter, Ukraine's relations with the United States and western Europe improved.

[[Leonid Kravchuk]], the most powerful politician, became Ukraine's first popularly elected president, with over 60 percent of the vote, on Dec. 1, 1991. His authority, like that of the legislature, declined precipitously, however, as he proved unable to solve the country's mounting economic difficulties. In contrast to Rukh, which had split into pro-Kravchuk and anti-Kravchuk factions in 1992, the former Communists remained strong, controlling many local government councils, industrial plants, and collective farms. The CPU was officially reconstituted as a powerful political force in late 1993. Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]]s also become more prominent. Elections for the supreme soviet in March 1994 yielded a legislature in which the CPU and its left-wing allies were the strongest bloc, followed by the center-right nationalists grouped about what remained of Rukh and the centrist pro-government "independents." Kravchuk ran for reelection in the presidential election in June 1994. No candidate won a majority, so a second round was held in July, pitting Kravchuk against former premier [[Leonid Kuchma]]. Kuchma won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

The national goal was the creation of a market-oriented economy and the establishment of stable democratic institutions and a system of laws. However the goals were partly frustrated by political deadlock, inexperience, an inefficient state apparatus, a collapsing economy, internal anti-Russian [[xenophobia]], and external tensions with the Russian Federation. The Soviet culture of corruption continued after independence, and rampant criminality became even more widespread in the mid-1990s. In the latter 1990s, [[Viktor Yushchenko]], as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, tamed rampant inflation and introduced responsible economic controls. From 1999 to 2004, Ukraine's GNP nearly doubled.

Official trade unions have been grouped under the Federation of Trade Unions. A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Trade Unions. While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

Ethnic tensions in [[Crimea]] during 1992 prompted a number of pro-Russian political organizations to advocate secession of Crimea and reincorporation to Russia. (Crimea was ceded by the RFSSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, in recognition of historic links and for economic convenience, to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia.) In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy.

In July 1994, [[Leonid Kuchma]] was elected as Ukraine's second president in free and fair elections. Kuchma was reelected in November 1999 to another five-year term, with 56% of the vote. International observers criticized aspects of the election, especially slanted media coverage; however, the outcome of the vote was not called into question. Ukraine's March 2002 parliamentary elections were characterized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as flawed, but an improvement over the 1998 elections. The pro-presidential For a United Ukraine bloc won the largest number of seats, followed by the reformist Our Ukraine bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (who was then a former Prime Minister), and the Communist Party.

===Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances: 1994===
{{See also|Near abroad}}
At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,800 strategic warheads, 176 long-range ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers.

To solidify security commitments to Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the December 5, 1994 [[Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]]. The memorandum included assurances against the threat or use of force against Ukraine's territory or political independence. The countries promised to respect the sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine.

The United States took custody and control of Ukraine's obsolete nuclear stockpiles for disposal in exchange for assurances by the United States and NATO to safeguard Ukraine's independence. Ukraine was coaxed to give up it nuclear weapons in exchange for a written pledge, should Ukraine ever be threatened or invaded, the United States would be there to intervene with military power.

By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its operational nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It took years of political maneuvering and diplomatic work, starting with the Lisbon Protocol in 1992, to remove the weapons and nuclear infrastructure from Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons ]</ref>

===Failed color revolution: 2004===
{{see also|Color revolution|Psyop}}

Kuchma's second term in office as president (1999-2004) was characterized by the collapse of the national democratic-centrist alliance, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, the rise of a non-Communist opposition in the 2002 elections, and the election of [[Viktor Yushchenko]] in 2004 following the [[Open Society Foundations]]' [[Orange Revolution]]. The deep divisions that have become evident under Yushchenko had their origins in Ukraine's regionalism, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, antiregime protests, and different attitudes to dealing with the past. The country is divided by linguistic and regional cleavages that appear sharply in regional polarization in national elections. These divisions have led to constant questioning of the viability of the Ukrainian state and predictions of violence and civil war. Secessionist movements have made few inroads, however, and violence has been nonexistent. Because the Russian "minority" group in Ukraine is actually quite large, it has immense influence in the state without resort to regional autonomy or secession. The balance of power between Ukraine's regions and ethnic groups has ensured that neither side has dominated. This does not make for rapid reform.

The campaign leading to the October 31, 2004 presidential election was characterized by widespread violations of democratic norms, including government intimidation of the opposition and of independent media, abuse of state administrative resources, highly skewed media coverage, and numerous provocations. The two major candidates—Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader (and former Prime Minister) Viktor Yushchenko—each garnered between 39% and 40% of the vote and proceeded to a winner-take-all second round. The November 21 runoff election was marred by credible reports of widespread and significant violations, including illegal expulsion of opposition representatives from election commissions, multiple voting by busloads of people, abuse of absentee ballots, reports of coercion of votes in schools and prisons, and an abnormally high number of (easily manipulated) mobile ballot box votes. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv and other cities to protest electoral fraud and express support for Yushchenko, and conducted ongoing peaceful demonstrations during what came to be known as the "Orange Revolution."

The OSCE International Election Observation Mission found that the November 21, 2004 run-off presidential election "did not meet a considerable number of OSCE commitments and Council of Europe and other European standards for democratic elections…Overall, State executive authorities and the Central Election Commission (CEC) displayed a lack of will to conduct a genuine democratic election process." Other independent observers were similarly critical. On November 24, 2004, the CEC declared Prime Minister Yanukovych the winner with 49.46% compared to 46.61% for Yushchenko. The U.S. and Europe refused to accept the result as legitimate due to the numerous, uninvestigated reports of fraud. European leaders traveled to Kyiv to mediate a political solution between the parties. On November 27, Ukraine's Supreme Rada passed a resolution declaring that the election results as announced did not represent the will of the people. On December 1, the Rada passed a vote of "no confidence" in the government. On December 3, Ukraine's Supreme Court invalidated the CEC's announced results and mandated a repeat of the second round vote to take place on December 26. An agreement mediated by the European leaders resulted in new legislation being passed by the Rada and signed by the President December 8. The electoral law was reformed to close loopholes that had permitted pervasive electoral fraud. The constitution was amended, effective not earlier than September 2005, to transfer power, especially with respect to appointment of ministers, from the president to the cabinet. Yet another law was passed, in first reading, to devolve some powers of the central government to regional councils. In addition, Prime Minister Yanukovych requested and was granted a leave of absence, and Prosecutor General Hennadiy Vasilyev submitted his resignation.

The December 26 re-vote took place in an atmosphere of calm. While irregularities were noted, observers found no systemic or massive fraud. The OSCE Mission noted that "campaign conditions were markedly more equal, observers received fewer reports of pressure on voters, the election administration was more transparent and the media more balanced than in previous rounds…in our collective view Ukraine’s elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other European standards." On January 10, 2005, after the CEC and the Supreme Court had considered and rejected numerous complaints and appeals filed by the Yanukovych campaign, the CEC certified the results: Yushchenko had won 51.99% of the votes, with 44.20% for Yanukovych. President Yushchenko was inaugurated January 23, 2005.

Ukraine held parliamentary and local elections on March 26, 2006. International observers noted that conduct of the Rada election was in line with international standards for democratic elections, making this the most free and fair in Ukraine's history. Unlike the first rounds of the 2004 presidential election, candidates and parties were able to express themselves freely in a lively press and assembled without hindrance. There was no systemic abuse of administrative resources as there had been under the previous regime. The Party of Regions and the bloc of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whose government the President dismissed in September 2005, finished ahead of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. Other parties passing the 3% threshold to enter parliament were the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine. No party held the majority of Rada seats needed to form a government. Following four months of difficult negotiations, a government led by Prime Minister Yanukovych and including representatives from the Party of Regions, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party took office on August 4, 2006. This, the first government formed after the extensive constitutional amendments brokered as part of the Orange Revolution, has been the focus the Prime Minister's growing influence, sometimes at the expense of the President. Amid shifting political alliances, the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" formed by the Party of Regions, Socialist and Communist parties has grown into a "Coalition of National Unity," as some members of the pro-presidential "Our Ukraine" bloc have moved into the Prime Minister's camp. Meanwhile, others have joined forces with Bloc [[Yuliya Tymoshenko]].

===Western-backed Euromaidan regime change: 2014/2015===
''{{See also|Euromaidan coup|Obama war crimes}}
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|colspan="3"|(left) Destruction funded by the United States of the Savur-Mohyla memorial monument to Soviet Soldiers who defeated Nazism and liberated Ukraine; (right) the monument rebuilt and restored with funds provided by the Russian Federation.
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2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair and [[democracy|democratic]] elections certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE). In a 2013, an [[Obama administration]]-backed [[color revolution]] was unleashed, in which the Ukrainians nationalists protested against Yanukovych and wanted a pro-[[EU]] and [[NATO]] course by the government.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/vladimir-tismaneanu/ukrainian-people-power/</ref> These protests were dubbed "[[EuroMaidan]]".<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/putin-vs-pro-west-ukrainians/</ref> The key figures of the opposition were [[Victoria Nuland]], [[Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Vitali Klitschko]] and neo-Nazi [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. As a result, prime minister Mykola Azarov resigned<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25932352</ref> and Yanukovich was discontinued on February 22, 2014, by the parliament.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/22/ukrainian-protesters-claim-control-over-capital/</ref>

In response to the armed fascist coup of a democratically elected president, Russian soldiers landed in Crimea the same month. Because many of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was an ongoing dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to [[Russia]].<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from the illegally US-installed Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> On March 16, 2014, Russia sponsored a referendum in Crimea about joining Russia. As a result of it 95.5% of voters supported joining Russia.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26599776</ref> The decision of the voters was ratified by the Russian Duma. Since March 18, 2014, Russia claims Crimea as a part of its territory.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/18/russia-moves-to-annex-crimea-laughs-at-us-sanctions/</ref> [[Afghanistan]], [[Cuba]], [[Nicaragua]], [[North Korea]], [[Russia]], [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]] recognized Crimea as a part of Russia.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?ref=asia&_r=1</ref>

In response, the United States and Europe imposed the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions sponsored by Sen. [[John McCain]] against Russian trade.

As a result of the reincorporation of Crimea, the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] and the [[Lugansk People's Republic]] declared their independence and created a confederation called "[[Novorossiya|Federal State of Novorossiya]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140607011548/http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_24/Donetsk-Lugansk-Peoples-Republics-unite-in-Novorossiya-1012/</ref> Novorossiya was dissolved in May 2015 but the separate Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics however still exist. In June 2014 [[Petro Poroshenko]] was elected as new president of the Western-installed Kyiv regime<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/poroshenko-sworn-ukraines-president-073208251.html</ref> and [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]] became prime minister. Since then the U.S.-backed Ukrainian regime backed neo-Nazi paramilitary terror attacks against the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics. When President Donald Trump attempted to hold back military aid to the fascist Kyiv regime, U.S. [[Democratic party|Democrats]] impeached him.

===Ukrainian collusion: 2016-2019===
{{See also|Ukrainian collusion|Biden family corruption}}
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Alexandra 'Ali' Chalupa (left) and Col. Alexander Vindman (right), two Ukrainian [[Banderist]]s deeply involved in the plot to remove President Trump and drive the United States to war with Russia.
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The government of Ukraine in collusion with the [[Democratic National Committee]] colluded to interfere in the [[2016 United States Presidential Election]] and to subvert American [[democracy]]. In so doing, they sought to blame Russia for foreign influence.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html</ref>

Paul Sperry of Realclearinvestigations documented how the Ukrainian government, working with both the [[Obama administration]] and the [[2016 Clinton campaign]], Ukrainian officials intervened in the 2016 race to help [[Hillary Clinton]] and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]] where officials worked with Alexander Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American [[Banderist]] and Clinton campaign operative, to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on and investigate their political rival.

Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election. As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also attacked him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in ''[[The Hill]]'', an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on [[social media]].
[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
The Ukrainian mischief is part of Special Counsel [[John Durham]]’s broader Trump-Russia inquiry, as of 2022 a full-blown [[criminal]] investigation with [[grand jury]] indictments – into efforts to falsely target Trump as a [[Kremlin]] conspirator in 2016 and beyond.

Nine days after the U.S. presidential election, the Russian Federation sponsored a U.N. Resolution entitled ''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance'' aimed at condemning the [[neo-fascist]] groups openly displaying Nazi symbols and regalia in Ukraine and Donbas. The [[Obama administration]] voted against the resolution.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

===Impeachment 2.0: 2019-2020===
{{See also|Impeachment sham}}
In December 2016 Sens. [[Lindsey Graham]] and [[John McCain]] visited the Azov Battalion. Graham told them "Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense" to retake Crimea.<ref>https://twitter.com/HTTP_404_NotF/status/1499850899690242048</ref> However, the election of Donald Trump a month earlier interrupted the [[neocon]] [[globalist]] agenda for war with Russia. When the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and [[Mueller investigation]] failed to remove President Trump, undeterred, [[Ukranian nationalist]]s and their American collaborators attempted to impeach President Trump in the fall and winter of 2020 for not enthusiastically supporting war with Russia over Ukraine.

===Russia-Ukraine war: 2022===
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}

In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war. The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed. The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>
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In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> NATO-backed [[neo-Nazi]]s attacked the [[Donbas]] on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February 2022, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 591 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 975 ceasefire violations in the region.<ref>https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683</ref>

With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put a stop to the eight-year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives. After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref> The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

===Historiography===
The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century. The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev, and his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>

Strikingly different interpretations of the medieval state of [[Kievan Rus']] appear in the four schools of historiography within Ukraine: Russophile, Sovietophile, Eastern Slavic, and Ukrainophile. The Sovietophile and Russophile schools have become marginalized in independent Ukraine, with the Ukrainophile school being dominant in the early 21st century. The Ukrainophile school promotes an identity that is mutually exclusive of Russia. It has come to dominate the nation's educational system, security forces, and national symbols and monuments, although it has been dismissed as nationalist by Western historians. The East Slavic school, an eclectic compromise between Ukrainophiles and Russophilism, has a weaker ideological and symbolic base, although it is preferred by Ukraine's centrist former elites.<ref>Taras Kuzio, "National Identity and History Writing in Ukraine," ''Nationalities Papers'' 2006 34(4): 407-427, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref>

Many historians in recent years have sought alternatives to national histories, and Ukrainian history invited approaches that looked beyond a national paradigm. Multiethnic history recognizes the numerous peoples in Ukraine; transnational history portrays Ukraine as a border zone for various empires; and area studies categorizes Ukraine as part of Eurasia, or more often as part of East-Central Europe. Plokhy (2007) argues that looking beyond the country's national history has made possible a richer understanding of Ukraine, its people, and the surrounding regions.<ref>Serhii Plokhy, "Beyond Nationality" ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (4): 25-46,</ref>

After 1991, historical memory was a powerful tool in the political mobilization and legitimation of the post-Soviet Ukrainian state, as well as the division of selectively used memory along the lines of the political division of Ukrainian society. Ukraine did not experience the restorationist paradigm typical of some other post-Soviet nations, including the Baltic states, although the multifaceted history of independence, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Soviet-era repressions, mass famine, and World War II collaboration were used to provide a different constitutive frame for the new Ukrainian nation. The politics of identity (which includes the production of history textbooks and the authorization of commemorative practices) has remained fragmented and tailored to reflect the ideological anxieties and concerns of individual regions of Ukraine.<ref>See Andryi Portnov, "Exercises with history Ukrainian style (notes on public aspects of history's functioning in post-Soviet Ukraine)," ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (3): 93-138, in Ukrainian</ref>

==See also==

* [[Ames Brothers]]
* [[Nuclear target structures]]
*[[Ukraine collusion]]
*[[Ukrainian collusion timeline]]
*[[Essay: Understanding the organization of Ukrainian forces]]

==Bibliography==
[[File:Ukraine-Subtelny.jpg|thumb|250px]]* ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (University of Toronto Press, 1984–93) 5 vol; from [http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/webfiles/eu.htm Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies], partly online
* ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia.'' ed by Volodymyr E. KubijovyČ; University of Toronto Press. 1963; 1188pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58069636 online at [[Questia]]]
* Dalton, Meredith. ''Ukraine'' (Culture Shock! A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette) (2001)
* Evans, Andrew. ''Ukraine'' (2nd ed 2007) The Bradt Travel Guide [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1841621811/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&p=S00T#reader-link online excerpts and search at Amazon.com]
* Johnstone, Sarah. ''Ukraine'' (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Country-Guide-Sarah-Johnstone/dp/1741044812/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256224034&sr=1-7 excerpt and text search]
* Helbig, Adriana et al. ''Culture and Customs of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Customs-Ukraine-Europe/dp/0313343632/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898664&sr=8-17 excerpt and text search]

===Recent (since 1991)===
* Aslund, Anders, and Michael McFaul.''Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough'' (2006)
* Aslund, Anders. '' How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy'' (2009)
* Birch, Sarah. ''Elections and Democratization in Ukraine'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98201086 online edition]
* Kubicek, Paul. ''The History of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Ukraine-Greenwood-Histories-Nations/dp/0313349207/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Kuzio, Taras. ''Ukraine: State and Nation Building'' Routledge, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102997170 online edition]
* Whitmore, Sarah. ''State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian Parliament, 1990-2003'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108557869 online edition]
* Wilson, Andrew. ''Ukraine's Orange Revolution'' (2005)
* Wilson, Andrew. ''The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation,'' 2nd ed. 2002; [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0300093098/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/104-1795140-9172706?ie=UTF8&p=S00L#reader-link online excerpts at Amazon]
* Wolczuk, Roman. ''Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Ukraines-Foreign-Security-1991-2000-European/dp/0700717404/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]
* Zon, Hans van. ''The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine.'' 2000 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98833788 online edition]

===Historical===
* Brandon, Ray, and Wendy Lower, eds. ''The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.'' (2008). 378 pp. [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24078 online review]
* Kohut, Zenon E.; Nebesio, Bohdan Y.; and Yurkevich, Myroslav. ''Historical Dictionary of Ukraine.'' (2005). 854 pp.
* Berkhoff, Karel C. ''Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule.'' (2004). 448 pp.
* Dimarov, Anatoliy et al. ''A Hunger Most Cruel: The Human Face of the 1932-1933 Terror-Famine in Soviet Ukraine'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Most-Cruel-1932-1933-Terror-Famine/dp/096838997X/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256224123&sr=1-19 excerpt and text search]
* Gross, Jan T. ''Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia'' (1988).
* Hrushevsky, Michael. ''A History of Ukraine'' (1986)
* Kubicek, Paul. ''The History of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Ukraine-Greenwood-Histories-Nations/dp/0313349207/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Luckyj, George S. ''Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995.'' (1996)
* Lower, Wendy. ''Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine.'' U. of North Carolina Press, 2005. 307 pp.
* Magocsi, Paul Robert. ''A History of Ukraine'' (2nd. ed. 2009)
* Redlich, Shimon. ''Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945.'' Indiana U. Press, 2002. 202 pp.
* Reid, Anna. ''Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96969196 online edition]
* Subtelny, Orest. ''Ukraine: A History'' (3rd ed. 2009), 800pp; the best history in English
* Yekelchyk, Serhy. ''Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation'' (2007), 20th century history
* Zabarko, Boris, ed. ''Holocaust in the Ukraine.'' Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. 394 pp.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html CIA Factbook]
* [https://www.economist.com/countries/Ukraine/ Ukraine page at The Economist]
* [http://www.ukraine.org/ www.ukraine.org]
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/index.html ''Ukraine'' magazine, English edition]
* [https://youtu.be/Cll91vfc_3Q Ukrainian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 – 1945)]
* [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/450303.shtml "Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II,"] a 2003 Canadian film produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski and narrated by Jack Palance.
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm U.S. State Department ''Background Note: Ukraine'' (2008)], the source for several sections of this text
*[https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/ Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy]
*[https://youtu.be/kkg-gI8Wl0U 2014 Mariupol. Crimes of the Ukrainian regime . The war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years.] YouTube.
*[http://warcrimesofkiev.com/?lang=en Civil War in Ukraine 2014-2022]

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2024-04-02T06:45:19Z

MattF: /* Origins of Ukraine: 19th century and World War I */

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'''Ukraine''' (''From Polish, u kraya = borderlands'') is a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for it own defense in money or manpower, it has lost its independence and [[sovereignty]], and is commonly referred to as a "stooge state" or "puppet regime."</ref> since coming under the tutelage of [[NATO]] and the [[United States]] in an illegal [[coup]] in 2014. It is rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine</ref> After the U.S.-backed coup under [[Barack Obama]], the Ukrainian regime became increasingly fascist and [[xenophobic]]. As late as 2020, the UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident, the country's official coat of arms, next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]."<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref> Ukraine is one of Europe's most notorious human and child trafficing centers.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-human-traffciking-416319 Ukraine's Shame: An Epidemic of Human Trafficking], LUKE A. DRABYN, ''Newsweek'', 1/16/16.</ref>

A "Ukrainian state" was created by the [[Bolshevik]]s with remnants of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires. No entity known as "Ukraine" existed prior to 1918. Other territories were seized by Stalin from Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia - countries that provided troops to the German invasion of Russia during World War II. Later the Ukrainian-born Soviet communist and premier [[Nikita Khruschev]] severed the [[Crimean Peninsula]] from Russia proper, which had been a Russian territory for 400 years. The word itself, "Ukraine" literally means "border" or "borderlands".

Post World War I, Ukraine consisted of many nationalities, linguistic, and religious groups<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080418030322/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30078/Ukraine Interwar Soviet Ukraine], ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> with "ethnic Ukrainians" only dominating the western regions. Ukrainian nationalists led a wholesale [[genocide]] against Poles, Gypsies, Jews, and Russians residing in those same territories under Nazi tutelage during World War II. Many Ukrainian Nazis were resettled in Canada and the United States to avoid prosecution for [[war crime]]s. The Ukrainian diaspora community residing in [[North America]] became the core anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance organized by the [[CIA]] after 1947. The people who spoke the borderlands dialect of Russian, one of many groups occupying the borderlands, previously were known as Galicians.

The territories were ceded to Germany by [[Lenin]] and [[Trotsky]] after the [[October Revolution]] in 1917, were non-aligned after the French and Angelo-American powers redrew the map and stiped Germany of its territorial possessions at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919, a Bolshevik Republic from 1922 to 1941,<ref>[https://dzen.ru/media/id/5f073d34db00016bd74b3365/kak-unr-plavno-uvelichilas-do-ussr-6309bf75f90f894d66c1b6ce HOW UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC BECAME UKRAINIAN SSR], Yuri Turkul, 29 August 2022.</ref> a Nazi ally from 1941 to 1944, and again an independent Soviet Republic from 1944 to 1991 with a seat in the [[United Nations]] General Assembly. By the 21st century, Ukraine had no independent history or literature of its own outside of the [[Russian World]].

Of the 50 million plus lives lost in [[World War II]], at least 30 million of various ethnicities came from, or will killed in, the territories of the borderlands, or "Ukraine". World War II occurred essentially in Ukraine, and not in [[France]] or [[Belgium]] or in the skies over [[Great Britain]]. The war set neighbor against neighbor, with local Ukrainian, Lithuanian and [[Baltic group|Baltic]] [[partisan]] groups fighting with the Nazis against local Russian, Belarussian and other partisan resistance groups defending themselves from Nazi aggression. While the German [[SS]] overlords implemented [[Hitler]]'s policy of extermination, it was Ukrainian and [[Lithuanian]] collaborators who did much of the dirty work in fingering their neighboring [[Jews]] and assisting in executions.

World War II did not end in Ukraine with the fall of [[Berlin]] and German surrender in 1945. Active resistance by nationalists against the Soviet Union continued until 1954, aided by the [[CIA]] from 1947 onward. Unlike the more urbanized territory of [[East Germany]], the Russian and Soviet peoples never were able to fully de-Nazify the Ukrainian Nazi Galicians of the more rural areas of western Ukraine. Like modern Russians who trace their ancestry back to [[Red Army]] soldiers who defeated fascism, Ukrainian nationalists today boast of their grandfathers who collaborated with the [[Third Reich]] and resisted Soviet Communism. Since the US-backed [[Maidan coup]] of 2014, monuments and memorials to Soviet soldiers who defeated fascism have been defaced and torn down while Ukrainian nationalists glorify their Nazi past.

Unlike [[Russia]], Ukraine advances the [[Soros]]-backed [[homosexual agenda]] with [[gay pride]] parades.<ref>[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/keep-spirit-maidan-alive George Soros Ukrainian youths sit near a fire late into the night in Kyiv's Maidan on February 25,]</ref> Also in contrast with Russia, Ukraine's leadership is [[liberal]] under the influence of western [[globalist]]s.

Ukraine has always possessed much ethnic [[diversity]]. It is the crossroads of East and West, Europe and Asia, North and South, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, Christendom and Islam. It had a significant Russian population in its eastern provinces, and many of these Russians declared independence after the Maidan coup and the NATO-backed ethninc cleansing campaign. Ukraine has significant Tatar, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, and Rusyn populations in its southern and western provinces. Throughout history Ukraine has been the site of some of the worst [[human rights]] atrocities on the planet. The former territory of Crimea was once populated by Crimean Tatars, but their presence was drastically reduced by the de-population policies of [[Joseph Stalin]].

To the north and east Ukraine shares a border with [[Russia]]; it shares a border with [[Belarus]] to the north and [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]] to the west. The counties of [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]] are to the southwest. The [[Black Sea]] is to the south, offering access to the [[Mediterranean]] via the Dneiper River. The capital city is [[Kyiv]] and the main religion is [[Eastern Orthodox]] Christianity. Ukrainians accentuate Kyiv different from how Russians do (Keev, not the Russian KEY-ev).<ref>https://www.polygraph.info/a/hey-daily-mail-it-s-ky--yeev-not-keev-/30281142.html</ref>

Ukraine is frequently in the news in the [[United States]] due to politicians, most notably [[Joe Biden]]'s family, personally profitting from the country since the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government. President [[Donald Trump]] was criticized by [[liberal]]s for asking Ukrainian leaders to investigate the potential corruption, which Ukrainian leaders failed to do. The United States Department of Defense has funded 11 biological research laboratories in Ukraine. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the [[North Korean]] ballistic missile capable of a [[nuclear bomb]] attack on [[Seattle]] and [[Los Angeles]] is based upon a design that came from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html</ref> The [[Biden regime]] has argued that each nation is free to build military alliances with whatever nation is chooses. In 2022, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky suggested Ukraine should acquire or base nuclear weapons there.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550057-zelensky-dangerous-nuclear-ukraine/</ref>

Ukraine is run by an oligarchy, with a small group of people amassing enormous fortunes as most of the nation labors in poverty. In 2014, the Pro-EU bloc with outside interference from the [[Western alliance]] overthrew the internal domestic pro-Russian bloc to seize power, resulting in massive chaos, the [[Crimean Annexation]], the ongoing [[Donbas conflict]] and a lingering economic crisis. This is in addition to how:
* The worldwide [[Recession of 2008]] hit Ukraine hard and it is seeking international aid.
* Politics has been chaotic recently.
* Russia has used its oil and gas exports to influence Ukrainian politics and economics.
* A strong (20%) Russian minority (mostly in the south and east) is campaigning for partition.
* The legal and economic systems are still controlled by powerful and secretive oligarchs.

The Ukrainian government which was installed in a [[coup]] in 2014 by the [[Obama administration]] worked with the [[Democratic National Committee]] to gin up the [[Russia Collusion hoax]], demonize [[Vladimir Putin]], interfere in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]], and turn American public opinion against [[Russia]] for [[propaganda]] purposes. Since the 2014 [[Maidan coup]], euphemistically referred to as the "revolution of dignity" by globalists and leftists, Ukrainian operatives working in the [[Democratic party]] of the United States and the U.S. [[intelligence community]] have sought to drive the United States to war with Russia to prevent the breakaway republics of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk from seceding from the globalist-backed Kyiv regime and joining the [[Russian Federation]].
[[File:OUN swastika.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Foreground: Ukrainian Coat of Arms. Background: Nazi swastikas.]]
[[File:Self proppelled canon.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Captured Pion (“peony”) ultraheavy self-propelled cannon that was previously aimed at Donetsk in the Donbas war. Note the Ukrainian trident symbol inside of an [[Imperial German]] “[[Iron Cross]]” painted on the side. This is very similar to the emblem of the [[Ukraine Security Service]], the local successor to the Soviet [[KGB]]. Modern Ukraine loves its German/Nordic-inspired symbols and imagery, in line with the post-2014 Maidan coup trend towards a forced and artificial but nonetheless complete break with all Russian/Soviet history, symbolism, and nomenclature, as if Ukraine has more in common with [[Germany]] than with Russia.]]
==Geography==
The total area of Ukraine is 603,700 km2 (233,090 sq. mi), making it, after Russia, the second largest country in [[Europe]]. Its coastline is 2,782 km.

The land of Ukraine is mostly [[steppe]]s and plateaus. There are mountains in the west of the country, the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]], and in the Crimean peninsula in the south. The main rivers in Ukraine are the [[Dnieper]] and the [[Dniester]].

The Ukrainian climate is considered temperate continental, but in the Crimea it is [[Mediterranean]]. The levels of precipitation are highest in the west and north, and lower in east and southeast. The winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland, and the summers are warm across the greater part of the country, and hot in the south.

==Demography==
[[File:Russian language in Ukraine.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Russian language spoken in Ukraine]]
[[File:Ukraine 2010 election.jpg|200px|right|thumb|2010 election results]]
There were at least 18 different nationalities totaling a pre-2014 population of about 46.5 million living within the territorial borders of the Ukraine in the early 21st century, with a population density of about 80 per square kilometer (200 people per square mile). Since the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup]] in 2014, more than 10.5 million people fled the country, 3.5 million of those seeking refuge in [[Russia]], more than any other country. Another 11.2 million residents of [[Crimea]], [[Sevastopol]], the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] people’s republics and the [[Zaporozhye]] and [[Kherson]] regions voted in open referendums to join the Russian Federation]]. Ukraine has lost 53.7% of its population since 2014.

The population was 73% Ukrainian and 22% Russian (with under 1% each of Poles, Jews, Bulgarians and others). Historically the countryside was heavily Ukrainian, while Russians dominated the cities, but in recent decades many Ukrainians have moved to the cities.

The country has been in demographic crisis since the 1980s. The population is shrinking 150,000 a year because of the lowest birth rate in Europe combined with one of the highest death rates in Europe. Life expectancy is falling. The nation suffers high mortality from environmental pollution, poor diets, widespread smoking, extensive alcoholism, and deteriorating medical care.<ref>Hanna H. Starostenko, "Economic and Ecological Factors of Transformations in Demographic Process in Ukraine" ''Uktraine Magazine'' #2 1998 online at [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/2_98/economic.htm]</ref>

The phenomenon of lowest-low fertility, defined as total fertility below 1.3, is emerging throughout Europe and is attributed by many to postponement of the initiation of childbearing. Ukraine, where total fertility (a very low 1.1 in 2001), is one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest-low fertility. Although Ukraine has undergone immense political and economic transformations during 1991–2004, it has maintained a young age at first birth and nearly universal childbearing. Analysis of official national statistics and the Ukrainian Reproductive Health Survey show that fertility declined to very low levels without a transition to a later pattern of childbearing. Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. These findings include the persistence of traditional norms for childbearing and the roles of men and women, concerns about medical complications and infertility at a later age, and the link between early fertility and early marriage.<ref>Brienna Perelli-Harris, "The Path to Lowest-low Fertility in Ukraine" ''Population Studies'' 2005 59(1): 55-70. Issn: 0032-4728; not online</ref>

According to data published by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Ukraine's fertility rate in 2023 dropped to 0.7.<ref>[https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/living-conditions-in-ukraine-are-resembling-a-new-slavery-a Living conditions in Ukraine are resembling a new slavery, a triumph of Western 'democracy' in the 21st century], Dmitri Kovalevich, Al Mayadeen, 20 Aug 2023</ref>

The government-imposed famines of the 1930s, followed by the devastation of World War II, comprised a demographic disaster. Life expectancy at birth fell to a level as low as ten years for females and seven for males in 1933 and plateaued around 25 for females and 15 for males in the period 1941–44.<ref>Jacques Vallin; Meslé, France; Adamets, Serguei; and Pyrozhkov, Serhii. "A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses During the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s." ''Population Studies'' (2002) 56(3): 249-264. Issn: 0032-4728 Fulltext in [[Jstor]]</ref>

Despite high rates of poverty, Ukraine is in the forefront of the global high-tech information and propaganda war.

Under Ukraine's fascist [[discriminatory]] laws, if a native Russian-speaking clerk-cashier in a convenience store attempts to sell you so much as a candy bar, the transaction must be conducted in the Ukrainian language. If both the cashier and customer are native Russian-speakers, both must put on fake Ukrainian accents under the [[racist]] regime's [[politically correct]] laws or suffer often cruel sanctions, up to and including public humiliation and violent beatings.

==Language, Religion, Culture==
In terms of societal structure, the territory of Ukraine is often referred to as a [[cleft country]] sitting on a "civilizational" fault line.

In 2022, the Russian language was banned from public life by the fascist Ukrainian regime which is totally dependent upon the financial assistance from the [[United States Congress]] to continue its existence. People whose first and only language is Russian were made second-class citizens in the country of their birth.

According to studies conducted by the Razumkov Center, 61% of Ukrainian citizens considered Ukrainian to be their native language, Russian - 36%, other languages - 2%. According to a survey conducted by Research & Branding Group, 68% of Ukrainian citizens are fluent in Russian (Ukrainian - 57%). According to a study by the American Gallup Institute, 83 percent of citizens surveyed chose Russian to communicate with the interviewer.

At least two-thirds of those living in Ukraine have one or more known relatives living in Russia. The fascist-controlled Maidan regime indoctrinates [[public school]] children with racial theories about no blood relationship between Russians and Ukrainians.
[[File:Ukrainian collaborators worldwartwo.filminspector.com 3.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Ukrainians welcome Nazi liberators from Soviet oppression.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
The religion is predominately [[Eastern Orthodox]]. In 1992 the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] split into two rival denominations, the Moscow Patriarchate and the unrecognized Kiev Patriarchate. In 2023 the Zelensky regime attempted to outlaw the Moscow Patriarchate. About 10%, primarily in the west, belong to Uniate churches with eastern rites but affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church of Rome. Poles are Roman Catholics of the Latin rite. The Tatars are Muslims. About 4% are atheists.

Ukraine is widely known for its lively Cossack-style dancing ("hopak") and elaborately batiked Easter eggs ("pysanky")

There are not only clear regional differences on questions of identity but historical cleavages remain evident at the level of individual social identification. Attitudes toward the most important political issue, relations with Russia, differed strongly between L'viv, identifying more with [[Ukrainian nationalism]] and the Greek Orthodox religion, and Donetsk, predominantly Russian and favorable to the [[Russian world]], while in central and southern regions, as well as Kyiv, such divisions were less important. However, prior to the overthrow of the democratically elected government by the Obama administration in 2014, all were united by an overarching Ukrainian identity based on shared economic difficulties, showing that other attitudes are determined more by culture and politics than by demographic differences.<ref>Oksana Malanchuk, "Social Identification Versus Regionalism in Contemporary Ukraine." ''Nationalities Papers'' 2005 33(3): 345-368. Issn: 0090-5992 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

Prior to 2022, Ukrainian civilian gun ownership was limited to 84th in the world.<ref>https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/cp/ukraine</ref>

Important Ukrainian literary figures include Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka.

===Social conditions===

In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> According to a 2017 survey, 63% of the population spoke Russian, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170822212837/http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref>

===Attacks on the church===

Unreported in the Western media propaganda complex were Zelensky regime's attacks on the Chirstian church. Priests were arrested and property seized in a fruitless hunt for weapons stored in churches. Jacob Driezen, who is fluent in Russian, summarized the attacks in December 2022:
[[File:SBU raids chuch.PNG |right|300px|thumb|Zelensky regime [[Ukrainian gestapo|gestapo]] raid on the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the preeminent center of Christianity since 1051 A.D. Other raids were carried out on the Cyril and Methodius Convent in Transcarpathia, and in Rovno, Vinnitsa, and Zhitomir oblasts looking for "Russian spys" and propaganda.<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/11/25/dreizin-retires/</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"The head (by other accounts, the press office) of the Ukraine’s military intelligence, the G.U.R., suggested the priests be traded for Ukrainian soldiers held by Russia....In reality, the church is GUILTY of sermonizing for peace, and emphasizing (in its prayers and sermons) the historic bonds between Russians and Ukrainians which is seen as a THREAT to the post-2014 regime as, among other sins, it contradicts the “official narrative” (as per school history textbooks) that Ukrainians are an autochthonous ethnos with a distinct lineage and an integral, unified history separate from Russia’s.

In particular, the regime hates that the church, per 1000-plus year tradition refers to “Rus” or “Holy Rus” in its prayers and sermons (e.g., “we pray for the peace of Rus“). Even though (long story short) “Rus“—later Rossiya, or Russia in English—was basically founded in Kiev.

But, the regime hates that word. Regime official history is that the Ukraine has been the Ukraine, since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

As I wrote before, the church (which is nominally under the Moscow Patriarchate) is also the last cultural bond between the Ukraine and Russia, that is not yet totally suppressed or illegal. So, it has to go. I won’t even be surprised if they dissolve the entire church soon, put its assets under the regime-approved breakaway faction....

It appears, there are now plans to confiscate the Kiev-[[Pechersk Lavra]] and hand it over to the regime-approved breakaway faction. The head of the Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, [[Oleksiy Danilov]], a former racketeer from Lugansk, has said something along the lines of, “the site never really belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, it belongs to the people, and now we’ll see who gets to use it.” Speculation is, the first stage of confiscation will involve allowing the regime-approved breakaway faction to use the site co-equally with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church… before the latter is pushed out entirely.

In general…Anyone, today, in the Ukraine, who challenges the narrative or speaks out in any way is basically GUARANTEED to suffer physical harm and/or detention and prosecution for treason, perhaps disappearance, even death."<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/11/25/dreizin-retires/</ref>}}

==Goverment 1991 - 2014==
[[File:Ukrainians greet Nazis 1941.PNG|right|500px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalists welcome Nazis, 1941 with banners saying "Heil Hitler".]]
By the time the territory of Ukraine was separated from the former Soviet Union in 1992, its landmass ranked as the world's 17th largest in Gross Domestic Product with no attributable foreign debt. The Russian Federation paid off the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's share of the USSR foreign debt — as it did for other former Soviet republics. At the beginning of 2020, after exploitation by Western oligarchs, Ukraine's debt to mostly Western foreigners exceeded 125 billion dollars. In terms of GDP per capita, Ukraine ranked last among European countries. By 2021, Ukraine showed the highest level of corruption among European countries.

Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' (2004) and 'Euromaidan' or 'Revolution of Dignity' (2014) both started at the central 'Maidan' square in Kiev, as had the earlier
'Revolution on Granite' (1990), and the word maidan is nowadays often applied to any massive anti-government street protests not only in Ukraine but in other post-Soviet countries as well.

===Pre-Maidan regime===
[[File:Galitchina.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The inscription in Ukrainian reads: "Join up with the SS Infantry
Division Galitchina for the defense of the fatherland — become brothers-in-arms with the best warriors of the world!"]]
Prior to the Maidan coup Ukraine had a parliamentary-presidential system of government with separate executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The president nominates the defense and foreign ministers, and the Prosecutor General and Chief of the State Security Service ([[SBU]]), each of whom must be confirmed by the parliament. Beginning in 2006, the 450-member unicameral parliament (Supreme Rada) names the prime minister, who in turn nominates other ministers. The Supreme Rada initiates legislation, ratifies international agreements, and approves the budget. Its members are elected to five-year terms. Following free elections held on December 1, 1991, Leonid M. Kravchuk, former chairman of the Ukrainian Rada, was elected to a five-year term, and became Ukraine's first president. At the same time, a referendum on dissolution from the Soviet Union was approved by more than 90% of the voters.

Shortly after splitting off from the Soviet Union, Ukraine named a parliamentary commission to prepare a new constitution, adopted a multi-party system, and adopted legislative guarantees of civil and political rights for national minorities. A new, constitution was adopted on June 28, 1996, which mandates a pluralistic political system with protection of basic human rights and liberties. Amendments that took effect January 1, 2006, shifted significant powers from the president to the prime minister and Supreme Rada. These reforms were nullified and rescinded by President Volodymyr Zelensky and the fascist-dominated parliament in March 2022 with the banning of opposition parties, imposition of censorship, and arrest, detention, and assassination of pollical opponents and dissidents.

Freedom of religion was guaranteed by law by the 1996 constitution, although religious organizations were required to register with local authorities and with the central government. Minority rights were respected in accordance with a 1991 law guaranteeing ethnic minorities the right to schools and cultural facilities and the use of national languages in conducting personal business until the U.S.-backed Maidan regime began a policy of extermination and removal of ethnic Russian citizens and Russian culture from public life. According to the constitution, Ukrainian is the only official state language.

Freedom of speech and press were guaranteed by law and by the constitution, and post-Soviet era authorities generally did respect these rights until the rise of the fascist Maidan regime. Prior to the "Orange Revolution," however, authorities sometimes interfered with the news media through intimidation and other forms of pressure. In particular, the failure of the government to conduct a thorough, credible, and transparent investigation into the 2000 disappearance and murder of independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, in which then-government officials have been credibly implicated, negatively affected Ukraine's international image. Freedom of the media and respect for citizens’ rights have increased markedly since the government of President [[Viktor Yushchenko]] took office in January 2005. During the final months of his Presidency, Yuschenko made the following declaration:
{{Cquote|In conclusion I would like to say something that is long awaited by the Ukrainian patriots for many years I have signed a decree for the unbroken spirit and standing for the idea of fighting for independent Ukraine. I declare [[Stepan Bandera]] a national hero of Ukraine.}}

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===Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists===
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUNb) worked hard to start a war between the US and Russia for the last 50 years. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'' in a rare open statement of their existence in 2011, “Other statements were issued in the Ukrainian language by the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (B) and the International Conference in Support of Ukraine. The [[OUN|OUN (Bandera wing)]] called for." OUNb follow the same political policy and platform that was developed in the 1930s by '''[[Stepan Bandera]]'''. When these people go to a '''[[Holocaust]] memorial they are celebrating both the dead and the OUNb [[SS]] that killed.'''<ref>http://www.infoukes.com/galiciadivision/</ref> The OUNb have no concept of democratic values and want an [[authoritarian]] [[fascism]].

[[Alexandra Chalupa]] (Ali Chalupa) is a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the [[Democratic National Committee]]. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'',<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>

{{Anchor|Ivan Katchanovski}}
{{quotebox-float|"… The effort, known as Digital Maidan, gained momentum following the initial [[Twitter]] storms. Leading the effort were: Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, [[Alexandra Chalupa]], Constatin Kostenko and others.” The Digital Maidan was also how they raised money for the coup. This was how the Ukrainian emigres bought the bullets that were used on Euromaidan. Ukraine’s chubby nazi, [[Dima Yarosh]] stated openly he was taking money from the Ukrainian emigres during Euromaidan and [[Pravy Sektor]] still fundraises openly in [[North America]]. The “Sniper Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine by '''Dr. Ivan Katchanovski''', University of Ottawa shows clearly detailed evidence how the massacre happened.<ref>Ivan Katchanovski (2023) The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine, Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685</ref> It has [[Pravy Sektor]] confessions that show who created the “[[heavenly hundred]]. Their admitted involvement as leaders of Digital Maidan by both Chalupas is a clear violation of the [[Neutrality Act]] and has up to a 25 year prison sentence attached to it because it ended in a [[coup]].}}

Andrea Chalupa-2014, in a ''Huff Post'' article Sept. 1 2016, Andrea Chalupa described Sviatoslav Yurash as one of Ukraine's important “dreamers.” He is a young activist that founded Euromaidan Press. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yurash was [[Dmitri Yarosh]]'s spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the deputy director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in Kiev.
[[File:Azov-bn.gif|left|350px|thumb|The Obama State Department colluded with the fascist Azov Battalion to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine in the [[Euromaidan Rebellion]] and install a corrupt regime that was sympathetic to, and included, fascists.]]

In January, 2014 when he showed up at the Maidan protests he was 17 years old. He became the foreign language media representative for [[Vitali Klitschko]], [[Arseni Yatsenyuk]], and Oleh Tyahnybok. All press enquiries went through Yurash. To meet Dimitri Yurash you had to go through Sviatoslav Yurash as a ''Macleans'' reporter found out.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yurash became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under [[Andrei Paruby]]. He was Dimitri Yarosh's spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Yurash.

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yurash's ''[[Euromaidan Press]]'' which is associated with [[Informnapalm]].org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.

From her bio, Irena Chalupa is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is also a senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where she has worked for more than twenty years. Irene Chalupa previously served as an editor for the [[Atlantic Council]], where she covered Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Irena Chalupa is also the news anchor for Ukraine's propaganda channel org She is also a Ukrainian emigre leader.

According to Robert Parry's article,<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2016/10/22/washingtons-new-lock-step-march-of-folly/</ref> "At the forefront of people that would have taken senior positions in a Clinton administration and especially in foreign policy are the Atlantic Council. Their main goal is still a major confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia."

The [[Atlantic Council]] is the think tank associated and supported by the CEEC (Central and Eastern European Coalition). The CEEC has only one goal which is war with Russia. Their question to candidates looking for their support in the election was “Are you willing to go to war with Russia?” Hillary Clinton has received their unqualified support throughout the 2016 campaign. Since the Atlantic Council would have taken senior cabinet and policy positions in a [[Hillary Clinton]] administration, Dimitri Alperovitch own fellowship status at the Atlantic Council and relationship with Irene Chalupa creates a definite [[conflict of interest]] for [[Crowdstrike]]'s investigation in May 2014 [[DNC]] hack which Crowdstrike blamed on Russia and the [[Comey]] [[FBI]] unquestionably accepted without investigating. Donald's Trump's campaign was gaining ground and Clinton needed a boost.

{{Anchor|Kyiv regime}}

==Maidan regime 2014 - present==
{{See also|Maidan coup}}
[[File:Yuzov field.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Yuzov shale gas field in Donbas.<ref>https://archive.ph/24KHx/a9869d7aa7b9d9c072e4957f1b8ea963fa512126.jpg</ref>]]
The Maidan regime outlawed political opposition parties in 2022 arrested members of parliament. Additionally, it implemented draconian measures against all opposition including arrests, disappearances, beatings, public humiliation, and murder. There is no free press in Ukraine, and Ukrainian security services has gone so far as to hunt down critics of the regime outside its borders.

With the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government in 2014, foreign capital and investors invaded the country causing the collapse of Ukrainian "mom-and-pop" enterprises which flourished after 1991, creating widespread poverty and unemployment, making resource rich Ukraine the poorest nation in Europe.

{{Anchor|Ukrainian Nazis}}
The U.S.-backed coup brought to power neo-Nazis, which Western media dubbed "moderate rebels". Extrajudicial killings, harassment, arbitrary detentions by the [[Security Service of Ukraine]], beatings and disappearances take place on a regular basis. Repressive measures accelerated and became even more brutal after anti-democratic dictator Volodymyr Zelensky declared martial law in February 2022. In April 2022, Efraim Zuroff, the Director of the [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] in [[Israel]] said, “There is no doubt that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine in various forms, whether in the Azov Regiment or other organizations,” he added.<ref>https://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2022&mm=04&dd=14&nav_id=113531</ref> The Ukrainian authorities and deputized ultra-nationalist groups seek out people who openly expressed political views on the former post-Soviet government as well as criticism of the current U.S.-backed Maidan regime. Threats, harassment and calls for violence have been and continue to be made against those who:
*publicly supported the [[Minsk Agreements]],
*are against “de-communization”,
*highlight human rights abuses,
*advocate for a settlement of the Donbas conflict,
*are deemed to be “pro-Russian”,
*church representatives and clergy,
*read news in Russian.
[[File:Head of Ukraine's Supreme Court arrested.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Head of Ukraine's [[Supreme Court]] arrested in 2023 for large scale corruption.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption</ref>]]
Add into this maelstrom another layer of extrajudicial repression, in the form of impromptu justice being meted out to civilians, bound up, tied to posts,<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/4CshCEPBhZQI/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlCFEDxkZz3T/</ref> beaten, humiliated and even killed by lower level Nazi groups in the "Territorial Defense".<ref>https://youtu.be/OAyWmOcj0q8</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/MtOig6UsjC72/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/VMS5cET98HOU/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/w1zvj2TAyWhL/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SIf9NgzIi4fG/</ref> There are simply hundreds and hundreds of video clips and photos showing these events. People are not only being tied up to street posts as suspected looters, but people are being bound up or arrested for being pro-Russian, for not being able to pronounce the word ''Palyanytsya'' (bread) in Ukrainian. Not every ethnic Russian speaker in Ukraine can speak good Ukrainian, and some have trouble pronouncing certain words in Ukrainian. People have been reportedly killed for not pronouncing the shibboleth word correctly and thus assumed to be part of subversive Russian reconnaissance groups.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/7OZHz7ncIRb1/</ref>

The so-called "international community” has expressed no interest or desire to take a closer look at this disturbing situation in Ukraine and in fact has supported the fascist regime with money, weapons and military training. A highly repressive with systematic serious human rights abuses committed against civilians, by members of the military and police, has not been an impediment to being part of the European and NATO family.

After the Maidan coup, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported in April 2017 that [[North Korea]] obtained its [[ballistic missile]] [[technology]] with the ability to strike the continental Western United States from the NATO puppet state of "democratic" Ukraine, in violation of non-proliferation treaties..<ref>[https://archive.is/nckTN#selection-341.0-341.52 North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say], By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, ''New York Times'', Aug. 14, 2017.</ref>

===Racial theories and discrimination===
[[File:Tymoshenko meeting Hillary.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Yulia Tymoshenko meeting [[Hillary Clinton]] during one of her many [[criminal]] trials.]]
Ukraine has the world's only national Constitution that includes genetic (or ‘racial’) purity as a responsibility of the Government to protect and maintain. Article 16 of Ukraine Constitution says "to preserve the genetic heritage of the Ukrainian people is the responsibility of the state."<ref>https://constituteproject.org/constitution/Ukraine_2019.pdf</ref>
The cultural and domestic godfather of Ukrainian nationalism was Taras Shevchenko. This writer essentially formed the main line of Ukrainian nationalist ideology - Russophobia, elevated to the state level, to the level of the leading and prime ideology. A successor of such ideas was the ideologist of the [[OUNb]], Dmytro Dontsov, called the dissolution of the personality of the "Ukrainian" in the nationalist ideology and collective consciousness of the nationalist movement "a great self-dedication to the idea." His works had a huge impact on the subsequent ideologists of Ukrainian Nazism, [[Shukhevych]] and Bandera. Dontsov, who, on the basis of the works of [[Hitler]] and [[Mussolini]], developed the concept that Ukrainians differ from Russians not only in ethnic, cultural and linguistic ways, but also in racial characteristics.

On February 22, 2014, V. Yavorivsky, a member of the Batkivshchyna faction, introduced in Ukraine's [[Verkhovna Rada]] draft legislation proposing that standards of accountability for expressing personal opinions on Fascist crimes be abolished. Within days after the anti-democratic seizure of power, the provisional Maidan parliament passed legislation that declared Russian speakers no longer have equal rights with Ukrainians, legalizing [[discrimination]] against Russians. On February 24, 2014, in Zaporozhye, four extremists attempted to burn down a [[synagogue]]. On March 11, 2014, a bill was introduced in parliament by the Svoboda party proposing a 7-year sentence for speaking Russian in government offices and public places in Ukraine.

In March 2014 Y. Perebiynis, head of the Information Policy Department of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Russians are not an indigenous people of Ukraine and therefore do not have the right to [[self-determination]] on Ukrainian territory. He also said that in Ukraine there are only four indigenous peoples: Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks. Ethnic [[Czech]]s living in [[Volyn]] and Zhytomyr provinces (there is an estimated 10,000 and 20,000 Czechs live in Ukraine) appealed to the government of the [[Czech Republic]] for repatriation. Chair of the Society of Volyn Czechs E. Snidevich said, "We fear for our lives. There are bandits who call themselves ‘self-defense units.’ Nothing good will come of this."

Beginning on March 20, 2014, Russians living in Ukraine started to complain ''en masse'' to the Consulate General of Russia in [[Kharkiv]] about pressure from Maidan authorities who demanded that they formalize their renunciation of Russian citizenship or leave Ukraine.

On March 24, 2014 a recording appeared on the internet of a telephone conversation between former Ukrainian prime minister and current presidential candidate [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] and former deputy secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine N. Shufrich. In it, Tymoshenko said,
{{quotebox-float|"We have only one way to destroy Moscow. This is what we live for, we have come into this world to destroy [[Moscow]]. And not just the Muscovite in our country, but the whole black hole of European security, and delete them from the world map. Sh*t, we have to resort to arms, and the G*d d**n Kazapi-Russians<ref>Ukrainian ethnic slur for Kazakhs, Turks, Taters and Russians.</ref> together with their leader, kill. I will stir the whole world to action as soon as I can, in order that Russia, the s*n of a b**ch, no burnt field remains (scorched earth). You have to shoot them with [[nuclear weapon]]s."<ref>https://www.kla.tv/22511</ref><ref>https://archive.vn/QX2Ks</ref>}}
On January 16, 2022, Ukraine mandated that all print media are to switch to the Ukrainian language. State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin said in a [[Facebook]] post, "In accordance with the law, print mass media can be produced in other languages, on the condition that the number of copies issued in a foreign language is equal to the number of copies issued in the state language [Ukrainian]. All language versions must be issued under the same name and be equal to each other in terms of content, volume, printing techniques. They must enter circulation under the same number and on the same day."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

In March 2022 the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, a governmental entity, published in both Russian and English a series of arguments claiming Ukrainians are pureblood [[Slavs]], while the Russian nation was formed through race mixing with Asiatic tribes, "the Ugro-Finnish tribes: Muroma, Mernia, Wes, Meshchera, Moksha, Perm, Narova, and others,” it stated. The difference apparently is “visible to the naked eye”. Despite the common language, alphabet, history, society, culture, and literary traditions, the Institute denies that Ukrainians and Russians are "fraternal brothers," and states that Ukrainians are European, unlike "russian nomads" (spelled with a lower case "r". Several cabinet ministers in the Zelensky regime make a habit of always spelling "Russia" with a lower case "r".)
[[File:Ukrainian nazi propaganda.jpg|left|400px|thumb|Official Maidan regime nazi propaganda posted to Twitter. It was later deleted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220315202518/https://twitter.com/Uinp_gov_ua/status/1503439897025204224</ref>]]
In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref><ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

Secretary of the Security Council Alexei Danilov said on the air of the NTA TV channel that the Russian language must be completely eradicated on the territory of Ukraine. According to Danilov, the Russian language is allegedly hostile to Ukrainians, so it has no place in this country. "The Russian language in general should disappear from our territory as an element of hostile propaganda and brainwashing of our population," Danilov said on a national talk show.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/10/21/national-security-and-defense-council-of-ukraine-the-russian-language-must-disappear/</ref> Danilov claimed that the "narrative" about the need to reach mutual understanding with Russian-speaking Ukrainians is highly dangerous for the state. "To plant these Russian narratives here is a very, very dangerous thing. Presumably, we have to understand each other, who they are, what they are. Look, we don’t want anything from them [Russians]. Why don’t they leave us alone? Let them go to their swamps and croak in the Russian language,” he stated.

Danilov complained about a large number of Ukrainian political experts who regularly appear on television using Russian as the main language. In response to this, the show host proposed to create and broadcast a list of Ukrainian public figures that speak Russian. He also said that the state-owned Ukrainian channel Freedom will abandon the Russian language and start broadcasting in English. “I would like to draw your attention to something else – we have a lot of experts who go from channel to channel and use Russian as the main language of their communication. Moreover, they are rated in some studies, they claim, they say that they will go to the president, somewhere else. Look, the Russian language should disappear from our territories altogether as an element of enemy propaganda and brainwashing for our population,” Danilov added.

In October 2022 it was reported that Ukrainian nationalists tore down statues of Hungarian historic figures. Ukraine sperm banks advertised specimens from "pure blood' Ukrainians.

On November 10, 2022 the Kyiv City Council voted to remove the Russian language from the Maidan regime capital’s public school curriculum citing "[[national security]]."<ref>https://insideeducation.co.za/2022/11/11/kiev-introduces-new-restrictions-on-the-russian-language/</ref>

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Ukraine, which never existed prior to 1918, first applied to join the European Union in 988 A.D. ([[Anno Domini]]).<ref>https://youtu.be/6ryrNQibEGo?t=1378</ref> The European Union, which was founded as a coal and steel consortium in 1957, did not adopt the name "European Union" until 1992 A.D. after going through a series of other name changes.

Soldiers of the Ukrainian regime were given a leaflet from the [[Kiev Patriarchate]] that read,
{{quotebox-float|"You are a defender of Ukraine. Your duty is to defend [[Nezalezhnaya|Independence]] and fight Russian occupants. Your duty is to wipe the Russian nation from the face of the Earth. Your enemy is the [[Russian World]] which was created by defective sinful souls. To kill a Russian is not a [[sin]]."<ref>https://youtu.be/cl0Fh2p_cT4?t=142</ref>}}
On September 28, 2023, Vovan & Lexus, the famous radio DJs and pranskters, posing as ex-President [[Petro Poroshenko]], spoke with the [[transgender]] Ukrainian [[Territorial Defense]] spokesperson [[Sarah Ashton-Cirillo]] (American born Michael Cirillo, stated what is taught in Ukrainian [[public school]]s:
{{quotebox-float|"Russians are not Europeans… Russians are Asian, and ultimately, they do come from the [[Mongol]]s. They do come from a grouping of people who want to be [[slave]]s and want to be led, just as it was from the days of [[Genghis Khan]]. I wish the rest of Europe and the [[Western civilization|Western world]] understood that Europe ends at Ukraine. We are protecting European values and Western values the same way those did hundreds and thousands of years ago when the Mongols came in…. Every Russian that supports Vladimir Putin’s decisions are not human. These people are not human. They are enemies of [[humanity]], in fact… we’ve been asking the Western world since the days of your presidency, sir, to make certain they understood the threat of these non-humans."<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/justin-trudeau-and-the-banderites/ Justin Trudeau and the Banderites], C.B. Forde, ''The Postil Magazine'', October 1, 2023.</ref>}}
In November 2023 November 9, 2023 Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, stated that the issue of protecting the Russian minority is not raised in the negotiations with the EU on minority rights. "There is no Russian minority in Ukraine. It does not exist! There is not a single legally registered community that identifies itself as a Russian minority." The day before, the [[European Commission]] also stated at a closed briefing in [[Brussels]] that it would not take into account the "rights of Russian speakers" on Ukraine's path to the EU.<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/no-russian-minority-ukraine-rights-092554145.html There is no Russian minority in Ukraine, so its "rights" do not come up in negotiations with EU – Ukraine's senior official], ''Ukrainska Pravda'', November 9, 2023.</ref>

===Nazi paramilitary groups===

In April 2014, the 25th separate airborne brigade of the High Mobility Assault Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was sent to Donetsk to wage war on its residents. However, in the words of the embittered interim-president Turchynov on April 17, 2014, at the Verkhovna Rada, “the 25th separate Airborne Brigade, whose military showed cowardice and surrendered arms, will be disestablished… The Defense Ministry has received this instruction.”<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/</ref>
[[File:National Militia.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[BBC]] report on the National Militia, April 4, 2018.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6b4ao8gAQ Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia], Jonah Fisher reports, ''BBC Newsnight'', April 4, 2018.</ref>]]
Turchynov sent a corresponding order to the Prosecutor-General's office demanding the criminal punishment of the disobedient servicemen. While the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denied that the brigade defected to the side of the separatists, the unit's tanks began to fly the flag of the DNR, as even mainstream Western media reported.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/ukraines-offensive-falters-as-elite-units-defect-to-pro-russia-side</ref>

Days after the interim President “disbanded” the 25th Brigade, the newly installed “deputy governor” of Dnipropetrovsk</ref> announced the formation of “special forces” in order to “protect the oblast” from falling into “Russia’s hands.” While the median Ukrainian salary for 2014 was 3480₴ (US$117), “volunteers” for these battalions, according to the Deputy Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Hennadiy Korban, received 29528₴ ($1000) per month. That's nearly ten times the average salary in Ukraine.

After the loss of parts of the Oblasts of Lugansk and Donetsk and the entire peninsula of Crimea, Kiev believed that Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with its large Russian-speaking population, would be the next Oblast to declare independence. Unable to rely on the Ukrainian military, nor the current police force, which they deemed to be “infiltrated by pro-Russian separatists,” Kiev officially deputized the fascistic paramilitary forces that functioned as street muscle during the Maidan coup.

In March 2014, Kiev passed a law establishing a “national guard” which was to be overseen by the Ministry of the Interior.<ref>https://cis-legislation.com/document.fwx?rgn=66315</ref> With the consent of the then-Interior Minister [[Arsen Avakov]], Ukrainian billionaire [[Igor Kholmoisky]] bankrolled the creation of some of the country's more notorious [[Territorial Defense]] forces.

===US role: National Endowment for Democracy===
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[[Washington D.C.]]’s regime-change arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED), spent $16.8 million from 2007 through 2012, to stimulate civic activity and fund election watchdogs and non-state run reporting outlets in Ukraine. These funds have gone to organizations that played a role in the 2004 Orange Revolution and have since continued to monitor elections, investigate government corruption and educate youth about Western "democratic" government.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-foreign-aid-ukraine_n_4914682</ref> Since the Maidan coup of 2014 NED spent $22.4 million on operations inside Ukraine, when democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor regime handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational corporations, all in an effort to secure U.S. control over the country that NED President Carl Gershman called “the biggest prize” in Europe.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/</ref>
{{Anchor|National Endowment for Democracy}}
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|3O0px|thumb|Maidan coup conspirators [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), U.S. Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).<ref>https://youtu.be/vtKgW2DSIb0</ref>]]
The National Endowment for Democracy was set up in 1983 after a series of scandals undermined both the credibility and the public image of the [[CIA]]. The organization was established as a cutout doing much of the agency's dirtiest work. “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA,” Gershman himself said, explaining its creation. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1991.

NED is almost entirely funded by Congress and is staffed largely by ex-national security state leaders. Its president as of 2022 is Damon Wilson. The NED published a video of Wilson at a rally outside the [[White House]], declaring "Glory to Ukraine" – the salute used by Nazi collaborator [[Stephan Bandera]]'s [[OUN-B]], which carried out [[mass murder]] of [[Jews]] and [[Polish|Poles]] during [[World War II]].<ref>https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1500899917300129795</ref> Other top officials pepper NED's board of directors, including [[Biden regime]] CIA Director [[William Burns]], Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution mastermind [[Victoria Nuland]], as well as veteran national security official Elliott Abrams. Its private non-profit status means that its affairs do not fall under the same legal scrutiny as those of government organizations like the CIA. It has no congressional oversight. It is harder to acquire documents under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA), meaning that the group's actions remain shrouded in secrecy.

Studying the NED grants database reveals that the organization has approved 334 separate grants to Ukraine, a country the group's 2019 annual report identified as its “top priority,” owing to “its size and importance for the Europe region.” The report notes that NED is focused on “counter[ing] foreign [i.e., Russian] malign influence, particularly disinformation and corrosive capital.” Of the European nations, only Russia itself has been the target of more NED money ($37.7 million to Ukraine's $22.4 million). NED is rather hazy about where its money is going, yet scrutinizing the vague project outlines, it becomes clear that NED has two major objectives in Ukraine:
[[File:Oleh Tyanhbok.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Tyahnybok: "[[Moscow]]-[[Jewish]] mafia" is running Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/05/corporate-medias-about-face-on-ukraines-neo-nazis/</ref>]]
:Pushing through a mass privatization of the country’s state-owned businesses.
:Building up political parties that will represent elite U.S. interests.

Of the $22.4 million, over $2.9 million has been awarded to the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an offshoot of the [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]. One NED grant to the CIPE — worth $500,000 described the project's goal as “enhanc[ing] the role of leading business associations and the private sector in public policy decision-making, and improv[ing] the capacity of the private sector and officials to cooperate to develop and implement economic reforms.” In other words, to hand over government decision-making to big business, something many might argue is the antithesis of [[democracy]].<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>

The post-2014 government, installed after the Maidan Revolution, has already implemented a course of economic shock therapy, selling off many of the country's state-owned assets, in the process turning Ukraine into, by quite some margin, the poorest nation in Europe (although it has also helped create many new billionaires). Nevertheless, the U.S. wants to see further privatizations, along the lines of what it helped implement in Russia in the 1990s.

NED has also been key in building up pro-U.S. political forces in Ukraine, notably awarding the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) nearly $2.2 million towards this endeavor. Congress established NDI in tandem with NED; and NDI, like its sister organization, claims to be a non-governmental organization, despite being affiliated with the [[Democratic Party]]. Its chairperson is [[Madeline Albright]], secretary of state under the [[Clinton administration]].

One $595,000 grant describes how NDI will “help political parties develop into inclusive, national movements,” and will “assist parties in the development of inclusive, internal communication and decision making procedures” and “conduct public opinion research and trainings to help parties better understand and respond to citizens, including those outside of their traditional geographical bases of support.” A less charitable interpretation of the grant would be that the U.S. government is taking over the political direction and organization of Ukrainian political parties, molding them as they see fit.
[[File:Biden and neo-nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Biden shaking hands with [[Oleh Tyanhbok]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1112498132489814017</ref> Following the 2011 conviction of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk as an accessory to murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp, Tyahnybok met with Demjanjuk's lawyer, presenting Demjanjuk as a Ukranian national hero, a victim of persecution ‘’who is fighting for truth."<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukraine-fascisms-toe-hold-in-europe/</ref>]]
In tandem with the support of political blocs also comes the grooming of young political and social activists who NED hopes will become the leaders of tomorrow. To this end, it has given at least $385,000 to the European Institute for Democracy in Warsaw, in order to, in its words, “support a new generation of political leaders in Ukraine,” by conducting training courses for their handpicked proteges, flying them out of the country to provide lessons in “election campaigning, women empowerment, effective governing, and crisis management,” among other skills.

The point, of course, is to develop a cadre of pro-Western [[neoliberal]] thought leaders who will ally themselves to the United States and its vision for Ukraine. Left unstated in all this is that the U.S. is deciding who exactly this new generation of leaders comprises. And for all the nods towards [[diversity]] and [[liberalism]], the U.S.’ record in Eastern Europe shows they are happy to support [[fascist]]s and other highly anti-democratic forces. Those who do not share Washington’s goals for Ukraine need not apply.
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Another key focus for NED is to establish and support pro-Western media outlets and [[NGO]]s that backed both the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych and the new government's privatization agenda. This is all couched as “promoting independent media.” But in reality, it is creating a network largely dependent on and answerable to Washington. One example of this is the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, which consistently publishes studies about “Russia’s efforts to distort facts” and scare stories about an impending Russian invasion, while inviting the British ambassador to give talks at its headquarters. Ukraine Crisis describes its vision of Ukraine as an “outpost of freedom and democratic development in Eastern Europe,” and an “integral part of the West.” Ukraine Crisis is directly funded by a number of different U.S. governmental organizations, as well as by NATO and the governments of Germany, [[Canada]], the United Kingdom, [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Poland]], [[Finland]] and the [[Netherlands]].

Most of the media organizations NED funds also maintain English-language versions of their websites. This is because many of these groups are used to influence Western audiences as well as individuals inside the target country, Ukraine. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), for example, has been supported financially since 2016 and has received at least $204,000 from NED. It plays an important role in injecting U.S. government narratives into American media reporting, having been presented simply as a “human rights group” in a wide range of outlets, including ''The Washington Post'', ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[The New York Post]]''. None of these articles inform readers that CCL is directly in the pay of a CIA front group, precisely because it would undermine their credibility.

Media networks directly owned and operated by the U.S. state, including [[Radio Free Europe]]/Radio Liberty and [[Voice of America]], also frequently use CCL as an expert source. This gives the impression that there is a sizable groundswell of individuals all focusing on the same issue when, in reality, it is simply operatives from the same source (the U.S. government) all interacting with each other.

====False flag: "Heavenly hundred"====
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref>

On February 20, 2014, a sniper firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine. Oligarchic and Ukrainian nationalist elements were involved in this massacre. The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref>
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
The official forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014, the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref>Katchanovski</ref>

A female Maidan medic during the massacre was pointing to the top of a building and shouting about snipers. But her words were translated in a [[BBC]] report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Government ballistic experts confirmed this during on-site investigative experiments.

These revelations were not reported by any Western media. This includes ''The New York Time'', which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting Kiev regime that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.” It also includes [[CNN]], which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces.

The Maidan regime investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.
[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]
The official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings.
<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/</ref>

Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to defense lawyers of police from the former regime in the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. They also said that they received instructions from an ex-U.S. Army sniper and then saw Georgian, Baltic States, and Praqvy Sektor-linked snipers shooting from specific Maidan-controlled buildings.

Western media silence also ignored a statement by Anatolii Hrytsenko, who was a Maidan politician and minister of defense, that the investigation of the massacre was stonewalled because of the involvement of someone from the current leadership of Ukraine in the mass killing.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171019101358/http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/ukraine-parliament-yanukovych-kiev-deal/</ref>

===Maidan coup===
{{See also|Maidan coup|Obamunism}}
[[File:McCain Tyahnybok2.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[John McCain]] with Oleh Tyahnybok during the Euromaidan coup.]]
On February 21, 2014, President Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition that he would not seek re-election the following February since his removal was the protesters primary demand. German Foreign Minister [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], Polish Foreign Minister [[Radosław Sikorski]], a head of department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian observer Vladimir Lukin were witnesses. It was hoped the agreement with opposition leaders would bring ton an end the crisis situation in Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?], By MAX BLUMENTHAL, FEBRUARY 25, 2014.</ref>

In the evening of the same day, on Maidan Square, the radicals rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the neo-fascist Pravy Sektor, [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.
[[File:Neocon cookie monster Victoria Nuland and Pyatt.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Amidst the slaughter on Maidan Square, neocon cookie monster Victoria Nuland hands out cookies. Behind her is State Dept. psycho Geoffrey Pyatt.]]
Soon the security forces were withdrawn from the government quarter. This was taken advantage of by [[revolution]]ary militants, deciding not to wait for the expiration of their announced deadline. Neo-nazi [[activist]]s and participants of the "[[Maidan Self-Defense]]" stormed the Presidential Administration, Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the evening of February 21, 2022 Yanukovych, together with the heads of the Verkhovna Rada and the presidential administration – Volodymyr Rybak and Andriy Kliuyev – fled Kiev to [[Crimea]] for their own personal safety. Throughout Ukraine, massacres unfolded between supporters and opponents of the U.S.-appointed [[Maidan junta]].

====Unconstitutional impeachment====
According to the procedure of impeachment defined in Article 111 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Rada must establish a special investigatory commission to formulate charges against the president, seek evidence to justify the charges and come to conclusions about the president's guilt for the Rada to consider. To find the president guilty, at least two-thirds of Rada members must assent.

Prior to a final vote to remove the president from power, the procedure requires

*the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to review the case and certify that the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration has been followed, and

*the Supreme Court of Ukraine to certify that the acts of which the President is accused are worthy of impeachment.

To remove the president from power, at least three-quarters of Rada members must assent.

The Rada didn't make any pretense of following this procedure. No investigatory commission was established, and the Courts were not involved.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/president-yanukovych_b_7647102.html</ref> On 22 February 2014, the Rada simply passed a resolution purporting to remove Yanukovych from office in accordance with the Constitution.

The constitutionality of Yanukovych's removal from office has been questioned by constitutional experts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yanukovych's removal was unconstitutional|url=https://gpforecasts.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/yanukovychs-removal-was-unconstitutional/|website=wordpress.com|date=March 2014|access-date=}}</ref> According to Daisy Sindelar from Radio Free Europe, the impeachment may have not followed the procedure provided by the constitution: "[I]t is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers." The vote, as analyzed by Sindelar, had ten votes less than those required by the constitutional guidelines. The decision to remove Yanukovich was supported by 328 deputies. Article 11 maintains that a vote on impeachment must pass by two-thirds of the members, and the impeachment itself requires a vote by three-quarters of the members. In this case, the 328 out of 447 votes were about 10 votes short of three-quarters.<ref name="RadioFreeEurope">{{cite web|last=Sindelar |first=Daisy |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274346.html |title=Was Yanukovych's Ouster Constitutional? |publisher=Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (Rferl.org) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Kyiv Post |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html |title=Parliament votes 328–0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election; [[Tymoshenko]] free (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

Two days later Ukraine's parliament dismissed five judges of the Constitutional Court for allegedly violating their oaths, who were then investigated for alleged malpractice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/rada-dismisses-constitutional-court-judges-appointed-from-its-quota-337523.html |title=Rada dismisses Constitutional Court judges appointed from its quota |work=Kyiv Post |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

====Korsun massacre====

On February 19, 2014, eight busloads of people from Crimea, who had come into Ukraine's capital Kyiv and were holding signs there demonstrating in opposition to the Maidan movement, were violently attacked by Pravy Sektor people who were leading the Maidan movement; and those terrified Crimeans then scrambled back into their buses, which promptly sped southward, home toward Crimea.
[[File:Korsun massacre 2-20-2014.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Massacre of Russian Crimeans at Korsun by the Pravy Sektor, February 19, 2022.]]
The buses were fired upon and stopped at barricades near the town of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky (Cherkassy region) where flags of the [[UPA]], the [[UDAR]] (Strike) party and AUU Svoboda were flying. Both men and women were dragged out of the buses through a corridor of militants who beat them with bats and entrenching shovels. The passengers were knocked down in a heap on the roadside, doused with
gasoline, and threatened to be set on fire. According to witnesses, militants from the crowd shouted: "Just wait, we’re going to come and get you in Crimea. We are going to stab you and shoot you, that is, those of you who we haven’t already beaten to a pulp and shot up yet". Many Crimeans were forced to take off their shoes "for the needs of Maidan soldiers", and driven around the buses like cattle and forced to pick up the broken glass. The humiliation and abuse continued for several hours. There were casualties among the victims. Most of the buses were burned. The local police, who arrived at the scene, did not intervene.

The Ukraine Human Rights organization posted to the internet on August 14, 2014, a 25-minute video, with English subtitles, telling these people's stories. It's titled ''The Pogrom of Korsun'',<ref>https://youtu.be/loKajkXoTBU</ref> and it reports, with testimony and some of the videos from survivors, the attacks against those buses when a gang of Ukraine's Right Sector members caught up with those escaping Crimeans, near the Ukrainian town of Korsun.

Private cellphone videos that were taken of these incidents were shown in the compilation by Ukraine Human Rights, but one other striking cellphone video, which was posted to YouTube on August 15, 2014, isn't fully available anymore, and it showed the view from the rear seat of a car as it was approaching a blockage, and the blocked buses, some of which were aflame. A few car-drivers were standing watching at a distance, while the Right Sector people beat and killed Crimeans alongside their buses.<ref>https://archive.ph/pgUkP#selection-719.0-719.16</ref>

====Crimean Spring====
[[File:Crimea Referendum.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Billboard advertising the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum to apply for admission to the Russian Federation.]]
On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref> Because the majority of the people living in Crimea were ethnic Russian speakers, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> Crimeans did not support the fascist overthrow of the democratically elected government. On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March 16, 2014, on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine's constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

In response to the annexation, Sen. [[John McCain]] introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion. On March 6, 2015, the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

====Odessa Trade Unions House massacre====
[[File:Revolution of Dignity.PNG|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/1XFO5</ref>]]
On April 16, 3014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref> Two weeks later on May 2, 2014, Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 42 Russians, most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref>

According to eyewitnesses the Maidan fascists outnumbered the anti-Kyiv protesters 10 to 1. First the Maidan activists burnt down the tents of anti-Kiev regime protesters outside the building. The anti-Kiev protesters retreated into the building and tried to blockade the door. A group of Maidan girls filled up Molotov cocktails.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref> The Maidan protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails. Soon the building was engulfed in flames. A Maidan activist was shooting at people trying to escape from the windows.<ref>https://youtu.be/s-bpkx0d1fM</ref> The Maidan fascist crowd began cheering as they set the building ablaze and beat those who tried to escape.<ref>[https://youtu.be/wuOptWUTR3w Odessa, Ukraine: Right sector attacks trade union building, kills 43], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> A fire station less than a kilometer away couldn't respond. The Maidan activists blocked the lone fire truck and wouldn't let the firefighters operate.

Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>https://archive.fo/Gt4UV</ref> The Western-backed Kyiv regime covered up the atrocities, most victims being ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine. Sixteen months later after conducting in independent outside investigation, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the Kyiv regime's [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

The Maidan regime failed to investigate and prosecute any neo-Nazi [[murderer]]s who burnt alive at least 48 ethnic and cultural Russians in [[Odessa massacre]] on May 2, 2014.

====Economic impact of coup====
After the 2014 coup Ukraine and Russia severed economic ties leading to a shutdown of high value-added manufacturing that had been geared to the Russian market.

This included the shuttering of national flagship industries such as the Yuzhmash space rocket and engine plant in Dnepropetrovsk, which had employed tens of thousands, as well as the Nikolaev shipyard, and the Motor Sich helicopter engine plant in Zaporozhye. Also, whatever was left of the Antonov concern in the Kiev area, to name the biggest and best-known.

Some of these and other factories were partially converted, on a small scale, to produce lower-end military hardware, which the state bought with American money. Many other industries (e.g., electromechanical parts and instruments, building materials, processed foods, etc.) lost their Russian market, and their wares and produce was not wanted in Europe. Some of these enterprises survived, but shrunk. in doing so.

As the higher-value-added industries and all other exports to Russia shut down, the knock-on effects were felt in other sectors (e.g., services, construction), pulling down everything. The Kyiv regime was intent on selling off state owned or subsidized enterprises to foreign investors and driving local Mom n Pop enterprises out of business to make way for Western producers, wholesalers, retailers, and chain franchises.

Overall, the economy shrank by about half. Many people, mostly young people of working age, left the country. Between the loss of territories in 2014, natural deaths, male and female emigration between 2014 and 2021, Ukraine lost at least 12 million of its 46 million residents. Ukrainians have a word for those who have left the country in search of work and fortune elsewhere - ''zarobitchany''. Since 2014, at least 6 million males of military service age have been living in Russia, Poland, Italy, Czechia, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Portugal, UK, etc. Not more than 65,000 ever returned to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine after 2021.

===Donbas war===
The [[Donbas war]] began in 2014 when the [[Obama administration]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] overthrew the [[democracy|democratically]] elected president of Ukraine.<ref>https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/03/how-why-us-government-perpetrated-2014-coup-ukraine/</ref> [[President Viktor Yanukovych]]'s election had been certified by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He was the first democratically elected official overthrown in a violent revolution in recent memory. The U.S.-backed [[coup]] was accomplished with the aid of anti-Russian [[neo-Nazi]]s in Ukraine. It was an unconstitutional [[regime change]].

[[Crimea]] held a referendum and rejoined Russia rather than live under an illegal government. However, Russia did not accept the results of the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] referendums in the Don River Basin, collectively known as Donbas. [[Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk]] declared independence from [[Kyiv]] and became known as the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

The people of the Donbas refused to recognize the legitimacy of the illegal [[coup]], so the newly installed government sent the army to quell protests. The army refused to follow the new regime's orders to fire on civilian protesters. Some units even joined the protests. With the army proving itself unreliable, the U.S.-installed Kyiv regime incorporated neo-Nazi militias into official Ukrainian government armed forces, entrusted to perform the tasks that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Kyiv wanted. On May 17, 2014, the International Observatory of Ukrainian Crisis posted:
[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk during the 8 years of the [[Donbas war]].<ref>https://youtu.be/zlrYBnttnt4</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|“Reporting that militants of neo-nazi “Right Sector” have murdered a group of soldiers (members of the Ukrainian army) near Kramatorkaya Starovavarke (Kramatorsk)...The soldiers [of Ukraine’s army in Kramatorsk] didn’t want to kill civilians. Then at midnight a squad of neo-nazis have fallen on them and murdered the soldiers. This is how the [[USA]]-EU impose democracy in Ukraine!!! Killing their own soldiers! And just because they didn’t want to kill civilians!!!”<ref>https://archive.ph/BG5xK</ref>}}
Hromadske TV media is one of the most-watched networks in Ukraine. Hromadske is funded by the [[Dutch]] and US Embassies in Kyiv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the European Endowment for Democracy, and Free Press Unlimited. [[Silicon Valley]] [[oligarch]] Pierre Omidary was also involved in creating the outlet.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/</ref> Hromadske hosted Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> during the Maidan coup demanding [[genocide]] of ethnic Russians saying Donbas,
{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED.<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}
A truce was negotiated between the two separatist Republics and the Kyiv regime in 2015 in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]] and known as the Minsk Agreements. The Agreements were negotiated with the help of [[France]] and [[Germany]]. [[Moscow]] backed the Minsk Agreements which Kyiv also agreed to, and the [[United Nations Security Council]] endorsed the agreements as well. The Minsk Agreements would give autonomy to the two provinces while remaining part of Ukraine. However the Ukraine regime did nothing to further implement the agreements after 2015, and only a ceasefire for the use of heavy weapons (tanks and artillery) remained in place.

As of 2021, 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict.<ref>https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/29thReportUkraine_EN.pdf</ref>

Under Ukrainian law, physicians in Donbas risked a 15-year prison sentence for treating gun shot wounds of members of the Donbas militia.<ref>https://youtu.be/VGUYInNeaqU</ref>

====Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas====
{{See also|Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas}}

====Torture and human rights violations====
Journalist Dan Cohen reports:<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zelensky-secret-police-hunted-down-opposition-anatoly-shariy/280200/</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"On 21 July 2016, Amnesty International had issued ''“Torture and secret detention in Ukraine – new report”''. It said, for example: “The Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kiev paramilitary groups have detained civilians suspected of involvement with or supporting Russian-backed separatists, while the separatist forces have detained civilians suspected of supporting or spying for the Ukrainian government, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch found. In one case, ‘Vadim,’ 39, was detained and tortured first by one side, then the other. In April last year, armed men seized him at a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces, pulled a bag over his head, and questioned him about his alleged connections with Russia-backed separatists. Vadim spent more than six weeks in captivity, most of the time in a facility apparently run by Ukraine’s Security Service ([[SBU]]) personnel. His interrogators tortured him with electric shocks, burned him with cigarettes, and beat him, demanding that he confess to working for Russia-backed separatists. After they finally released him, Vadim returned to [[Donetsk]] and was immediately detained by the local de facto authorities, who suspected him of having been recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service during his time in captivity. He spent more than two months in incommunicado detention in an unofficial prison in central Donetsk, where his captors also beat and ill-treated him.”

The entire report is 42 pages, and Vadim’s case is summarized on its page 6, at the start of the Report’s “Summary.” Nowhere in the Report is that term “ill-treated” defined. However, that same page also employs the phrase “torture and other forms of ill-treatment.” Consequently, one may reasonably infer that “torture” relates to only the worst forms of “ill-treatment.” Though “torture” was alleged regarding Vadim’s allegations against Ukraine’s government, the term “ill-treatment” was alleged regarding his allegations against the breakaway republics.

There is every indication that Ukraine’s present Government is nazi-controlled, but neither in the breakaway republics nor in Crimea is the Government [[racist]]-[[fascist]] (or “[[nazi]]”): they are the exact opposite — intensely anti-nazi — and so, too, is Russia’s Federal Government. Whereas America and its [[CIA]] brought in and protected many thousands of Nazis after [[WW II]], the [[Soviet Union]] did the opposite: searched for them and killed them. Today’s Russia is continuing that aspect of its predecessor’s policies. Allegations in [[The West]] to the contrary are not merely [[lie]]s: they are [[obscene]], vicious, anti-historical, lies, which come from the true heirs of (in fact, the modernized versions of) [[Hitler]], Gehlen, and [[Goebbels]]."}}
The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded on June 29, 2022, that the Armed Forces of the Ukraine used civilians as human shields in Stara Krasnyanka when Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside a nursing home, effectively making the building a legitimate military target.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/10/un-human-rights-report-shows-ukraine-military-used-nursing-home-residents-as-human-shields/</ref> Civilians throughout the war zone made the same allegations.

===Russiagate and Trump impeachment===
{{See also|Russia collusion|Ukrainian collusion|Laptop from hell}}
[[File:Alexander-vindman.jpg|350px|thumb|Col. Alexander Vindman was a deep state operator in the White House conspiring for President Trump's removal in 2019. Vindman earlier had been offered the position of Minister of Defense in the [[Kyiv regime]].]]
In January 2016 the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington.<ref>[https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost].</ref> The meeting brought some of Ukraine's top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with [[Eric Ciaramella]]<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> and members of former President Obama's National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ). Ukrainian participants said it didn't take long to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one involving Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and one involving Paul Manafort's lobbying firm, linked closely to then-candidate Trump.

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U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said [[Andrii Telizhenko]], then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting. Telizhenko said U.S. officials said that they had an interest in reviving a closed 2014 investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine's Russia-backed Party of Regions. That 2014 investigation was focused on Manafort. The FBI closed the case without charging Manafort. DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine's '''National Anti-Corruption Bureau''' ('''NABU''') if they could help find new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans. “It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” Telizhenko said.
[[File:Azov Battalion.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Members of the [[Azov Battalion]] with the NATO flag (left) Azov mascot (center) and [[Swastika]] (right). The NATO flag represents [[globalism]]; the ''[[Cyrillic]]'' A3OB in the center spells AZOV; and the swastika represents the NATO and globalists' [[Russophobic]] allies in Ukraine. A Ukrainian court found elements in the Ukrainian government [[collude]]d with the [[DNC]] to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 12, 2018. National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director '''[[Artem Sytnyk]]''' and legislator '''[[Serhiy Leshchenko]]''' broke the law by revealing [[Manafort]]'s name. The disclosure “led to interference in the electoral processes of the [[United States]] in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state,” the court said. https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html In October 2019, an audiotape of Sytnyk was release discussing his efforts to help Hillary during the 2016 election. He and Leschenko were responsible for publishing the Black Ledger which forced Paul Manafort to resign from Trump’s campaign. https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-audio-email-evidence-shows-dnc-colluded-with-ukraine-to-boost-hillary-by-harming-trump-report-says</ref>]]
Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine's chief anti-corruption prosecutor, said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the NABU, after Manafort was named Trump's campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.” Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. “I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort. For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial.”
[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Burisma Board Director Hunter Biden, appointed April 14, 2014 at $163,000 per month.<ref>https://archive.fo/aNhttps://archive.fo/wip/aNyOqyOq</ref> Biden spoke no Ukrainian nor had any knowledge or experience in the oil and gas field.]]

Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general's international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case. “Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public.” Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel [[Gregory Craig]], also received money from Yanukovych's party. But the Americans weren't interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”
Manafort joined Trump's campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016. NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016.

A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU's release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine's parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Hillary Clinton.

The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden and [[Devon Archer]]'s firm in 2014–15, bank records show.
U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire [[Victor Shokin]], Ukraine's chief prosecutor in March 2016. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions. "Unfortunately, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., was not invited to join the DOJ and other law enforcement-sector meetings."

Telizhenko's claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ's own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]], his wife, [[Nellie Ohr]], and ex-British spy [[Christopher Steele]]. Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for [[Fusion GPS]], that was hired by Clinton's campaign and DNC to find dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband Bruce during the election.

DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband Bruce and two DOJ prosecutors to the discovery of the “Black Ledger” files that led to Manafort's prosecution. “Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.

Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele. The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.

''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton's campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.

==Zelensky regime==
{{See also|Zelensky regime}}
[[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]]
In late September 2023 Canadian dictator [[Justin Trudeau]] and Canadian House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed Zelensky to address the Canadian parliament. A former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka was also invited to attend the address. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and the British Commonwealth during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, were fighting the armed forces of [[Nazi Germany]], of which the Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] were part. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces.

Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947.

International affairs analyst Dr. Andrew Korybko observed that in one fell swoop, Trudeau discredited himself as a so-called “champion of [[human rights]]”, while Zelensky proved beyond any doubt that an ethnic [[Jew]] can indeed glorify the Nazis’ [[genocidal]] allies despite having family who were murdered in the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[https://korybko.substack.com/p/jews-poles-and-russians-have-united Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi], ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.</ref> After being vetted to attend Zelensky's speech by the Canadian government and Trudeau's office, Hunta was introduced by the Speaker as a “Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” and received two extended standing ovations while Zelensky raised a clenched fist in solidarity. To its credit, even ''[[Politico]]'' reported on the number of Jewish organizations that condemned the [[fascist]] ceremony.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/nazi-linked-veteran-ovation-zelenkyy-canada-visit-00117857 Nazi-linked veteran received ovation during Zelenskyy’s Canada visit], By KYLE DUGGAN, ''Politico'', 09/24/2023.</ref> Hunta's family had [[tweet]]ed out days in advance that a separate private meeting had been arranged for Hunta to meet and speak privately with Trudeau and Zelensky.<ref>Mark Sleboda, [https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/canadian-parliament-trudeau-and-zelensky Canadian Parliament, Trudeau & Zelensky Praise and Give Standing Ovation to West Ukrainian Waffen SS Veteran Who "Killed Russians"], Radio Interview on the Critical Hour 25/09/23.</ref>

===Russia-Ukraine war===

''See also:'' [[Russia-Ukraine war]]

[[File:Ukrainian Nazi pig fat.PNG|right|300px|thumb|A Ukrainian National Guardsman dips bullets in lard saying "Muslim friends, you won’t be allowed into heaven in our country.” The threat was aimed at Chechen fighters in the Russian Army. Twitter labeled it hateful content in the public interest.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550815-pork-bullets-muslims-ukraine/</ref> Azov nationalist Artyom Bonov, who threatened the Chechen army and promised to play football with their heads, fled to Poland.<ref>https://fr.news-front.info/2022/03/21/le-nationaliste-dazov-artyom-bonov-se-cache-en-pologne-video/</ref>]]
In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> At the same time, the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE) reported more frequent use of heavy weapons, prohibited under the [[Minsk Agreements]], by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) against the breakaway regions.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/464961-How-the-Western-Press-has-for-years-hidden-Ukraines-neo-nazi-war-on-Donbass?</ref> Trump-Russia hoaxer and Biden [[DNI]] [[Avril Haines]]<ref>https://the-war-economy.medium.com/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6</ref> alleged that Russia had massed 100,000 troops at the border with Ukraine and was planning an invasion. By April 2022, Western analysts began saying the earlier estimates of Russian forces were exaggerated.<ref>https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-3/</ref> In late December 2021 [[Jake Sullivan]] said a four-week window was left to prevent such an invasion and that if it were to happen the sanctions against Russia "would be overwhelming, immediate and inflict significant cost on the Russian economy and their financial system."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-obama-2014/index.html</ref> Germany had called upon the US not to impose sanctions, insisting that doing so will "damage transatlantic unity", ''Axios'' reported,<ref>[https://www.axios.com/germany-nord-stream-sanctions-congress-ukraine-4d28940b-dc3b-4b19-9d16-c122da6d113c.html Scoop: Germany urges Congress not to sanction Putin’s pipeline], Zachary Basu, ''Axios'', Nov 28, 2021.</ref> citing newly obtained German documents dated November 19, 2021 and marked as "classified":
{{quotebox-float|"US Sanctions targeting [[Nord Stream 2]] would undermine the commitment given to [[Germany]] in the Joint Statement, weaken the credibility of the US government, and endanger the achievements of the Joint Statement, including the provisions supporting Ukraine."<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21118732-germany-non-paper</ref>}}
The ongoing reality was a massive buildup and activity of [[NATO]] forces inside Ukraine, which Putin had warned about crossing Russia's red line days before Haines panicked statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-accuses-nato-of-ignoring-russian-warnings-about-red-lines</ref> [[CIA]] leaker [[David Ignatius]] told the ''Washington Post'' that the US was supporting an anti-Russian military insurgency in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/biden-ukraine-insurgents-russia/</ref> <ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref>

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref> In light of all the threatening activity on its border, on December 17, 2021, President Putin presented two treaties to be signed, one with the US<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en</ref> the other with NATO,<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en&clear_cache=Y</ref> the essence of which is that [[the West]] pledges not to threaten Russia's borders by offering membership to Ukraine or by arming and basing missiles in Ukraine. Putin stated, "You are on our doorstep. We cannot back down." Putin promised a response if the NATO powers do not stop their offensive actions. NATO General Secretary Stoltenberg rejected them out of hand. Russia's deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said on December 18, 2021, that NATO has been living in a fantasy world and that Europeans must think about whether they mean to turn their continent into a field of military confrontation.
[[File:Ukrainian ambush in civilian neighborhood.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Armed Forces of Ukraine ambush point (purple circle) set up in a civilian residential neighborhood.<ref>https://rumble.com/vx17yd-jason-goodman-and-i-discuss-ukrainian-bioweapon-labs.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2</ref> The Ukrainian flag is visible in this photo before Russian forces arrived.]]
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021, that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers. Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been. Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine. Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could
easily turn out to be a suicidal course. He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike. Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders. 60 years ago [[president John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country." President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove
and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref>

President Putin's agreement proposed to Biden on December 7, 2021, was that the United States ensure that Ukraine would not join NATO and thereby have U.S. and NATO forces and missiles of various types placed right on Russia's border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to Russia.

Since April 15, 2022, [[Gonzalo Lira]], a Chilean-American Citizen Journalist, that criticized Western Media and the Zelenski Regime, is missing.

Dozens of videos began appearing on [[social media]] of whole units of Ukrainian servicemen appealing to the Kyiv commanders to withdraw them from the battlefield. Many had been deserted by their battlefield commanders.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/qlR1P8jJcTAC/</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/kg58INeiPN4 Servicemen of the Vinnitsa Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the actual state of affairs in the troops of Ukraine 1,071,758 views May 5, 2022]. [https://youtu.be/exubjkiNQhI?t=529]</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/Vj9lH00pK-M</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/5YrrdDtycrk</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/pa_0_bGRwQw</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/9eC9rrsDCkw ANOTHER UKRAINIAN UNIT DOESN'T WANT TO BE CANNON FODDER]</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/tz3rvyUOdHw</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/OPyKrfU55TKG/ "A SHOCKING VIDEO FROM THE PHONE OF A DEAD MILITANT FROM LIMAN"], "They threw us to the slaughter. For 4 days already, artillery, tanks, hailstones. We ask you to take us out, but they don't take us out. We are not meat with Kalash against artillery."</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/efgPrzzuhWY</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/OEePRNQZtuk5/</ref>

Amongst a raft of casualties and desertions, as untrained soldiers were placed at the front in impossible and hopeless situations with no artillery or armor and given orders to fight on and not surrender, two members of Zelensky's Servant of the people Party introduced a bill (No. 7351) allowing AFU officers to kill their own soldiers who refused to follow orders.<ref>https://archive.ph/SWdge</ref>

====US & UK sabotage peace negotiations====
{{See also|2022 Istanbul peace negotiations}}
''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April], Tyler Durden, SEP 01, 2022. zerohedge.com</ref>}}
Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by [[the West]] to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and the Russian Federation itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides were being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal, not of conquest, but of bringing the [[Kiev regime]] to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.<ref>[https://aearnur.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-the-western-powers-have IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES], AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com</ref>
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died needlessly in the following months.]]
[[File:Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Ukrainian troops training in North Yorkshire.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Boris Johnson posing with Ukrainian special forces. Most were killed in an unsuccessful NATO raid on the [[Zaporozhye nuclear power plant]].]]
The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as [[HIMAR]]s. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what [[Genghis Khan]], [[Napoleon]], and [[Hitler]] could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened:
{{quotebox-float|"I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally.

I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by [[sociopath]]s who do not understand the consequences".<ref>[https://twitter.com/Andromeda11711/status/1670500664403951616 Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:]💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March."

Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences.

Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow.

Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media.

Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty.

Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster.

There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397</ref>}}

On October 11, 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with ''60 Minutes'':<ref>[https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1833291/?lang=en Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the programme 60 Minutes, Moscow, October 11, 2022].</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"We sat at the negotiating table with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonised in [[Istanbul]]. These principles suited us for that moment but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London.

This conflict is overrun with [[Anglo-Saxon]]s that fully control the Vladimir Zelensky regime. The Poles and people from the Baltics are trying to fit in on their team.

Since then the Ukrainian President has said many times that he is not going to hold talks with the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin. Recently, he codified this ban in law. We have never sought negotiations. The Istanbul round completed the process started at Ukraine’s request. Russia positively reacted to the proposal to enter a dialogue, but its initiators cut it off with a shout from overseas or London.

We are hearing statements by [[White House]] representative John Kirby, my colleague Antony Blinken and other members of the US administration. They are saying that they are completely open to talks with the Russian Federation, that they favor a political settlement of the current situation in Ukraine but Russia (the “troublemaker”) is rejecting proposals to establish contact. I can say straight away that this is a lie. We have not received any serious proposals to establish any such contact. There were some attempts that were not very serious, but we didn’t reject them, either. Instead, we suggested that they formulate specific proposals. Some people made them to us by proxy but in this case, we didn’t receive any clear explanations from anyone, either. No need to lie. We were taught in a kindergarten then lying is bad. Apparently, American kindergartens are not so advanced as they were in the [[Soviet Union]] and are now in Russia."}}
{{Clear}}

====Denazification====
{{See also|Operation Denazification}}
[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]
While the Soviet Union was successful in denazifying the German population of [[East Germany]] in the post-World War II period, armed resistance by Ukrainian fascists continued until 1954.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/6387532/War_against_the_UPA_1944_1954_Soviet_Counterinsurgency_Challenge_in_Western_Ukraine</ref> The Soviet Union never was completely successful in denazifying the Ukrainian population as it had the German. This was due to a resistance insurgency spread out over a much greater expanse. Schools, the [[civil service system]], and the military were de-nazified, and the armed fascist resistance went underground. Some moved abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora. Display of Nazi flags, insignia, and [[holocaust denial]] were made illegal in Soviet times as it had been in [[West Germany]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Denmark]] and much of Western Europe. Since 1991 however the freedom of expression has allowed the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators to move above ground again and express a lingering [[xenophobic]] hatred for anything Russian after the experiences of the [[holodomor]] and the unjust persecution of the families of Nazi collaborators in the [[Cold War]] period by the Soviet communist regime.

Many of these children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators moved back into the Ukrainian civil service after 1991, or became active leaders of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora, in the United States, in the [[UK]], in the Atlantic alliance, in NATO, and in Western Europe. Ex-patriot Ukranian nationalists were instrumental in organizing the 2014 [[Euromaidan coup]], and beginning in late 2015, the [[Trump-Russia collusion]] hoax in an effort to solidify the [[regime change]] in a Clinton administration.

====US aid====
{{See also|Ukraine aid}}
[[File:FTX Democrats Ukraine.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Tens of billions of dollars were transferred to Ukraine then laundered back to Democrats in advance of the [[2022 Midterm elections]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-exclusive-tens-billions-transferred-ukraine-using-ftx-crypto-currency-laundered-back-democrats-us/</ref>]]
According to [[CNN]],<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/</ref> the US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it sent into Ukraine. US officials and defense analysts say some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm. Privately, officials recognize that Ukraine has an incentive to give only information that will bolster their case for more aid, "everything they do and say publicly is designed to help them win the war. Every public statement is an information operation, every interview, every Zelensky appearance broadcast is an information operation."

The Biden regime and NATO countries say they are providing weapons to Ukraine based on what the Ukrainian forces say they need, whether it's portable systems like Javelin or Stinger missiles. Javelin and Stinger missiles and rifles and ammunition are harder to track than larger systems shipped by rail. Although Javelins have serial numbers, there is little way to track their transfer and use in real time. "I couldn't tell you where they are in Ukraine and whether the Ukrainians are using them at this point," a senior defense official told reporters. "They're not telling us every round of ammunition they're firing and who and at when." Trucks loaded with pallets of arms provided by the US Defense Department are picked up by Ukrainian armed forces—primarily in Poland—and then driven into Ukraine. The weapons then are transported back across the border in civilian vehicles. Some weapons ended up on the black market including anti-aircraft Stinger missiles, the same kind that shot down [[TWA Flight 800]].

Other weapons have ended up arming US adversaries. Much of what the US left behind to help Afghan forces became part of the Taliban arsenal after the collapse of the Afghan government and military. In 2020, the Defense Department inspector general released a report raising concerns about the end-use monitoring of weapons being sent to Ukraine.

====Martial law====
Charli Carpenter wrote in ''Foreign Policy'' magazine:
{{quotebox-float|"Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men’s freedom of movement, calling on all those “liable for military service” to remain in their home districts....one Ukrainian tweeted, “Now we can’t even leave our cities without permission from military recruitment centers.” Another tweeted, “Animals have more rights in Ukraine than men.”....Another wrote to me on Twitter, “All men in Ukraine now are prisoners … Even more, [a] lot of them have lost their jobs because [of] war, and [the] government doesn’t allow them to go for a job abroad, and can’t give a job inside the country.”....This has left civilian men feeling acute psychological distress: as Andrij wrote to me, “It seems to me that the whole world does not care about men, I feel like a piece of meat that they want to send to death.”...When women and children flee alone, being separated from their male relatives makes them vulnerable to trafficking and heightens their economic and psycho-social stress.

But when it comes to the martial law, [[gay]] men I spoke with say unequivocally that the [[discrimination]] they face is not because they are gay, but simply because they are men. One gay man, who requested anonymity, told me he had attempted to leave the country with his husband. “When we got to the border it was a female guard who turned us back,” he said. “It’s not because I’m gay, it’s because I have a penis,” he added. His husband, an American attorney, was permitted to leave but chose to stay in harm’s way with his husband. [[Transgender]] women misidentified as men get similar treatment."<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/15/ukraine-war-conscription-martial-law-men-gender-human-rights/</ref>}}

====Western propaganda apparatus====
{{See also|Ukrainian propaganda war}}
[[File:Time fake news Denisova.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ukraine Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova was actually fired in an unprecedented move for manufacturing fake news reports about alleged Russian [[rape]]s and bringing disrepute on the Ukrainian regime.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2022 |title='This will not help us defeat the enemy' A new report looks at Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova, who was fired after officials couldn't confirm her stories of rape committed by Russian soldiers |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/28/we-work-on-the-information-front |access-date= |website=Meduza |language=en}}</ref>]]
The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.” The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref> This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>

[[Oleksiy Arestovych]], senior advisor to Ukrainian fascist [[dictator]] Volodymyr Zelensky said “One of the central ideas of Ukraine is to lie to yourself and others as much as possible. Because if you tell the truth, everything will collapse.”<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1516554925907619843</ref>

====Bucha massacre====
[[File:Safari.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]]
Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha. This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page. The translated post accompanying the video says:
{{quotebox-float|“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers."<ref>https://youtu.be/BL8R6K5VdtI?t=519</ref>}}
There was no mention of a massacre of hundreds of civilians littering the streets. Evidence of crimes appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/</ref>
[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym killing civilians in the Bucha massacre, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]
''The New York Times'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022, and did not report a massacre. Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper's photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings:
{{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:

:''‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’''<ref>https://en.lb.ua/news/2022/04/02/12441_special_forces_regiment_safari.html</ref>

The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”}}
On April 3, 2022, when the story broke, Russia immediately requested a meeting if the [[UN Security Council]] for the following Monday, April. The [[United Kingdom]], another permanent member of the Security Council, [[veto]]ed holding a Security Council meeting in the matter.
Russian UN Ambassador said in a statement:
{{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}}
The [[Pentagon]] refused to confirm the Ukrainian government's claim that Russians were responsible for the massacre.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-military-intelligence-official-refutes-russian-atrocities-claims/comments/page/5/</ref>

Former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva said that the story in Bucha was planned and prepared in advance by the [[counterintelligence]] of Ukraine, with the assistance of the British [[MI6]]. Kiva said,
{{quotebox-float|"The whole story in Bucha was prepared and planned in advance by the SBU and [[MI6]]. They arrived early in the morning, cordoned off the area, scattered the corpses and then sent [[journalist]]s there. That's why that clown Zelensky even came back. To raise the interest of the international press in the alleged tragedy, but it's all a pure fake. Why didn't such a situation take place in other areas? Don`t you understand that it was staged in advance, which was supposed to arouse the aggression and hatred in you first of all. But it didn't happen."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot894JsANM</ref>}}
All the corpses wore white arm bands which were distributed by the Russian military to identify civilian non-combatants, who then became the victims of Ukrainian security forces as collaborators in reprisal actions. Some alleged corpses sat up after television cameras filmed them.<ref>https://rumble.com/vzl3qf-evidence-of-bucha-false-flag.html</ref><ref>https://southfront.org/leaked-recording-allegedly-confirms-massacre-in-bucha-was-staged-by-ukrainian-militants/</ref> Ukrainian television showed footage of Ukrainian security forces dragging corpses into place for the TV cameras.

====Ukrainian dirty nuke====
{{See also|Radiological dispersal device}}
In March 2022 Russia accused Ukraine of gathering nuclear waste from the [[Chernobyl disaster site]] for use in a [[nuclear dirty bomb]].<ref>https://www.india.com/news/world/what-is-nuclear-dirty-bomb-that-russia-claims-ukraine-is-making-in-chernobyl-5271056/</ref>

On October 19, 2022, UK defense minister Ben Wallace flew to [[Washington, D.C.]] to discuss an important matter face-to-face with unknown persons that could not be handled over NATO's regular electronic secure communications. Neither Washington nor the UK defense ministry issued a press release on the substance of the discussions. On October 21, Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu had his first phone call with US defense minister [[Lloyd Austin]] since May 2022. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense read out on the call, the two "discussed issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine."

On October 23, 2022, at 1:30 PM [[Moscow]] time it was reported that Russian defense minister Shoigu conveyed to his [[France|French]] counterpart his concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a nuclear dirty bomb. At 2:46 PM local time another update from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported that defense minister Shoigu conveyed to his [[Turkish]] counterpart his concerns about a possible provocation with the use of a dirty bomb. At 5 PM local time there was a third conversation between the Russian defense minister and the minister of defense of the [[United Kingdom]] about the possible provocation by Ukraine with a dirty nuclear bomb. At 6:30 PM local time there was a final conversation between Shoigu and the Biden minister defense.

Russian media reported that according to credible sources in various countries - including in Ukraine - the [[Kyiv regime]] is preparing a provocation on its territory related to the detonation of the so-called "[[dirty bomb]]" or low-yield [[nuclear weapon]]. The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using [[weapons of mass destruction]].<ref>https://seemorerocks.is/what-russian-media-is-saying/</ref> According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Volodymyr Zelensky has been in contact with the [[UK]] "to obtain nuclear weapons technology," Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces said on October 23, 2022. Gen. Kirillov alleged that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) plan on using a [[false flag]] provocation to detonate a "dirty bomb," a nuclear weapon with explosives, such as dynamite, with [[radioactive]] powder or pellets. The provocation was being prepared to subsequently accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction. "We have information about the contacts of the office of the President of Ukraine with representatives of [[Great Britain]] regarding the possibility to obtain a [[technology]] to build nuclear weapons,” Gen. Kirillov said.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/zelenskyy-contacted-uk-to-obtain-nuclear-technology-claims-russias-defence-ministry-articleshow.html</ref>

====Ukraine missile attack on Poland====
[[File:FT Zelensky.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The globalist mouthpiece ''Financial Times'' of London, which led the world in spreading Russophobia and cheerleading for war, openly criticized Zelensky's lying about Ukraine's false flag attack on a NATO ally to incite direct NATO involvement with troops and risk global thermonuclear war.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-open-thread-2022-201.html</ref>]]
On November 15, 2022, two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian [[cruise missile]], were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The Polish government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref>

However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR aircraft (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the Kyiv regime had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its CIA counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021.

When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down. Both socialist premier Joe Biden and NATO chief warlord Jens Stoltenberg blamed Ukraine for the attack. Zelensky refuted the Western leaders' statements that the missile which killed two innocent civilians in Poland was Ukrainian. "I have no doubt that it was not our missile or our missile strike." Zelensky insisted that he received reports from the corrupt Armed Forces of Ukraine command that told him the missile attacks did not come from Ukraine," he told the people in a live nationwide address on Ukrainian state-controlled media.<ref>https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376663/</ref> The [[Russophobic]] ''Financial Times'' of [[London]] quoted a [[diplomat]] from a NATO country in Kyiv saying: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the [[missile]].”<ref>https://archive.ph/mxQ5K#selection-2029.34-2029.282</ref>

====Treatment of Russian POWs====
[[File:Ukrainian nazis castrate Russians.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Former Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers instructed doctors to castrate Russian POWs "because they are cockroaches, not human."<ref>https://youtu.be/15UjP-H2CMA</ref>]]
Gennadiy Druzenko, a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute and fellow at the Wilson Center in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/gennadiy-druzenko</ref> head of the Center for Constitutional Design,<ref>https://ccd.group/en/team/gennadiy-druzenko/</ref> a former researcher at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University, and served as the Government Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<ref>https://independent.academia.edu/GennadiyDruzenko/CurriculumVitae</ref> who now operates a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine told a Ukrainian Channel 24 TV interviewer that he had instructed his doctors to castrate captured Russian POWs. Druzenko said:
{{quotebox-float|"I have always been a great humanist and said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an enemy but a patient. But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10636597/Ukrainian-doctor-tells-TV-interviewer-ordered-staff-CASTRATE-Russian-soldiers.html</ref>}}
Since 2014 when the Kyiv regime initiated the Donbas war against Russian civilians, some 500 doctors have worked with Druzenko's mobile hospital.

On March 27, 2022, very disturbing videos emerged of mistreatment of Russian POWs by Armed Forces of Ukraine. One video shows Russian soldiers with canvas bags over their heads and then beaten in the face with rifle butts. The prisoners are shot in the kneecaps and genitals, and they are left on the ground to bleed to death. Several vans then arrive at the Ukraine military compound in Kharkiv, and as each POW is removed from the van they are shot in the knees. A second video shows Russian POW's lying face down in a paved courtyard, or compound, and then being shot in the knees from the rear.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/27/zelenskyy-worried-about-western-financial-support-after-video-surfaces-showing-ukraine-military-torturing-russian-pows/</ref>

====Refugees and human trafficking====

A group 30-40 child refugees disappeared between the Ukraine and the [[Canary Islands]] raising fears they may have become victims of Western child sex traffickers.<ref>https://www.kiratas.com/the-mysterious-journey-of-the-ukrainian-children-lost-between-huelva-and-the-canary-islands/</ref> Ukrainian girl refugees have been exploited in the West in the organized sex trade.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60891801</ref>

In March 2022, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that a group of Polish nationalists attacked and abused groups of African, south Asian and [[Middle East]]ern people who fled Ukraine.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/02/people-of-colour-fleeing-ukraine-attacked-by-polish-nationalists</ref>

In April 2022 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) instructed the government of the [[United Kingdom]] to stop matching lone Ukrainian females with single British men. The UN agency intervenes claimed predatory men were using their homes in a scheme to target vulnerable women.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/stop-matching-lone-female-ukraine-refugees-with-single-men-uk-told</ref>

On May 8, 2022, in [[Warsaw]], a group of intoxicated Ukrainians were harassing a young woman. A Polish man intervened on her behalf and was beaten to death. Polish citizens questioned why the media covered up the nationality of the suspects when they clearly spoke Ukrainian on the video of the killing.<ref>https://rrussianews.com/news/video-18-ukrainian-refugees-beat-pole-to-death-in-warsaw/</ref>

Refugees who drove to Germany were granted temporary asylum and received 4,000 euros per month for the first two months; the third month they were notified that because they had an asset, a car, they needed to sell their cars to reimburse the state for the government assistance they had received.<ref>https://youtu.be/Wz7MrO64k2o</ref>

In the heart of Nazi Ukraine - Lviv - Russian speaking refugees were denied humanitarian aid.<ref>https://youtu.be/jlw2ZYtf26E</ref>

On May 31, 2022 [[Bulgaria]] evicted 35,000 refugees from Black Sea resort hotels.<ref>https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/05/12/black-sea-hoteliers-face-evicting-ukrainian-refugees-or-the-prospect-of-financial-ruin-our-breaking-point/</ref>

A group of Ukrainian boys were beaten up by [[Arab]]-speakers and told to go back where they came from.<ref>https://youtu.be/yf5q85z1cGw</ref>

The UK ''[[Guardian]]'' reported UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] saying on June 23, 2022, that Ukrainian refugees could be deported to [[Rwanda]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/23/ukrainians-who-come-to-uk-illegalPeter%20Navarroly-could-be-sent-to-rwanda-johnson-says</ref>
{{Anchor|Ukrainian refugees}}

====Racist treatment of refugees by Ukrainian officials====
[[File:Africans denied exit from Ukraine.jpeg|left|350px|thumb|The Western-backed fascist regime of Ukraine denied Blacks access to refugee trains.<ref>https://afronews.de/world-news/african-students-ukraine-racism-polish-border/</ref>]]
[[Africa]]ns, [[Indian]]s, and other people of color were denied access to refugee trains by the fascist and [[xenophobic]] Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-refugee-discrimination.html</ref><ref>You're on your own": African students stuck in Ukraine seek refuge or escape route</ref> Ukrainian border guards demanded bribes.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/africans-say-they-are-facing-racial-discrimination-in-ukraine/</ref> Indian students were told by Ukrainian government officials they were being discriminated against because the Indian government failed to back the U.S.-sponsored [[UN Security Council]] Resolution condemning Russia.<ref>https://youtu.be/YC597ikCl64</ref> ''[[Reuters]]'' reported African students were told, "You're on your own."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/youre-your-own-african-students-stuck-ukraine-seek-refuge-or-escape-route-2022-02-25/</ref> Only [[white privilege]]d Ukrainians were allowed to board trains first and [[Black]]s forced to wait.<ref>https://youtu.be/EmT6KHIwup4</ref> The government of [[Nigeria]] condemned Ukraine's treatment of Nigerian citizens according to the [[BBC]].<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60555650</ref>

First, Blacks were denied access to trains until all the white people boarded and Blacks were allowed to fill the remaining empty seats. Some people had to wait for days in frigid temperatures. Upon arriving at the [[Polish]] boarder, then were denied crossing the border Ukrainian government fascist officials.

U.S. Speaker of the House, [[Democrat]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] claimed U.S. support for Ukraine was to defend [[democracy]]. Vladimir Putin stated the invasion was to denazify Ukraine.
[[File:Denys Kiryeyev.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Denys Kiryeyev (circled in red), Ukrainian peace negotiator murdered by the Security Service of Ukraine with a bullet to the back of the head and his body dumped in the street.<ref>https://archive.is/SbEW8</ref>]]
In response to a Russian proposal to set up humanitarian corridors for civilians to escape the fighting in cities, Ukrainian security services murdered Denys Kiryeyev, a Ukrainian peace negotiator.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10582805/Ukrainian-peace-negotiator-shot-dead-amid-claims-Russian-spy.html</ref>

In Poland, [[Kamala Harris]] responded with her signature cackling laughter at the plight of refugees. The former press secretary for Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Twitter “It would be a tragedy if this woman won the presidency."<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/03/11/zelenskys-former-press-sec-levels-kamala-over-cackling-on-refugee-question-n534536</ref>

In a case of [[racial profiling]], Ukrainian fascist border guards murdered a refugee who was an [[Israel]]i citizen, with the Kyiv regime claiming the victim was mistaken for a Chechen.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-dead-as-convoy-escaping-kyiv-comes-under-ukrainian-fire/</ref>

[[Christian]] refugees from Ukraine were turned away from the [[Biden border crisis|U.S. Southern border]] by the Biden regime.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323842</ref>

Reports indicate 30 per cent of ‘Ukrainian refugees’ arriving in [[Western Europe]] claiming asylum status actually were from other countries, mostly from [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/15/30-per-cent-of-ukrainian-refugees-are-actually-from-other-countries/</ref>

[[Roma]] citizens of Ukraine faced [[discrimination]] by Ukrainian officials while attempting to flee the fighting.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/ukraines-roma-refugees-recount-discrimination-on-route-to-safety</ref> Ukraine has a long history of discrimination, mistreatment, and [[violence]] against the Roma, or [[Gypsies]].<ref>https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/attacks-roma-ukraine</ref>

=====Racist Western media reporting=====
{{See also|Systemic racism}}
Western journalists were criticized for their [[racism]] while reporting on the refugee migration from Ukraine. While Arab refugees were villainized and arrested, Ukrainians were welcomed with lavish benefits.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ministers-historical-deal-protect-ukraine-refugees/</ref> Western reporters said they are "Europeans with blue eyes and blonde hair" and from a "civilized" country.<ref>https://youtu.be/KBRwmTVVKQk</ref> The [[European Union]] was also criticized for welcoming displaced Ukrainians but holding back [[Syria]]ns and other refugees since 2015. The Ukrainians were being offered [[visa]]s and benefits, while Syrian refugees were still sleeping in tents. Critics called it a blatant [[double standard]].<ref>https://youtu.be/i1I1mhnJ-MQ</ref>

=====Ukrainian refugees refuse to go to Sweden=====
Ukrainian refugees refused to go to the [[rape]] capital of [[Europe]], Sweden.<ref>[http://conservative-headlines.com/2011/02/immigration-turns-sweden-into-rape-capitol-of-europe/ Immigration turns Sweden into rape capitol of Europe.]. conservative-headlines.com</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/uS7FqFuHYt8</ref> In 2021 the German newspaper ''Bild'' ran a headline, "Sweden is the most dangerous country in Europe."<ref>https://rmx.news/article/sweden-is-the-most-dangerous-country-in-europe-writes-germanys-top-selling-newspaper/</ref> Female refugees who were housed in a hostel in Sweden revealed how they were stalked, sexually harassed and intimidated by groups of [[Somali]] migrant men. After the experience, some of those involved said they’d prefer to take their chances and return home to war-torn Ukraine. “When there are bombs, I know at least that I can go down to the basement and hide there,” one woman told Swedish news outlet Samnytt.<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/25/ukrainian-refugees-dont-want-to-go-to-sweden-over-fears-for-their-safety/</ref>

Ukrainian mothers also heard rumors that in the so-called 'Western democracy' of Sweden, their children could be taken away by a corrupt liberal regime.

Ukrainian female refugees in Sweden were warned not to dress in a way provocative to [[Muslim]] men.<ref>https://rmx.news/article/ukrainian-women-in-sweden-warned-not-to-dress-in-a-way-that-could-provoke-muslim-men/</ref> A group of Ukrainian boys were beaten up by Arab-speakers and told to go back where they came from.<ref>https://youtu.be/yf5q85z1cGw</ref>

====Ceasefire negotiations====

On March 6, 2022, during ceasefire negotiations to arrange humanitarian corridors for civilian safe passage out of urban areas, a Ukrainian negotiator was shot dead by the Ukrainian intelligence agency. The Ukrainian government then hailed him as a hero.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/4831656/ukraine-peace-negotiator-spy-shot-russia-kireev/</ref>
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian solders died needlessly in the following months.]]
On March 29, 2022, ''Tass'' reported<ref>https://tass.com/world/1429119</ref> negotiations in [[Istanbul]] with the Kyiv regime included:
*permanent neutrality and non-aligned status
*guarantees of security
*demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine
*recognition of contemporary territorial realities
*restoration of the status of Russian language and rights of Russian-speakers

''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal</ref>}}

=====Referendums=====
The [[Zelensky regime]] threatened to end peace negotiations if referendums were held in the territories liberated from the Maidan regime and the people were allowed to exercise their democratic rights.<ref>https://ukranews.com/en/news/851974-ukraine-will-withdraw-from-negotiations-with-russia-if-invaders-hold-referendum-in-kherson-media</ref>

=====Escalation=====
On June 1, 2022, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister [[Sergey Ryabkov]] told ''RIA Novosti'' news that Biden's decision to arm Ukraine with [[HIMAR]] missile launchers increases the risk of direct confrontation between Russia and the United States. Foreign secretary [[Blinken]] said the weapons, which have a precision range of up to 300 kilometers, were given on the pretext of a promise by Zelensky not to use the HIMARs against Russian territory. However Zelensky's transgender chief propagandist [[Alexei Arestovich]] immediately threatened, "Crimea is ours…It belongs to Ukraine…And they know it…Therefore, it will fly to Crimea double-time."<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/468500-US-to-allow-Ukraine-to-decide-range-of-missiles-Kiev-threatens-to-strike-Crimea-should-the-need-arise?</ref> Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council [[Dmitry Medvedev]] retorted, “If those types of weapons are used against the territory of Russia, the armed forces of our country will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers...It is obvious what those decision-making centers are: the defense ministry, the general staff and so on...But it should be understood that, in this case, the ultimate decision-making centers are regretfully not even on the territory of Kiev." <ref>https://tass.com/politics/1459891</ref>

===Ministry of Digital Transformation===
{{See also|Ministry of Digital Transformation}}
=====Digital ID=====
{{See also|Digital ID}}
The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits. In Ukranian, the word “Diia” means “action,” but it's also an acronym in that language, standing for “The State and Me.” Digital passports and other official documents are now considered legally equivalent to their paper versions, making Ukraine the first country to accomplish this. Some of the documents available via the app include citizens’ national identification card, a biometric passport, drivers’ licenses, vehicle registration certificates and insurance policies, voter ID, tax documents, birth certificates and [[COVID vaccine]] passport.<ref>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ukraine-government-converting-digital-id-system-wartime-tool/</ref>

''Wired'' magazine described Ukraine's digital ministry, which operates the Diia app, as a “formidable war machine.” The Diia app includes the following war-related features:
*A quick way to donate money to the Ukrainian military, including via cryptocurrency.
*A chatbot for submitting images and video of Russian troop movements in Ukraine.
*24-hour streaming access to television stations and newscasts from Ukraine.
*A chatbox where users can submit photos and videos that resembles a similar tool employed by [[New York City]] fascist authorities in 2020 for the reporting of [[social distancing]] violations.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/social-distancing-rules-coronavirus.html</ref>

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was praised by the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) for his work, in establishing the Diia app.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/people/mykhailo-fedorov</ref> Fedorov called for a crew of developers, designers, marketers and “security specialists” to join a volunteer “IT Army” — with 300,000 volunteers having been attracted. The online army's tasks include sharing the IP addresses of Russian websites and companies, in order for them to be targeted by [[DDoS]] (directed denial of service) attacks in an effort to knock them offline.

Fedorov described [[Twitter]] as “part of our war effort.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60608222</ref> Fedorov described the digital battlefield as “our home turf,” while ''The New York Times'' also reported on how Fedorov “has turned technology, cryptocurrency and social media into modern weapons of war.” According to the ''Times'', Fedorov stated: “They [the Russians] have failed to notice that… governments must move towards becoming more and more like tech companies, rather than being rigid like a tank, like a war machine.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/technology/ukraine-minister-war-digital.html</ref>

=====Cryptocurrency=====
{{See also|FTX scandal}}

=====Hackers and IT specialists=====
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The so-called "[[Ukrainian crisis|Revolution of Dignity]]" which the [[Obama administration]] supported. Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]]
''The Washington Post'' reported that Ukrainian officials ran thousands of facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the first 50 days of the Russian incursion, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of families in Russia for what may be "one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/</ref>

The country's IT Army, a force of hackers and [[activist]]s that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.

The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI. Some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers.

Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London, said it is “classic [[psychological warfare]]” and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts. “If it were Russian soldiers doing this with Ukrainian mothers, we might say, ‘Oh, my God, that’s barbaric.’ And is it actually working? Or is it making them say: ‘Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys?’ ”

Clearview AI’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told ''The Washington Post'' that more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge. Clearview employees held weekly, sometimes daily, training calls over Zoom with new police and military officials looking to gain access. Ton-That recounted several “‘oh, wow’ moments” as the Ukrainians witnessed how much data — including family photos, social media posts and relationship details — they could gather from a single cadaver scan. Some of the Ukrainins used Clearview's mobile app to scan faces while on the battlefield.

=====2024 conscription law=====

===Partitioning===
[[File:Ukraine 2022.jpeg|right|300px|thumb]]
When referendums For the Donbas, [[Kherson]], and [[Zaporozhye]] regions finally were held in September 2022, Russian Federation Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly: “The people living there are essentially only reacting to what President Zelensky recommended for them to do in one of his interviews in August 2021…Back then, he advised everyone who feels Russian to go to Russia for the benefit of their children and grandchildren…That’s what the residents of said regions are doing now, taking their lands, on which their ancestors lived for centuries, with them”.
[[File:A Skeptic's Best Guess On Final Map (Revised).PNG|right|300px|thumb|Military blogger A Skeptic's best guess estimate of final borders, revised June 2023.]]

====Polish revanchism====

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) stated that the Polish military’s priority “combat tasks” would include the gradual seizure of control over strategic facilities in West Ukraine. Poland discussed with the Biden regime an action to “reunite” with West Ukraine. According to [[Warsaw]]'s estimates, the entrenchment of the Polish military in West Ukraine would amount to a partitioning of Ukraine. On April 28, 2022 FIS spokesman Sergei Naryshkin said that Washington and Warsaw were planning to deploy a Polish “peacekeeping contingent” in the western part of Ukraine.
{{quotebox-float|“According to information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish tight military and political control over ‘their historical possessions’ in Ukraine,”}}
According to the FIS, the first stage of the “reunification” should be the introduction of Polish troops into the western regions of Ukraine under the guise of 'peacekeepers' with the participation of ‘willing states’. Warsaw has not yet been able to agree on potential participants in a ‘coalition of like-minded’,” the FIS said.

At the same time, the FIS pointed out, the Polish leadership is not interested in “unnecessary spies” in its operation. “The so-called peacekeeping contingent is planned to be deployed in those parts of Ukraine where the threat of direct clash with the Russian Armed Forces is minimal. And the priority “combat tasks” of the Polish military will include gradual interception of control over strategic objects located there from the National Guard of Ukraine. Polish special services are already searching for “agreeable” representatives of the Ukrainian elite to form a Warsaw-oriented “democratic” counterweight to the nationalists,” the FIS said in its report.

Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Jaroslaw Mika signed on order to bring the Polish Army into a state of full combat readiness for the invasion of western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/DzHlHaphi3I</ref> This document was published online by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.<ref>https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/9303</ref> According to the Polish government’s estimates, a deployment into western Ukraine is highly likely to split the country. Warsaw will essentially gain control of the territories where Polish "peacekeepers" will enter. Essentially, it is an attempt to repeat the historical “deal” for Poland after the [[First World War]], when the collective West, represented by the [[Triple Entente|Entente]], recognized Warsaw’s right first to occupy part of the Ukraine to protect its population from the “[[Bolshevik]] threat”, and then to incorporate those territories into the Polish state. The events that followed were a clear illustration of the [[colonialism|colonial]] order and forced Polonization as the main methods of building a ‘Greater Poland’,” the FIS concluded.<ref>https://southfront.org/transnistria29042022/</ref>

On May 3, 2022, Polish President [[Andrzej Duda]] said in a nationally televised speech,
{{quotebox-float|"I hope that Ukraine will be a brotherly state to Poland; that it will not have a [[border]] between them, that there will in fact be no border; that we will live together on this land, rebuilding ourselves and building our common happiness, our common strength."<ref>https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1521652429024120832</ref>}}
Other reports indicated that Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] and his entire cabinet had been offered UK citizenship, by-passing the ordinary process for acquiring citizenship and in preparation for a government-in-exile of a shrunken landlocked Ukrainian rump state.<ref>https://cmio.org/en/world/660051-representatives-of-zelenskys-office-received-british-citizenship-kiva-said</ref>

====Polish deployments====
In late July 2023 Poland deployed two military brigades to the border with Belarus, as announced by the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. "We are talking about the 12th and 17th brigades. One of them is stationed in Kolna, at a new base opened last Saturday, the second is in Biała Podlaska, that is, near the border with Belarus," Blaszczak said.
[[File:Polish revanchism.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Putin warns against joint NATO-Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian attempts to occupy Western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/ADfNeXnMBGs</ref>]]
At a televised meeting of the Russian Security Council on July 21, 2023 the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said: "The Polish leadership is strengthening its intention to control the western territories of Ukraine, in the western regions, by deploying its troops there." According to him, such a step is planned to be formalized as the fulfillment of allied obligations within the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative - the so-called "Lublin Triangle". Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response, said that Poland expects to form a coalition "under the NATO umbrella", "tear off a fatter piece" in Ukraine. Putin also made a fairly deep excursion into the history of Poland of the twentieth century. He recalled how this country pursued an aggressive policy, occupying the Rusyn-populated part of [[Austria-Hungary]], the [[Vilnius]] region of Lithuania, annexed some historical Russian provinces, and in 1938 participated in the division of [[Czechoslovakia]] as a result of the [[Munich Agreement]] with [[Hitler]], occupying Cieszyn [[Silesia]]. Putin added, "I also want to remind you of how such an aggressive policy ended for Poland as a result. It ended with the national tragedy of 1939, when Poland was abandoned by the Western Allies to be devoured by the German war machine and actually lost its independence and statehood, which was restored to a large extent thanks to the Soviet Union. And it was thanks to the Soviet Union, thanks to [[Stalin]]'s position, that Poland received significant lands in the West, the lands of Germany. This is exactly right: the western territories of present-day Poland are Stalin's gift to the Poles. Have our friends in Warsaw forgotten about it? We will recall," the Russian president said.

On Saturday, July 22, 2023 Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev was urgently summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Yablonski told the media that the meeting was "very short." And according to Andreev, the Russian side rebuffed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. According to Andreev, the Polish Foreign Ministry did not hand him any formal note, "limiting himself to verbal expressions of his displeasure." As Andreev informed, in Warsaw, the greatest attention is paid to the words of the Russian leader that Poland received its western lands thanks to the position of Joseph Stalin at the [[Yalta conference|Yalta]] and [[Potsdam conference]]s despite the objections of the WWII Western allies. According to Andreev, it is difficult to say why Warsaw concentrated on this particular moment. "Perhaps the reasons were an emotional reaction or lack of professionalism," Andreev concluded.

And in the Polish Foreign Ministry, where they are accustomed to the restrained reaction of the Russian Federation to anti-Russian actions such as the seizure of a school in Warsaw or an attack on the ambassador during the laying of wreaths at a military cemetery, a change in Moscow's position was noticed. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland said: "The attitude of the ambassador indicates that Russia does not intend to achieve any goals through diplomatic means."

French journalist Jean-Dominique Marchais confirmed reports on Poland's preparations to invade western Ukraine: "I confirm that there are reflections, particularly in Poland and in the [[Baltic States]], about the creation of one of the multinational divisions, let's say including Ukrainian forces, Polish forces, if Russia could break through the front and resume the offensive there. I think there would indeed be such a division, as Poland and others, they would send troops outside of NATO.

Jean-Dominique Merchet cites many official sources. This is not the first time this possibility has been mentioned. A few weeks ago Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former head of NATO, already confirmed this with our ''Guardian'' colleagues: 'We know that Poland is very committed to supporting Ukraine, and I don't rule out that Poland will be more involved on a national basis and that the Baltic states will follow with a possible ground troop intervention'."

According to a report by the Myśl Polska news agency in late August 2023, the number of Polish casualties in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine exceeded 10,000. This staggering figure has serious implications for both Poland and its military establishment, especially given that a significant proportion of the dead have been identified as Polish army reservists. This number of deaths would be more than 15% of all Polish ground forces. While some of these victims are referred to as volunteers and mercenaries, the majority are identified as Polish active duty soldiers and reservists.<ref>https://www.voiceofeurope.com/recorded-polish-casualties-in-ukrainian-conflict-exceed-10000/</ref>
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===Gotterdammerung===
[[File:Mural in Ukraine - Israel in a bed of US dollars while the Nazi regime freezes.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Mural in Ukraine - Israel in a bed of US dollars while the Ukrainian Nazi regime freezes.]]
Simon Schuster of [[TIME magazine]] reported on the grim Führerbunker stage of the conflict in late October 2023:<ref>[https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/time-magazine-profile-depicts-grim TIME Magazine Profile Depicts Grim Führerbunker-Stage of Zelensky's Conflict ], Simplicius the Thinker, November 2, 2023. simplicius76.substack.com</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"The usual sparkle of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to liven up a meeting in the war room with a bit of banter or a bawdy joke, none of that has survived into the second year of all-out war. “Now he walks in, gets the updates, gives the orders, and walks out,” says one longtime member of his team. Another tells me that, most of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his [[Western alliance|Western allies]]. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.

But his convictions haven’t changed. Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”

[...]

“We’re not moving forward,” says one of Zelensky’s close aides. Some front-line commanders, he continues, have begun refusing orders to advance, even when they came directly from the office of the President. “They just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line,” he says. “But we can’t win a war that way.”

When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October [2023], he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of [[Horlivka]], a strategic outpost in [[eastern Ukraine]] that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”<ref>[https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/ ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight], BY SIMON SHUSTER, OCTOBER 30, 2023.</ref>}}
Alexander Mercouris of ''The Duran'' also gave an insightful review of the ''TIME'' magazine piece.<ref>[https://youtu.be/rVcvizqrjvQ?t=3637 Israel Operation Gaza; UN BRICS versus US; Zelensky Deluded, Ukr Defeated, Ukr Troops Demoralised], Alexander Mercouris, November 1, 2023. YouTube</ref> The consensus among observers was that the [[CIA]] was ready to throw Zelensky overboard, and perhaps [[Zaluzhny]] as well, and the ''TIME'' magazine piece along with other recent [[MSM]] reports was preparing the American public for the eventual 'cut and run' strategy of the United States.

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==Military, foreign intelligence, and internal security forces==
[[File:Ukrainian Nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Ukrainian nazi flag.<ref>https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraine-uses-pig-fat-bullets-to-counter-russian-aggression/</ref>]]
Ukrainian security services combine the structure and methods of both the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and in recent years has adopted NATO advisors.

Security forces are controlled by the president, although they are subject to investigation by a permanent parliamentary commission. Surveillance is permitted for reasons of national security.

In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) under the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior has its own armed forces which consists of the Security Service of Ukraine ([[Ukrainian Gestapo]]), which oversee the National Guard of which the [[Azov Battalion]] is only one such neo-Nazi entity, and the [[Territorial Defense]] consisting of ordinary citizens and various local neo-Nazi thugs and hooligans.

After 1991, Ukraine established its own military forces of about 780,000 from the troops and equipment inherited from the Soviet Union. Under defense reform legislation passed in 2004, Ukraine is strengthening civilian control of the military, professionalizing its non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps, adding neo-Nazi paramilitary groups to the national guard, modernizing force structure to improve interoperability with NATO, all with an eye toward achieving NATO standards. Current force levels are approximately 225,000 (plus 90,000 civilian workers in the Ministry of Defense). The Ministry of Defense plans to continue force reductions by approximately 20,000 personnel per year to reach a final end state of 143,000 by 2011. Ukraine's stated national policy is Euro-Atlantic integration, including with both NATO and the European Union. NATO offered Ukraine an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" in April 2005. Ukraine had previously signed an agreement with NATO on using Ukraine's strategic airlift capabilities and has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace exercises, in Balkans peacekeeping, and Coalition operations in Iraq. Ukrainian units have been serving in the U.S. sector in he illegal [[Kosovo]] invasion, and served in the Polish-led division in Iraq. Ukraine participated in six United Nations peacekeeping missions and has up to 50 troops serving in supporting roles in Iraq.

In 2018, ''Israeli National News'' reported that the World War II Nazi collaborator greeting became the official Ukraine army salute, "Slava Ukraine!" (''Cyr:'' СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ; ''Eng:'' Glory to Ukraine!)" These words and greeting became Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) official military greeting.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/250641</ref> While the Ukrainian fascist salute glorifies a single national identity group<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/new-glory-to-ukraine-army-chant-invokes-nationalist-past/a-45215538</ref> - Ukraine - the Russian response is "Glory to the Heroes", or all the heroes of whichever national identity group contributed to the defeat of fascism and Nazism in World War II.

===Biological weapons research labs===
{{See also|U.S. funded biological labs abroad}}
[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the [[Pentagon]]; [[Victoria Nuland]] later confirmed 46 locations.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ydSf57SRtcQ Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control: US], Mar 11, 2022.</ref>]]
Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the US DoD and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the US Department of Defense (DoD) dangerous [[pathogen]]s for biological research.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref> The Pentagon has been granted access to certain state secrets<ref>Likely the identities of US contacts and counterparts in the Ukranian government with knowledge of the arrangements and authority to act in a given situation.</ref> of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement.

Only three laboratories in Ukraine had the required safety criteria to undertake the type of research they were doing, according to the Russian military. Captured Ukrainian government documents point to a series of problems at one of those sites in Odessa.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radioactive, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces, accused the Kyiv regime of carrying out “inhumane experiments” on Ukrainian patients and of launching a biological attack against the Lugansk Peoples Republic in early May 2022. Other evidence suggests that when Russia moved soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, attempts were made to weaponize drones to spread pathogens and to destroy compromising materials. In response to the revelations by Russia's Investigative Committee, the Pentagon fessed up in June 2022 to funding 46 biological research facilities in Ukraine over the last 20 years.<ref>https://greatgameindia.com/pentagon-admits-biolabs-ukraine/</ref>

Two years before the war started, [[CGTN]] discussed US biolabs around the world.<ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Biolabs-around-the-world-QpgMAnwV0I/index.html</ref><ref>https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-16/Time-to-reveal-what-s-going-on-in-U-S-biolabs-QwpxrRTI7C/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-21/U-S-deployed-over-200-military-biological-laboratories-worldwide-QFtLkqhuVy/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-04-30/The-U-S-needs-to-open-up-about-its-biological-labs-in-the-former-USSR-Q6ud6hO84E/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Do-U-S-biolabs-hold-up-to-scrutiny--Qp3jQrmvoQ/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-11/Global-netizens-reveal-growing-list-of-U-S-bio-security-labs-ReT49fqZEs/index.html</ref>

====DTRA====
The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine. The official documents confirm that the Pentagon, represented by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), is organising work with a clear military-biological focus.
{{quotebox-float|𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚𝘈… 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 … 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘣𝘪𝘰-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺-𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘰𝘷, 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘷 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰-𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴, 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴.. 𝘐𝘯 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 2017, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬-𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦’𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 1997, 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 (𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥). 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘹 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢.}}
[[File:Obama biolabs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|On August 29, 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Pentagon signed the "Treaty on Countering the Threat of Bioterrorism and Preventing the Spread of Bacteriological Weapons, Technology, Materials and Knowledge."<ref>https://badvolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/US-Biolabs-in-Ukraine-BadVolf-Investigation.pdf</ref>]]
One of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died from Flu-like virus in just two days with 200 more being hospitalized.<ref>https://dninews.com/article/deadly-virus-leaked-us-laboratory-donbass-dpr-army-and-intelligence</ref> The Ukrainian government did not report on the dead Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths have been reported across Ukraine (81.3% caused by Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09 – the same strain which caused the world pandemic in 2009).<ref>http://old.moz.gov.ua/ua/portal/pre_20160311_0.html</ref>
[[File:DTRA contractors in Ukraine.png|left|250px|thumb|Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca partnership with the [[CCP]], receives the lion's share of Defense Department funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.<ref>https://archive.fo/fVtcf</ref>]]
A highly suspicious Hepatitis A infection spread rapidly in just few months across South East Ukraine where most of the Pentagon biolabs are located. 37 people were hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv as of January 2018.<ref>https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/others/vspyshkoy-gepatita-v-nikolaeve-zainteresovalas-policiya-1103357.html</ref> Local police launched an investigation into “infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases”. In addition, in 2016 more than 100 people in the same city became infected with [[Cholera]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K47S1DarhTE</ref> Both diseases are alleged to have spread through contaminated drinking water. In the summer of 2017, 60 people with Hepatitis A were admitted to hospital in the city of Zaporizhia,<ref>https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/others/vspyshkoy-gepatita-v-nikolaeve-zainteresovalas-policiya-1103357.html</ref> the cause of this outbreak is still unknown. In the Odessa region, 19 children from an orphanage were hospitalized for hepatitis A in June 2017.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/YOvCU</ref> 29 cases of Hepatitis A were reported in Kharkiv in November 2017. The virus was isolated in contaminated drinking water. One of the Pentagon bio-labs is located in Kharkiv which was blamed for the deadly Flu outbreak in 2018 which claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

In 2011 Ukraine was hit by a cholera outbreak.<ref>https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/area-in-ukraine-hit-by-cholera-outbreak-109266.html</ref> 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/10smv</ref> A second outbreak struck the country in 2014 when more than 800 people all across Ukraine were reported to have contracted the disease.<ref>https://youtu.be/K47S1DarhTE</ref>

In 2015 at least 100 new cases were registered in the city of Mykolaiv alone. A new highly virulent variant of the cholera agent Vibrio cholera, with a high genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, hit Moscow in 2014. According to a 2014 Russian Research Anti-Plaque Institute genetic study the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the bacteria which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.<ref>http://genomea.asm.org/content/5/8/e01640-16.full</ref> Southern Research Institute, one of the US contractors working at the bio-laboratories in Ukraine, has projects on Cholera, as well as on Influenza and Zika – all pathogens of military importance to the Pentagon.

A now deleted article originally posted on June 18, 2020, which has been recovered<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110522081423/http://www.bioprepwatch.com/news/213421-biolab-opens-in-ukraine</ref><ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/03/list-of-ukraine-biolab-documents-reportedly-removed-by-us-embassy/</ref> entitled ''Biolab Opens in Ukraine'' details how [[Barack Obama]], while serving as an Illinois Senator, helped negotiate a deal to build a level-3 bio-safety lab in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/08/obama-led-ukraine-biolab-efforts/</ref>

[[Metabiota]], a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the [[Communist Party of China]] and the [[Peoples Republic of China]]'s [[Peoples Liberation Army]], was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the DTRA program in Georgia and Ukraine.<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104</ref><ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/how-much-did-the-bidens-make-in-the-ukraine-biolabs/</ref>

===Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre===
Among the set of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) – an International organization funded mainly by the US government which has been accorded diplomatic status. The US personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic cover. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 million in funding and managing some 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.

According to captured documents by the Russian Ministry of Defense,<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-04-14</ref> the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre (STCU),
{{quotebox-float|"is headquartered in Kiev and has regional offices in [[Baku]], Chisinau and [[Tbilisi]], as well as in Kharkov and Lvov.

However, the Russian Ministry of Defence's Chemical and Biological Threat Expertise Centre found that the STCU's main activity is to act as a distribution centre for grants for research of interest to the Pentagon, including biological weapons research.

In recent years alone, Washington has spent more than $350 million on STCU projects.

The U.S. customers and sponsors of STCU are the [[Department of State]] and the [[Department of Defense]]. Funding is also provided through the [[Environmental Protection Agency]], the [[Department of Agriculture|US Departments of Agriculture]], [[HHS|Health]] and [[DOE|Energy]]....

Between 2014 and 2022, the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre implemented five hundred R&D projects in post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Georgia, [[Moldova]] and [[Azerbaijan]]).

US supervisors were primarily interested in dual-use research, such as project 6166, Development of Technologies for Modelling, Evaluation and Prediction of Effects of Conflicts and Threats of Mass Destruction Weapons Spread, and project 9601, Transfer of Ukrainian Technologies for the Production of Complex Dual-Use Materials to the European Union.

Many of them are aimed at studying potential biological weapons agents (plague, tularaemia) and pathogens of economic importance (pathogenic avian influenza, African swine fever).

Projects P-364, 444, and 781, aimed at studying the spread of dangerous pathogens through insect vectors, wild birds, and bats, were funded by the Centre directly in the interests of the military department.

Note the documents of Project 3007 "Monitoring of the epidemiological and environmental situation regarding hazardous diseases of aquatic origin in Ukraine".

During the work, Ukrainian specialists, supervised by American scientists, systematically collected water samples in a number of major Ukrainian rivers, including the Dnepr, [[Danube]] and Dniester, as well as in the North Crimean Canal, to determine the presence of particularly dangerous pathogens, including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and E pathogens, and draw conclusions about their possible waterborne spread.

The project assessed the damage properties of the selected samples and deposited the strains in a collection and subsequently exported them to the USA.

...the results of this work can be used to create an unfavourable biological situation not only in the Russian Federation, but also in the Black Sea and the [[Sea of Azov]], as well as in [[Eastern Europe]] - [[Belarus]], Moldova and [[Poland]]....

Thus, during the special operation in Ukraine, it was established that US scientists from a laboratory in Merefa (Kharkov Region) were testing potentially dangerous biological drugs on patients of the regional clinical [[psychiatric]] hospital No 3 in Kharkov between 2019 and 2021.

Persons with mental disorders were selected for the experiments on the basis of their age, nationality and immune status. Special forms were used to record the results of 24-hour patient monitoring. The information was not entered into the hospital database and the staff of the medical institution signed a non-disclosure agreement.

In January 2022, the laboratory in Merefa was shut down and all equipment and preparations were moved to western Ukraine."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUO-bDDGZcg</ref>}}

===Nuclear fuel and waste===
As of 2022 Ukraine holds a large amount of spent nuclear fuel that has not been removed from the territory of Ukraine since 2020 and that has been stored on the territory of nuclear power plants awaiting the construction of a nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. In addition, the Kyiv regime had accumulated 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

===Neo-Nazi groups===
''The Postil'' reported that in 2007, the [[CIA]] put together a “conference” of various anti-Russian factions in Ukraine whose purpose was nothing other than to groom neo-Nazis and [[jihad]]ists, both groups being solidly [[anti-Russian]]. Overseeing the conference was [[Dmytro Yarosh]], who led the Trident and the [[Pravy Sektor]], both neo-Nazi organizations.<ref>https://www.thepostil.com/the-nazis-of-ukraine/</ref>

These various neo-Nazi units, trained by [[the West]], were integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). After 2014 Maidan coup, the West actively protected these neo-Nazi groups. Victoria Nuland, in 2021, told Volodymyr Zelensky to appoint Dmytro Yarosh as adviser to the [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the Ukrainian army—because no one can fight Russians better than Nazis. Here are the larger units of neo-Nazis, or Banderites which fought Russians in Ukraine:
[[File:Kraken nazis.png|right|350px|thumb|Photo of football hooligans squad of the neo-Nazi [[Kraken unit|Kraken regiment]] of the [[Maidan regime|Ukraine regime forces]]: KCP ([[Kharkiv]]), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineCrisis2022/comments/y99cg5/photo_of_football_hooligans_squad_of_neonazi/ Photo of Football Hooligans squad of neoNazi Kraken regiment of Ukraine regime forces: KCP (Kharkiv), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro], October 2022. reddit.</ref>]]
*Members of Svoboda (formerly the “Nation-Social Party of Ukraine,” which curiously rhymes with Hitler's “National-Socialist German Workers Party”)
*The AZOV Battalion (based in Mariupol)
*C14 of Kyiv
*The [[Aidar Battalion]] (in Luhansk)
*The Wotanjugend (who are actually Russian in origin)
*Ukraine Patriot (co-founded by Parliament Speaker [[Andriy Parubiy]])
*The National Militia
*[[Karpatska Sich]]
*Freikorps

There are also many other smaller units (more than 30) that have merged with the larger ones, and all have been integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the various symbols of these organizations are common-place in Ukraine (i.e., the Sonnenrad, the Totenkopf, the Wolfsangel). After 2014, Ukraine also became the main “exporter” of Nazi ideology throughout the world.

Fighting alongside the neo-Nazis and the Ukrainian army are a slew of jihadis and mercenaries, many of whom are from other Western neo-Nazi groups like the Misanthropic Division. These mercenaries are known as the International Legion of [[Territorial Defense]] of Ukraine.

{{Anchor|Euromaidanpress}}

===US/Ukrainian intelligence collaboration===
Within the NATO bloc, the Cyber Defense Systems Development Fund and the Armed Forces of Ukraine Command, Control and Communications Systems Modernization Fund were among the trust funds established to assist Ukraine in 2014.

According to information announced in April 2017 by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), [[Vasyl Hrytsak]], the first stage of cooperation with the Ukraine-NATO Trust Fund in the field of cyber defense included a total of one million euros, which was used to purchase equipment and software to equip computer incident response centers of key Ukrainian state institutions, in particular, the Situation Center of the SBU and the Cyber Incident Response Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.<ref>https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/433693.html</ref>

====2016 US presidential election interference====
{{Anchor|InformNapalm}}
Not Russia, but Ukraine interfered in the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. The purpose was twofold: (1) rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton; (2) a negative propaganda campaign against Russia to turn the American people against the Russian Federation and perceive it as a threat.

[[File:Surkov-leaks-with-Crowdstrike-390x400.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Although this profile says Virginia, tweets are from the Sofia, Bulgaria time zone and he writes in Russian. Another curiosity considering the Fancy Bear source code is in Russian. This image shows Crowdstrike in their network. Crowdstrike is part of Ukrainian nationalist hacker network. In the image it shows a network diagram of Crowdstrike following the Surkov leaks. The network communication goes through a secondary source.]]
Dimitri Alperovitch's relationship with Andrea Chalupa's efforts and Ukrainian intelligence groups is where things really heat up. Alexandra Chalupa works with '''Euromaidanpress.com''' and '''Informnapalm.org''' which is the outlet for Ukrainian state-sponsored hackers. InformNapalm and Censor.net are media outlet that are controlled by the Ministry of Defense and Main Intelligence Department.<ref>https://thesaker.is/former-sbu-employee-revealed-information-about-secret-prisons-in-donbass-and-kievs-involvement-in-downing-mh17/</ref>

Investigating Dimitri Alperovitch's twitter relationships, the question arises as to why the CEO of a $150 million company like Crowdstrike follows Ukrainian InformNapalm and its hackers individually. There is a mutual relationship. When you add up his work for the OUNb, Ukraine, support for Ukraine's Intelligence, and to the hackers it needs to be investigated to see if Ukraine is conspiring against the US government. Crowdstrike is also following their hack of a Russian government official after the DNC hack. It closely resembles the same method used with the DNC because it was an email hack.
[[File:Gerashchenko.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Deputy Gestapo head Anton Gerashchenko is one of the Zelensky regime's chief Nazi propagandists.]]
Crowdstrike's product line includes Falcon Host, Falcon Intelligence, Falcon Overwatch and Falcon DNS. In an interview with Euromaidanpress these hackers say they have no need for the CIA.<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/11/02/ukraine-hackers-cyberhunta-surkov-putin-ruh8-cyberalliance/</ref> They consider the CIA amateurish. They also say they are not part of the Ukrainian military Cyberalliance is a quasi-organization with the participation of several groups – RUH8, Trinity, Falcon Flames, Cyberhunta. There are structures affiliated to the hackers – the [[Myrotvorets]] site, Informnapalm analytical agency.”

[[File:Osint-image-and-tweet-400x117.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Although OSINT Academy sounds fairly innocuous, it’s the official twitter account for Ukraine’s Ministry of Information head Dimitri Zolotukin. It is also Ukrainian Intelligence. The Ministry of Information started the Peacekeeper or [[Myrotvorets]] website that geolocates journalists and other people for assassination. If you disagree with OUNb politics, you could be on the list.]]
Should someone tell Dimitri Alperovitch that [[Anton Gerashchenko]], who is now in charge of the [[Peacekeeper kill list]] recently threatened president-elect Donald Trump that he would put him on his “Peacemaker” site as a target? The same has been done with [[Silvio Berlusconi]] in 2015.

Trying not to be obvious, the Head of Ukraine's Information Ministry (UA Intelligence) tweeted something interesting that ties Alperovitch and Crowdstrike to the Ukrainian Intelligence hackers and the Information Ministry even tighter. This single tweet on a network chart shows that out of all the Ukrainian Ministry of Information Minister's following, he only wanted the 3 hacking groups associated with both him and Alperovitch to get the tweet. Alperovitch's story was received and not retweeted or shared. If this was just Alperovitch's victory, it was a victory for Ukraine. It would be shared heavily. If it was a victory for the hacking squad, it would be smart to keep it to themselves and not draw unwanted attention.

These same hackers are associated with Alexandra, Andrea, and Irene Chalupa through the portals and organizations they work with through their OUNb. The hackers are funded and directed by or through the same OUNb channels that Alperovitch is working for and with to promote the story of Russian hacking.

When you look at the image for the hacking group in the euromaidanpress article, one of the hackers identifies themselves as one of [[Dimitri Yarosh]]'s Pravy Sektor members by the Pravy Sektor sweatshirt they have on. Noted above, [[Pravy Sektor]] admitted to killing the '[[Heavenly Hundred]]' at the Maidan protest and sparked the coup.

Going further with the linked Euromaidanpress article the hackers say "Let’s understand that Ukrainian hackers and Russian hackers once constituted a single very powerful group. Ukrainian hackers have a rather high level of work. So the help of the USA… I don’t know, why would we need it? We have all the talent and special means for this. And I don’t think that the USA or any NATO country would make such sharp movements in international politics.”

What sharp movements in international politics have been made lately? Let me spell it out for the 17 US Intelligence Agencies so there is no confusion. These state sponsored, Russian language hackers in [[Eastern Europe]]an time zones have shown with the Surkov hack they have the tools and experience to hack states that are looking out for it. They are also laughing at US intel efforts.

The hackers also made it clear that they will do anything to serve Ukraine. Starting a war between Russia and the USA is the one way they could serve Ukraine best, and hurt Russia worst. Given those facts, if the [[DNC]] hack was according to the criteria given by Alperovitch, both he and these hackers need to be investigated.

According to the ''Esquire'' interview “Alperovitch was deeply frustrated: He thought the government should tell the world what it knew. There is, of course, an element of the personal in his battle cry. “A lot of people who are born here don’t appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they’ve never had it any other way,” he told me. “I have.”

While I agree patriotism is a great thing, confusing it with this kind of nationalism is not. '''Alperovitch seems to think by serving [[OUNb]] Ukraine's interests and delivering a conflict with Russia that is against American interests, he's a patriot. He isn't serving US interests. He's definitely a Ukrainian patriot.''' Maybe he should move to Ukraine.

The evidence presented deserves investigation because it looks like the case for [[conflict of interest]] is the least Dimitri Alperovitch should look forward to. If these hackers are the real Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, they really did make sharp movements in international politics. By pawning it off on Russia, they made a worldwide embarrassment of an outgoing President of the United States and made the President Elect the suspect of rumor.

====Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR)====
[[File:Budanov.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Kyrylo Budanov]].<ref>https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/ukraines-intelligence-boss-predicts</ref> By May 2023, this person was considered to be the top Nazi on the Russian Investigative Committees' most wanted list for terrorist activities.]]
Russian hacker group RAHDit leaked data of 2500 officers of the [[Main Intelligence Directorate]] (GUR) of the military department of Ukraine in July 2022. The hacker group revealed that the released information includes data about the relatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and people who received payments from GUR bank accounts.

The hackers claimed that the GUR officers include alleged [[drug addict]]s and former [[criminal]]s convicted of robbery, the illegal trafficking of [[weapon]]s and [[drug]]s as well as causing bodily injuries. They further revealed that they have given the information regarding the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) to [[law enforcement]] agencies. RAHDit said it was not intending to publish information related to underage relatives of Ukrainian officers.

====Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)====

RaHDIt leaked the personal information of more than 1500 employees of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Ukraine. An anonymous law enforcement source has "confirmed the authenticity" of the information released on the hacker group's website Nemezide (Nemesis) on September 26, 2022.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russian-hackers-release-data-of-over-1500-ukrainian-foreign-intelligence-service-agents-articleshow.html</ref> The information is related to Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) agents working under the cover of embassies in over 20 nations.

The information includes people working under the cover of embassies in France, [[Argentina]], Germany, [[Italy]], US, Poland, [[Azerbaijan]], [[Hungary]], [[Tajikistan]], [[South Africa]], [[Greece]], [[Iraq]], and other nations. Furthermore, RaHDIt hackers released information on Ukrainian SVR agents working in the missions of the United Nations, European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and 40 Ukrainian SVR locations within Ukraine, including one at an educational establishment.

==Foreign Relations==
The government has declared Euro-Atlantic integration to be its primary foreign policy objective and has sought to maintain good relations with Russia. The European Union's Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Ukraine went into force on March 1, 1998. After the 2004 round of EU expansion, the EU did not signal a willingness to consider Ukraine for an association agreement, as Ukraine had hoped for, but instead included it in a new "neighbor" policy, disappointing many Ukrainians. An agreement on intensified cooperation is possible after Ukrainian WTO accession. On January 31, 1992, Ukraine joined the then-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (now the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—OSCE), and on March 10, 1992, it became a member of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Ukraine signed a Charter Agreement with NATO in 1997, sent troops to Kosovo in close cooperation with NATO countries, signed an agreement for NATO use of Ukrainian strategic airlift assets, and has declared interest in eventual membership. It is the most active member of the Partnership for Peace (PfP). In April 2005, NATO offered an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" to Ukraine.

Relations with Russia are complicated by differing foreign policy priorities in the region, energy dependence, payment arrears, disagreement over compliance with the 1997 agreement on the stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in [[Sevastopol]], and a dispute over bilateral boundaries in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. Ukraine co-founded the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on December 8, 1991, but in January 1993 it refused to endorse a draft charter strengthening political, economic, and defense ties among CIS members. Ukraine was a founding member of GUAM (Georgia-Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Moldova) and has taken the lead with Georgia to promote cooperation among emerging democracies in the Community for Democratic Choice, which held its first summit meeting December 1–2, 2005 in Kyiv.

In 1999–2001, Ukraine served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics. Ukraine has consistently supported peaceful, negotiated settlements to disputes. It has participated in the five-sided (now "5+2") talks on the conflict in Moldova and under President Yushchenko actively boosted efforts to seek a resolution. Ukraine has also promoted a peaceful resolution to conflict in the post-Soviet state of Georgia.
[[File:Austin Milley Ukraine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Biden regime defaced the Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://olxpraca.com/the-pentagon-defaced-the-ukrainian-flag/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/busnitized/status/1529061445631193088</ref><ref>https://hiindia.com/2022/05/24/pentagon-messes-up-ukrainian-flag/</ref>]]
===Minsk II Agreement===

The Normandy Group comprised of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany negotiated a settlement regarding the autonomy of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk with the Minsk II Agreement, freely signed by Ukraine and approved by the United Nations in 2015. When the Biden regime seized power in 2021, it enticed Ukraine to break the agreement by offering Ukraine NATO membership, igniting a crisis with Russia.

===Relations with the United States===

====Ukranian collusion with DNC to interfere in US elections====
{{See also|Ukrainian collusion timeline}}
Evidence of [[DNC]] collusion with Ukraine to dig up dirt on the 2016 Trump campaign:
{{quotebox-float|From: Chalupa, Ali 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:56 PM 
To: Miranda, Luis 
Subject: Re: You saw this, right? 

A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the Library of Congress - the Open World Society's forum - they put me on the program to speak specifically about [[Paul Manafort]] and I invited [[Michael Isikoff]] whom I've been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something I'm working on you should be aware of. 

Since I started digging into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my password often: 

[image1.JPG] 

Sent from my iPhone 

On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: 

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/ 

<http://www.democrats.org/>[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director 
Democratic National Committee 
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC><ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>}}
According to the ''Kyiv Post'',
{{quotebox-float|“Chalupa said she first came across Manafort after she organized a meeting with then-U.S. President Barack Obama’s [[National Security Council]] and leaders of Ukrainian-American organizations in January 2014, to brief the [[White House]] about the [[Euromaidan Revolution]] that drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power on Feb. 22, 2014.”}}

In late 2015, [[Alexandra Chalupa]] expanded her research into Paul Manafort to include the Trump campaign and possible ties to Russia.
[[File:Alexandra-chalupa-and-ukraine-embassy-in-the-us.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman [[Marcy Kaptur]]’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy staff.<ref>https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/how-to-finance-your-congressional-campaign-with-arms-sales/</ref>]]
In January 2016, Chalupa informed an unknown senior [[DNC]] official that she believed there was a Russian connection with the Trump campaign. Notably, this theme would be picked up by the [[2016 Clinton campaign|Clinton campaign]] in the summer of 2016. Chalupa also told the official to expect Manafort's involvement in the Trump campaign.

Chalupa’s forecast proved prescient, as Manafort reached out to the Trump campaign shortly after, on Feb. 29, 2016, through a mutual acquaintance, Thomas J. Barrack Jr. According to Manafort, he and Trump hadn’t been in communication for years until the Trump campaign responded to Manafort’s offer. On March 28, 2016, Manafort was hired by the Trump campaign. He was reportedly initially hired to lead the Trump campaign’s delegate effort, but was soon promoted, and on May 19, 2016, Manafort became Trump’s campaign chairman and chief strategist.

Just days prior to Manafort’s hiring, on March 24, 2016, Chalupa spoke with the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, and told him of concerns she had regarding Manafort. Reportedly, her concerns were initially rebuffed as Chaly didn’t think Trump had a real chance of winning the presidency.

According to ''Politico'', the day after Manafort’s hiring, Chalupa provided a briefing on “Manafort, Trump and their ties to Russia” to the DNC's communications staff. Notably, “with the DNC’s encouragement,” Chalupa asked the Ukrainian Embassy staff to attempt to arrange an interview with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and have him discuss Manafort's ties to former Ukrainian President Yanukovych. The Ukrainian Embassy reportedly declined the request but, according to Chalupa, did begin working with reporters who were researching Trump.

[[Andrii Telizhenko]], who worked in the Ukrainian Embassy under one of Chaly's top aides, Oksana Shulyar, has repeatedly stated that Chalupa was working closely with the Ukrainian Embassy to obtain information on Trump.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/double-standards-on-ukraine/</ref> In an interview with the Gateway Pundit, Telizhenko said he met Chalupa in the spring of 2016 at the Ukrainian Embassy, where Chalupa told him she was “a DNC operative working for the DNC” and the “Clinton campaign.” Telizhenko continued, noting that Chalupa said she was “collecting any dirt or background information on Manafort, presidential candidate Trump or any other campaign official from the Trump campaign” and was looking for “connections to Russia or the FSB or Russian mob, or Ukrainian mob, etc.” According to Telizhenko, Chalupa said the information would “be used for committee hearings in Congress under a congresswoman.”<ref>Rep. [[Marcy Kaptur]].</ref> Telizhenko didn't disclose the identity of the congresswoman, noting, “I don’t want to mention her name on record.”

In January 2017, Telizhenko told ''Politico'' that Chalupa said, “If we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”

In a recent tweet, Telizhenko summed the situation succinctly, noting
{{quotebox-float|“The Clinton campaign had a Democratic operative working with Ukraine’s embassy in Washington to research Trump’s Russia ties, as well as a Ukrainian lawmaker feeding information to Fusion GPS.”}}

The “Democratic operative” refers to Chalupa, while the “Ukrainian lawmaker” refers to [[Leshchenko]].

====Crowdstrike====
{{See also|Murder of Seth Rich}}
[[File:Trump-convo-with-zelenskyy.jpg |right|350px |thumb |CrowdStrike interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.]]
[[File:Podesta-Emails-600x400.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Clinton campaign manager [[John Podesta]] was notified by [[Google]] that his emails were hacked, not by Russia, but by Ukraine during the 2016 presidential election.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899</ref>]]
[[CrowdStrike]] is an Irvine, [[California]] cyber security company founded in 2011. Crowdstrike was founded by [[Dimitry Alperovitch]], a [[Ukrainian]] [[oligarch]] and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Another owner and senior manager of Crowdstrike is a former senior [[FBI]] man [[Shawn Henry]], who was promoted by [[Robert Mueller]] to be the FBI's Head of Cyber Security in the 2000s.

Crowdstrike is funded by [[Google]],<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref> the arms industry, [[NATO]], the US Military, [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[UAE]], and another Ukrainian oligarch who donated $10 million to the [[Clinton Foundation]] named [[Victor Pinchuk]].<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> Pichuk hosted the September 2013 confabulation in [[Yalta]], [[Crimea]] attended by [[Bill Clinton]], [[Hillary Clinton]], and [[Tony Blair]] to discuss how Ukraine's assets would be carved up after the forthcoming [[Ukrainian coup]].

Russian hacking claims of DNC servers in the Spring of 2016 rely entirely on a report by CrowdStrike.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/think-tank-cyber-firm-center-russian-hacking-charges-misread-data</ref> Despite repeated requests from the FBI, Crowdstrike and the DNC refused to turn over evidence.<ref>https://slate.com/technology/2017/05/the-fbi-is-harder-to-trust-on-the-dnc-hack-because-it-relied-on-crowdstrikes-analysis.html</ref> The [[Obama administration]] never examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/</ref> On July 25, 2019, [[President Trump]] requested [[President Zelensky]] of Ukraine to assist in recovering evidence from Crowdstrike, which contracts with the Ukrainian military.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-mentioned-crowdstrike-to-ukrainian-president-and-crowdstrike-doesnt-seem-to-know-why-2019-09-25</ref>
:*According to journalist and DNC activist Andrea Chalupa on her Facebook page “After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington),<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref> it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a [[Democratic Party]] source who has been directly involved in the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”” July 25, 2016
:*If she was that close to the investigation Crowdstrike did how credible is she? Her sister Alexandra was named one of 16 people that shaped the election by Yahoo news. '''The DNC hacking investigation done by Crowdstrike concluded hacking was done by Russian actors based on the work done by Alexandra Chalupa? That is the conclusion of her sister Andrea Chalupa and obviously enough for Crowdstrike to make the Russian government connection.'''
:*How close is Dimitri Alperovitch to DNC officials? Close enough professionally he should have stepped down from an investigation that had the chance of throwing a presidential election in a new direction. According to Esquire.com, Alperovitch has vetted speeches for Hillary Clinton about cyber security issues in the past. Because of his work on the Sony hack, President Barrack Obama personally called and said the measures taken were directly because of his work.
:*Alperovitch’s relationships with the Chalupas, radical groups, think tanks, Ukrainian propagandists, and Ukrainian state supported hackers [show a conflict of interest]. When it all adds up and you see it together, we have found a Russian that tried hard to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in 2016.

====Fancy Bear is Ukrainian Intelligence====
[[File:Alperovitch-hacker-friends-400x118 (1).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Dimitry Alperovitch, the founder of Crowdstrike, tweeting with Fancy Bear. Crowdstrike claimed the Russians hacked the DNC. The FBI never verified the claim. Private investigators determined it was Ukrainian intelligence who were hired by Alexandra Chalupa, a member of the Democratic National Committee.]]
George Eliason has identified Fancy Bear as Ukrainian intelligence.

Alexandra Chalupa hired this particular hacking terrorist group, which Dimitry Alperovich and Crowdstrike dubbed "[[Fancy Bear]]", in 2015 at the latest. While the Ukrainian hackers worked for the DNC, Fancy Bear had to send in progress reports, turn in research, and communicate on the state of the projects they were working on. Let's face it, once you're in, setting up your Fancy Bear toolkit doesn't get any easier. This is why I said the DNC hack isn't the big crime. It's a big con and all the parties were in on it.

Hillary Clinton exposed secrets to hacking threats by using private email instead of secured servers. Given the information provided she was probably being monitored by our intrepid Ruskie-Ukie union made in hell hackers. [[Anthony Weiner]] exposed himself and his wife [[Huma Abedin]] using Weiner's computer for top-secret State Department emails. And of course Huma Abedin exposed herself along with her top-secret passwords at [[Yahoo]] and it looks like the hackers the DNC hired to do opposition research hacked her.

Here's a question. Did Huma Abedin have Hillary Clinton's passwords for her private email server? It would seem logical given her position with Clinton at the State Department and afterward. This means that Hillary Clinton and the US government top secret servers were most likely compromised by Fancy Bear before the DNC and Team Clinton hired them by using legitimate passwords.

===Relations with Belarus===
On March 1, 2022, the [[Zelensky regime]] threatened [[Belarus]] with a pre-emptive strike.<ref>https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ukraine-Threatens-Belarus-to-Launch-Preemptive-Attack-20220301-0010.html</ref>

On March 15, 2022, Belarus was hit with an organized [[sabotage]] campaign aimed at railroad lines carrying Russian troops and humanitarian supplies into Ukraine.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-699184</ref>

On October 14, 2022, Belarus went on high alert against a [[NATO]] terror attack.<ref>https://youtu.be/NFwID2qF3HY</ref>

On October 17, 2022, the Belarus defense ministry issued a statement saying it reserved the right for preemptive strategic deterrence measures.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1523983</ref>

===Relations with Argentina===
{{Main article|Javier Milei}}
[[File:Zelenski gives a menorah to Milei.jpg|thumbnail|[[Zelenski]] receives a Jewish [[menorah]] from Milei.]]
The Libertarian Argentinian President, [[Javier Milei]] shares religion with Zelenski who game him a [[menorah]] during the inauguration of the first. Milei is pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine. It was the first time Zelenski visited [[Latin America]].

[[Zelenski]] and [[Viktor Orbán]] were present in Milei's inauguration and they both discussed about [[Putin]] during the event.

==Economy==
[[File:96% of Burisma's production comes from Dniepr-Donets Basin.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The heart of Burisma Holdings' Yuzov field in the Dniepr-Dontes Basin.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IFk5wgMl2k8 BURISMA GROUP VIDEO 2018], BURISMA GROUP, Oct 4, 2018. YouTube.</ref>]]
[[File:Dniepr-Donets Basin.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The Dniepr-Donets Basin center of Burisma Holdings on the [[Kharkov front]] during the [[NATO war in Ukraine]].]]
With rich farmlands, a well-developed industrial base, highly trained labor, and a good education system, Ukraine has the potential to become a major European economy. After eight straight years of sharp economic decline from the early to late 1990s, the standard of living for most citizens declined more than 50%, leading to widespread poverty. Beginning in 2000 economic growth has averaged 7.4% per year, reaching 12.1% in 2004 and 7.0% in 2006. Personal incomes are rising. The macro economy is stable, with the hyperinflation of the early post-Soviet period now reduced to just over 11.6% (2006). Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, was introduced in September 1996 and has remained stable despite a small nominal appreciation in April 2005. While economic growth continues, Ukraine's long-term economic prospects depend on acceleration of market reforms. The economy remains burdened by excessive government regulation, corruption, and lack of law enforcement, and while the government has taken steps against corruption and small and medium enterprises have been largely privatized, much remains to be done to restructure and privatize key sectors such as energy and telecommunications and to allow the free sale of farmland.

Ukraine is rich in natural resources. It has a major ferrous metal industry, producing cast iron, steel, and steel pipe, and its chemical industry produces [[Coke from coal|coke]], mineral fertilizers, and sulfuric acid. Manufactured goods include airplanes, turbines, metallurgical equipment, [[Diesel fuel system|diesel]] locomotives, and tractors. It also is a major producer of grain, sunflower seeds, and sugar and has a broad industrial base, including much of the former U.S.S.R.'s space and rocket industry. Although proven onshore and offshore oil and natural gas reserves are small, it has important energy sources, such as coal, and large mineral deposits, and is one of the world's leading energy transit countries, providing transportation of Russian and Caspian oil and gas across its territory.

Ukraine encourages foreign trade and investment. The foreign investment law allows Westerners to purchase businesses and property, to repatriate revenue and profits, and to receive compensation in the event that property were to be nationalized by a future government. However, complex laws and regulations, poor corporate governance, weak enforcement of contract law by courts and particularly corruption have discouraged broad foreign direct investment in Ukraine. While there is a functioning stock market, the lack of protection for minority shareholder rights severely restricts portfolio investment activities. Total foreign direct investment in Ukraine was approximately $21.2 billion as of January 1, 2007. At $447 per capita, this was one of the lowest figures in the region.

While countries of the former Soviet Union remain important trading partners, especially Russia and Turkmenistan for energy imports, Ukraine's trade is becoming more diversified. Europe is now the destination of over one third of Ukraine's exports, while around one quarter of Ukraine's exports go to Russia and the CIS. Exports of machinery and machine tools are on the rise relative to steel, which constitutes over 30% of exports. Ukraine imports over 80% of its oil and 73% of its natural gas. Russia ranks as Ukraine's principal supplier of oil and Russian firms now own and/or operate the majority of Ukraine's refining capacity. Natural gas imports come from Russia and Turkmenistan, which deliver the gas through a pipeline system owned and controlled by [[Gazprom]], Russia's state-owned gas monopoly. In 2005 and 2006, Ukraine switched from barter to cash payments for gas imports. Ukraine controls the gas pipelines on its territory that are also used to transit Russian gas to Western Europe. The complex relationship between supplier, transporter, and consumer has led to some tensions, including Russia's decision to cut off gas supplies for three days in January 2006.

The Government of Ukraine's 12-month $605 million precautionary standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expired in March 2005, and Ukraine currently does not receive IMF financing. In Article IV Consultations, the IMF recommends fiscal discipline and structural reforms, particularly of Ukraine's pension system. In July 2005, the World Bank approved a $250 million Development Policy Loan (formerly a Programmatic Adjustment Loan) to support reforms to improve the investment climate, public administration and financial management, and social inclusion. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) project outlays more than doubled in 2005 to 530 million Euros, bringing its portfolio to 2.2 billion Euros.

In 1992, Ukraine became a member of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It is a member of the EBRD but not a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ukraine applied for membership in the WTO in 1995. Progress on its application had been slow but picked up momentum in 2006. The government has made accession to the WTO a priority in 2007.

===Economic data===
[[File:1-Russia-Ukraine-Biolabs.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. owned biological laboratories in Ukraine.]]
Ukraine is classified as a lower middle-income nation, evolving into a post-soviet developing economy.

Approximate economic statistics are as follows:
* Ukraine's GDP is $103 billion ($103,000,000,000), and has been growing at a rate of 6% fairly consistently.
* Per capita GDP is $2,200, with per capita purchasing power at $7,700.
* Foreign debt is 7% of GDP, and foreign investment is 2% of GDP.
* Average monthly salary is 200 euros per month.
* Commercial prime lending rate is 15%.
* The inflation rate is currently 10%.

The Ukrainian currency is the hryvnia (worth about 20 cents, in $USD), which was introduced 1996 to stabilize runaway inflation (and is currently trading at 5:1 for United States dollars, and at 6:1 for European Union euros).

Taxation rates are as follows:
* Personal income tax is 15%.
* Corporate income tax is 25%.
* Value-added tax (VAT) is 20%.
* Social insurance tax is 30%.

Import/export goods include:
* Metals (35%)
* Machinery (25%)
* Fuel & chemicals (10%)
* Agricultural (10%)
* Other (20%)

Mining includes fuel ores of coal, oil, and natural gas, and metal ores of iron, manganese, titanium, magnesium, nickel, and mercury.

Major trade partners are Russia (25%), then about 5% each for [[Germany]], [[Poland]], Italy, [[Turkey]], and [[China]], and others.

===Environmental Issues===
[[Image:Chornobyl radiation96.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Radiation-affected areas from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as of 1996]]
Ukraine is interested in cooperating on regional environmental issues. Conservation of natural resources is a stated high priority, although implementation suffers from a lack of financial resources. Ukraine established its first nature preserve, Askania-Nova, in 1921 and has a program to breed endangered species.

Ukraine has significant environmental problems, especially those resulting from the [[Chernobyl]] nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 and from industrial pollution. In accordance with its agreement with the G7 and European Commission in 1995, Ukraine permanently closed the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in December 2000. Urgent measures for radiation and worker safety as well as structural improvements to the "sarcophagus" erected by the Soviet Union are largely complete, and the contract for construction of the new shelter to be built around the sarcophagus is expected to be awarded in 2007.

Ukraine also has established a Ministry of Environment and has introduced a pollution fee system, which levies taxes on air and water emissions and solid waste disposal. The resulting revenues are channeled to environmental protection activities, but enforcement of this pollution fee system is lax. Ukraine ratified the Kyoto Protocol in April 2004.

Construction of a shipping canal through a UN-protected core biosphere reserve in the Danube Delta, which began in May 2004, is an environmental issue of international interest.

===Burisma Holdings===
Vice President [[Joe Biden]] oversaw the disbursement of $1 billion allocated by the U.S. to the new government of Ukraine. In 2014, Biden's son [[Hunter Biden]], was appointed to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the largest oil and gas company in Ukraine. Hunter Biden was hired by [[Mykola Zlochevsky]], who served as Ukraine's ecology minister in the previous administration. Hunter Biden was paid $166,000 per month. The money was split with the nephew of [[Whitey Bulger]].

Zlochevsky came under investigation by the new administration for alleged embezzlement of $5 billion while ecology minister. The prosecutor traced payments made to Hunter Biden. Vice President Biden threatened the new Ukrainian administration to withhold $1 billion in U.S. allocated funds unless the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden was fired.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>

Biden bragged about having caused the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor to a [[CFR]] conference.
[[File:Joe Biden at CFR meeting 2018 2.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Biden at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]: "‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired."<ref>https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/deep-dark-secrets-rich-famous-and-powerful-cliff-kincaid</ref>]]
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Joe Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine. Biden threatened Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending Ukraine toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son, Hunter. Biden recounted,
{{quotebox-float|"'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref name="thehill.com">https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref><ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>}}
Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaced Shokin as the prosecutor looking into Burisma, said the evidence in the Burisma case he'd like to present to [[William Barr]], particularly the vice president's intervention.

Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid out by Burisma to an account linked to Biden's and Devon Archer's Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in another case against Archer. The bank records show that, on most months when Burisma money flowed, two wire transfers of $83,333.33 each were sent to the Rosemont Seneca–connected account on the same day. The same Rosemont Seneca–linked account typically then paid Hunter Biden one or more payments ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 each. Ukrainian prosecutors reviewed internal company documents and wanted to interview Hunter Biden and Archer about why they had received such payments, but couldn't because of Joe Biden's intervention.

On September 4, 2019, former Prosecutor General [[Victor Shokin]] made a sworn affidavit outlining Joe Biden's shakedown.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement</ref>

==History==
[[File:Annexations to the territory of Ukraine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Annexations to the territory of Ukraine]]

{{See also|History of Ukraine}}
Modern Ukraine is largely the remains of the failed efforts of [[Bolshevik]] [[nation building]].

In December 2020, after torchlight parades took place all over Ukraine honoring [[Stepan Bandera]], head of the [[OUN-B]], Ukrainian national hero, who was a collaborator with the Nazis during the [[Second World War]], and whose men massacred [[Jews]] and [[Polish]] civilians, [[Poland]] and [[Israel]] issued a joint communiqué to complain about the glorification of Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, the head of the other branch of the OUN, the OUN-M, and all others who actively promoted the [[ethnic cleansing]] of Jews and Poles.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PLinUkraine/status/1212760669285736449 Joint statement of Ambassador of Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki and Ambassador of Israel in Ukraine Joel Lion].</ref>

==Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state==
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

Vladimir Putin: Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.

In 882, Rurik’s successor Prince Oleg, who was, actually, playing the role of regent at Rurik’s young son because Rurik had died by that time, came to Kiev. He ousted two brothers who, apparently, had once been members of Rurik’s squad. So, Russia began to develop with two centers of power, Kiev and Novgorod.

The next, very significant date in the history of Russia, was 988. This was the Baptism of Russia, when Prince Vladimir, the great-grandson of Rurik, baptized Russia and adopted Orthodoxy, or Eastern Christianity. From this time the centralized Russian state began to strengthen. Why? Because of a single territory, integrated economic ties, one and the same language and, after the Baptism of Russia, the same faith and rule of the Prince. The centralized Russian state began to take shape.

Back in the Middle Ages, Prince Yaroslav the Wise introduced the order of succession to the throne, but after he passed away, it became complicated for various reasons. The throne was passed not directly from father to eldest son, but from the prince who had passed away to his brother, then to his sons in different lines. All this led to the fragmentation and the end of Rus’ as a single state. There was nothing special about it, the same was happening then in Europe. But the fragmented Russian state became an easy prey to the empire created earlier by Genghis Khan. His successors, namely, Batu Khan, came to Rus’, plundered and ruined nearly all the cities. The southern part, including Kiev, by the way, and some other cities, simply lost independence, while northern cities preserved some of their sovereignty. They had to pay tribute to the Horde, but they managed to preserve some part of their sovereignty. And then a unified Russian state began to take shape with its centre in Moscow.

The southern part of the Russian lands, including Kiev, began to gradually gravitate towards another ”magnet“ – the centre that was emerging in Europe. This was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was even called the Lithuanian-Russian Duchy, because Russians were a significant part of its population. They spoke the Old Russian language and were Orthodox. But then there was a unification, the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. A few years later, another union was signed, but this time already in the religious sphere. Some of the Orthodox priests became subordinate to the Pope. Thus, these lands became part of the Polish-Lithuanian state.

During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (u kraya) they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

Tucker Carlson: I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

Vladimir Putin: It was in the 13th century.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

Tucker Carlson: It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

Vladimir Putin: But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.

As expected, the war with Poland began. It lasted 13 years, and then in 1654, a truce was concluded. And 32 years later, I think, a peace treaty with Poland, which they called ”eternal peace,“ was signed. And these lands, the whole left bank of the Dnieper, including Kiev, went to Russia, and the whole right bank of the Dnieper remained in Poland.

Under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands, including in the south and west. This all lasted until the Revolution. Before World War I, Austrian General Staff relied on the ideas of Ukrainianization and started actively promoting the ideas of Ukraine and the Ukrainianization. Their motive was obvious. Just before World War I they wanted to weaken the potential enemy and secure themselves favourable conditions in the border area. So the idea which had emerged in Poland that people residing in that territory were allegedly not really Russians, but rather belonged to a special ethnic group, Ukrainians, started being propagated by the Austrian General Staff.

As far back as the 19th century, theorists calling for Ukrainian independence appeared. All those, however, claimed that Ukraine should have a very good relationship with Russia. They insisted on that. After the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to restore the statehood, and the Civil War began, including the hostilities with Poland. In 1921, peace with Poland was proclaimed, and under that treaty, the right bank of the Dnieper River once again was given back to Poland.

In 1939, after Poland cooperated with Hitler — it did collaborate with Hitler, you know —Hitler offered Poland peace and a treaty of friendship and alliance (we have all the relevant documents in the archives), demanding in return that Poland give back to Germany the so-called Danzig Corridor, which connected the bulk of Germany with East Prussia and Konigsberg. After World War I this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Gdansk emerged. Hitler asked them to give it amicably, but they refused.

===Origins of Ukraine: 19th century and World War I===
In the 19th century the Ukrainian was a rural area largely ignored by Russia and Austria. With growing urbanization and modernization, and a cultural trend toward nationalism inspired by romanticism, a Ukrainian intelligentsia committed to national rebirth and social justice emerged. The serf-turned-national-poet [[Taras Shevchenko]] (1814-1861) and the political theorist [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]] (1841-1895) led the growing nationalist movement. Nationalist and socialist parties developed in the late 19th century. '''[[Austrian Galicia]]''', which enjoyed substantial political freedom under the relatively lenient rule of the [[Hapsburgs]], became the center of the nationalist movement. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893.<ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref> Before 1917, one could walk on foot from Kiev to Moscow without noticing any linguistic differences. Defeat in [[World War I]] and the Russian revolutions of 1917 destroyed the Hapsburg and Russian empires. The Ukrainian elite declared statehood: the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Kiev on Nov. 20, 1917, becoming independent on Jan. 22, 1918. The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Lviv on Nov. 1, 1918. A rival Ukrainian Soviet Republic was established at Kharkiv on Dec. 24, 1917. On Jan. 22, 1919, the two people's republics united. Lenin gave Ukraine Kharkiv, Donbass, and the coastal oblasts, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> By then, however, the military situation was desperate, as Polish and Bolshevik armies pressed the Ukrainian nationalists from west and east and the peasant anarchists led by Nestor Makhno took control of large areas. Because communist theory denies the existence of race as the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another, Lenin made the Soviet Union autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power.

===Bolshevik Ukraine===

The war in Ukraine continued for another two years; by 1921, however, most of Ukraine had been taken over by the Soviet Union, while Galicia and Volhynia were incorporated into independent Poland.

A powerful underground Ukrainian nationalist movement rose in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s, led by the Ukrainian Military Organization and the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUN). The movement attracted a militant following among students and harassed the Polish authorities. Legal Ukrainian parties, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an active press, and a business sector also flourished in Poland. Economic conditions improved in the 1920s, but the region suffered from the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The situation in Soviet Ukraine under Communist control were sharply different. The communists gave a privileged position to manual labor, the largest class in the cities, where Russians dominated. The typical worker was more attached to class identity than to ethnicity. Although there were incidents of ethnic friction among workers (in addition to Ukrainians and Russians there were Poles, Germans, Jews, and others in the Ukrainian workforce), industrial laborers had already adopted Russian culture and language to a significant extent. Workers whose ethnicity was Ukrainian were not attracted to campaigns of Ukrainianization or de-Russification in meaningful numbers, but remained loyal members of the Soviet working class. There was no significant antagonism between workers identifying themselves as Ukrainian or Russian; however, anti-Semitism was widespread.

Moscow encouraged a national renaissance in literature and the arts, under the aegis of the Ukrainization policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk (1872-1933).

===Holodomor===
see [[Ukrainian Famine]]

With Stalin's change of course in the late 1920s, however, Moscow's toleration of Ukrainian national identity came to an end. Systematic state terror of the 1930s destroyed Ukraine's writers, artists, and intellectuals; the Communist Party of Ukraine was purged of its "nationalist deviationists"; and the peasantry was crushed by means of collectivization, resulting in the [[Great Famine]] or "Holodomor" (Голодомор) of 1932–1933, which claimed some 3-7 million lives as crops failed and remaining food wtocks were forcibly removed by the government. Besides Ukraine, [[Kazakhstan]] and the Volga region were also hit by the famine. Stalin had full knowledge of the destructive force of the famine. It was a by-product of his war on the peasantry that began with collectivization and dekulakization and as an attempt to eradicate peasant culture in its entirety. Ellman explains the causes for the excess deaths in rural areas of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan during 1931-34 by dividing the causes into three groups: objective nonpolicy-related factors, like the drought of 1931 and poor weather in 1932; inadvertent result of policies with other objectives, like rapid industrialization, socialization of livestock, and neglected crop rotation patterns; and deaths caused intentionally by a starvation policy. The Communist leadership perceived famine not as a humanitarian catastrophe but as a means of [[class struggle]] and used starvation as a punishment tool to teach peasants to work well in the collective farms.<ref>Michael Ellman, "The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1934." ''Europe-Asia Studies'' 2005 57(6): 823-841. Issn: 0966-8136 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

It was largely the same groups of individuals who were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivization, and the Great Terror. These groups were associated with Efim Georgievich Evdokimov (1891-1939) and operated in Ukraine during the civil war, in the North Caucasus in the 1920s, and in the Secret Operational Division within General State Political Administration (OGPU) in 1929–31. Evdokimov transferred into Communist Party administration in 1934, when he became Party secretary for North Caucasus Krai. But he appears to have continued advising Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov on security matters, and the latter relied on Evdokimov's former colleagues to carry out the mass killing operations that are known as the Great Terror in 1937–38.<ref>Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin's Great Terror." ''Australian Journal of Politics and History'' 2007 53(1): 20-43. Issn: 0004-9522 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]; Robert Conquest, ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine'' (1986). Mark B. Tauger, "The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933" ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 70-89, notes the harvest was unusually poor. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199121)50%3A1%3C70%3AT1HATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H online in JSTOR]; R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S. G. Wheatcroft, "Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933," ''Slavic Review,'' Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199523)54%3A3%3C642%3ASGSATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]; online in JSTOR; Michael Ellman. "Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932-33 Revisited," ''Europe-Asia Studies,'' Volume 59, Issue 4 June 2007 , pages 663-93.</ref>

===Nazi collaboration: 1941-1945===
{{See also|Volhynia massacre}}
In 1939, after Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Galicia and Volhynia were annexed to Soviet Ukraine. Northern Bukovina, formerly part of Romania, was incorporated into Ukraine in 1940, as was formerly Czechoslovakian Subcarpathian Ruthenia (the Transcarpathian Oblast) in 1945.
[[File:Ukrainian girls welcoming Germans.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainians girls welcome soldiers of the [[Third Reich]] with the traditional bread and salt peace offering.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
By mid-1941, the Ukrainian SSR had the largest population of Jews in Europe. The addition of the eastern provinces of Poland in late 1939 as well as the seizure of sections of Romanian territory in June 1940 led to some 2.7 million Jews living within the borders of the newly enlarged republic. About 85% lived in cities. By 1944, 1.6 million of these Jews had died at the hands of the Germans and their allies and auxiliaries. Unlike the majority of the [[Holocaust]]'s victims who died in the industrialized mass murder of the death camps, the overwhelming bulk of Ukraine's Jews died in mass shootings during the initial stages of the war.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was welcomed by many Ukrainians at first; the [[Stepan Bandera|OUN]] even attempted to establish a government under German auspices. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) considered Ukraine a strategically important region that should be occupied through capturing the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians. According to Rosenberg, everything should have been done to make the Ukrainians view the Germans as liberators. Though he presented his views on different occasions, [[Adolf Hitler]]'s anti-Slavic racial views prevailed and overrode strategic considerations, leading to a harsh occupation. Very soon the realization that Nazi policies were brutal toward all the Ukrainians, and not only the Jews and Communists, drove most Ukrainians into opposition to the Nazis. Germany forced many Ukrainians to work within the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) on tasks such as agriculture, road and railway building, and the construction of fortifications. The German authorities soon faced a serious local labor shortage, especially among skilled workers, as a result of Soviet evacuations before the invasion, the ongoing murder of the Jewish population, and the brutal recruitment, arrest, and deportation of other groups, usually with the cooperation of the local civilian, military, and police authorities. The pool of labor was further reduced as the Germans lost territory in the later stages of the conflict. Nazi administrator Fritz Sauckel's labor recruitment measures strained relations with local officials responsible for selecting the deportees, leading to bribery and corruption. The Kiev area was the main focus for recruitment and deportation, along with the Vinnitsa region of central Ukraine. Over a million locals and prisoners of war were forced into labor in the Ukrainian coal mines in the Donbas region ([[Donets Basin]]). The forced laborers endured fines, starvation, imprisonment, beatings, and hanging, but also had better chances for more food, money, and mobility.

In Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia the first stage of partisan development, from 1941 to the fall of 1942, was uncoordinated and resulted in a great many losses. The second stage, late 1942 to 1944, was better coordinated; partisan groups were better defined, and relatively large-scale operations were carried out, often in cooperation with the Red Army. Organized leadership and cadres were created, various forms of actions (such as diversions, sabotage, and direct attacks) were developed; the Germans responded with vicious punitive activities against the partisans. In all, more than 1.3 million partisans took part in actions in Germany's rear in 6,200 units; more than 300,000 received decorations for their actions. The OUN created a nationalist partisan fighting force, the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA); many Ukrainians also joined the Soviet partisans and fought in the Soviet Army against the Germans. After World War II, the OUN and the UPA continued a hopeless guerrilla struggle against Soviet rule until 1953. The devastation caused by the war included major destruction in over 700 cities and towns and 28,000 villages.

===Fascist insurgency: 1944-1954===
[[File:SBandera.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalist leader [[Stepan Bandera]].]]
In the June 1944, when Canadian, British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy, their Soviet allies rolled into the German-occupied Western Ukraine. The Red Army soldiers and officers quickly noticed a stark contrast in the attitude of locals compared to other recently liberated regions of the Soviet Union. Instead of cheering crowds of peasant women and children who would offer them water and the traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt, there was an eerie silence in many villages, and few locals would even talk to the new arrivals. Soon, chilling rumors started about murdered Red Army soldiers found hanged or decapitated in the woods. Rumors were soon followed by orders issued to troops stationed in the allegedly safe rear, far behind the frontline, to increase their vigilance, never to venture anywhere alone or unarmed, and to look out for “bandits” hiding in the forests. The [[NKVD]] (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs – as the law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1946 was known) units that followed close behind the Red Army quickly proceeded with their routine practice of rounding up numerous suspected Nazi collaborators, as well as members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground, in Lviv and other west Ukrainian cities. However, a number of feared Soviet secret policemen were soon found dead in Ukrainian villages and Galician forests, and in some areas of the countryside those who dared to venture there had to be heavily armed and in large numbers. This was the start of a brutal insurgency that lasted almost ten years in rural Western Ukraine and resulted in one of the toughest counterinsurgency challenges the Soviets ever faced.

When the [[CIA]] was created by the National Security Act in 1947, one of its top priorities was collaborating with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ([[Banderite]]s) to carry on an armed insurgency in western Ukraine against Soviet authorities which lasted until 1954. Many of these Banderite groups were former formations of the Nazi [[SS Galicia Division]] known for horrendous atrocities against Polish and Jewish civilians. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian himself, pacified the insurgency after Stalin's death and placed Russian Crimea, a famous resort area with a mild climate, under Kyiv administration. In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref>

===Denazificatrion and reconstruction: 1954 to 1991===
Stalin's death finally brought relief in many ways. The thaw initiated by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who had served as Ukrainian party chief in the 1930s, led to the emergence in the late 1950s and the early 1960s of the "sixties generation" of writers, artists, and intellectuals. In order to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954. Following Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Moscow, under [[Leonid Brezhnev]] initiated a series of crackdowns on Ukrainian dissidents, including [[Ivan Dziuba]] (b. 1931), the author of Internationalism or Russification?; Vyacheslav Chornovil (b. 1938), the editor of the underground ''Ukrainian Herald''; and Valentyn Moroz (b. 1936), the author of stinging attacks on Soviet policy. In 1972, Petro Shelest, the national-Communist Ukrainian party chief, was replaced by hardliner Volodymyr Shcherbytsky.

The Number Four reactor at Chernobyl exploded during a routine power test in April 1986. Radioactive contaminants from the [[Chernobyl disaster]] fell on northern Ukraine and several neighboring countries, reaching as far as Japan and the United States, causing casualties, sparking a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union, and inciting fears of nuclear energy.<ref>Jim T. Smith, and Nicholas A. Beresford, ''Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences.'' Springer, 2005. 310 pp.</ref>

The arrival of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1985 started a slow revolution. The [[Chernobyl]] nuclear accident in 1986 undercut trust in Moscow. "Glasnost" permitted Ukrainian intellectuals to discuss the "blank spots" in their history, and growing political liberalization led to the reemergence of dissident groups and the emergence of nationally minded cultural organizations. A major turning point occurred in late 1989, with the founding of Rukh and the removal of Shcherbytsky from power.

In the 47 years of Soviet control after the liberation of Ukraine from German occupation, the Soviet Union as never able to completely de-nazify Ukraine is it did in [[East Germany]].

===Dissolution of the Soviet Union: 1991===
{{See also|Nezalezhnaya‎‎}}
In 1990 [[Leonid Kravchuk]], formerly in charge of ideology in the CPU, was appointed chairman of the presidium of a revamped supreme soviet, one fourth of whose deputies were nationalists and "democrats" elected in the semifree elections of 1990. On July 16, 1990, Ukraine proclaimed its sovereignty, an ambiguous formula that meant independence to the nationalists and autonomy to the Russian minority. On Nov. 21, 1990, Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty recognizing each other's sovereignty and promising not to interfere in each other's affairs.

As the Communist system collapsed in 1991, Ukraine, Russia, and the other republics engaged in lengthy negotiations with Gorbachev over the form of a new union. In August 1991 an abortive coup by committed KGB operatives in Moscow destroyed Gorbachev's strength and impelled the republics to go their own way. The Ukraine national assembly declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991. Several days later the CPU was suspended and its property was confiscated. A popular referendum on independence was held on December 1, and over 90 percent of the voters supported the declaration. Most of the countries of the world recognized the new Republic of Ukraine in the months that followed. Ukraine became a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and after much controversy a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in 1994. As a consequence of the autonomous republics system, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref>
[[File:Ukrainian contractors in Afghanistan.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Although not a member of NATO, Ukrainian contractors served as part of [[George W. Bush]]s "coalition of the willing" in the [[Afghan war]]. The [[Biden regime]] abandoned them in [[Afghanistan]] in August 2021, along with contractors from Bulgaria, Romania, and the Georgian Republic. The Russian Federation evacuated them.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/200d714d-92c4-445e-b42e-a67fab991fd3</ref>]]
The nominal successor to the Soviet Union was the Commonwealth of Independent States; Ukraine joined on Dec. 8, 1991. Serious tensions soon emerged with Russia as Moscow took possession of the [[Black Sea]] fleet anchored at Sevastopol, while some Russian politicians wanted the [[Donbas]] and the Crimea; the latter, being in Russian hands since 1783, had been transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities without referendum or self-determination of peoples in 1954. The Ukrainian government responded by taking steps to create its own army and navy. Crimean secessionists elected Yuri Meshkov as president of the Crimea in early 1994. The Kiyv government established closer economic and political ties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Ukrainian nationalists fears of Russia led it to postpone action on its earlier promise to give up strategic nuclear missiles, prompting concern in the West. After the signing the Budapest Memorandum by the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and the United States in early 1994, Ukraine began shipping these weapons to Russia. Thereafter, Ukraine's relations with the United States and western Europe improved.

[[Leonid Kravchuk]], the most powerful politician, became Ukraine's first popularly elected president, with over 60 percent of the vote, on Dec. 1, 1991. His authority, like that of the legislature, declined precipitously, however, as he proved unable to solve the country's mounting economic difficulties. In contrast to Rukh, which had split into pro-Kravchuk and anti-Kravchuk factions in 1992, the former Communists remained strong, controlling many local government councils, industrial plants, and collective farms. The CPU was officially reconstituted as a powerful political force in late 1993. Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]]s also become more prominent. Elections for the supreme soviet in March 1994 yielded a legislature in which the CPU and its left-wing allies were the strongest bloc, followed by the center-right nationalists grouped about what remained of Rukh and the centrist pro-government "independents." Kravchuk ran for reelection in the presidential election in June 1994. No candidate won a majority, so a second round was held in July, pitting Kravchuk against former premier [[Leonid Kuchma]]. Kuchma won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

The national goal was the creation of a market-oriented economy and the establishment of stable democratic institutions and a system of laws. However the goals were partly frustrated by political deadlock, inexperience, an inefficient state apparatus, a collapsing economy, internal anti-Russian [[xenophobia]], and external tensions with the Russian Federation. The Soviet culture of corruption continued after independence, and rampant criminality became even more widespread in the mid-1990s. In the latter 1990s, [[Viktor Yushchenko]], as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, tamed rampant inflation and introduced responsible economic controls. From 1999 to 2004, Ukraine's GNP nearly doubled.

Official trade unions have been grouped under the Federation of Trade Unions. A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Trade Unions. While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

Ethnic tensions in [[Crimea]] during 1992 prompted a number of pro-Russian political organizations to advocate secession of Crimea and reincorporation to Russia. (Crimea was ceded by the RFSSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, in recognition of historic links and for economic convenience, to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia.) In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy.

In July 1994, [[Leonid Kuchma]] was elected as Ukraine's second president in free and fair elections. Kuchma was reelected in November 1999 to another five-year term, with 56% of the vote. International observers criticized aspects of the election, especially slanted media coverage; however, the outcome of the vote was not called into question. Ukraine's March 2002 parliamentary elections were characterized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as flawed, but an improvement over the 1998 elections. The pro-presidential For a United Ukraine bloc won the largest number of seats, followed by the reformist Our Ukraine bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (who was then a former Prime Minister), and the Communist Party.

===Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances: 1994===
{{See also|Near abroad}}
At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,800 strategic warheads, 176 long-range ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers.

To solidify security commitments to Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the December 5, 1994 [[Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]]. The memorandum included assurances against the threat or use of force against Ukraine's territory or political independence. The countries promised to respect the sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine.

The United States took custody and control of Ukraine's obsolete nuclear stockpiles for disposal in exchange for assurances by the United States and NATO to safeguard Ukraine's independence. Ukraine was coaxed to give up it nuclear weapons in exchange for a written pledge, should Ukraine ever be threatened or invaded, the United States would be there to intervene with military power.

By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its operational nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It took years of political maneuvering and diplomatic work, starting with the Lisbon Protocol in 1992, to remove the weapons and nuclear infrastructure from Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons ]</ref>

===Failed color revolution: 2004===
{{see also|Color revolution|Psyop}}

Kuchma's second term in office as president (1999-2004) was characterized by the collapse of the national democratic-centrist alliance, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, the rise of a non-Communist opposition in the 2002 elections, and the election of [[Viktor Yushchenko]] in 2004 following the [[Open Society Foundations]]' [[Orange Revolution]]. The deep divisions that have become evident under Yushchenko had their origins in Ukraine's regionalism, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, antiregime protests, and different attitudes to dealing with the past. The country is divided by linguistic and regional cleavages that appear sharply in regional polarization in national elections. These divisions have led to constant questioning of the viability of the Ukrainian state and predictions of violence and civil war. Secessionist movements have made few inroads, however, and violence has been nonexistent. Because the Russian "minority" group in Ukraine is actually quite large, it has immense influence in the state without resort to regional autonomy or secession. The balance of power between Ukraine's regions and ethnic groups has ensured that neither side has dominated. This does not make for rapid reform.

The campaign leading to the October 31, 2004 presidential election was characterized by widespread violations of democratic norms, including government intimidation of the opposition and of independent media, abuse of state administrative resources, highly skewed media coverage, and numerous provocations. The two major candidates—Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader (and former Prime Minister) Viktor Yushchenko—each garnered between 39% and 40% of the vote and proceeded to a winner-take-all second round. The November 21 runoff election was marred by credible reports of widespread and significant violations, including illegal expulsion of opposition representatives from election commissions, multiple voting by busloads of people, abuse of absentee ballots, reports of coercion of votes in schools and prisons, and an abnormally high number of (easily manipulated) mobile ballot box votes. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv and other cities to protest electoral fraud and express support for Yushchenko, and conducted ongoing peaceful demonstrations during what came to be known as the "Orange Revolution."

The OSCE International Election Observation Mission found that the November 21, 2004 run-off presidential election "did not meet a considerable number of OSCE commitments and Council of Europe and other European standards for democratic elections…Overall, State executive authorities and the Central Election Commission (CEC) displayed a lack of will to conduct a genuine democratic election process." Other independent observers were similarly critical. On November 24, 2004, the CEC declared Prime Minister Yanukovych the winner with 49.46% compared to 46.61% for Yushchenko. The U.S. and Europe refused to accept the result as legitimate due to the numerous, uninvestigated reports of fraud. European leaders traveled to Kyiv to mediate a political solution between the parties. On November 27, Ukraine's Supreme Rada passed a resolution declaring that the election results as announced did not represent the will of the people. On December 1, the Rada passed a vote of "no confidence" in the government. On December 3, Ukraine's Supreme Court invalidated the CEC's announced results and mandated a repeat of the second round vote to take place on December 26. An agreement mediated by the European leaders resulted in new legislation being passed by the Rada and signed by the President December 8. The electoral law was reformed to close loopholes that had permitted pervasive electoral fraud. The constitution was amended, effective not earlier than September 2005, to transfer power, especially with respect to appointment of ministers, from the president to the cabinet. Yet another law was passed, in first reading, to devolve some powers of the central government to regional councils. In addition, Prime Minister Yanukovych requested and was granted a leave of absence, and Prosecutor General Hennadiy Vasilyev submitted his resignation.

The December 26 re-vote took place in an atmosphere of calm. While irregularities were noted, observers found no systemic or massive fraud. The OSCE Mission noted that "campaign conditions were markedly more equal, observers received fewer reports of pressure on voters, the election administration was more transparent and the media more balanced than in previous rounds…in our collective view Ukraine’s elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other European standards." On January 10, 2005, after the CEC and the Supreme Court had considered and rejected numerous complaints and appeals filed by the Yanukovych campaign, the CEC certified the results: Yushchenko had won 51.99% of the votes, with 44.20% for Yanukovych. President Yushchenko was inaugurated January 23, 2005.

Ukraine held parliamentary and local elections on March 26, 2006. International observers noted that conduct of the Rada election was in line with international standards for democratic elections, making this the most free and fair in Ukraine's history. Unlike the first rounds of the 2004 presidential election, candidates and parties were able to express themselves freely in a lively press and assembled without hindrance. There was no systemic abuse of administrative resources as there had been under the previous regime. The Party of Regions and the bloc of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whose government the President dismissed in September 2005, finished ahead of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. Other parties passing the 3% threshold to enter parliament were the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine. No party held the majority of Rada seats needed to form a government. Following four months of difficult negotiations, a government led by Prime Minister Yanukovych and including representatives from the Party of Regions, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party took office on August 4, 2006. This, the first government formed after the extensive constitutional amendments brokered as part of the Orange Revolution, has been the focus the Prime Minister's growing influence, sometimes at the expense of the President. Amid shifting political alliances, the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" formed by the Party of Regions, Socialist and Communist parties has grown into a "Coalition of National Unity," as some members of the pro-presidential "Our Ukraine" bloc have moved into the Prime Minister's camp. Meanwhile, others have joined forces with Bloc [[Yuliya Tymoshenko]].

===Western-backed Euromaidan regime change: 2014/2015===
''{{See also|Euromaidan coup|Obama war crimes}}
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|colspan="3"|(left) Destruction funded by the United States of the Savur-Mohyla memorial monument to Soviet Soldiers who defeated Nazism and liberated Ukraine; (right) the monument rebuilt and restored with funds provided by the Russian Federation.
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2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair and [[democracy|democratic]] elections certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE). In a 2013, an [[Obama administration]]-backed [[color revolution]] was unleashed, in which the Ukrainians nationalists protested against Yanukovych and wanted a pro-[[EU]] and [[NATO]] course by the government.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/vladimir-tismaneanu/ukrainian-people-power/</ref> These protests were dubbed "[[EuroMaidan]]".<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/putin-vs-pro-west-ukrainians/</ref> The key figures of the opposition were [[Victoria Nuland]], [[Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Vitali Klitschko]] and neo-Nazi [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. As a result, prime minister Mykola Azarov resigned<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25932352</ref> and Yanukovich was discontinued on February 22, 2014, by the parliament.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/22/ukrainian-protesters-claim-control-over-capital/</ref>

In response to the armed fascist coup of a democratically elected president, Russian soldiers landed in Crimea the same month. Because many of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was an ongoing dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to [[Russia]].<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from the illegally US-installed Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> On March 16, 2014, Russia sponsored a referendum in Crimea about joining Russia. As a result of it 95.5% of voters supported joining Russia.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26599776</ref> The decision of the voters was ratified by the Russian Duma. Since March 18, 2014, Russia claims Crimea as a part of its territory.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/18/russia-moves-to-annex-crimea-laughs-at-us-sanctions/</ref> [[Afghanistan]], [[Cuba]], [[Nicaragua]], [[North Korea]], [[Russia]], [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]] recognized Crimea as a part of Russia.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?ref=asia&_r=1</ref>

In response, the United States and Europe imposed the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions sponsored by Sen. [[John McCain]] against Russian trade.

As a result of the reincorporation of Crimea, the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] and the [[Lugansk People's Republic]] declared their independence and created a confederation called "[[Novorossiya|Federal State of Novorossiya]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140607011548/http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_24/Donetsk-Lugansk-Peoples-Republics-unite-in-Novorossiya-1012/</ref> Novorossiya was dissolved in May 2015 but the separate Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics however still exist. In June 2014 [[Petro Poroshenko]] was elected as new president of the Western-installed Kyiv regime<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/poroshenko-sworn-ukraines-president-073208251.html</ref> and [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]] became prime minister. Since then the U.S.-backed Ukrainian regime backed neo-Nazi paramilitary terror attacks against the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics. When President Donald Trump attempted to hold back military aid to the fascist Kyiv regime, U.S. [[Democratic party|Democrats]] impeached him.

===Ukrainian collusion: 2016-2019===
{{See also|Ukrainian collusion|Biden family corruption}}
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Alexandra 'Ali' Chalupa (left) and Col. Alexander Vindman (right), two Ukrainian [[Banderist]]s deeply involved in the plot to remove President Trump and drive the United States to war with Russia.
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The government of Ukraine in collusion with the [[Democratic National Committee]] colluded to interfere in the [[2016 United States Presidential Election]] and to subvert American [[democracy]]. In so doing, they sought to blame Russia for foreign influence.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html</ref>

Paul Sperry of Realclearinvestigations documented how the Ukrainian government, working with both the [[Obama administration]] and the [[2016 Clinton campaign]], Ukrainian officials intervened in the 2016 race to help [[Hillary Clinton]] and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]] where officials worked with Alexander Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American [[Banderist]] and Clinton campaign operative, to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on and investigate their political rival.

Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election. As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also attacked him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in ''[[The Hill]]'', an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on [[social media]].
[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
The Ukrainian mischief is part of Special Counsel [[John Durham]]’s broader Trump-Russia inquiry, as of 2022 a full-blown [[criminal]] investigation with [[grand jury]] indictments – into efforts to falsely target Trump as a [[Kremlin]] conspirator in 2016 and beyond.

Nine days after the U.S. presidential election, the Russian Federation sponsored a U.N. Resolution entitled ''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance'' aimed at condemning the [[neo-fascist]] groups openly displaying Nazi symbols and regalia in Ukraine and Donbas. The [[Obama administration]] voted against the resolution.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

===Impeachment 2.0: 2019-2020===
{{See also|Impeachment sham}}
In December 2016 Sens. [[Lindsey Graham]] and [[John McCain]] visited the Azov Battalion. Graham told them "Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense" to retake Crimea.<ref>https://twitter.com/HTTP_404_NotF/status/1499850899690242048</ref> However, the election of Donald Trump a month earlier interrupted the [[neocon]] [[globalist]] agenda for war with Russia. When the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and [[Mueller investigation]] failed to remove President Trump, undeterred, [[Ukranian nationalist]]s and their American collaborators attempted to impeach President Trump in the fall and winter of 2020 for not enthusiastically supporting war with Russia over Ukraine.

===Russia-Ukraine war: 2022===
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}

In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war. The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed. The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Former comedian, now President Volodymyr Zelensky (second from left), chest exposed, tight leather pants, wearing high heels depicted as the modern "[[Churchill]]";<ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/f1Ll6yw172sg/ Zelensky in drag.]</ref> (right) Vladimir Putin's "My Pet Goat" moment, receives briefing on Zelensky.
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In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> NATO-backed [[neo-Nazi]]s attacked the [[Donbas]] on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February 2022, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 591 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 975 ceasefire violations in the region.<ref>https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683</ref>

With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put a stop to the eight-year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives. After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref> The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

===Historiography===
The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century. The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev, and his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>

Strikingly different interpretations of the medieval state of [[Kievan Rus']] appear in the four schools of historiography within Ukraine: Russophile, Sovietophile, Eastern Slavic, and Ukrainophile. The Sovietophile and Russophile schools have become marginalized in independent Ukraine, with the Ukrainophile school being dominant in the early 21st century. The Ukrainophile school promotes an identity that is mutually exclusive of Russia. It has come to dominate the nation's educational system, security forces, and national symbols and monuments, although it has been dismissed as nationalist by Western historians. The East Slavic school, an eclectic compromise between Ukrainophiles and Russophilism, has a weaker ideological and symbolic base, although it is preferred by Ukraine's centrist former elites.<ref>Taras Kuzio, "National Identity and History Writing in Ukraine," ''Nationalities Papers'' 2006 34(4): 407-427, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref>

Many historians in recent years have sought alternatives to national histories, and Ukrainian history invited approaches that looked beyond a national paradigm. Multiethnic history recognizes the numerous peoples in Ukraine; transnational history portrays Ukraine as a border zone for various empires; and area studies categorizes Ukraine as part of Eurasia, or more often as part of East-Central Europe. Plokhy (2007) argues that looking beyond the country's national history has made possible a richer understanding of Ukraine, its people, and the surrounding regions.<ref>Serhii Plokhy, "Beyond Nationality" ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (4): 25-46,</ref>

After 1991, historical memory was a powerful tool in the political mobilization and legitimation of the post-Soviet Ukrainian state, as well as the division of selectively used memory along the lines of the political division of Ukrainian society. Ukraine did not experience the restorationist paradigm typical of some other post-Soviet nations, including the Baltic states, although the multifaceted history of independence, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Soviet-era repressions, mass famine, and World War II collaboration were used to provide a different constitutive frame for the new Ukrainian nation. The politics of identity (which includes the production of history textbooks and the authorization of commemorative practices) has remained fragmented and tailored to reflect the ideological anxieties and concerns of individual regions of Ukraine.<ref>See Andryi Portnov, "Exercises with history Ukrainian style (notes on public aspects of history's functioning in post-Soviet Ukraine)," ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (3): 93-138, in Ukrainian</ref>

==See also==

* [[Ames Brothers]]
* [[Nuclear target structures]]
*[[Ukraine collusion]]
*[[Ukrainian collusion timeline]]
*[[Essay: Understanding the organization of Ukrainian forces]]

==Bibliography==
[[File:Ukraine-Subtelny.jpg|thumb|250px]]* ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (University of Toronto Press, 1984–93) 5 vol; from [http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/webfiles/eu.htm Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies], partly online
* ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia.'' ed by Volodymyr E. KubijovyČ; University of Toronto Press. 1963; 1188pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58069636 online at [[Questia]]]
* Dalton, Meredith. ''Ukraine'' (Culture Shock! A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette) (2001)
* Evans, Andrew. ''Ukraine'' (2nd ed 2007) The Bradt Travel Guide [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1841621811/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&p=S00T#reader-link online excerpts and search at Amazon.com]
* Johnstone, Sarah. ''Ukraine'' (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Country-Guide-Sarah-Johnstone/dp/1741044812/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256224034&sr=1-7 excerpt and text search]
* Helbig, Adriana et al. ''Culture and Customs of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Customs-Ukraine-Europe/dp/0313343632/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898664&sr=8-17 excerpt and text search]

===Recent (since 1991)===
* Aslund, Anders, and Michael McFaul.''Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough'' (2006)
* Aslund, Anders. '' How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy'' (2009)
* Birch, Sarah. ''Elections and Democratization in Ukraine'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98201086 online edition]
* Kubicek, Paul. ''The History of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Ukraine-Greenwood-Histories-Nations/dp/0313349207/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Kuzio, Taras. ''Ukraine: State and Nation Building'' Routledge, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102997170 online edition]
* Whitmore, Sarah. ''State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian Parliament, 1990-2003'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108557869 online edition]
* Wilson, Andrew. ''Ukraine's Orange Revolution'' (2005)
* Wilson, Andrew. ''The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation,'' 2nd ed. 2002; [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0300093098/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/104-1795140-9172706?ie=UTF8&p=S00L#reader-link online excerpts at Amazon]
* Wolczuk, Roman. ''Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Ukraines-Foreign-Security-1991-2000-European/dp/0700717404/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]
* Zon, Hans van. ''The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine.'' 2000 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98833788 online edition]

===Historical===
* Brandon, Ray, and Wendy Lower, eds. ''The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.'' (2008). 378 pp. [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24078 online review]
* Kohut, Zenon E.; Nebesio, Bohdan Y.; and Yurkevich, Myroslav. ''Historical Dictionary of Ukraine.'' (2005). 854 pp.
* Berkhoff, Karel C. ''Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule.'' (2004). 448 pp.
* Dimarov, Anatoliy et al. ''A Hunger Most Cruel: The Human Face of the 1932-1933 Terror-Famine in Soviet Ukraine'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Most-Cruel-1932-1933-Terror-Famine/dp/096838997X/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256224123&sr=1-19 excerpt and text search]
* Gross, Jan T. ''Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia'' (1988).
* Hrushevsky, Michael. ''A History of Ukraine'' (1986)
* Kubicek, Paul. ''The History of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Ukraine-Greenwood-Histories-Nations/dp/0313349207/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Luckyj, George S. ''Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995.'' (1996)
* Lower, Wendy. ''Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine.'' U. of North Carolina Press, 2005. 307 pp.
* Magocsi, Paul Robert. ''A History of Ukraine'' (2nd. ed. 2009)
* Redlich, Shimon. ''Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945.'' Indiana U. Press, 2002. 202 pp.
* Reid, Anna. ''Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96969196 online edition]
* Subtelny, Orest. ''Ukraine: A History'' (3rd ed. 2009), 800pp; the best history in English
* Yekelchyk, Serhy. ''Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation'' (2007), 20th century history
* Zabarko, Boris, ed. ''Holocaust in the Ukraine.'' Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. 394 pp.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html CIA Factbook]
* [https://www.economist.com/countries/Ukraine/ Ukraine page at The Economist]
* [http://www.ukraine.org/ www.ukraine.org]
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/index.html ''Ukraine'' magazine, English edition]
* [https://youtu.be/Cll91vfc_3Q Ukrainian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 – 1945)]
* [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/450303.shtml "Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II,"] a 2003 Canadian film produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski and narrated by Jack Palance.
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm U.S. State Department ''Background Note: Ukraine'' (2008)], the source for several sections of this text
*[https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/ Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy]
*[https://youtu.be/kkg-gI8Wl0U 2014 Mariupol. Crimes of the Ukrainian regime . The war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years.] YouTube.
*[http://warcrimesofkiev.com/?lang=en Civil War in Ukraine 2014-2022]

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'''Ukraine''' (''From Polish, u kraya = borderlands'') is a failed state and puppet regime<ref>When a [[nation state]] cannot pay for it own defense in money or manpower, it has lost its independence and [[sovereignty]], and is commonly referred to as a "stooge state" or "puppet regime."</ref> since coming under the tutelage of [[NATO]] and the [[United States]] in an illegal [[coup]] in 2014. It is rated as the most [[corrupt]] government in [[Europe]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine</ref> After the U.S.-backed coup under [[Barack Obama]], the Ukrainian regime became increasingly fascist and [[xenophobic]]. As late as 2020, the UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident, the country's official coat of arms, next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]."<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref> Ukraine is one of Europe's most notorious human and child trafficing centers.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-human-traffciking-416319 Ukraine's Shame: An Epidemic of Human Trafficking], LUKE A. DRABYN, ''Newsweek'', 1/16/16.</ref>

A "Ukrainian state" was created by the [[Bolshevik]]s with remnants of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires. No entity known as "Ukraine" existed prior to 1918. Other territories were seized by Stalin from Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia - countries that provided troops to the German invasion of Russia during World War II. Later the Ukrainian-born Soviet communist and premier [[Nikita Khruschev]] severed the [[Crimean Peninsula]] from Russia proper, which had been a Russian territory for 400 years. The word itself, "Ukraine" literally means "border" or "borderlands".

Post World War I, Ukraine consisted of many nationalities, linguistic, and religious groups<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080418030322/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30078/Ukraine Interwar Soviet Ukraine], ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref> with "ethnic Ukrainians" only dominating the western regions. Ukrainian nationalists led a wholesale [[genocide]] against Poles, Gypsies, Jews, and Russians residing in those same territories under Nazi tutelage during World War II. Many Ukrainian Nazis were resettled in Canada and the United States to avoid prosecution for [[war crime]]s. The Ukrainian diaspora community residing in [[North America]] became the core anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance organized by the [[CIA]] after 1947. The people who spoke the borderlands dialect of Russian, one of many groups occupying the borderlands, previously were known as Galicians.

The territories were ceded to Germany by [[Lenin]] and [[Trotsky]] after the [[October Revolution]] in 1917, were non-aligned after the French and Angelo-American powers redrew the map and stiped Germany of its territorial possessions at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919, a Bolshevik Republic from 1922 to 1941,<ref>[https://dzen.ru/media/id/5f073d34db00016bd74b3365/kak-unr-plavno-uvelichilas-do-ussr-6309bf75f90f894d66c1b6ce HOW UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC BECAME UKRAINIAN SSR], Yuri Turkul, 29 August 2022.</ref> a Nazi ally from 1941 to 1944, and again an independent Soviet Republic from 1944 to 1991 with a seat in the [[United Nations]] General Assembly. By the 21st century, Ukraine had no independent history or literature of its own outside of the [[Russian World]].

Of the 50 million plus lives lost in [[World War II]], at least 30 million of various ethnicities came from, or will killed in, the territories of the borderlands, or "Ukraine". World War II occurred essentially in Ukraine, and not in [[France]] or [[Belgium]] or in the skies over [[Great Britain]]. The war set neighbor against neighbor, with local Ukrainian, Lithuanian and [[Baltic group|Baltic]] [[partisan]] groups fighting with the Nazis against local Russian, Belarussian and other partisan resistance groups defending themselves from Nazi aggression. While the German [[SS]] overlords implemented [[Hitler]]'s policy of extermination, it was Ukrainian and [[Lithuanian]] collaborators who did much of the dirty work in fingering their neighboring [[Jews]] and assisting in executions.

World War II did not end in Ukraine with the fall of [[Berlin]] and German surrender in 1945. Active resistance by nationalists against the Soviet Union continued until 1954, aided by the [[CIA]] from 1947 onward. Unlike the more urbanized territory of [[East Germany]], the Russian and Soviet peoples never were able to fully de-Nazify the Ukrainian Nazi Galicians of the more rural areas of western Ukraine. Like modern Russians who trace their ancestry back to [[Red Army]] soldiers who defeated fascism, Ukrainian nationalists today boast of their grandfathers who collaborated with the [[Third Reich]] and resisted Soviet Communism. Since the US-backed [[Maidan coup]] of 2014, monuments and memorials to Soviet soldiers who defeated fascism have been defaced and torn down while Ukrainian nationalists glorify their Nazi past.

Unlike [[Russia]], Ukraine advances the [[Soros]]-backed [[homosexual agenda]] with [[gay pride]] parades.<ref>[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/keep-spirit-maidan-alive George Soros Ukrainian youths sit near a fire late into the night in Kyiv's Maidan on February 25,]</ref> Also in contrast with Russia, Ukraine's leadership is [[liberal]] under the influence of western [[globalist]]s.

Ukraine has always possessed much ethnic [[diversity]]. It is the crossroads of East and West, Europe and Asia, North and South, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, Christendom and Islam. It had a significant Russian population in its eastern provinces, and many of these Russians declared independence after the Maidan coup and the NATO-backed ethninc cleansing campaign. Ukraine has significant Tatar, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, and Rusyn populations in its southern and western provinces. Throughout history Ukraine has been the site of some of the worst [[human rights]] atrocities on the planet. The former territory of Crimea was once populated by Crimean Tatars, but their presence was drastically reduced by the de-population policies of [[Joseph Stalin]].

To the north and east Ukraine shares a border with [[Russia]]; it shares a border with [[Belarus]] to the north and [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]] to the west. The counties of [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]] are to the southwest. The [[Black Sea]] is to the south, offering access to the [[Mediterranean]] via the Dneiper River. The capital city is [[Kyiv]] and the main religion is [[Eastern Orthodox]] Christianity. Ukrainians accentuate Kyiv different from how Russians do (Keev, not the Russian KEY-ev).<ref>https://www.polygraph.info/a/hey-daily-mail-it-s-ky--yeev-not-keev-/30281142.html</ref>

Ukraine is frequently in the news in the [[United States]] due to politicians, most notably [[Joe Biden]]'s family, personally profitting from the country since the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government. President [[Donald Trump]] was criticized by [[liberal]]s for asking Ukrainian leaders to investigate the potential corruption, which Ukrainian leaders failed to do. The United States Department of Defense has funded 11 biological research laboratories in Ukraine. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the [[North Korean]] ballistic missile capable of a [[nuclear bomb]] attack on [[Seattle]] and [[Los Angeles]] is based upon a design that came from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html</ref> The [[Biden regime]] has argued that each nation is free to build military alliances with whatever nation is chooses. In 2022, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky suggested Ukraine should acquire or base nuclear weapons there.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550057-zelensky-dangerous-nuclear-ukraine/</ref>

Ukraine is run by an oligarchy, with a small group of people amassing enormous fortunes as most of the nation labors in poverty. In 2014, the Pro-EU bloc with outside interference from the [[Western alliance]] overthrew the internal domestic pro-Russian bloc to seize power, resulting in massive chaos, the [[Crimean Annexation]], the ongoing [[Donbas conflict]] and a lingering economic crisis. This is in addition to how:
* The worldwide [[Recession of 2008]] hit Ukraine hard and it is seeking international aid.
* Politics has been chaotic recently.
* Russia has used its oil and gas exports to influence Ukrainian politics and economics.
* A strong (20%) Russian minority (mostly in the south and east) is campaigning for partition.
* The legal and economic systems are still controlled by powerful and secretive oligarchs.

The Ukrainian government which was installed in a [[coup]] in 2014 by the [[Obama administration]] worked with the [[Democratic National Committee]] to gin up the [[Russia Collusion hoax]], demonize [[Vladimir Putin]], interfere in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]], and turn American public opinion against [[Russia]] for [[propaganda]] purposes. Since the 2014 [[Maidan coup]], euphemistically referred to as the "revolution of dignity" by globalists and leftists, Ukrainian operatives working in the [[Democratic party]] of the United States and the U.S. [[intelligence community]] have sought to drive the United States to war with Russia to prevent the breakaway republics of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk from seceding from the globalist-backed Kyiv regime and joining the [[Russian Federation]].
[[File:OUN swastika.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Foreground: Ukrainian Coat of Arms. Background: Nazi swastikas.]]
[[File:Self proppelled canon.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Captured Pion (“peony”) ultraheavy self-propelled cannon that was previously aimed at Donetsk in the Donbas war. Note the Ukrainian trident symbol inside of an [[Imperial German]] “[[Iron Cross]]” painted on the side. This is very similar to the emblem of the [[Ukraine Security Service]], the local successor to the Soviet [[KGB]]. Modern Ukraine loves its German/Nordic-inspired symbols and imagery, in line with the post-2014 Maidan coup trend towards a forced and artificial but nonetheless complete break with all Russian/Soviet history, symbolism, and nomenclature, as if Ukraine has more in common with [[Germany]] than with Russia.]]
==Geography==
The total area of Ukraine is 603,700 km2 (233,090 sq. mi), making it, after Russia, the second largest country in [[Europe]]. Its coastline is 2,782 km.

The land of Ukraine is mostly [[steppe]]s and plateaus. There are mountains in the west of the country, the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]], and in the Crimean peninsula in the south. The main rivers in Ukraine are the [[Dnieper]] and the [[Dniester]].

The Ukrainian climate is considered temperate continental, but in the Crimea it is [[Mediterranean]]. The levels of precipitation are highest in the west and north, and lower in east and southeast. The winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland, and the summers are warm across the greater part of the country, and hot in the south.

==Demography==
[[File:Russian language in Ukraine.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Russian language spoken in Ukraine]]
[[File:Ukraine 2010 election.jpg|200px|right|thumb|2010 election results]]
There were at least 18 different nationalities totaling a pre-2014 population of about 46.5 million living within the territorial borders of the Ukraine in the early 21st century, with a population density of about 80 per square kilometer (200 people per square mile). Since the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup]] in 2014, more than 10.5 million people fled the country, 3.5 million of those seeking refuge in [[Russia]], more than any other country. Another 11.2 million residents of [[Crimea]], [[Sevastopol]], the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] people’s republics and the [[Zaporozhye]] and [[Kherson]] regions voted in open referendums to join the Russian Federation]]. Ukraine has lost 53.7% of its population since 2014.

The population was 73% Ukrainian and 22% Russian (with under 1% each of Poles, Jews, Bulgarians and others). Historically the countryside was heavily Ukrainian, while Russians dominated the cities, but in recent decades many Ukrainians have moved to the cities.

The country has been in demographic crisis since the 1980s. The population is shrinking 150,000 a year because of the lowest birth rate in Europe combined with one of the highest death rates in Europe. Life expectancy is falling. The nation suffers high mortality from environmental pollution, poor diets, widespread smoking, extensive alcoholism, and deteriorating medical care.<ref>Hanna H. Starostenko, "Economic and Ecological Factors of Transformations in Demographic Process in Ukraine" ''Uktraine Magazine'' #2 1998 online at [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/2_98/economic.htm]</ref>

The phenomenon of lowest-low fertility, defined as total fertility below 1.3, is emerging throughout Europe and is attributed by many to postponement of the initiation of childbearing. Ukraine, where total fertility (a very low 1.1 in 2001), is one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest-low fertility. Although Ukraine has undergone immense political and economic transformations during 1991–2004, it has maintained a young age at first birth and nearly universal childbearing. Analysis of official national statistics and the Ukrainian Reproductive Health Survey show that fertility declined to very low levels without a transition to a later pattern of childbearing. Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. These findings include the persistence of traditional norms for childbearing and the roles of men and women, concerns about medical complications and infertility at a later age, and the link between early fertility and early marriage.<ref>Brienna Perelli-Harris, "The Path to Lowest-low Fertility in Ukraine" ''Population Studies'' 2005 59(1): 55-70. Issn: 0032-4728; not online</ref>

According to data published by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Ukraine's fertility rate in 2023 dropped to 0.7.<ref>[https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/living-conditions-in-ukraine-are-resembling-a-new-slavery-a Living conditions in Ukraine are resembling a new slavery, a triumph of Western 'democracy' in the 21st century], Dmitri Kovalevich, Al Mayadeen, 20 Aug 2023</ref>

The government-imposed famines of the 1930s, followed by the devastation of World War II, comprised a demographic disaster. Life expectancy at birth fell to a level as low as ten years for females and seven for males in 1933 and plateaued around 25 for females and 15 for males in the period 1941–44.<ref>Jacques Vallin; Meslé, France; Adamets, Serguei; and Pyrozhkov, Serhii. "A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses During the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s." ''Population Studies'' (2002) 56(3): 249-264. Issn: 0032-4728 Fulltext in [[Jstor]]</ref>

Despite high rates of poverty, Ukraine is in the forefront of the global high-tech information and propaganda war.

Under Ukraine's fascist [[discriminatory]] laws, if a native Russian-speaking clerk-cashier in a convenience store attempts to sell you so much as a candy bar, the transaction must be conducted in the Ukrainian language. If both the cashier and customer are native Russian-speakers, both must put on fake Ukrainian accents under the [[racist]] regime's [[politically correct]] laws or suffer often cruel sanctions, up to and including public humiliation and violent beatings.

==Language, Religion, Culture==
In terms of societal structure, the territory of Ukraine is often referred to as a [[cleft country]] sitting on a "civilizational" fault line.

In 2022, the Russian language was banned from public life by the fascist Ukrainian regime which is totally dependent upon the financial assistance from the [[United States Congress]] to continue its existence. People whose first and only language is Russian were made second-class citizens in the country of their birth.

According to studies conducted by the Razumkov Center, 61% of Ukrainian citizens considered Ukrainian to be their native language, Russian - 36%, other languages - 2%. According to a survey conducted by Research & Branding Group, 68% of Ukrainian citizens are fluent in Russian (Ukrainian - 57%). According to a study by the American Gallup Institute, 83 percent of citizens surveyed chose Russian to communicate with the interviewer.

At least two-thirds of those living in Ukraine have one or more known relatives living in Russia. The fascist-controlled Maidan regime indoctrinates [[public school]] children with racial theories about no blood relationship between Russians and Ukrainians.
[[File:Ukrainian collaborators worldwartwo.filminspector.com 3.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Ukrainians welcome Nazi liberators from Soviet oppression.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
The religion is predominately [[Eastern Orthodox]]. In 1992 the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church]] split into two rival denominations, the Moscow Patriarchate and the unrecognized Kiev Patriarchate. In 2023 the Zelensky regime attempted to outlaw the Moscow Patriarchate. About 10%, primarily in the west, belong to Uniate churches with eastern rites but affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church of Rome. Poles are Roman Catholics of the Latin rite. The Tatars are Muslims. About 4% are atheists.

Ukraine is widely known for its lively Cossack-style dancing ("hopak") and elaborately batiked Easter eggs ("pysanky")

There are not only clear regional differences on questions of identity but historical cleavages remain evident at the level of individual social identification. Attitudes toward the most important political issue, relations with Russia, differed strongly between L'viv, identifying more with [[Ukrainian nationalism]] and the Greek Orthodox religion, and Donetsk, predominantly Russian and favorable to the [[Russian world]], while in central and southern regions, as well as Kyiv, such divisions were less important. However, prior to the overthrow of the democratically elected government by the Obama administration in 2014, all were united by an overarching Ukrainian identity based on shared economic difficulties, showing that other attitudes are determined more by culture and politics than by demographic differences.<ref>Oksana Malanchuk, "Social Identification Versus Regionalism in Contemporary Ukraine." ''Nationalities Papers'' 2005 33(3): 345-368. Issn: 0090-5992 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

Prior to 2022, Ukrainian civilian gun ownership was limited to 84th in the world.<ref>https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/cp/ukraine</ref>

Important Ukrainian literary figures include Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka.

===Social conditions===

In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> According to a 2017 survey, 63% of the population spoke Russian, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170822212837/http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2017-8-22_ukraine_poll_presentation.pdf</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref>

===Attacks on the church===

Unreported in the Western media propaganda complex were Zelensky regime's attacks on the Chirstian church. Priests were arrested and property seized in a fruitless hunt for weapons stored in churches. Jacob Driezen, who is fluent in Russian, summarized the attacks in December 2022:
[[File:SBU raids chuch.PNG |right|300px|thumb|Zelensky regime [[Ukrainian gestapo|gestapo]] raid on the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the preeminent center of Christianity since 1051 A.D. Other raids were carried out on the Cyril and Methodius Convent in Transcarpathia, and in Rovno, Vinnitsa, and Zhitomir oblasts looking for "Russian spys" and propaganda.<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/11/25/dreizin-retires/</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"The head (by other accounts, the press office) of the Ukraine’s military intelligence, the G.U.R., suggested the priests be traded for Ukrainian soldiers held by Russia....In reality, the church is GUILTY of sermonizing for peace, and emphasizing (in its prayers and sermons) the historic bonds between Russians and Ukrainians which is seen as a THREAT to the post-2014 regime as, among other sins, it contradicts the “official narrative” (as per school history textbooks) that Ukrainians are an autochthonous ethnos with a distinct lineage and an integral, unified history separate from Russia’s.

In particular, the regime hates that the church, per 1000-plus year tradition refers to “Rus” or “Holy Rus” in its prayers and sermons (e.g., “we pray for the peace of Rus“). Even though (long story short) “Rus“—later Rossiya, or Russia in English—was basically founded in Kiev.

But, the regime hates that word. Regime official history is that the Ukraine has been the Ukraine, since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

As I wrote before, the church (which is nominally under the Moscow Patriarchate) is also the last cultural bond between the Ukraine and Russia, that is not yet totally suppressed or illegal. So, it has to go. I won’t even be surprised if they dissolve the entire church soon, put its assets under the regime-approved breakaway faction....

It appears, there are now plans to confiscate the Kiev-[[Pechersk Lavra]] and hand it over to the regime-approved breakaway faction. The head of the Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, [[Oleksiy Danilov]], a former racketeer from Lugansk, has said something along the lines of, “the site never really belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, it belongs to the people, and now we’ll see who gets to use it.” Speculation is, the first stage of confiscation will involve allowing the regime-approved breakaway faction to use the site co-equally with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church… before the latter is pushed out entirely.

In general…Anyone, today, in the Ukraine, who challenges the narrative or speaks out in any way is basically GUARANTEED to suffer physical harm and/or detention and prosecution for treason, perhaps disappearance, even death."<ref>https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/11/25/dreizin-retires/</ref>}}

==Goverment 1991 - 2014==
[[File:Ukrainians greet Nazis 1941.PNG|right|500px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalists welcome Nazis, 1941 with banners saying "Heil Hitler".]]
By the time the territory of Ukraine was separated from the former Soviet Union in 1992, its landmass ranked as the world's 17th largest in Gross Domestic Product with no attributable foreign debt. The Russian Federation paid off the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's share of the USSR foreign debt — as it did for other former Soviet republics. At the beginning of 2020, after exploitation by Western oligarchs, Ukraine's debt to mostly Western foreigners exceeded 125 billion dollars. In terms of GDP per capita, Ukraine ranked last among European countries. By 2021, Ukraine showed the highest level of corruption among European countries.

Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' (2004) and 'Euromaidan' or 'Revolution of Dignity' (2014) both started at the central 'Maidan' square in Kiev, as had the earlier
'Revolution on Granite' (1990), and the word maidan is nowadays often applied to any massive anti-government street protests not only in Ukraine but in other post-Soviet countries as well.

===Pre-Maidan regime===
[[File:Galitchina.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The inscription in Ukrainian reads: "Join up with the SS Infantry
Division Galitchina for the defense of the fatherland — become brothers-in-arms with the best warriors of the world!"]]
Prior to the Maidan coup Ukraine had a parliamentary-presidential system of government with separate executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The president nominates the defense and foreign ministers, and the Prosecutor General and Chief of the State Security Service ([[SBU]]), each of whom must be confirmed by the parliament. Beginning in 2006, the 450-member unicameral parliament (Supreme Rada) names the prime minister, who in turn nominates other ministers. The Supreme Rada initiates legislation, ratifies international agreements, and approves the budget. Its members are elected to five-year terms. Following free elections held on December 1, 1991, Leonid M. Kravchuk, former chairman of the Ukrainian Rada, was elected to a five-year term, and became Ukraine's first president. At the same time, a referendum on dissolution from the Soviet Union was approved by more than 90% of the voters.

Shortly after splitting off from the Soviet Union, Ukraine named a parliamentary commission to prepare a new constitution, adopted a multi-party system, and adopted legislative guarantees of civil and political rights for national minorities. A new, constitution was adopted on June 28, 1996, which mandates a pluralistic political system with protection of basic human rights and liberties. Amendments that took effect January 1, 2006, shifted significant powers from the president to the prime minister and Supreme Rada. These reforms were nullified and rescinded by President Volodymyr Zelensky and the fascist-dominated parliament in March 2022 with the banning of opposition parties, imposition of censorship, and arrest, detention, and assassination of pollical opponents and dissidents.

Freedom of religion was guaranteed by law by the 1996 constitution, although religious organizations were required to register with local authorities and with the central government. Minority rights were respected in accordance with a 1991 law guaranteeing ethnic minorities the right to schools and cultural facilities and the use of national languages in conducting personal business until the U.S.-backed Maidan regime began a policy of extermination and removal of ethnic Russian citizens and Russian culture from public life. According to the constitution, Ukrainian is the only official state language.

Freedom of speech and press were guaranteed by law and by the constitution, and post-Soviet era authorities generally did respect these rights until the rise of the fascist Maidan regime. Prior to the "Orange Revolution," however, authorities sometimes interfered with the news media through intimidation and other forms of pressure. In particular, the failure of the government to conduct a thorough, credible, and transparent investigation into the 2000 disappearance and murder of independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, in which then-government officials have been credibly implicated, negatively affected Ukraine's international image. Freedom of the media and respect for citizens’ rights have increased markedly since the government of President [[Viktor Yushchenko]] took office in January 2005. During the final months of his Presidency, Yuschenko made the following declaration:
{{Cquote|In conclusion I would like to say something that is long awaited by the Ukrainian patriots for many years I have signed a decree for the unbroken spirit and standing for the idea of fighting for independent Ukraine. I declare [[Stepan Bandera]] a national hero of Ukraine.}}

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===Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists===
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUNb) worked hard to start a war between the US and Russia for the last 50 years. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'' in a rare open statement of their existence in 2011, “Other statements were issued in the Ukrainian language by the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (B) and the International Conference in Support of Ukraine. The [[OUN|OUN (Bandera wing)]] called for." OUNb follow the same political policy and platform that was developed in the 1930s by '''[[Stepan Bandera]]'''. When these people go to a '''[[Holocaust]] memorial they are celebrating both the dead and the OUNb [[SS]] that killed.'''<ref>http://www.infoukes.com/galiciadivision/</ref> The OUNb have no concept of democratic values and want an [[authoritarian]] [[fascism]].

[[Alexandra Chalupa]] (Ali Chalupa) is a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the [[Democratic National Committee]]. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'',<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>

{{Anchor|Ivan Katchanovski}}
{{quotebox-float|"… The effort, known as Digital Maidan, gained momentum following the initial [[Twitter]] storms. Leading the effort were: Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, [[Alexandra Chalupa]], Constatin Kostenko and others.” The Digital Maidan was also how they raised money for the coup. This was how the Ukrainian emigres bought the bullets that were used on Euromaidan. Ukraine’s chubby nazi, [[Dima Yarosh]] stated openly he was taking money from the Ukrainian emigres during Euromaidan and [[Pravy Sektor]] still fundraises openly in [[North America]]. The “Sniper Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine by '''Dr. Ivan Katchanovski''', University of Ottawa shows clearly detailed evidence how the massacre happened.<ref>Ivan Katchanovski (2023) The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine, Cogent Social Sciences, 9:2, DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685</ref> It has [[Pravy Sektor]] confessions that show who created the “[[heavenly hundred]]. Their admitted involvement as leaders of Digital Maidan by both Chalupas is a clear violation of the [[Neutrality Act]] and has up to a 25 year prison sentence attached to it because it ended in a [[coup]].}}

Andrea Chalupa-2014, in a ''Huff Post'' article Sept. 1 2016, Andrea Chalupa described Sviatoslav Yurash as one of Ukraine's important “dreamers.” He is a young activist that founded Euromaidan Press. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yurash was [[Dmitri Yarosh]]'s spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the deputy director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in Kiev.
[[File:Azov-bn.gif|left|350px|thumb|The Obama State Department colluded with the fascist Azov Battalion to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine in the [[Euromaidan Rebellion]] and install a corrupt regime that was sympathetic to, and included, fascists.]]

In January, 2014 when he showed up at the Maidan protests he was 17 years old. He became the foreign language media representative for [[Vitali Klitschko]], [[Arseni Yatsenyuk]], and Oleh Tyahnybok. All press enquiries went through Yurash. To meet Dimitri Yurash you had to go through Sviatoslav Yurash as a ''Macleans'' reporter found out.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yurash became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under [[Andrei Paruby]]. He was Dimitri Yarosh's spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Yurash.

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yurash's ''[[Euromaidan Press]]'' which is associated with [[Informnapalm]].org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.

From her bio, Irena Chalupa is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is also a senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where she has worked for more than twenty years. Irene Chalupa previously served as an editor for the [[Atlantic Council]], where she covered Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Irena Chalupa is also the news anchor for Ukraine's propaganda channel org She is also a Ukrainian emigre leader.

According to Robert Parry's article,<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2016/10/22/washingtons-new-lock-step-march-of-folly/</ref> "At the forefront of people that would have taken senior positions in a Clinton administration and especially in foreign policy are the Atlantic Council. Their main goal is still a major confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia."

The [[Atlantic Council]] is the think tank associated and supported by the CEEC (Central and Eastern European Coalition). The CEEC has only one goal which is war with Russia. Their question to candidates looking for their support in the election was “Are you willing to go to war with Russia?” Hillary Clinton has received their unqualified support throughout the 2016 campaign. Since the Atlantic Council would have taken senior cabinet and policy positions in a [[Hillary Clinton]] administration, Dimitri Alperovitch own fellowship status at the Atlantic Council and relationship with Irene Chalupa creates a definite [[conflict of interest]] for [[Crowdstrike]]'s investigation in May 2014 [[DNC]] hack which Crowdstrike blamed on Russia and the [[Comey]] [[FBI]] unquestionably accepted without investigating. Donald's Trump's campaign was gaining ground and Clinton needed a boost.

{{Anchor|Kyiv regime}}

==Maidan regime 2014 - present==
{{See also|Maidan coup}}
[[File:Yuzov field.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Yuzov shale gas field in Donbas.<ref>https://archive.ph/24KHx/a9869d7aa7b9d9c072e4957f1b8ea963fa512126.jpg</ref>]]
The Maidan regime outlawed political opposition parties in 2022 arrested members of parliament. Additionally, it implemented draconian measures against all opposition including arrests, disappearances, beatings, public humiliation, and murder. There is no free press in Ukraine, and Ukrainian security services has gone so far as to hunt down critics of the regime outside its borders.

With the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government in 2014, foreign capital and investors invaded the country causing the collapse of Ukrainian "mom-and-pop" enterprises which flourished after 1991, creating widespread poverty and unemployment, making resource rich Ukraine the poorest nation in Europe.

{{Anchor|Ukrainian Nazis}}
The U.S.-backed coup brought to power neo-Nazis, which Western media dubbed "moderate rebels". Extrajudicial killings, harassment, arbitrary detentions by the [[Security Service of Ukraine]], beatings and disappearances take place on a regular basis. Repressive measures accelerated and became even more brutal after anti-democratic dictator Volodymyr Zelensky declared martial law in February 2022. In April 2022, Efraim Zuroff, the Director of the [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] in [[Israel]] said, “There is no doubt that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine in various forms, whether in the Azov Regiment or other organizations,” he added.<ref>https://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2022&mm=04&dd=14&nav_id=113531</ref> The Ukrainian authorities and deputized ultra-nationalist groups seek out people who openly expressed political views on the former post-Soviet government as well as criticism of the current U.S.-backed Maidan regime. Threats, harassment and calls for violence have been and continue to be made against those who:
*publicly supported the [[Minsk Agreements]],
*are against “de-communization”,
*highlight human rights abuses,
*advocate for a settlement of the Donbas conflict,
*are deemed to be “pro-Russian”,
*church representatives and clergy,
*read news in Russian.
[[File:Head of Ukraine's Supreme Court arrested.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Head of Ukraine's [[Supreme Court]] arrested in 2023 for large scale corruption.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption</ref>]]
Add into this maelstrom another layer of extrajudicial repression, in the form of impromptu justice being meted out to civilians, bound up, tied to posts,<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/4CshCEPBhZQI/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlCFEDxkZz3T/</ref> beaten, humiliated and even killed by lower level Nazi groups in the "Territorial Defense".<ref>https://youtu.be/OAyWmOcj0q8</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/MtOig6UsjC72/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/VMS5cET98HOU/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/w1zvj2TAyWhL/</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/SIf9NgzIi4fG/</ref> There are simply hundreds and hundreds of video clips and photos showing these events. People are not only being tied up to street posts as suspected looters, but people are being bound up or arrested for being pro-Russian, for not being able to pronounce the word ''Palyanytsya'' (bread) in Ukrainian. Not every ethnic Russian speaker in Ukraine can speak good Ukrainian, and some have trouble pronouncing certain words in Ukrainian. People have been reportedly killed for not pronouncing the shibboleth word correctly and thus assumed to be part of subversive Russian reconnaissance groups.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/7OZHz7ncIRb1/</ref>

The so-called "international community” has expressed no interest or desire to take a closer look at this disturbing situation in Ukraine and in fact has supported the fascist regime with money, weapons and military training. A highly repressive with systematic serious human rights abuses committed against civilians, by members of the military and police, has not been an impediment to being part of the European and NATO family.

After the Maidan coup, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported in April 2017 that [[North Korea]] obtained its [[ballistic missile]] [[technology]] with the ability to strike the continental Western United States from the NATO puppet state of "democratic" Ukraine, in violation of non-proliferation treaties..<ref>[https://archive.is/nckTN#selection-341.0-341.52 North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say], By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, ''New York Times'', Aug. 14, 2017.</ref>

===Racial theories and discrimination===
[[File:Tymoshenko meeting Hillary.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Yulia Tymoshenko meeting [[Hillary Clinton]] during one of her many [[criminal]] trials.]]
Ukraine has the world's only national Constitution that includes genetic (or ‘racial’) purity as a responsibility of the Government to protect and maintain. Article 16 of Ukraine Constitution says "to preserve the genetic heritage of the Ukrainian people is the responsibility of the state."<ref>https://constituteproject.org/constitution/Ukraine_2019.pdf</ref>
The cultural and domestic godfather of Ukrainian nationalism was Taras Shevchenko. This writer essentially formed the main line of Ukrainian nationalist ideology - Russophobia, elevated to the state level, to the level of the leading and prime ideology. A successor of such ideas was the ideologist of the [[OUNb]], Dmytro Dontsov, called the dissolution of the personality of the "Ukrainian" in the nationalist ideology and collective consciousness of the nationalist movement "a great self-dedication to the idea." His works had a huge impact on the subsequent ideologists of Ukrainian Nazism, [[Shukhevych]] and Bandera. Dontsov, who, on the basis of the works of [[Hitler]] and [[Mussolini]], developed the concept that Ukrainians differ from Russians not only in ethnic, cultural and linguistic ways, but also in racial characteristics.

On February 22, 2014, V. Yavorivsky, a member of the Batkivshchyna faction, introduced in Ukraine's [[Verkhovna Rada]] draft legislation proposing that standards of accountability for expressing personal opinions on Fascist crimes be abolished. Within days after the anti-democratic seizure of power, the provisional Maidan parliament passed legislation that declared Russian speakers no longer have equal rights with Ukrainians, legalizing [[discrimination]] against Russians. On February 24, 2014, in Zaporozhye, four extremists attempted to burn down a [[synagogue]]. On March 11, 2014, a bill was introduced in parliament by the Svoboda party proposing a 7-year sentence for speaking Russian in government offices and public places in Ukraine.

In March 2014 Y. Perebiynis, head of the Information Policy Department of Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Russians are not an indigenous people of Ukraine and therefore do not have the right to [[self-determination]] on Ukrainian territory. He also said that in Ukraine there are only four indigenous peoples: Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks. Ethnic [[Czech]]s living in [[Volyn]] and Zhytomyr provinces (there is an estimated 10,000 and 20,000 Czechs live in Ukraine) appealed to the government of the [[Czech Republic]] for repatriation. Chair of the Society of Volyn Czechs E. Snidevich said, "We fear for our lives. There are bandits who call themselves ‘self-defense units.’ Nothing good will come of this."

Beginning on March 20, 2014, Russians living in Ukraine started to complain ''en masse'' to the Consulate General of Russia in [[Kharkiv]] about pressure from Maidan authorities who demanded that they formalize their renunciation of Russian citizenship or leave Ukraine.

On March 24, 2014 a recording appeared on the internet of a telephone conversation between former Ukrainian prime minister and current presidential candidate [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] and former deputy secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine N. Shufrich. In it, Tymoshenko said,
{{quotebox-float|"We have only one way to destroy Moscow. This is what we live for, we have come into this world to destroy [[Moscow]]. And not just the Muscovite in our country, but the whole black hole of European security, and delete them from the world map. Sh*t, we have to resort to arms, and the G*d d**n Kazapi-Russians<ref>Ukrainian ethnic slur for Kazakhs, Turks, Taters and Russians.</ref> together with their leader, kill. I will stir the whole world to action as soon as I can, in order that Russia, the s*n of a b**ch, no burnt field remains (scorched earth). You have to shoot them with [[nuclear weapon]]s."<ref>https://www.kla.tv/22511</ref><ref>https://archive.vn/QX2Ks</ref>}}
On January 16, 2022, Ukraine mandated that all print media are to switch to the Ukrainian language. State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin said in a [[Facebook]] post, "In accordance with the law, print mass media can be produced in other languages, on the condition that the number of copies issued in a foreign language is equal to the number of copies issued in the state language [Ukrainian]. All language versions must be issued under the same name and be equal to each other in terms of content, volume, printing techniques. They must enter circulation under the same number and on the same day."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

In March 2022 the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, a governmental entity, published in both Russian and English a series of arguments claiming Ukrainians are pureblood [[Slavs]], while the Russian nation was formed through race mixing with Asiatic tribes, "the Ugro-Finnish tribes: Muroma, Mernia, Wes, Meshchera, Moksha, Perm, Narova, and others,” it stated. The difference apparently is “visible to the naked eye”. Despite the common language, alphabet, history, society, culture, and literary traditions, the Institute denies that Ukrainians and Russians are "fraternal brothers," and states that Ukrainians are European, unlike "russian nomads" (spelled with a lower case "r". Several cabinet ministers in the Zelensky regime make a habit of always spelling "Russia" with a lower case "r".)
[[File:Ukrainian nazi propaganda.jpg|left|400px|thumb|Official Maidan regime nazi propaganda posted to Twitter. It was later deleted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220315202518/https://twitter.com/Uinp_gov_ua/status/1503439897025204224</ref>]]
In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May 2022, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI) which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, estimated that more than 100 million copies of Russian language books would be removed from Ukrainian public libraries, fully half of all libraries’ holdings.<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-government-plans-book-banning-on-massive-scale/</ref> The city council of Nikolaev banned the teaching of the Russian language in schools.<ref>https://europe-cities.com/2022/06/18/the-authorities-of-nikolaev-banned-the-russian-language-at-school-from-september-1/</ref> The Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to ban Russian-language music.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-to-ban-russian-music-culture/31905236.html</ref><ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

Secretary of the Security Council Alexei Danilov said on the air of the NTA TV channel that the Russian language must be completely eradicated on the territory of Ukraine. According to Danilov, the Russian language is allegedly hostile to Ukrainians, so it has no place in this country. "The Russian language in general should disappear from our territory as an element of hostile propaganda and brainwashing of our population," Danilov said on a national talk show.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/10/21/national-security-and-defense-council-of-ukraine-the-russian-language-must-disappear/</ref> Danilov claimed that the "narrative" about the need to reach mutual understanding with Russian-speaking Ukrainians is highly dangerous for the state. "To plant these Russian narratives here is a very, very dangerous thing. Presumably, we have to understand each other, who they are, what they are. Look, we don’t want anything from them [Russians]. Why don’t they leave us alone? Let them go to their swamps and croak in the Russian language,” he stated.

Danilov complained about a large number of Ukrainian political experts who regularly appear on television using Russian as the main language. In response to this, the show host proposed to create and broadcast a list of Ukrainian public figures that speak Russian. He also said that the state-owned Ukrainian channel Freedom will abandon the Russian language and start broadcasting in English. “I would like to draw your attention to something else – we have a lot of experts who go from channel to channel and use Russian as the main language of their communication. Moreover, they are rated in some studies, they claim, they say that they will go to the president, somewhere else. Look, the Russian language should disappear from our territories altogether as an element of enemy propaganda and brainwashing for our population,” Danilov added.

In October 2022 it was reported that Ukrainian nationalists tore down statues of Hungarian historic figures. Ukraine sperm banks advertised specimens from "pure blood' Ukrainians.

On November 10, 2022 the Kyiv City Council voted to remove the Russian language from the Maidan regime capital’s public school curriculum citing "[[national security]]."<ref>https://insideeducation.co.za/2022/11/11/kiev-introduces-new-restrictions-on-the-russian-language/</ref>

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Ukraine, which never existed prior to 1918, first applied to join the European Union in 988 A.D. ([[Anno Domini]]).<ref>https://youtu.be/6ryrNQibEGo?t=1378</ref> The European Union, which was founded as a coal and steel consortium in 1957, did not adopt the name "European Union" until 1992 A.D. after going through a series of other name changes.

Soldiers of the Ukrainian regime were given a leaflet from the [[Kiev Patriarchate]] that read,
{{quotebox-float|"You are a defender of Ukraine. Your duty is to defend [[Nezalezhnaya|Independence]] and fight Russian occupants. Your duty is to wipe the Russian nation from the face of the Earth. Your enemy is the [[Russian World]] which was created by defective sinful souls. To kill a Russian is not a [[sin]]."<ref>https://youtu.be/cl0Fh2p_cT4?t=142</ref>}}
On September 28, 2023, Vovan & Lexus, the famous radio DJs and pranskters, posing as ex-President [[Petro Poroshenko]], spoke with the [[transgender]] Ukrainian [[Territorial Defense]] spokesperson [[Sarah Ashton-Cirillo]] (American born Michael Cirillo, stated what is taught in Ukrainian [[public school]]s:
{{quotebox-float|"Russians are not Europeans… Russians are Asian, and ultimately, they do come from the [[Mongol]]s. They do come from a grouping of people who want to be [[slave]]s and want to be led, just as it was from the days of [[Genghis Khan]]. I wish the rest of Europe and the [[Western civilization|Western world]] understood that Europe ends at Ukraine. We are protecting European values and Western values the same way those did hundreds and thousands of years ago when the Mongols came in…. Every Russian that supports Vladimir Putin’s decisions are not human. These people are not human. They are enemies of [[humanity]], in fact… we’ve been asking the Western world since the days of your presidency, sir, to make certain they understood the threat of these non-humans."<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/justin-trudeau-and-the-banderites/ Justin Trudeau and the Banderites], C.B. Forde, ''The Postil Magazine'', October 1, 2023.</ref>}}
In November 2023 November 9, 2023 Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, stated that the issue of protecting the Russian minority is not raised in the negotiations with the EU on minority rights. "There is no Russian minority in Ukraine. It does not exist! There is not a single legally registered community that identifies itself as a Russian minority." The day before, the [[European Commission]] also stated at a closed briefing in [[Brussels]] that it would not take into account the "rights of Russian speakers" on Ukraine's path to the EU.<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/no-russian-minority-ukraine-rights-092554145.html There is no Russian minority in Ukraine, so its "rights" do not come up in negotiations with EU – Ukraine's senior official], ''Ukrainska Pravda'', November 9, 2023.</ref>

===Nazi paramilitary groups===

In April 2014, the 25th separate airborne brigade of the High Mobility Assault Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was sent to Donetsk to wage war on its residents. However, in the words of the embittered interim-president Turchynov on April 17, 2014, at the Verkhovna Rada, “the 25th separate Airborne Brigade, whose military showed cowardice and surrendered arms, will be disestablished… The Defense Ministry has received this instruction.”<ref>https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/</ref>
[[File:National Militia.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[BBC]] report on the National Militia, April 4, 2018.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6b4ao8gAQ Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia], Jonah Fisher reports, ''BBC Newsnight'', April 4, 2018.</ref>]]
Turchynov sent a corresponding order to the Prosecutor-General's office demanding the criminal punishment of the disobedient servicemen. While the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denied that the brigade defected to the side of the separatists, the unit's tanks began to fly the flag of the DNR, as even mainstream Western media reported.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/ukraines-offensive-falters-as-elite-units-defect-to-pro-russia-side</ref>

Days after the interim President “disbanded” the 25th Brigade, the newly installed “deputy governor” of Dnipropetrovsk</ref> announced the formation of “special forces” in order to “protect the oblast” from falling into “Russia’s hands.” While the median Ukrainian salary for 2014 was 3480₴ (US$117), “volunteers” for these battalions, according to the Deputy Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Hennadiy Korban, received 29528₴ ($1000) per month. That's nearly ten times the average salary in Ukraine.

After the loss of parts of the Oblasts of Lugansk and Donetsk and the entire peninsula of Crimea, Kiev believed that Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with its large Russian-speaking population, would be the next Oblast to declare independence. Unable to rely on the Ukrainian military, nor the current police force, which they deemed to be “infiltrated by pro-Russian separatists,” Kiev officially deputized the fascistic paramilitary forces that functioned as street muscle during the Maidan coup.

In March 2014, Kiev passed a law establishing a “national guard” which was to be overseen by the Ministry of the Interior.<ref>https://cis-legislation.com/document.fwx?rgn=66315</ref> With the consent of the then-Interior Minister [[Arsen Avakov]], Ukrainian billionaire [[Igor Kholmoisky]] bankrolled the creation of some of the country's more notorious [[Territorial Defense]] forces.

===US role: National Endowment for Democracy===
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[[Washington D.C.]]’s regime-change arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED), spent $16.8 million from 2007 through 2012, to stimulate civic activity and fund election watchdogs and non-state run reporting outlets in Ukraine. These funds have gone to organizations that played a role in the 2004 Orange Revolution and have since continued to monitor elections, investigate government corruption and educate youth about Western "democratic" government.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-foreign-aid-ukraine_n_4914682</ref> Since the Maidan coup of 2014 NED spent $22.4 million on operations inside Ukraine, when democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor regime handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational corporations, all in an effort to secure U.S. control over the country that NED President Carl Gershman called “the biggest prize” in Europe.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/</ref>
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[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|3O0px|thumb|Maidan coup conspirators [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), U.S. Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).<ref>https://youtu.be/vtKgW2DSIb0</ref>]]
The National Endowment for Democracy was set up in 1983 after a series of scandals undermined both the credibility and the public image of the [[CIA]]. The organization was established as a cutout doing much of the agency's dirtiest work. “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA,” Gershman himself said, explaining its creation. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1991.

NED is almost entirely funded by Congress and is staffed largely by ex-national security state leaders. Its president as of 2022 is Damon Wilson. The NED published a video of Wilson at a rally outside the [[White House]], declaring "Glory to Ukraine" – the salute used by Nazi collaborator [[Stephan Bandera]]'s [[OUN-B]], which carried out [[mass murder]] of [[Jews]] and [[Polish|Poles]] during [[World War II]].<ref>https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1500899917300129795</ref> Other top officials pepper NED's board of directors, including [[Biden regime]] CIA Director [[William Burns]], Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution mastermind [[Victoria Nuland]], as well as veteran national security official Elliott Abrams. Its private non-profit status means that its affairs do not fall under the same legal scrutiny as those of government organizations like the CIA. It has no congressional oversight. It is harder to acquire documents under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA), meaning that the group's actions remain shrouded in secrecy.

Studying the NED grants database reveals that the organization has approved 334 separate grants to Ukraine, a country the group's 2019 annual report identified as its “top priority,” owing to “its size and importance for the Europe region.” The report notes that NED is focused on “counter[ing] foreign [i.e., Russian] malign influence, particularly disinformation and corrosive capital.” Of the European nations, only Russia itself has been the target of more NED money ($37.7 million to Ukraine's $22.4 million). NED is rather hazy about where its money is going, yet scrutinizing the vague project outlines, it becomes clear that NED has two major objectives in Ukraine:
[[File:Oleh Tyanhbok.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Tyahnybok: "[[Moscow]]-[[Jewish]] mafia" is running Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/05/corporate-medias-about-face-on-ukraines-neo-nazis/</ref>]]
:Pushing through a mass privatization of the country’s state-owned businesses.
:Building up political parties that will represent elite U.S. interests.

Of the $22.4 million, over $2.9 million has been awarded to the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an offshoot of the [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]. One NED grant to the CIPE — worth $500,000 described the project's goal as “enhanc[ing] the role of leading business associations and the private sector in public policy decision-making, and improv[ing] the capacity of the private sector and officials to cooperate to develop and implement economic reforms.” In other words, to hand over government decision-making to big business, something many might argue is the antithesis of [[democracy]].<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>

The post-2014 government, installed after the Maidan Revolution, has already implemented a course of economic shock therapy, selling off many of the country's state-owned assets, in the process turning Ukraine into, by quite some margin, the poorest nation in Europe (although it has also helped create many new billionaires). Nevertheless, the U.S. wants to see further privatizations, along the lines of what it helped implement in Russia in the 1990s.

NED has also been key in building up pro-U.S. political forces in Ukraine, notably awarding the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) nearly $2.2 million towards this endeavor. Congress established NDI in tandem with NED; and NDI, like its sister organization, claims to be a non-governmental organization, despite being affiliated with the [[Democratic Party]]. Its chairperson is [[Madeline Albright]], secretary of state under the [[Clinton administration]].

One $595,000 grant describes how NDI will “help political parties develop into inclusive, national movements,” and will “assist parties in the development of inclusive, internal communication and decision making procedures” and “conduct public opinion research and trainings to help parties better understand and respond to citizens, including those outside of their traditional geographical bases of support.” A less charitable interpretation of the grant would be that the U.S. government is taking over the political direction and organization of Ukrainian political parties, molding them as they see fit.
[[File:Biden and neo-nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Biden shaking hands with [[Oleh Tyanhbok]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1112498132489814017</ref> Following the 2011 conviction of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk as an accessory to murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp, Tyahnybok met with Demjanjuk's lawyer, presenting Demjanjuk as a Ukranian national hero, a victim of persecution ‘’who is fighting for truth."<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukraine-fascisms-toe-hold-in-europe/</ref>]]
In tandem with the support of political blocs also comes the grooming of young political and social activists who NED hopes will become the leaders of tomorrow. To this end, it has given at least $385,000 to the European Institute for Democracy in Warsaw, in order to, in its words, “support a new generation of political leaders in Ukraine,” by conducting training courses for their handpicked proteges, flying them out of the country to provide lessons in “election campaigning, women empowerment, effective governing, and crisis management,” among other skills.

The point, of course, is to develop a cadre of pro-Western [[neoliberal]] thought leaders who will ally themselves to the United States and its vision for Ukraine. Left unstated in all this is that the U.S. is deciding who exactly this new generation of leaders comprises. And for all the nods towards [[diversity]] and [[liberalism]], the U.S.’ record in Eastern Europe shows they are happy to support [[fascist]]s and other highly anti-democratic forces. Those who do not share Washington’s goals for Ukraine need not apply.
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Another key focus for NED is to establish and support pro-Western media outlets and [[NGO]]s that backed both the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych and the new government's privatization agenda. This is all couched as “promoting independent media.” But in reality, it is creating a network largely dependent on and answerable to Washington. One example of this is the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, which consistently publishes studies about “Russia’s efforts to distort facts” and scare stories about an impending Russian invasion, while inviting the British ambassador to give talks at its headquarters. Ukraine Crisis describes its vision of Ukraine as an “outpost of freedom and democratic development in Eastern Europe,” and an “integral part of the West.” Ukraine Crisis is directly funded by a number of different U.S. governmental organizations, as well as by NATO and the governments of Germany, [[Canada]], the United Kingdom, [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Poland]], [[Finland]] and the [[Netherlands]].

Most of the media organizations NED funds also maintain English-language versions of their websites. This is because many of these groups are used to influence Western audiences as well as individuals inside the target country, Ukraine. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), for example, has been supported financially since 2016 and has received at least $204,000 from NED. It plays an important role in injecting U.S. government narratives into American media reporting, having been presented simply as a “human rights group” in a wide range of outlets, including ''The Washington Post'', ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[The New York Post]]''. None of these articles inform readers that CCL is directly in the pay of a CIA front group, precisely because it would undermine their credibility.

Media networks directly owned and operated by the U.S. state, including [[Radio Free Europe]]/Radio Liberty and [[Voice of America]], also frequently use CCL as an expert source. This gives the impression that there is a sizable groundswell of individuals all focusing on the same issue when, in reality, it is simply operatives from the same source (the U.S. government) all interacting with each other.

====False flag: "Heavenly hundred"====
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref>

On February 20, 2014, a sniper firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine. Oligarchic and Ukrainian nationalist elements were involved in this massacre. The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref>
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
The official forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014, the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref>Katchanovski</ref>

A female Maidan medic during the massacre was pointing to the top of a building and shouting about snipers. But her words were translated in a [[BBC]] report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Government ballistic experts confirmed this during on-site investigative experiments.

These revelations were not reported by any Western media. This includes ''The New York Time'', which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting Kiev regime that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.” It also includes [[CNN]], which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces.

The Maidan regime investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.
[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]
The official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings.
<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/</ref>

Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to defense lawyers of police from the former regime in the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. They also said that they received instructions from an ex-U.S. Army sniper and then saw Georgian, Baltic States, and Praqvy Sektor-linked snipers shooting from specific Maidan-controlled buildings.

Western media silence also ignored a statement by Anatolii Hrytsenko, who was a Maidan politician and minister of defense, that the investigation of the massacre was stonewalled because of the involvement of someone from the current leadership of Ukraine in the mass killing.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171019101358/http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/ukraine-parliament-yanukovych-kiev-deal/</ref>

===Maidan coup===
{{See also|Maidan coup|Obamunism}}
[[File:McCain Tyahnybok2.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[John McCain]] with Oleh Tyahnybok during the Euromaidan coup.]]
On February 21, 2014, President Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition that he would not seek re-election the following February since his removal was the protesters primary demand. German Foreign Minister [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], Polish Foreign Minister [[Radosław Sikorski]], a head of department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian observer Vladimir Lukin were witnesses. It was hoped the agreement with opposition leaders would bring ton an end the crisis situation in Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?], By MAX BLUMENTHAL, FEBRUARY 25, 2014.</ref>

In the evening of the same day, on Maidan Square, the radicals rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the neo-fascist Pravy Sektor, [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.
[[File:Neocon cookie monster Victoria Nuland and Pyatt.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Amidst the slaughter on Maidan Square, neocon cookie monster Victoria Nuland hands out cookies. Behind her is State Dept. psycho Geoffrey Pyatt.]]
Soon the security forces were withdrawn from the government quarter. This was taken advantage of by [[revolution]]ary militants, deciding not to wait for the expiration of their announced deadline. Neo-nazi [[activist]]s and participants of the "[[Maidan Self-Defense]]" stormed the Presidential Administration, Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the evening of February 21, 2022 Yanukovych, together with the heads of the Verkhovna Rada and the presidential administration – Volodymyr Rybak and Andriy Kliuyev – fled Kiev to [[Crimea]] for their own personal safety. Throughout Ukraine, massacres unfolded between supporters and opponents of the U.S.-appointed [[Maidan junta]].

====Unconstitutional impeachment====
According to the procedure of impeachment defined in Article 111 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Rada must establish a special investigatory commission to formulate charges against the president, seek evidence to justify the charges and come to conclusions about the president's guilt for the Rada to consider. To find the president guilty, at least two-thirds of Rada members must assent.

Prior to a final vote to remove the president from power, the procedure requires

*the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to review the case and certify that the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration has been followed, and

*the Supreme Court of Ukraine to certify that the acts of which the President is accused are worthy of impeachment.

To remove the president from power, at least three-quarters of Rada members must assent.

The Rada didn't make any pretense of following this procedure. No investigatory commission was established, and the Courts were not involved.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/president-yanukovych_b_7647102.html</ref> On 22 February 2014, the Rada simply passed a resolution purporting to remove Yanukovych from office in accordance with the Constitution.

The constitutionality of Yanukovych's removal from office has been questioned by constitutional experts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yanukovych's removal was unconstitutional|url=https://gpforecasts.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/yanukovychs-removal-was-unconstitutional/|website=wordpress.com|date=March 2014|access-date=}}</ref> According to Daisy Sindelar from Radio Free Europe, the impeachment may have not followed the procedure provided by the constitution: "[I]t is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers." The vote, as analyzed by Sindelar, had ten votes less than those required by the constitutional guidelines. The decision to remove Yanukovich was supported by 328 deputies. Article 11 maintains that a vote on impeachment must pass by two-thirds of the members, and the impeachment itself requires a vote by three-quarters of the members. In this case, the 328 out of 447 votes were about 10 votes short of three-quarters.<ref name="RadioFreeEurope">{{cite web|last=Sindelar |first=Daisy |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274346.html |title=Was Yanukovych's Ouster Constitutional? |publisher=Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (Rferl.org) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Kyiv Post |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html |title=Parliament votes 328–0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election; [[Tymoshenko]] free (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

Two days later Ukraine's parliament dismissed five judges of the Constitutional Court for allegedly violating their oaths, who were then investigated for alleged malpractice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/rada-dismisses-constitutional-court-judges-appointed-from-its-quota-337523.html |title=Rada dismisses Constitutional Court judges appointed from its quota |work=Kyiv Post |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

====Korsun massacre====

On February 19, 2014, eight busloads of people from Crimea, who had come into Ukraine's capital Kyiv and were holding signs there demonstrating in opposition to the Maidan movement, were violently attacked by Pravy Sektor people who were leading the Maidan movement; and those terrified Crimeans then scrambled back into their buses, which promptly sped southward, home toward Crimea.
[[File:Korsun massacre 2-20-2014.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Massacre of Russian Crimeans at Korsun by the Pravy Sektor, February 19, 2022.]]
The buses were fired upon and stopped at barricades near the town of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky (Cherkassy region) where flags of the [[UPA]], the [[UDAR]] (Strike) party and AUU Svoboda were flying. Both men and women were dragged out of the buses through a corridor of militants who beat them with bats and entrenching shovels. The passengers were knocked down in a heap on the roadside, doused with
gasoline, and threatened to be set on fire. According to witnesses, militants from the crowd shouted: "Just wait, we’re going to come and get you in Crimea. We are going to stab you and shoot you, that is, those of you who we haven’t already beaten to a pulp and shot up yet". Many Crimeans were forced to take off their shoes "for the needs of Maidan soldiers", and driven around the buses like cattle and forced to pick up the broken glass. The humiliation and abuse continued for several hours. There were casualties among the victims. Most of the buses were burned. The local police, who arrived at the scene, did not intervene.

The Ukraine Human Rights organization posted to the internet on August 14, 2014, a 25-minute video, with English subtitles, telling these people's stories. It's titled ''The Pogrom of Korsun'',<ref>https://youtu.be/loKajkXoTBU</ref> and it reports, with testimony and some of the videos from survivors, the attacks against those buses when a gang of Ukraine's Right Sector members caught up with those escaping Crimeans, near the Ukrainian town of Korsun.

Private cellphone videos that were taken of these incidents were shown in the compilation by Ukraine Human Rights, but one other striking cellphone video, which was posted to YouTube on August 15, 2014, isn't fully available anymore, and it showed the view from the rear seat of a car as it was approaching a blockage, and the blocked buses, some of which were aflame. A few car-drivers were standing watching at a distance, while the Right Sector people beat and killed Crimeans alongside their buses.<ref>https://archive.ph/pgUkP#selection-719.0-719.16</ref>

====Crimean Spring====
[[File:Crimea Referendum.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Billboard advertising the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum to apply for admission to the Russian Federation.]]
On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref> Because the majority of the people living in Crimea were ethnic Russian speakers, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> Crimeans did not support the fascist overthrow of the democratically elected government. On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March 16, 2014, on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine's constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

In response to the annexation, Sen. [[John McCain]] introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion. On March 6, 2015, the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

====Odessa Trade Unions House massacre====
[[File:Revolution of Dignity.PNG|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/1XFO5</ref>]]
On April 16, 3014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref> Two weeks later on May 2, 2014, Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 42 Russians, most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref>

According to eyewitnesses the Maidan fascists outnumbered the anti-Kyiv protesters 10 to 1. First the Maidan activists burnt down the tents of anti-Kiev regime protesters outside the building. The anti-Kiev protesters retreated into the building and tried to blockade the door. A group of Maidan girls filled up Molotov cocktails.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref> The Maidan protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails. Soon the building was engulfed in flames. A Maidan activist was shooting at people trying to escape from the windows.<ref>https://youtu.be/s-bpkx0d1fM</ref> The Maidan fascist crowd began cheering as they set the building ablaze and beat those who tried to escape.<ref>[https://youtu.be/wuOptWUTR3w Odessa, Ukraine: Right sector attacks trade union building, kills 43], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> A fire station less than a kilometer away couldn't respond. The Maidan activists blocked the lone fire truck and wouldn't let the firefighters operate.

Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>https://archive.fo/Gt4UV</ref> The Western-backed Kyiv regime covered up the atrocities, most victims being ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine. Sixteen months later after conducting in independent outside investigation, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the Kyiv regime's [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

The Maidan regime failed to investigate and prosecute any neo-Nazi [[murderer]]s who burnt alive at least 48 ethnic and cultural Russians in [[Odessa massacre]] on May 2, 2014.

====Economic impact of coup====
After the 2014 coup Ukraine and Russia severed economic ties leading to a shutdown of high value-added manufacturing that had been geared to the Russian market.

This included the shuttering of national flagship industries such as the Yuzhmash space rocket and engine plant in Dnepropetrovsk, which had employed tens of thousands, as well as the Nikolaev shipyard, and the Motor Sich helicopter engine plant in Zaporozhye. Also, whatever was left of the Antonov concern in the Kiev area, to name the biggest and best-known.

Some of these and other factories were partially converted, on a small scale, to produce lower-end military hardware, which the state bought with American money. Many other industries (e.g., electromechanical parts and instruments, building materials, processed foods, etc.) lost their Russian market, and their wares and produce was not wanted in Europe. Some of these enterprises survived, but shrunk. in doing so.

As the higher-value-added industries and all other exports to Russia shut down, the knock-on effects were felt in other sectors (e.g., services, construction), pulling down everything. The Kyiv regime was intent on selling off state owned or subsidized enterprises to foreign investors and driving local Mom n Pop enterprises out of business to make way for Western producers, wholesalers, retailers, and chain franchises.

Overall, the economy shrank by about half. Many people, mostly young people of working age, left the country. Between the loss of territories in 2014, natural deaths, male and female emigration between 2014 and 2021, Ukraine lost at least 12 million of its 46 million residents. Ukrainians have a word for those who have left the country in search of work and fortune elsewhere - ''zarobitchany''. Since 2014, at least 6 million males of military service age have been living in Russia, Poland, Italy, Czechia, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Portugal, UK, etc. Not more than 65,000 ever returned to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine after 2021.

===Donbas war===
The [[Donbas war]] began in 2014 when the [[Obama administration]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] overthrew the [[democracy|democratically]] elected president of Ukraine.<ref>https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/03/how-why-us-government-perpetrated-2014-coup-ukraine/</ref> [[President Viktor Yanukovych]]'s election had been certified by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He was the first democratically elected official overthrown in a violent revolution in recent memory. The U.S.-backed [[coup]] was accomplished with the aid of anti-Russian [[neo-Nazi]]s in Ukraine. It was an unconstitutional [[regime change]].

[[Crimea]] held a referendum and rejoined Russia rather than live under an illegal government. However, Russia did not accept the results of the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] referendums in the Don River Basin, collectively known as Donbas. [[Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk]] declared independence from [[Kyiv]] and became known as the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

The people of the Donbas refused to recognize the legitimacy of the illegal [[coup]], so the newly installed government sent the army to quell protests. The army refused to follow the new regime's orders to fire on civilian protesters. Some units even joined the protests. With the army proving itself unreliable, the U.S.-installed Kyiv regime incorporated neo-Nazi militias into official Ukrainian government armed forces, entrusted to perform the tasks that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Kyiv wanted. On May 17, 2014, the International Observatory of Ukrainian Crisis posted:
[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk during the 8 years of the [[Donbas war]].<ref>https://youtu.be/zlrYBnttnt4</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|“Reporting that militants of neo-nazi “Right Sector” have murdered a group of soldiers (members of the Ukrainian army) near Kramatorkaya Starovavarke (Kramatorsk)...The soldiers [of Ukraine’s army in Kramatorsk] didn’t want to kill civilians. Then at midnight a squad of neo-nazis have fallen on them and murdered the soldiers. This is how the [[USA]]-EU impose democracy in Ukraine!!! Killing their own soldiers! And just because they didn’t want to kill civilians!!!”<ref>https://archive.ph/BG5xK</ref>}}
Hromadske TV media is one of the most-watched networks in Ukraine. Hromadske is funded by the [[Dutch]] and US Embassies in Kyiv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the European Endowment for Democracy, and Free Press Unlimited. [[Silicon Valley]] [[oligarch]] Pierre Omidary was also involved in creating the outlet.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/</ref> Hromadske hosted Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> during the Maidan coup demanding [[genocide]] of ethnic Russians saying Donbas,
{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED.<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}
A truce was negotiated between the two separatist Republics and the Kyiv regime in 2015 in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]] and known as the Minsk Agreements. The Agreements were negotiated with the help of [[France]] and [[Germany]]. [[Moscow]] backed the Minsk Agreements which Kyiv also agreed to, and the [[United Nations Security Council]] endorsed the agreements as well. The Minsk Agreements would give autonomy to the two provinces while remaining part of Ukraine. However the Ukraine regime did nothing to further implement the agreements after 2015, and only a ceasefire for the use of heavy weapons (tanks and artillery) remained in place.

As of 2021, 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict.<ref>https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/29thReportUkraine_EN.pdf</ref>

Under Ukrainian law, physicians in Donbas risked a 15-year prison sentence for treating gun shot wounds of members of the Donbas militia.<ref>https://youtu.be/VGUYInNeaqU</ref>

====Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas====
{{See also|Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas}}

====Torture and human rights violations====
Journalist Dan Cohen reports:<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zelensky-secret-police-hunted-down-opposition-anatoly-shariy/280200/</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"On 21 July 2016, Amnesty International had issued ''“Torture and secret detention in Ukraine – new report”''. It said, for example: “The Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kiev paramilitary groups have detained civilians suspected of involvement with or supporting Russian-backed separatists, while the separatist forces have detained civilians suspected of supporting or spying for the Ukrainian government, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch found. In one case, ‘Vadim,’ 39, was detained and tortured first by one side, then the other. In April last year, armed men seized him at a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces, pulled a bag over his head, and questioned him about his alleged connections with Russia-backed separatists. Vadim spent more than six weeks in captivity, most of the time in a facility apparently run by Ukraine’s Security Service ([[SBU]]) personnel. His interrogators tortured him with electric shocks, burned him with cigarettes, and beat him, demanding that he confess to working for Russia-backed separatists. After they finally released him, Vadim returned to [[Donetsk]] and was immediately detained by the local de facto authorities, who suspected him of having been recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service during his time in captivity. He spent more than two months in incommunicado detention in an unofficial prison in central Donetsk, where his captors also beat and ill-treated him.”

The entire report is 42 pages, and Vadim’s case is summarized on its page 6, at the start of the Report’s “Summary.” Nowhere in the Report is that term “ill-treated” defined. However, that same page also employs the phrase “torture and other forms of ill-treatment.” Consequently, one may reasonably infer that “torture” relates to only the worst forms of “ill-treatment.” Though “torture” was alleged regarding Vadim’s allegations against Ukraine’s government, the term “ill-treatment” was alleged regarding his allegations against the breakaway republics.

There is every indication that Ukraine’s present Government is nazi-controlled, but neither in the breakaway republics nor in Crimea is the Government [[racist]]-[[fascist]] (or “[[nazi]]”): they are the exact opposite — intensely anti-nazi — and so, too, is Russia’s Federal Government. Whereas America and its [[CIA]] brought in and protected many thousands of Nazis after [[WW II]], the [[Soviet Union]] did the opposite: searched for them and killed them. Today’s Russia is continuing that aspect of its predecessor’s policies. Allegations in [[The West]] to the contrary are not merely [[lie]]s: they are [[obscene]], vicious, anti-historical, lies, which come from the true heirs of (in fact, the modernized versions of) [[Hitler]], Gehlen, and [[Goebbels]]."}}
The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded on June 29, 2022, that the Armed Forces of the Ukraine used civilians as human shields in Stara Krasnyanka when Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside a nursing home, effectively making the building a legitimate military target.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/10/un-human-rights-report-shows-ukraine-military-used-nursing-home-residents-as-human-shields/</ref> Civilians throughout the war zone made the same allegations.

===Russiagate and Trump impeachment===
{{See also|Russia collusion|Ukrainian collusion|Laptop from hell}}
[[File:Alexander-vindman.jpg|350px|thumb|Col. Alexander Vindman was a deep state operator in the White House conspiring for President Trump's removal in 2019. Vindman earlier had been offered the position of Minister of Defense in the [[Kyiv regime]].]]
In January 2016 the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington.<ref>[https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost].</ref> The meeting brought some of Ukraine's top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with [[Eric Ciaramella]]<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> and members of former President Obama's National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ). Ukrainian participants said it didn't take long to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one involving Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and one involving Paul Manafort's lobbying firm, linked closely to then-candidate Trump.

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U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said [[Andrii Telizhenko]], then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting. Telizhenko said U.S. officials said that they had an interest in reviving a closed 2014 investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine's Russia-backed Party of Regions. That 2014 investigation was focused on Manafort. The FBI closed the case without charging Manafort. DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine's '''National Anti-Corruption Bureau''' ('''NABU''') if they could help find new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans. “It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” Telizhenko said.
[[File:Azov Battalion.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Members of the [[Azov Battalion]] with the NATO flag (left) Azov mascot (center) and [[Swastika]] (right). The NATO flag represents [[globalism]]; the ''[[Cyrillic]]'' A3OB in the center spells AZOV; and the swastika represents the NATO and globalists' [[Russophobic]] allies in Ukraine. A Ukrainian court found elements in the Ukrainian government [[collude]]d with the [[DNC]] to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 12, 2018. National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director '''[[Artem Sytnyk]]''' and legislator '''[[Serhiy Leshchenko]]''' broke the law by revealing [[Manafort]]'s name. The disclosure “led to interference in the electoral processes of the [[United States]] in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state,” the court said. https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html In October 2019, an audiotape of Sytnyk was release discussing his efforts to help Hillary during the 2016 election. He and Leschenko were responsible for publishing the Black Ledger which forced Paul Manafort to resign from Trump’s campaign. https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-audio-email-evidence-shows-dnc-colluded-with-ukraine-to-boost-hillary-by-harming-trump-report-says</ref>]]
Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine's chief anti-corruption prosecutor, said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the NABU, after Manafort was named Trump's campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.” Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. “I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort. For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial.”
[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Burisma Board Director Hunter Biden, appointed April 14, 2014 at $163,000 per month.<ref>https://archive.fo/aNhttps://archive.fo/wip/aNyOqyOq</ref> Biden spoke no Ukrainian nor had any knowledge or experience in the oil and gas field.]]

Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general's international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case. “Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public.” Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel [[Gregory Craig]], also received money from Yanukovych's party. But the Americans weren't interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”
Manafort joined Trump's campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016. NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016.

A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU's release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine's parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Hillary Clinton.

The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden and [[Devon Archer]]'s firm in 2014–15, bank records show.
U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire [[Victor Shokin]], Ukraine's chief prosecutor in March 2016. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions. "Unfortunately, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., was not invited to join the DOJ and other law enforcement-sector meetings."

Telizhenko's claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ's own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]], his wife, [[Nellie Ohr]], and ex-British spy [[Christopher Steele]]. Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for [[Fusion GPS]], that was hired by Clinton's campaign and DNC to find dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband Bruce during the election.

DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband Bruce and two DOJ prosecutors to the discovery of the “Black Ledger” files that led to Manafort's prosecution. “Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.

Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele. The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.

''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton's campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.

==Zelensky regime==
{{See also|Zelensky regime}}
[[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]]
In late September 2023 Canadian dictator [[Justin Trudeau]] and Canadian House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed Zelensky to address the Canadian parliament. A former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka was also invited to attend the address. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and the British Commonwealth during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, were fighting the armed forces of [[Nazi Germany]], of which the Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] were part. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces.

Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947.

International affairs analyst Dr. Andrew Korybko observed that in one fell swoop, Trudeau discredited himself as a so-called “champion of [[human rights]]”, while Zelensky proved beyond any doubt that an ethnic [[Jew]] can indeed glorify the Nazis’ [[genocidal]] allies despite having family who were murdered in the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[https://korybko.substack.com/p/jews-poles-and-russians-have-united Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi], ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.</ref> After being vetted to attend Zelensky's speech by the Canadian government and Trudeau's office, Hunta was introduced by the Speaker as a “Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” and received two extended standing ovations while Zelensky raised a clenched fist in solidarity. To its credit, even ''[[Politico]]'' reported on the number of Jewish organizations that condemned the [[fascist]] ceremony.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/nazi-linked-veteran-ovation-zelenkyy-canada-visit-00117857 Nazi-linked veteran received ovation during Zelenskyy’s Canada visit], By KYLE DUGGAN, ''Politico'', 09/24/2023.</ref> Hunta's family had [[tweet]]ed out days in advance that a separate private meeting had been arranged for Hunta to meet and speak privately with Trudeau and Zelensky.<ref>Mark Sleboda, [https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/canadian-parliament-trudeau-and-zelensky Canadian Parliament, Trudeau & Zelensky Praise and Give Standing Ovation to West Ukrainian Waffen SS Veteran Who "Killed Russians"], Radio Interview on the Critical Hour 25/09/23.</ref>

===Russia-Ukraine war===

''See also:'' [[Russia-Ukraine war]]

[[File:Ukrainian Nazi pig fat.PNG|right|300px|thumb|A Ukrainian National Guardsman dips bullets in lard saying "Muslim friends, you won’t be allowed into heaven in our country.” The threat was aimed at Chechen fighters in the Russian Army. Twitter labeled it hateful content in the public interest.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550815-pork-bullets-muslims-ukraine/</ref> Azov nationalist Artyom Bonov, who threatened the Chechen army and promised to play football with their heads, fled to Poland.<ref>https://fr.news-front.info/2022/03/21/le-nationaliste-dazov-artyom-bonov-se-cache-en-pologne-video/</ref>]]
In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> At the same time, the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE) reported more frequent use of heavy weapons, prohibited under the [[Minsk Agreements]], by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) against the breakaway regions.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/464961-How-the-Western-Press-has-for-years-hidden-Ukraines-neo-nazi-war-on-Donbass?</ref> Trump-Russia hoaxer and Biden [[DNI]] [[Avril Haines]]<ref>https://the-war-economy.medium.com/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6</ref> alleged that Russia had massed 100,000 troops at the border with Ukraine and was planning an invasion. By April 2022, Western analysts began saying the earlier estimates of Russian forces were exaggerated.<ref>https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-3/</ref> In late December 2021 [[Jake Sullivan]] said a four-week window was left to prevent such an invasion and that if it were to happen the sanctions against Russia "would be overwhelming, immediate and inflict significant cost on the Russian economy and their financial system."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-obama-2014/index.html</ref> Germany had called upon the US not to impose sanctions, insisting that doing so will "damage transatlantic unity", ''Axios'' reported,<ref>[https://www.axios.com/germany-nord-stream-sanctions-congress-ukraine-4d28940b-dc3b-4b19-9d16-c122da6d113c.html Scoop: Germany urges Congress not to sanction Putin’s pipeline], Zachary Basu, ''Axios'', Nov 28, 2021.</ref> citing newly obtained German documents dated November 19, 2021 and marked as "classified":
{{quotebox-float|"US Sanctions targeting [[Nord Stream 2]] would undermine the commitment given to [[Germany]] in the Joint Statement, weaken the credibility of the US government, and endanger the achievements of the Joint Statement, including the provisions supporting Ukraine."<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21118732-germany-non-paper</ref>}}
The ongoing reality was a massive buildup and activity of [[NATO]] forces inside Ukraine, which Putin had warned about crossing Russia's red line days before Haines panicked statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-accuses-nato-of-ignoring-russian-warnings-about-red-lines</ref> [[CIA]] leaker [[David Ignatius]] told the ''Washington Post'' that the US was supporting an anti-Russian military insurgency in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/biden-ukraine-insurgents-russia/</ref> <ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref>

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref> In light of all the threatening activity on its border, on December 17, 2021, President Putin presented two treaties to be signed, one with the US<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en</ref> the other with NATO,<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en&clear_cache=Y</ref> the essence of which is that [[the West]] pledges not to threaten Russia's borders by offering membership to Ukraine or by arming and basing missiles in Ukraine. Putin stated, "You are on our doorstep. We cannot back down." Putin promised a response if the NATO powers do not stop their offensive actions. NATO General Secretary Stoltenberg rejected them out of hand. Russia's deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said on December 18, 2021, that NATO has been living in a fantasy world and that Europeans must think about whether they mean to turn their continent into a field of military confrontation.
[[File:Ukrainian ambush in civilian neighborhood.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Armed Forces of Ukraine ambush point (purple circle) set up in a civilian residential neighborhood.<ref>https://rumble.com/vx17yd-jason-goodman-and-i-discuss-ukrainian-bioweapon-labs.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2</ref> The Ukrainian flag is visible in this photo before Russian forces arrived.]]
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021, that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers. Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been. Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine. Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could
easily turn out to be a suicidal course. He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike. Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders. 60 years ago [[president John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country." President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove
and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref>

President Putin's agreement proposed to Biden on December 7, 2021, was that the United States ensure that Ukraine would not join NATO and thereby have U.S. and NATO forces and missiles of various types placed right on Russia's border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to Russia.

Since April 15, 2022, [[Gonzalo Lira]], a Chilean-American Citizen Journalist, that criticized Western Media and the Zelenski Regime, is missing.

Dozens of videos began appearing on [[social media]] of whole units of Ukrainian servicemen appealing to the Kyiv commanders to withdraw them from the battlefield. Many had been deserted by their battlefield commanders.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/qlR1P8jJcTAC/</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/kg58INeiPN4 Servicemen of the Vinnitsa Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the actual state of affairs in the troops of Ukraine 1,071,758 views May 5, 2022]. [https://youtu.be/exubjkiNQhI?t=529]</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/Vj9lH00pK-M</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/5YrrdDtycrk</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/pa_0_bGRwQw</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/9eC9rrsDCkw ANOTHER UKRAINIAN UNIT DOESN'T WANT TO BE CANNON FODDER]</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/tz3rvyUOdHw</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/OPyKrfU55TKG/ "A SHOCKING VIDEO FROM THE PHONE OF A DEAD MILITANT FROM LIMAN"], "They threw us to the slaughter. For 4 days already, artillery, tanks, hailstones. We ask you to take us out, but they don't take us out. We are not meat with Kalash against artillery."</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/efgPrzzuhWY</ref><ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/OEePRNQZtuk5/</ref>

Amongst a raft of casualties and desertions, as untrained soldiers were placed at the front in impossible and hopeless situations with no artillery or armor and given orders to fight on and not surrender, two members of Zelensky's Servant of the people Party introduced a bill (No. 7351) allowing AFU officers to kill their own soldiers who refused to follow orders.<ref>https://archive.ph/SWdge</ref>

====US & UK sabotage peace negotiations====
{{See also|2022 Istanbul peace negotiations}}
''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>[https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April], Tyler Durden, SEP 01, 2022. zerohedge.com</ref>}}
Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by [[the West]] to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and the Russian Federation itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides were being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal, not of conquest, but of bringing the [[Kiev regime]] to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.<ref>[https://aearnur.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-the-western-powers-have IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES], AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com</ref>
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died needlessly in the following months.]]
[[File:Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Ukrainian troops training in North Yorkshire.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Boris Johnson posing with Ukrainian special forces. Most were killed in an unsuccessful NATO raid on the [[Zaporozhye nuclear power plant]].]]
The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as [[HIMAR]]s. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what [[Genghis Khan]], [[Napoleon]], and [[Hitler]] could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened:
{{quotebox-float|"I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally.

I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by [[sociopath]]s who do not understand the consequences".<ref>[https://twitter.com/Andromeda11711/status/1670500664403951616 Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:]💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March."

Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences.

Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow.

Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media.

Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty.

Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster.

There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397</ref>}}

On October 11, 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with ''60 Minutes'':<ref>[https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1833291/?lang=en Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the programme 60 Minutes, Moscow, October 11, 2022].</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"We sat at the negotiating table with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonised in [[Istanbul]]. These principles suited us for that moment but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London.

This conflict is overrun with [[Anglo-Saxon]]s that fully control the Vladimir Zelensky regime. The Poles and people from the Baltics are trying to fit in on their team.

Since then the Ukrainian President has said many times that he is not going to hold talks with the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin. Recently, he codified this ban in law. We have never sought negotiations. The Istanbul round completed the process started at Ukraine’s request. Russia positively reacted to the proposal to enter a dialogue, but its initiators cut it off with a shout from overseas or London.

We are hearing statements by [[White House]] representative John Kirby, my colleague Antony Blinken and other members of the US administration. They are saying that they are completely open to talks with the Russian Federation, that they favor a political settlement of the current situation in Ukraine but Russia (the “troublemaker”) is rejecting proposals to establish contact. I can say straight away that this is a lie. We have not received any serious proposals to establish any such contact. There were some attempts that were not very serious, but we didn’t reject them, either. Instead, we suggested that they formulate specific proposals. Some people made them to us by proxy but in this case, we didn’t receive any clear explanations from anyone, either. No need to lie. We were taught in a kindergarten then lying is bad. Apparently, American kindergartens are not so advanced as they were in the [[Soviet Union]] and are now in Russia."}}
{{Clear}}

====Denazification====
{{See also|Operation Denazification}}
[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]
While the Soviet Union was successful in denazifying the German population of [[East Germany]] in the post-World War II period, armed resistance by Ukrainian fascists continued until 1954.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/6387532/War_against_the_UPA_1944_1954_Soviet_Counterinsurgency_Challenge_in_Western_Ukraine</ref> The Soviet Union never was completely successful in denazifying the Ukrainian population as it had the German. This was due to a resistance insurgency spread out over a much greater expanse. Schools, the [[civil service system]], and the military were de-nazified, and the armed fascist resistance went underground. Some moved abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora. Display of Nazi flags, insignia, and [[holocaust denial]] were made illegal in Soviet times as it had been in [[West Germany]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Denmark]] and much of Western Europe. Since 1991 however the freedom of expression has allowed the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators to move above ground again and express a lingering [[xenophobic]] hatred for anything Russian after the experiences of the [[holodomor]] and the unjust persecution of the families of Nazi collaborators in the [[Cold War]] period by the Soviet communist regime.

Many of these children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators moved back into the Ukrainian civil service after 1991, or became active leaders of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora, in the United States, in the [[UK]], in the Atlantic alliance, in NATO, and in Western Europe. Ex-patriot Ukranian nationalists were instrumental in organizing the 2014 [[Euromaidan coup]], and beginning in late 2015, the [[Trump-Russia collusion]] hoax in an effort to solidify the [[regime change]] in a Clinton administration.

====US aid====
{{See also|Ukraine aid}}
[[File:FTX Democrats Ukraine.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Tens of billions of dollars were transferred to Ukraine then laundered back to Democrats in advance of the [[2022 Midterm elections]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-exclusive-tens-billions-transferred-ukraine-using-ftx-crypto-currency-laundered-back-democrats-us/</ref>]]
According to [[CNN]],<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/</ref> the US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it sent into Ukraine. US officials and defense analysts say some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm. Privately, officials recognize that Ukraine has an incentive to give only information that will bolster their case for more aid, "everything they do and say publicly is designed to help them win the war. Every public statement is an information operation, every interview, every Zelensky appearance broadcast is an information operation."

The Biden regime and NATO countries say they are providing weapons to Ukraine based on what the Ukrainian forces say they need, whether it's portable systems like Javelin or Stinger missiles. Javelin and Stinger missiles and rifles and ammunition are harder to track than larger systems shipped by rail. Although Javelins have serial numbers, there is little way to track their transfer and use in real time. "I couldn't tell you where they are in Ukraine and whether the Ukrainians are using them at this point," a senior defense official told reporters. "They're not telling us every round of ammunition they're firing and who and at when." Trucks loaded with pallets of arms provided by the US Defense Department are picked up by Ukrainian armed forces—primarily in Poland—and then driven into Ukraine. The weapons then are transported back across the border in civilian vehicles. Some weapons ended up on the black market including anti-aircraft Stinger missiles, the same kind that shot down [[TWA Flight 800]].

Other weapons have ended up arming US adversaries. Much of what the US left behind to help Afghan forces became part of the Taliban arsenal after the collapse of the Afghan government and military. In 2020, the Defense Department inspector general released a report raising concerns about the end-use monitoring of weapons being sent to Ukraine.

====Martial law====
Charli Carpenter wrote in ''Foreign Policy'' magazine:
{{quotebox-float|"Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men’s freedom of movement, calling on all those “liable for military service” to remain in their home districts....one Ukrainian tweeted, “Now we can’t even leave our cities without permission from military recruitment centers.” Another tweeted, “Animals have more rights in Ukraine than men.”....Another wrote to me on Twitter, “All men in Ukraine now are prisoners … Even more, [a] lot of them have lost their jobs because [of] war, and [the] government doesn’t allow them to go for a job abroad, and can’t give a job inside the country.”....This has left civilian men feeling acute psychological distress: as Andrij wrote to me, “It seems to me that the whole world does not care about men, I feel like a piece of meat that they want to send to death.”...When women and children flee alone, being separated from their male relatives makes them vulnerable to trafficking and heightens their economic and psycho-social stress.

But when it comes to the martial law, [[gay]] men I spoke with say unequivocally that the [[discrimination]] they face is not because they are gay, but simply because they are men. One gay man, who requested anonymity, told me he had attempted to leave the country with his husband. “When we got to the border it was a female guard who turned us back,” he said. “It’s not because I’m gay, it’s because I have a penis,” he added. His husband, an American attorney, was permitted to leave but chose to stay in harm’s way with his husband. [[Transgender]] women misidentified as men get similar treatment."<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/15/ukraine-war-conscription-martial-law-men-gender-human-rights/</ref>}}

====Western propaganda apparatus====
{{See also|Ukrainian propaganda war}}
[[File:Time fake news Denisova.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ukraine Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova was actually fired in an unprecedented move for manufacturing fake news reports about alleged Russian [[rape]]s and bringing disrepute on the Ukrainian regime.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2022 |title='This will not help us defeat the enemy' A new report looks at Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova, who was fired after officials couldn't confirm her stories of rape committed by Russian soldiers |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/28/we-work-on-the-information-front |access-date= |website=Meduza |language=en}}</ref>]]
The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.” The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref> This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>

[[Oleksiy Arestovych]], senior advisor to Ukrainian fascist [[dictator]] Volodymyr Zelensky said “One of the central ideas of Ukraine is to lie to yourself and others as much as possible. Because if you tell the truth, everything will collapse.”<ref>https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1516554925907619843</ref>

====Bucha massacre====
[[File:Safari.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]]
Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha. This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page. The translated post accompanying the video says:
{{quotebox-float|“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers."<ref>https://youtu.be/BL8R6K5VdtI?t=519</ref>}}
There was no mention of a massacre of hundreds of civilians littering the streets. Evidence of crimes appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/</ref>
[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym killing civilians in the Bucha massacre, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]
''The New York Times'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022, and did not report a massacre. Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper's photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings:
{{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:

:''‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’''<ref>https://en.lb.ua/news/2022/04/02/12441_special_forces_regiment_safari.html</ref>

The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”}}
On April 3, 2022, when the story broke, Russia immediately requested a meeting if the [[UN Security Council]] for the following Monday, April. The [[United Kingdom]], another permanent member of the Security Council, [[veto]]ed holding a Security Council meeting in the matter.
Russian UN Ambassador said in a statement:
{{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}}
The [[Pentagon]] refused to confirm the Ukrainian government's claim that Russians were responsible for the massacre.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/</ref><ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-military-intelligence-official-refutes-russian-atrocities-claims/comments/page/5/</ref>

Former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva said that the story in Bucha was planned and prepared in advance by the [[counterintelligence]] of Ukraine, with the assistance of the British [[MI6]]. Kiva said,
{{quotebox-float|"The whole story in Bucha was prepared and planned in advance by the SBU and [[MI6]]. They arrived early in the morning, cordoned off the area, scattered the corpses and then sent [[journalist]]s there. That's why that clown Zelensky even came back. To raise the interest of the international press in the alleged tragedy, but it's all a pure fake. Why didn't such a situation take place in other areas? Don`t you understand that it was staged in advance, which was supposed to arouse the aggression and hatred in you first of all. But it didn't happen."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot894JsANM</ref>}}
All the corpses wore white arm bands which were distributed by the Russian military to identify civilian non-combatants, who then became the victims of Ukrainian security forces as collaborators in reprisal actions. Some alleged corpses sat up after television cameras filmed them.<ref>https://rumble.com/vzl3qf-evidence-of-bucha-false-flag.html</ref><ref>https://southfront.org/leaked-recording-allegedly-confirms-massacre-in-bucha-was-staged-by-ukrainian-militants/</ref> Ukrainian television showed footage of Ukrainian security forces dragging corpses into place for the TV cameras.

====Ukrainian dirty nuke====
{{See also|Radiological dispersal device}}
In March 2022 Russia accused Ukraine of gathering nuclear waste from the [[Chernobyl disaster site]] for use in a [[nuclear dirty bomb]].<ref>https://www.india.com/news/world/what-is-nuclear-dirty-bomb-that-russia-claims-ukraine-is-making-in-chernobyl-5271056/</ref>

On October 19, 2022, UK defense minister Ben Wallace flew to [[Washington, D.C.]] to discuss an important matter face-to-face with unknown persons that could not be handled over NATO's regular electronic secure communications. Neither Washington nor the UK defense ministry issued a press release on the substance of the discussions. On October 21, Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu had his first phone call with US defense minister [[Lloyd Austin]] since May 2022. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense read out on the call, the two "discussed issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine."

On October 23, 2022, at 1:30 PM [[Moscow]] time it was reported that Russian defense minister Shoigu conveyed to his [[France|French]] counterpart his concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine with the use of a nuclear dirty bomb. At 2:46 PM local time another update from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported that defense minister Shoigu conveyed to his [[Turkish]] counterpart his concerns about a possible provocation with the use of a dirty bomb. At 5 PM local time there was a third conversation between the Russian defense minister and the minister of defense of the [[United Kingdom]] about the possible provocation by Ukraine with a dirty nuclear bomb. At 6:30 PM local time there was a final conversation between Shoigu and the Biden minister defense.

Russian media reported that according to credible sources in various countries - including in Ukraine - the [[Kyiv regime]] is preparing a provocation on its territory related to the detonation of the so-called "[[dirty bomb]]" or low-yield [[nuclear weapon]]. The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using [[weapons of mass destruction]].<ref>https://seemorerocks.is/what-russian-media-is-saying/</ref> According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Volodymyr Zelensky has been in contact with the [[UK]] "to obtain nuclear weapons technology," Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces said on October 23, 2022. Gen. Kirillov alleged that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) plan on using a [[false flag]] provocation to detonate a "dirty bomb," a nuclear weapon with explosives, such as dynamite, with [[radioactive]] powder or pellets. The provocation was being prepared to subsequently accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction. "We have information about the contacts of the office of the President of Ukraine with representatives of [[Great Britain]] regarding the possibility to obtain a [[technology]] to build nuclear weapons,” Gen. Kirillov said.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/zelenskyy-contacted-uk-to-obtain-nuclear-technology-claims-russias-defence-ministry-articleshow.html</ref>

====Ukraine missile attack on Poland====
[[File:FT Zelensky.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The globalist mouthpiece ''Financial Times'' of London, which led the world in spreading Russophobia and cheerleading for war, openly criticized Zelensky's lying about Ukraine's false flag attack on a NATO ally to incite direct NATO involvement with troops and risk global thermonuclear war.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-open-thread-2022-201.html</ref>]]
On November 15, 2022, two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian [[cruise missile]], were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The Polish government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref>

However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR aircraft (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the Kyiv regime had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its CIA counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021.

When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down. Both socialist premier Joe Biden and NATO chief warlord Jens Stoltenberg blamed Ukraine for the attack. Zelensky refuted the Western leaders' statements that the missile which killed two innocent civilians in Poland was Ukrainian. "I have no doubt that it was not our missile or our missile strike." Zelensky insisted that he received reports from the corrupt Armed Forces of Ukraine command that told him the missile attacks did not come from Ukraine," he told the people in a live nationwide address on Ukrainian state-controlled media.<ref>https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376663/</ref> The [[Russophobic]] ''Financial Times'' of [[London]] quoted a [[diplomat]] from a NATO country in Kyiv saying: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the [[missile]].”<ref>https://archive.ph/mxQ5K#selection-2029.34-2029.282</ref>

====Treatment of Russian POWs====
[[File:Ukrainian nazis castrate Russians.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Former Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers instructed doctors to castrate Russian POWs "because they are cockroaches, not human."<ref>https://youtu.be/15UjP-H2CMA</ref>]]
Gennadiy Druzenko, a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute and fellow at the Wilson Center in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/gennadiy-druzenko</ref> head of the Center for Constitutional Design,<ref>https://ccd.group/en/team/gennadiy-druzenko/</ref> a former researcher at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University, and served as the Government Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<ref>https://independent.academia.edu/GennadiyDruzenko/CurriculumVitae</ref> who now operates a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine told a Ukrainian Channel 24 TV interviewer that he had instructed his doctors to castrate captured Russian POWs. Druzenko said:
{{quotebox-float|"I have always been a great humanist and said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an enemy but a patient. But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10636597/Ukrainian-doctor-tells-TV-interviewer-ordered-staff-CASTRATE-Russian-soldiers.html</ref>}}
Since 2014 when the Kyiv regime initiated the Donbas war against Russian civilians, some 500 doctors have worked with Druzenko's mobile hospital.

On March 27, 2022, very disturbing videos emerged of mistreatment of Russian POWs by Armed Forces of Ukraine. One video shows Russian soldiers with canvas bags over their heads and then beaten in the face with rifle butts. The prisoners are shot in the kneecaps and genitals, and they are left on the ground to bleed to death. Several vans then arrive at the Ukraine military compound in Kharkiv, and as each POW is removed from the van they are shot in the knees. A second video shows Russian POW's lying face down in a paved courtyard, or compound, and then being shot in the knees from the rear.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/27/zelenskyy-worried-about-western-financial-support-after-video-surfaces-showing-ukraine-military-torturing-russian-pows/</ref>

====Refugees and human trafficking====

A group 30-40 child refugees disappeared between the Ukraine and the [[Canary Islands]] raising fears they may have become victims of Western child sex traffickers.<ref>https://www.kiratas.com/the-mysterious-journey-of-the-ukrainian-children-lost-between-huelva-and-the-canary-islands/</ref> Ukrainian girl refugees have been exploited in the West in the organized sex trade.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60891801</ref>

In March 2022, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that a group of Polish nationalists attacked and abused groups of African, south Asian and [[Middle East]]ern people who fled Ukraine.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/02/people-of-colour-fleeing-ukraine-attacked-by-polish-nationalists</ref>

In April 2022 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) instructed the government of the [[United Kingdom]] to stop matching lone Ukrainian females with single British men. The UN agency intervenes claimed predatory men were using their homes in a scheme to target vulnerable women.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/stop-matching-lone-female-ukraine-refugees-with-single-men-uk-told</ref>

On May 8, 2022, in [[Warsaw]], a group of intoxicated Ukrainians were harassing a young woman. A Polish man intervened on her behalf and was beaten to death. Polish citizens questioned why the media covered up the nationality of the suspects when they clearly spoke Ukrainian on the video of the killing.<ref>https://rrussianews.com/news/video-18-ukrainian-refugees-beat-pole-to-death-in-warsaw/</ref>

Refugees who drove to Germany were granted temporary asylum and received 4,000 euros per month for the first two months; the third month they were notified that because they had an asset, a car, they needed to sell their cars to reimburse the state for the government assistance they had received.<ref>https://youtu.be/Wz7MrO64k2o</ref>

In the heart of Nazi Ukraine - Lviv - Russian speaking refugees were denied humanitarian aid.<ref>https://youtu.be/jlw2ZYtf26E</ref>

On May 31, 2022 [[Bulgaria]] evicted 35,000 refugees from Black Sea resort hotels.<ref>https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/05/12/black-sea-hoteliers-face-evicting-ukrainian-refugees-or-the-prospect-of-financial-ruin-our-breaking-point/</ref>

A group of Ukrainian boys were beaten up by [[Arab]]-speakers and told to go back where they came from.<ref>https://youtu.be/yf5q85z1cGw</ref>

The UK ''[[Guardian]]'' reported UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] saying on June 23, 2022, that Ukrainian refugees could be deported to [[Rwanda]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/23/ukrainians-who-come-to-uk-illegalPeter%20Navarroly-could-be-sent-to-rwanda-johnson-says</ref>
{{Anchor|Ukrainian refugees}}

====Racist treatment of refugees by Ukrainian officials====
[[File:Africans denied exit from Ukraine.jpeg|left|350px|thumb|The Western-backed fascist regime of Ukraine denied Blacks access to refugee trains.<ref>https://afronews.de/world-news/african-students-ukraine-racism-polish-border/</ref>]]
[[Africa]]ns, [[Indian]]s, and other people of color were denied access to refugee trains by the fascist and [[xenophobic]] Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-refugee-discrimination.html</ref><ref>You're on your own": African students stuck in Ukraine seek refuge or escape route</ref> Ukrainian border guards demanded bribes.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/africans-say-they-are-facing-racial-discrimination-in-ukraine/</ref> Indian students were told by Ukrainian government officials they were being discriminated against because the Indian government failed to back the U.S.-sponsored [[UN Security Council]] Resolution condemning Russia.<ref>https://youtu.be/YC597ikCl64</ref> ''[[Reuters]]'' reported African students were told, "You're on your own."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/youre-your-own-african-students-stuck-ukraine-seek-refuge-or-escape-route-2022-02-25/</ref> Only [[white privilege]]d Ukrainians were allowed to board trains first and [[Black]]s forced to wait.<ref>https://youtu.be/EmT6KHIwup4</ref> The government of [[Nigeria]] condemned Ukraine's treatment of Nigerian citizens according to the [[BBC]].<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60555650</ref>

First, Blacks were denied access to trains until all the white people boarded and Blacks were allowed to fill the remaining empty seats. Some people had to wait for days in frigid temperatures. Upon arriving at the [[Polish]] boarder, then were denied crossing the border Ukrainian government fascist officials.

U.S. Speaker of the House, [[Democrat]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] claimed U.S. support for Ukraine was to defend [[democracy]]. Vladimir Putin stated the invasion was to denazify Ukraine.
[[File:Denys Kiryeyev.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Denys Kiryeyev (circled in red), Ukrainian peace negotiator murdered by the Security Service of Ukraine with a bullet to the back of the head and his body dumped in the street.<ref>https://archive.is/SbEW8</ref>]]
In response to a Russian proposal to set up humanitarian corridors for civilians to escape the fighting in cities, Ukrainian security services murdered Denys Kiryeyev, a Ukrainian peace negotiator.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10582805/Ukrainian-peace-negotiator-shot-dead-amid-claims-Russian-spy.html</ref>

In Poland, [[Kamala Harris]] responded with her signature cackling laughter at the plight of refugees. The former press secretary for Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Twitter “It would be a tragedy if this woman won the presidency."<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/03/11/zelenskys-former-press-sec-levels-kamala-over-cackling-on-refugee-question-n534536</ref>

In a case of [[racial profiling]], Ukrainian fascist border guards murdered a refugee who was an [[Israel]]i citizen, with the Kyiv regime claiming the victim was mistaken for a Chechen.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-dead-as-convoy-escaping-kyiv-comes-under-ukrainian-fire/</ref>

[[Christian]] refugees from Ukraine were turned away from the [[Biden border crisis|U.S. Southern border]] by the Biden regime.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323842</ref>

Reports indicate 30 per cent of ‘Ukrainian refugees’ arriving in [[Western Europe]] claiming asylum status actually were from other countries, mostly from [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/15/30-per-cent-of-ukrainian-refugees-are-actually-from-other-countries/</ref>

[[Roma]] citizens of Ukraine faced [[discrimination]] by Ukrainian officials while attempting to flee the fighting.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/ukraines-roma-refugees-recount-discrimination-on-route-to-safety</ref> Ukraine has a long history of discrimination, mistreatment, and [[violence]] against the Roma, or [[Gypsies]].<ref>https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/attacks-roma-ukraine</ref>

=====Racist Western media reporting=====
{{See also|Systemic racism}}
Western journalists were criticized for their [[racism]] while reporting on the refugee migration from Ukraine. While Arab refugees were villainized and arrested, Ukrainians were welcomed with lavish benefits.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ministers-historical-deal-protect-ukraine-refugees/</ref> Western reporters said they are "Europeans with blue eyes and blonde hair" and from a "civilized" country.<ref>https://youtu.be/KBRwmTVVKQk</ref> The [[European Union]] was also criticized for welcoming displaced Ukrainians but holding back [[Syria]]ns and other refugees since 2015. The Ukrainians were being offered [[visa]]s and benefits, while Syrian refugees were still sleeping in tents. Critics called it a blatant [[double standard]].<ref>https://youtu.be/i1I1mhnJ-MQ</ref>

=====Ukrainian refugees refuse to go to Sweden=====
Ukrainian refugees refused to go to the [[rape]] capital of [[Europe]], Sweden.<ref>[http://conservative-headlines.com/2011/02/immigration-turns-sweden-into-rape-capitol-of-europe/ Immigration turns Sweden into rape capitol of Europe.]. conservative-headlines.com</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/uS7FqFuHYt8</ref> In 2021 the German newspaper ''Bild'' ran a headline, "Sweden is the most dangerous country in Europe."<ref>https://rmx.news/article/sweden-is-the-most-dangerous-country-in-europe-writes-germanys-top-selling-newspaper/</ref> Female refugees who were housed in a hostel in Sweden revealed how they were stalked, sexually harassed and intimidated by groups of [[Somali]] migrant men. After the experience, some of those involved said they’d prefer to take their chances and return home to war-torn Ukraine. “When there are bombs, I know at least that I can go down to the basement and hide there,” one woman told Swedish news outlet Samnytt.<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/25/ukrainian-refugees-dont-want-to-go-to-sweden-over-fears-for-their-safety/</ref>

Ukrainian mothers also heard rumors that in the so-called 'Western democracy' of Sweden, their children could be taken away by a corrupt liberal regime.

Ukrainian female refugees in Sweden were warned not to dress in a way provocative to [[Muslim]] men.<ref>https://rmx.news/article/ukrainian-women-in-sweden-warned-not-to-dress-in-a-way-that-could-provoke-muslim-men/</ref> A group of Ukrainian boys were beaten up by Arab-speakers and told to go back where they came from.<ref>https://youtu.be/yf5q85z1cGw</ref>

====Ceasefire negotiations====

On March 6, 2022, during ceasefire negotiations to arrange humanitarian corridors for civilian safe passage out of urban areas, a Ukrainian negotiator was shot dead by the Ukrainian intelligence agency. The Ukrainian government then hailed him as a hero.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/4831656/ukraine-peace-negotiator-spy-shot-russia-kireev/</ref>
[[File:Zelensky and Boris.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Zelesnky and BoJo. Boris Johnson sabotaged peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian solders died needlessly in the following months.]]
On March 29, 2022, ''Tass'' reported<ref>https://tass.com/world/1429119</ref> negotiations in [[Istanbul]] with the Kyiv regime included:
*permanent neutrality and non-aligned status
*guarantees of security
*demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine
*recognition of contemporary territorial realities
*restoration of the status of Russian language and rights of Russian-speakers

''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in [[Istanbul]]. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the [[Minsk Accords]]. ''Ukrainska Pravda'' reported in essence what Johnson told Zelensky according to sources close to the Ukrainian dictator:
{{quotebox-float|"if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the [[Western alliance|collective West]], which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal</ref>}}

=====Referendums=====
The [[Zelensky regime]] threatened to end peace negotiations if referendums were held in the territories liberated from the Maidan regime and the people were allowed to exercise their democratic rights.<ref>https://ukranews.com/en/news/851974-ukraine-will-withdraw-from-negotiations-with-russia-if-invaders-hold-referendum-in-kherson-media</ref>

=====Escalation=====
On June 1, 2022, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister [[Sergey Ryabkov]] told ''RIA Novosti'' news that Biden's decision to arm Ukraine with [[HIMAR]] missile launchers increases the risk of direct confrontation between Russia and the United States. Foreign secretary [[Blinken]] said the weapons, which have a precision range of up to 300 kilometers, were given on the pretext of a promise by Zelensky not to use the HIMARs against Russian territory. However Zelensky's transgender chief propagandist [[Alexei Arestovich]] immediately threatened, "Crimea is ours…It belongs to Ukraine…And they know it…Therefore, it will fly to Crimea double-time."<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/468500-US-to-allow-Ukraine-to-decide-range-of-missiles-Kiev-threatens-to-strike-Crimea-should-the-need-arise?</ref> Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council [[Dmitry Medvedev]] retorted, “If those types of weapons are used against the territory of Russia, the armed forces of our country will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers...It is obvious what those decision-making centers are: the defense ministry, the general staff and so on...But it should be understood that, in this case, the ultimate decision-making centers are regretfully not even on the territory of Kiev." <ref>https://tass.com/politics/1459891</ref>

===Ministry of Digital Transformation===
{{See also|Ministry of Digital Transformation}}
=====Digital ID=====
{{See also|Digital ID}}
The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits. In Ukranian, the word “Diia” means “action,” but it's also an acronym in that language, standing for “The State and Me.” Digital passports and other official documents are now considered legally equivalent to their paper versions, making Ukraine the first country to accomplish this. Some of the documents available via the app include citizens’ national identification card, a biometric passport, drivers’ licenses, vehicle registration certificates and insurance policies, voter ID, tax documents, birth certificates and [[COVID vaccine]] passport.<ref>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ukraine-government-converting-digital-id-system-wartime-tool/</ref>

''Wired'' magazine described Ukraine's digital ministry, which operates the Diia app, as a “formidable war machine.” The Diia app includes the following war-related features:
*A quick way to donate money to the Ukrainian military, including via cryptocurrency.
*A chatbot for submitting images and video of Russian troop movements in Ukraine.
*24-hour streaming access to television stations and newscasts from Ukraine.
*A chatbox where users can submit photos and videos that resembles a similar tool employed by [[New York City]] fascist authorities in 2020 for the reporting of [[social distancing]] violations.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/social-distancing-rules-coronavirus.html</ref>

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was praised by the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) for his work, in establishing the Diia app.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/people/mykhailo-fedorov</ref> Fedorov called for a crew of developers, designers, marketers and “security specialists” to join a volunteer “IT Army” — with 300,000 volunteers having been attracted. The online army's tasks include sharing the IP addresses of Russian websites and companies, in order for them to be targeted by [[DDoS]] (directed denial of service) attacks in an effort to knock them offline.

Fedorov described [[Twitter]] as “part of our war effort.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60608222</ref> Fedorov described the digital battlefield as “our home turf,” while ''The New York Times'' also reported on how Fedorov “has turned technology, cryptocurrency and social media into modern weapons of war.” According to the ''Times'', Fedorov stated: “They [the Russians] have failed to notice that… governments must move towards becoming more and more like tech companies, rather than being rigid like a tank, like a war machine.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/technology/ukraine-minister-war-digital.html</ref>

=====Cryptocurrency=====
{{See also|FTX scandal}}

=====Hackers and IT specialists=====
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The so-called "[[Ukrainian crisis|Revolution of Dignity]]" which the [[Obama administration]] supported. Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]]
''The Washington Post'' reported that Ukrainian officials ran thousands of facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the first 50 days of the Russian incursion, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of families in Russia for what may be "one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/</ref>

The country's IT Army, a force of hackers and [[activist]]s that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.

The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI. Some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers.

Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London, said it is “classic [[psychological warfare]]” and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts. “If it were Russian soldiers doing this with Ukrainian mothers, we might say, ‘Oh, my God, that’s barbaric.’ And is it actually working? Or is it making them say: ‘Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys?’ ”

Clearview AI’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told ''The Washington Post'' that more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge. Clearview employees held weekly, sometimes daily, training calls over Zoom with new police and military officials looking to gain access. Ton-That recounted several “‘oh, wow’ moments” as the Ukrainians witnessed how much data — including family photos, social media posts and relationship details — they could gather from a single cadaver scan. Some of the Ukrainins used Clearview's mobile app to scan faces while on the battlefield.

=====2024 conscription law=====

===Partitioning===
[[File:Ukraine 2022.jpeg|right|300px|thumb]]
When referendums For the Donbas, [[Kherson]], and [[Zaporozhye]] regions finally were held in September 2022, Russian Federation Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly: “The people living there are essentially only reacting to what President Zelensky recommended for them to do in one of his interviews in August 2021…Back then, he advised everyone who feels Russian to go to Russia for the benefit of their children and grandchildren…That’s what the residents of said regions are doing now, taking their lands, on which their ancestors lived for centuries, with them”.
[[File:A Skeptic's Best Guess On Final Map (Revised).PNG|right|300px|thumb|Military blogger A Skeptic's best guess estimate of final borders, revised June 2023.]]

====Polish revanchism====

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) stated that the Polish military’s priority “combat tasks” would include the gradual seizure of control over strategic facilities in West Ukraine. Poland discussed with the Biden regime an action to “reunite” with West Ukraine. According to [[Warsaw]]'s estimates, the entrenchment of the Polish military in West Ukraine would amount to a partitioning of Ukraine. On April 28, 2022 FIS spokesman Sergei Naryshkin said that Washington and Warsaw were planning to deploy a Polish “peacekeeping contingent” in the western part of Ukraine.
{{quotebox-float|“According to information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish tight military and political control over ‘their historical possessions’ in Ukraine,”}}
According to the FIS, the first stage of the “reunification” should be the introduction of Polish troops into the western regions of Ukraine under the guise of 'peacekeepers' with the participation of ‘willing states’. Warsaw has not yet been able to agree on potential participants in a ‘coalition of like-minded’,” the FIS said.

At the same time, the FIS pointed out, the Polish leadership is not interested in “unnecessary spies” in its operation. “The so-called peacekeeping contingent is planned to be deployed in those parts of Ukraine where the threat of direct clash with the Russian Armed Forces is minimal. And the priority “combat tasks” of the Polish military will include gradual interception of control over strategic objects located there from the National Guard of Ukraine. Polish special services are already searching for “agreeable” representatives of the Ukrainian elite to form a Warsaw-oriented “democratic” counterweight to the nationalists,” the FIS said in its report.

Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Jaroslaw Mika signed on order to bring the Polish Army into a state of full combat readiness for the invasion of western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/DzHlHaphi3I</ref> This document was published online by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.<ref>https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/9303</ref> According to the Polish government’s estimates, a deployment into western Ukraine is highly likely to split the country. Warsaw will essentially gain control of the territories where Polish "peacekeepers" will enter. Essentially, it is an attempt to repeat the historical “deal” for Poland after the [[First World War]], when the collective West, represented by the [[Triple Entente|Entente]], recognized Warsaw’s right first to occupy part of the Ukraine to protect its population from the “[[Bolshevik]] threat”, and then to incorporate those territories into the Polish state. The events that followed were a clear illustration of the [[colonialism|colonial]] order and forced Polonization as the main methods of building a ‘Greater Poland’,” the FIS concluded.<ref>https://southfront.org/transnistria29042022/</ref>

On May 3, 2022, Polish President [[Andrzej Duda]] said in a nationally televised speech,
{{quotebox-float|"I hope that Ukraine will be a brotherly state to Poland; that it will not have a [[border]] between them, that there will in fact be no border; that we will live together on this land, rebuilding ourselves and building our common happiness, our common strength."<ref>https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1521652429024120832</ref>}}
Other reports indicated that Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] and his entire cabinet had been offered UK citizenship, by-passing the ordinary process for acquiring citizenship and in preparation for a government-in-exile of a shrunken landlocked Ukrainian rump state.<ref>https://cmio.org/en/world/660051-representatives-of-zelenskys-office-received-british-citizenship-kiva-said</ref>

====Polish deployments====
In late July 2023 Poland deployed two military brigades to the border with Belarus, as announced by the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. "We are talking about the 12th and 17th brigades. One of them is stationed in Kolna, at a new base opened last Saturday, the second is in Biała Podlaska, that is, near the border with Belarus," Blaszczak said.
[[File:Polish revanchism.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Putin warns against joint NATO-Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian attempts to occupy Western Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/ADfNeXnMBGs</ref>]]
At a televised meeting of the Russian Security Council on July 21, 2023 the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said: "The Polish leadership is strengthening its intention to control the western territories of Ukraine, in the western regions, by deploying its troops there." According to him, such a step is planned to be formalized as the fulfillment of allied obligations within the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative - the so-called "Lublin Triangle". Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response, said that Poland expects to form a coalition "under the NATO umbrella", "tear off a fatter piece" in Ukraine. Putin also made a fairly deep excursion into the history of Poland of the twentieth century. He recalled how this country pursued an aggressive policy, occupying the Rusyn-populated part of [[Austria-Hungary]], the [[Vilnius]] region of Lithuania, annexed some historical Russian provinces, and in 1938 participated in the division of [[Czechoslovakia]] as a result of the [[Munich Agreement]] with [[Hitler]], occupying Cieszyn [[Silesia]]. Putin added, "I also want to remind you of how such an aggressive policy ended for Poland as a result. It ended with the national tragedy of 1939, when Poland was abandoned by the Western Allies to be devoured by the German war machine and actually lost its independence and statehood, which was restored to a large extent thanks to the Soviet Union. And it was thanks to the Soviet Union, thanks to [[Stalin]]'s position, that Poland received significant lands in the West, the lands of Germany. This is exactly right: the western territories of present-day Poland are Stalin's gift to the Poles. Have our friends in Warsaw forgotten about it? We will recall," the Russian president said.

On Saturday, July 22, 2023 Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev was urgently summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Yablonski told the media that the meeting was "very short." And according to Andreev, the Russian side rebuffed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. According to Andreev, the Polish Foreign Ministry did not hand him any formal note, "limiting himself to verbal expressions of his displeasure." As Andreev informed, in Warsaw, the greatest attention is paid to the words of the Russian leader that Poland received its western lands thanks to the position of Joseph Stalin at the [[Yalta conference|Yalta]] and [[Potsdam conference]]s despite the objections of the WWII Western allies. According to Andreev, it is difficult to say why Warsaw concentrated on this particular moment. "Perhaps the reasons were an emotional reaction or lack of professionalism," Andreev concluded.

And in the Polish Foreign Ministry, where they are accustomed to the restrained reaction of the Russian Federation to anti-Russian actions such as the seizure of a school in Warsaw or an attack on the ambassador during the laying of wreaths at a military cemetery, a change in Moscow's position was noticed. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland said: "The attitude of the ambassador indicates that Russia does not intend to achieve any goals through diplomatic means."

French journalist Jean-Dominique Marchais confirmed reports on Poland's preparations to invade western Ukraine: "I confirm that there are reflections, particularly in Poland and in the [[Baltic States]], about the creation of one of the multinational divisions, let's say including Ukrainian forces, Polish forces, if Russia could break through the front and resume the offensive there. I think there would indeed be such a division, as Poland and others, they would send troops outside of NATO.

Jean-Dominique Merchet cites many official sources. This is not the first time this possibility has been mentioned. A few weeks ago Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former head of NATO, already confirmed this with our ''Guardian'' colleagues: 'We know that Poland is very committed to supporting Ukraine, and I don't rule out that Poland will be more involved on a national basis and that the Baltic states will follow with a possible ground troop intervention'."

According to a report by the Myśl Polska news agency in late August 2023, the number of Polish casualties in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine exceeded 10,000. This staggering figure has serious implications for both Poland and its military establishment, especially given that a significant proportion of the dead have been identified as Polish army reservists. This number of deaths would be more than 15% of all Polish ground forces. While some of these victims are referred to as volunteers and mercenaries, the majority are identified as Polish active duty soldiers and reservists.<ref>https://www.voiceofeurope.com/recorded-polish-casualties-in-ukrainian-conflict-exceed-10000/</ref>
{{Clear}}
===Gotterdammerung===
[[File:Mural in Ukraine - Israel in a bed of US dollars while the Nazi regime freezes.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Mural in Ukraine - Israel in a bed of US dollars while the Ukrainian Nazi regime freezes.]]
Simon Schuster of [[TIME magazine]] reported on the grim Führerbunker stage of the conflict in late October 2023:<ref>[https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/time-magazine-profile-depicts-grim TIME Magazine Profile Depicts Grim Führerbunker-Stage of Zelensky's Conflict ], Simplicius the Thinker, November 2, 2023. simplicius76.substack.com</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"The usual sparkle of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to liven up a meeting in the war room with a bit of banter or a bawdy joke, none of that has survived into the second year of all-out war. “Now he walks in, gets the updates, gives the orders, and walks out,” says one longtime member of his team. Another tells me that, most of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his [[Western alliance|Western allies]]. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.

But his convictions haven’t changed. Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”

[...]

“We’re not moving forward,” says one of Zelensky’s close aides. Some front-line commanders, he continues, have begun refusing orders to advance, even when they came directly from the office of the President. “They just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line,” he says. “But we can’t win a war that way.”

When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October [2023], he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of [[Horlivka]], a strategic outpost in [[eastern Ukraine]] that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”<ref>[https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/ ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight], BY SIMON SHUSTER, OCTOBER 30, 2023.</ref>}}
Alexander Mercouris of ''The Duran'' also gave an insightful review of the ''TIME'' magazine piece.<ref>[https://youtu.be/rVcvizqrjvQ?t=3637 Israel Operation Gaza; UN BRICS versus US; Zelensky Deluded, Ukr Defeated, Ukr Troops Demoralised], Alexander Mercouris, November 1, 2023. YouTube</ref> The consensus among observers was that the [[CIA]] was ready to throw Zelensky overboard, and perhaps [[Zaluzhny]] as well, and the ''TIME'' magazine piece along with other recent [[MSM]] reports was preparing the American public for the eventual 'cut and run' strategy of the United States.

{{Anchor|AFU}}

==Military, foreign intelligence, and internal security forces==
[[File:Ukrainian Nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Ukrainian nazi flag.<ref>https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraine-uses-pig-fat-bullets-to-counter-russian-aggression/</ref>]]
Ukrainian security services combine the structure and methods of both the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and in recent years has adopted NATO advisors.

Security forces are controlled by the president, although they are subject to investigation by a permanent parliamentary commission. Surveillance is permitted for reasons of national security.

In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) under the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior has its own armed forces which consists of the Security Service of Ukraine ([[Ukrainian Gestapo]]), which oversee the National Guard of which the [[Azov Battalion]] is only one such neo-Nazi entity, and the [[Territorial Defense]] consisting of ordinary citizens and various local neo-Nazi thugs and hooligans.

After 1991, Ukraine established its own military forces of about 780,000 from the troops and equipment inherited from the Soviet Union. Under defense reform legislation passed in 2004, Ukraine is strengthening civilian control of the military, professionalizing its non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps, adding neo-Nazi paramilitary groups to the national guard, modernizing force structure to improve interoperability with NATO, all with an eye toward achieving NATO standards. Current force levels are approximately 225,000 (plus 90,000 civilian workers in the Ministry of Defense). The Ministry of Defense plans to continue force reductions by approximately 20,000 personnel per year to reach a final end state of 143,000 by 2011. Ukraine's stated national policy is Euro-Atlantic integration, including with both NATO and the European Union. NATO offered Ukraine an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" in April 2005. Ukraine had previously signed an agreement with NATO on using Ukraine's strategic airlift capabilities and has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace exercises, in Balkans peacekeeping, and Coalition operations in Iraq. Ukrainian units have been serving in the U.S. sector in he illegal [[Kosovo]] invasion, and served in the Polish-led division in Iraq. Ukraine participated in six United Nations peacekeeping missions and has up to 50 troops serving in supporting roles in Iraq.

In 2018, ''Israeli National News'' reported that the World War II Nazi collaborator greeting became the official Ukraine army salute, "Slava Ukraine!" (''Cyr:'' СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ; ''Eng:'' Glory to Ukraine!)" These words and greeting became Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) official military greeting.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/250641</ref> While the Ukrainian fascist salute glorifies a single national identity group<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/new-glory-to-ukraine-army-chant-invokes-nationalist-past/a-45215538</ref> - Ukraine - the Russian response is "Glory to the Heroes", or all the heroes of whichever national identity group contributed to the defeat of fascism and Nazism in World War II.

===Biological weapons research labs===
{{See also|U.S. funded biological labs abroad}}
[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the [[Pentagon]]; [[Victoria Nuland]] later confirmed 46 locations.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ydSf57SRtcQ Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control: US], Mar 11, 2022.</ref>]]
Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the US DoD and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the US Department of Defense (DoD) dangerous [[pathogen]]s for biological research.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref> The Pentagon has been granted access to certain state secrets<ref>Likely the identities of US contacts and counterparts in the Ukranian government with knowledge of the arrangements and authority to act in a given situation.</ref> of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement.

Only three laboratories in Ukraine had the required safety criteria to undertake the type of research they were doing, according to the Russian military. Captured Ukrainian government documents point to a series of problems at one of those sites in Odessa.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radioactive, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces, accused the Kyiv regime of carrying out “inhumane experiments” on Ukrainian patients and of launching a biological attack against the Lugansk Peoples Republic in early May 2022. Other evidence suggests that when Russia moved soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, attempts were made to weaponize drones to spread pathogens and to destroy compromising materials. In response to the revelations by Russia's Investigative Committee, the Pentagon fessed up in June 2022 to funding 46 biological research facilities in Ukraine over the last 20 years.<ref>https://greatgameindia.com/pentagon-admits-biolabs-ukraine/</ref>

Two years before the war started, [[CGTN]] discussed US biolabs around the world.<ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Biolabs-around-the-world-QpgMAnwV0I/index.html</ref><ref>https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-16/Time-to-reveal-what-s-going-on-in-U-S-biolabs-QwpxrRTI7C/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-21/U-S-deployed-over-200-military-biological-laboratories-worldwide-QFtLkqhuVy/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-04-30/The-U-S-needs-to-open-up-about-its-biological-labs-in-the-former-USSR-Q6ud6hO84E/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Do-U-S-biolabs-hold-up-to-scrutiny--Qp3jQrmvoQ/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-11/Global-netizens-reveal-growing-list-of-U-S-bio-security-labs-ReT49fqZEs/index.html</ref>

====DTRA====
The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine. The official documents confirm that the Pentagon, represented by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), is organising work with a clear military-biological focus.
{{quotebox-float|𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚𝘈… 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 … 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘣𝘪𝘰-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺-𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘰𝘷, 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘷 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰-𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴, 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴.. 𝘐𝘯 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 2017, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬-𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦’𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 1997, 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 (𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥). 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘹 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢.}}
[[File:Obama biolabs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|On August 29, 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Pentagon signed the "Treaty on Countering the Threat of Bioterrorism and Preventing the Spread of Bacteriological Weapons, Technology, Materials and Knowledge."<ref>https://badvolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/US-Biolabs-in-Ukraine-BadVolf-Investigation.pdf</ref>]]
One of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died from Flu-like virus in just two days with 200 more being hospitalized.<ref>https://dninews.com/article/deadly-virus-leaked-us-laboratory-donbass-dpr-army-and-intelligence</ref> The Ukrainian government did not report on the dead Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths have been reported across Ukraine (81.3% caused by Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09 – the same strain which caused the world pandemic in 2009).<ref>http://old.moz.gov.ua/ua/portal/pre_20160311_0.html</ref>
[[File:DTRA contractors in Ukraine.png|left|250px|thumb|Metabiota, a company financed by Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca partnership with the [[CCP]], receives the lion's share of Defense Department funding for its Ukrainian bio labs.<ref>https://archive.fo/fVtcf</ref>]]
A highly suspicious Hepatitis A infection spread rapidly in just few months across South East Ukraine where most of the Pentagon biolabs are located. 37 people were hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv as of January 2018.<ref>https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/others/vspyshkoy-gepatita-v-nikolaeve-zainteresovalas-policiya-1103357.html</ref> Local police launched an investigation into “infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases”. In addition, in 2016 more than 100 people in the same city became infected with [[Cholera]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K47S1DarhTE</ref> Both diseases are alleged to have spread through contaminated drinking water. In the summer of 2017, 60 people with Hepatitis A were admitted to hospital in the city of Zaporizhia,<ref>https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/others/vspyshkoy-gepatita-v-nikolaeve-zainteresovalas-policiya-1103357.html</ref> the cause of this outbreak is still unknown. In the Odessa region, 19 children from an orphanage were hospitalized for hepatitis A in June 2017.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/YOvCU</ref> 29 cases of Hepatitis A were reported in Kharkiv in November 2017. The virus was isolated in contaminated drinking water. One of the Pentagon bio-labs is located in Kharkiv which was blamed for the deadly Flu outbreak in 2018 which claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

In 2011 Ukraine was hit by a cholera outbreak.<ref>https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/area-in-ukraine-hit-by-cholera-outbreak-109266.html</ref> 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/10smv</ref> A second outbreak struck the country in 2014 when more than 800 people all across Ukraine were reported to have contracted the disease.<ref>https://youtu.be/K47S1DarhTE</ref>

In 2015 at least 100 new cases were registered in the city of Mykolaiv alone. A new highly virulent variant of the cholera agent Vibrio cholera, with a high genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, hit Moscow in 2014. According to a 2014 Russian Research Anti-Plaque Institute genetic study the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the bacteria which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.<ref>http://genomea.asm.org/content/5/8/e01640-16.full</ref> Southern Research Institute, one of the US contractors working at the bio-laboratories in Ukraine, has projects on Cholera, as well as on Influenza and Zika – all pathogens of military importance to the Pentagon.

A now deleted article originally posted on June 18, 2020, which has been recovered<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110522081423/http://www.bioprepwatch.com/news/213421-biolab-opens-in-ukraine</ref><ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/03/list-of-ukraine-biolab-documents-reportedly-removed-by-us-embassy/</ref> entitled ''Biolab Opens in Ukraine'' details how [[Barack Obama]], while serving as an Illinois Senator, helped negotiate a deal to build a level-3 bio-safety lab in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/08/obama-led-ukraine-biolab-efforts/</ref>

[[Metabiota]], a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the [[Communist Party of China]] and the [[Peoples Republic of China]]'s [[Peoples Liberation Army]], was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the DTRA program in Georgia and Ukraine.<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104</ref><ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/how-much-did-the-bidens-make-in-the-ukraine-biolabs/</ref>

===Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre===
Among the set of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) – an International organization funded mainly by the US government which has been accorded diplomatic status. The US personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic cover. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 million in funding and managing some 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.

According to captured documents by the Russian Ministry of Defense,<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-04-14</ref> the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre (STCU),
{{quotebox-float|"is headquartered in Kiev and has regional offices in [[Baku]], Chisinau and [[Tbilisi]], as well as in Kharkov and Lvov.

However, the Russian Ministry of Defence's Chemical and Biological Threat Expertise Centre found that the STCU's main activity is to act as a distribution centre for grants for research of interest to the Pentagon, including biological weapons research.

In recent years alone, Washington has spent more than $350 million on STCU projects.

The U.S. customers and sponsors of STCU are the [[Department of State]] and the [[Department of Defense]]. Funding is also provided through the [[Environmental Protection Agency]], the [[Department of Agriculture|US Departments of Agriculture]], [[HHS|Health]] and [[DOE|Energy]]....

Between 2014 and 2022, the Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre implemented five hundred R&D projects in post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Georgia, [[Moldova]] and [[Azerbaijan]]).

US supervisors were primarily interested in dual-use research, such as project 6166, Development of Technologies for Modelling, Evaluation and Prediction of Effects of Conflicts and Threats of Mass Destruction Weapons Spread, and project 9601, Transfer of Ukrainian Technologies for the Production of Complex Dual-Use Materials to the European Union.

Many of them are aimed at studying potential biological weapons agents (plague, tularaemia) and pathogens of economic importance (pathogenic avian influenza, African swine fever).

Projects P-364, 444, and 781, aimed at studying the spread of dangerous pathogens through insect vectors, wild birds, and bats, were funded by the Centre directly in the interests of the military department.

Note the documents of Project 3007 "Monitoring of the epidemiological and environmental situation regarding hazardous diseases of aquatic origin in Ukraine".

During the work, Ukrainian specialists, supervised by American scientists, systematically collected water samples in a number of major Ukrainian rivers, including the Dnepr, [[Danube]] and Dniester, as well as in the North Crimean Canal, to determine the presence of particularly dangerous pathogens, including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and E pathogens, and draw conclusions about their possible waterborne spread.

The project assessed the damage properties of the selected samples and deposited the strains in a collection and subsequently exported them to the USA.

...the results of this work can be used to create an unfavourable biological situation not only in the Russian Federation, but also in the Black Sea and the [[Sea of Azov]], as well as in [[Eastern Europe]] - [[Belarus]], Moldova and [[Poland]]....

Thus, during the special operation in Ukraine, it was established that US scientists from a laboratory in Merefa (Kharkov Region) were testing potentially dangerous biological drugs on patients of the regional clinical [[psychiatric]] hospital No 3 in Kharkov between 2019 and 2021.

Persons with mental disorders were selected for the experiments on the basis of their age, nationality and immune status. Special forms were used to record the results of 24-hour patient monitoring. The information was not entered into the hospital database and the staff of the medical institution signed a non-disclosure agreement.

In January 2022, the laboratory in Merefa was shut down and all equipment and preparations were moved to western Ukraine."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUO-bDDGZcg</ref>}}

===Nuclear fuel and waste===
As of 2022 Ukraine holds a large amount of spent nuclear fuel that has not been removed from the territory of Ukraine since 2020 and that has been stored on the territory of nuclear power plants awaiting the construction of a nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. In addition, the Kyiv regime had accumulated 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

===Neo-Nazi groups===
''The Postil'' reported that in 2007, the [[CIA]] put together a “conference” of various anti-Russian factions in Ukraine whose purpose was nothing other than to groom neo-Nazis and [[jihad]]ists, both groups being solidly [[anti-Russian]]. Overseeing the conference was [[Dmytro Yarosh]], who led the Trident and the [[Pravy Sektor]], both neo-Nazi organizations.<ref>https://www.thepostil.com/the-nazis-of-ukraine/</ref>

These various neo-Nazi units, trained by [[the West]], were integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). After 2014 Maidan coup, the West actively protected these neo-Nazi groups. Victoria Nuland, in 2021, told Volodymyr Zelensky to appoint Dmytro Yarosh as adviser to the [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the Ukrainian army—because no one can fight Russians better than Nazis. Here are the larger units of neo-Nazis, or Banderites which fought Russians in Ukraine:
[[File:Kraken nazis.png|right|350px|thumb|Photo of football hooligans squad of the neo-Nazi [[Kraken unit|Kraken regiment]] of the [[Maidan regime|Ukraine regime forces]]: KCP ([[Kharkiv]]), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineCrisis2022/comments/y99cg5/photo_of_football_hooligans_squad_of_neonazi/ Photo of Football Hooligans squad of neoNazi Kraken regiment of Ukraine regime forces: KCP (Kharkiv), Bratiya (Kryvbas), Brave Brigade (Dynamo) and Dnipro], October 2022. reddit.</ref>]]
*Members of Svoboda (formerly the “Nation-Social Party of Ukraine,” which curiously rhymes with Hitler's “National-Socialist German Workers Party”)
*The AZOV Battalion (based in Mariupol)
*C14 of Kyiv
*The [[Aidar Battalion]] (in Luhansk)
*The Wotanjugend (who are actually Russian in origin)
*Ukraine Patriot (co-founded by Parliament Speaker [[Andriy Parubiy]])
*The National Militia
*[[Karpatska Sich]]
*Freikorps

There are also many other smaller units (more than 30) that have merged with the larger ones, and all have been integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the various symbols of these organizations are common-place in Ukraine (i.e., the Sonnenrad, the Totenkopf, the Wolfsangel). After 2014, Ukraine also became the main “exporter” of Nazi ideology throughout the world.

Fighting alongside the neo-Nazis and the Ukrainian army are a slew of jihadis and mercenaries, many of whom are from other Western neo-Nazi groups like the Misanthropic Division. These mercenaries are known as the International Legion of [[Territorial Defense]] of Ukraine.

{{Anchor|Euromaidanpress}}

===US/Ukrainian intelligence collaboration===
Within the NATO bloc, the Cyber Defense Systems Development Fund and the Armed Forces of Ukraine Command, Control and Communications Systems Modernization Fund were among the trust funds established to assist Ukraine in 2014.

According to information announced in April 2017 by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), [[Vasyl Hrytsak]], the first stage of cooperation with the Ukraine-NATO Trust Fund in the field of cyber defense included a total of one million euros, which was used to purchase equipment and software to equip computer incident response centers of key Ukrainian state institutions, in particular, the Situation Center of the SBU and the Cyber Incident Response Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.<ref>https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/433693.html</ref>

====2016 US presidential election interference====
{{Anchor|InformNapalm}}
Not Russia, but Ukraine interfered in the [[2016 United States presidential election]]. The purpose was twofold: (1) rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton; (2) a negative propaganda campaign against Russia to turn the American people against the Russian Federation and perceive it as a threat.

[[File:Surkov-leaks-with-Crowdstrike-390x400.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Although this profile says Virginia, tweets are from the Sofia, Bulgaria time zone and he writes in Russian. Another curiosity considering the Fancy Bear source code is in Russian. This image shows Crowdstrike in their network. Crowdstrike is part of Ukrainian nationalist hacker network. In the image it shows a network diagram of Crowdstrike following the Surkov leaks. The network communication goes through a secondary source.]]
Dimitri Alperovitch's relationship with Andrea Chalupa's efforts and Ukrainian intelligence groups is where things really heat up. Alexandra Chalupa works with '''Euromaidanpress.com''' and '''Informnapalm.org''' which is the outlet for Ukrainian state-sponsored hackers. InformNapalm and Censor.net are media outlet that are controlled by the Ministry of Defense and Main Intelligence Department.<ref>https://thesaker.is/former-sbu-employee-revealed-information-about-secret-prisons-in-donbass-and-kievs-involvement-in-downing-mh17/</ref>

Investigating Dimitri Alperovitch's twitter relationships, the question arises as to why the CEO of a $150 million company like Crowdstrike follows Ukrainian InformNapalm and its hackers individually. There is a mutual relationship. When you add up his work for the OUNb, Ukraine, support for Ukraine's Intelligence, and to the hackers it needs to be investigated to see if Ukraine is conspiring against the US government. Crowdstrike is also following their hack of a Russian government official after the DNC hack. It closely resembles the same method used with the DNC because it was an email hack.
[[File:Gerashchenko.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Deputy Gestapo head Anton Gerashchenko is one of the Zelensky regime's chief Nazi propagandists.]]
Crowdstrike's product line includes Falcon Host, Falcon Intelligence, Falcon Overwatch and Falcon DNS. In an interview with Euromaidanpress these hackers say they have no need for the CIA.<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/11/02/ukraine-hackers-cyberhunta-surkov-putin-ruh8-cyberalliance/</ref> They consider the CIA amateurish. They also say they are not part of the Ukrainian military Cyberalliance is a quasi-organization with the participation of several groups – RUH8, Trinity, Falcon Flames, Cyberhunta. There are structures affiliated to the hackers – the [[Myrotvorets]] site, Informnapalm analytical agency.”

[[File:Osint-image-and-tweet-400x117.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Although OSINT Academy sounds fairly innocuous, it’s the official twitter account for Ukraine’s Ministry of Information head Dimitri Zolotukin. It is also Ukrainian Intelligence. The Ministry of Information started the Peacekeeper or [[Myrotvorets]] website that geolocates journalists and other people for assassination. If you disagree with OUNb politics, you could be on the list.]]
Should someone tell Dimitri Alperovitch that [[Anton Gerashchenko]], who is now in charge of the [[Peacekeeper kill list]] recently threatened president-elect Donald Trump that he would put him on his “Peacemaker” site as a target? The same has been done with [[Silvio Berlusconi]] in 2015.

Trying not to be obvious, the Head of Ukraine's Information Ministry (UA Intelligence) tweeted something interesting that ties Alperovitch and Crowdstrike to the Ukrainian Intelligence hackers and the Information Ministry even tighter. This single tweet on a network chart shows that out of all the Ukrainian Ministry of Information Minister's following, he only wanted the 3 hacking groups associated with both him and Alperovitch to get the tweet. Alperovitch's story was received and not retweeted or shared. If this was just Alperovitch's victory, it was a victory for Ukraine. It would be shared heavily. If it was a victory for the hacking squad, it would be smart to keep it to themselves and not draw unwanted attention.

These same hackers are associated with Alexandra, Andrea, and Irene Chalupa through the portals and organizations they work with through their OUNb. The hackers are funded and directed by or through the same OUNb channels that Alperovitch is working for and with to promote the story of Russian hacking.

When you look at the image for the hacking group in the euromaidanpress article, one of the hackers identifies themselves as one of [[Dimitri Yarosh]]'s Pravy Sektor members by the Pravy Sektor sweatshirt they have on. Noted above, [[Pravy Sektor]] admitted to killing the '[[Heavenly Hundred]]' at the Maidan protest and sparked the coup.

Going further with the linked Euromaidanpress article the hackers say "Let’s understand that Ukrainian hackers and Russian hackers once constituted a single very powerful group. Ukrainian hackers have a rather high level of work. So the help of the USA… I don’t know, why would we need it? We have all the talent and special means for this. And I don’t think that the USA or any NATO country would make such sharp movements in international politics.”

What sharp movements in international politics have been made lately? Let me spell it out for the 17 US Intelligence Agencies so there is no confusion. These state sponsored, Russian language hackers in [[Eastern Europe]]an time zones have shown with the Surkov hack they have the tools and experience to hack states that are looking out for it. They are also laughing at US intel efforts.

The hackers also made it clear that they will do anything to serve Ukraine. Starting a war between Russia and the USA is the one way they could serve Ukraine best, and hurt Russia worst. Given those facts, if the [[DNC]] hack was according to the criteria given by Alperovitch, both he and these hackers need to be investigated.

According to the ''Esquire'' interview “Alperovitch was deeply frustrated: He thought the government should tell the world what it knew. There is, of course, an element of the personal in his battle cry. “A lot of people who are born here don’t appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they’ve never had it any other way,” he told me. “I have.”

While I agree patriotism is a great thing, confusing it with this kind of nationalism is not. '''Alperovitch seems to think by serving [[OUNb]] Ukraine's interests and delivering a conflict with Russia that is against American interests, he's a patriot. He isn't serving US interests. He's definitely a Ukrainian patriot.''' Maybe he should move to Ukraine.

The evidence presented deserves investigation because it looks like the case for [[conflict of interest]] is the least Dimitri Alperovitch should look forward to. If these hackers are the real Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, they really did make sharp movements in international politics. By pawning it off on Russia, they made a worldwide embarrassment of an outgoing President of the United States and made the President Elect the suspect of rumor.

====Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR)====
[[File:Budanov.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Kyrylo Budanov]].<ref>https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/ukraines-intelligence-boss-predicts</ref> By May 2023, this person was considered to be the top Nazi on the Russian Investigative Committees' most wanted list for terrorist activities.]]
Russian hacker group RAHDit leaked data of 2500 officers of the [[Main Intelligence Directorate]] (GUR) of the military department of Ukraine in July 2022. The hacker group revealed that the released information includes data about the relatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and people who received payments from GUR bank accounts.

The hackers claimed that the GUR officers include alleged [[drug addict]]s and former [[criminal]]s convicted of robbery, the illegal trafficking of [[weapon]]s and [[drug]]s as well as causing bodily injuries. They further revealed that they have given the information regarding the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) to [[law enforcement]] agencies. RAHDit said it was not intending to publish information related to underage relatives of Ukrainian officers.

====Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)====

RaHDIt leaked the personal information of more than 1500 employees of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Ukraine. An anonymous law enforcement source has "confirmed the authenticity" of the information released on the hacker group's website Nemezide (Nemesis) on September 26, 2022.<ref>https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russian-hackers-release-data-of-over-1500-ukrainian-foreign-intelligence-service-agents-articleshow.html</ref> The information is related to Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) agents working under the cover of embassies in over 20 nations.

The information includes people working under the cover of embassies in France, [[Argentina]], Germany, [[Italy]], US, Poland, [[Azerbaijan]], [[Hungary]], [[Tajikistan]], [[South Africa]], [[Greece]], [[Iraq]], and other nations. Furthermore, RaHDIt hackers released information on Ukrainian SVR agents working in the missions of the United Nations, European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and 40 Ukrainian SVR locations within Ukraine, including one at an educational establishment.

==Foreign Relations==
The government has declared Euro-Atlantic integration to be its primary foreign policy objective and has sought to maintain good relations with Russia. The European Union's Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Ukraine went into force on March 1, 1998. After the 2004 round of EU expansion, the EU did not signal a willingness to consider Ukraine for an association agreement, as Ukraine had hoped for, but instead included it in a new "neighbor" policy, disappointing many Ukrainians. An agreement on intensified cooperation is possible after Ukrainian WTO accession. On January 31, 1992, Ukraine joined the then-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (now the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—OSCE), and on March 10, 1992, it became a member of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Ukraine signed a Charter Agreement with NATO in 1997, sent troops to Kosovo in close cooperation with NATO countries, signed an agreement for NATO use of Ukrainian strategic airlift assets, and has declared interest in eventual membership. It is the most active member of the Partnership for Peace (PfP). In April 2005, NATO offered an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" to Ukraine.

Relations with Russia are complicated by differing foreign policy priorities in the region, energy dependence, payment arrears, disagreement over compliance with the 1997 agreement on the stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in [[Sevastopol]], and a dispute over bilateral boundaries in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. Ukraine co-founded the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on December 8, 1991, but in January 1993 it refused to endorse a draft charter strengthening political, economic, and defense ties among CIS members. Ukraine was a founding member of GUAM (Georgia-Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Moldova) and has taken the lead with Georgia to promote cooperation among emerging democracies in the Community for Democratic Choice, which held its first summit meeting December 1–2, 2005 in Kyiv.

In 1999–2001, Ukraine served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics. Ukraine has consistently supported peaceful, negotiated settlements to disputes. It has participated in the five-sided (now "5+2") talks on the conflict in Moldova and under President Yushchenko actively boosted efforts to seek a resolution. Ukraine has also promoted a peaceful resolution to conflict in the post-Soviet state of Georgia.
[[File:Austin Milley Ukraine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Biden regime defaced the Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://olxpraca.com/the-pentagon-defaced-the-ukrainian-flag/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/busnitized/status/1529061445631193088</ref><ref>https://hiindia.com/2022/05/24/pentagon-messes-up-ukrainian-flag/</ref>]]
===Minsk II Agreement===

The Normandy Group comprised of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany negotiated a settlement regarding the autonomy of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk with the Minsk II Agreement, freely signed by Ukraine and approved by the United Nations in 2015. When the Biden regime seized power in 2021, it enticed Ukraine to break the agreement by offering Ukraine NATO membership, igniting a crisis with Russia.

===Relations with the United States===

====Ukranian collusion with DNC to interfere in US elections====
{{See also|Ukrainian collusion timeline}}
Evidence of [[DNC]] collusion with Ukraine to dig up dirt on the 2016 Trump campaign:
{{quotebox-float|From: Chalupa, Ali 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:56 PM 
To: Miranda, Luis 
Subject: Re: You saw this, right? 

A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the Library of Congress - the Open World Society's forum - they put me on the program to speak specifically about [[Paul Manafort]] and I invited [[Michael Isikoff]] whom I've been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something I'm working on you should be aware of. 

Since I started digging into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my password often: 

[image1.JPG] 

Sent from my iPhone 

On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Miranda, Luis <MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org>> wrote: 

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/ 

<http://www.democrats.org/>[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/><http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director 
Democratic National Committee 
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC><ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref>}}
According to the ''Kyiv Post'',
{{quotebox-float|“Chalupa said she first came across Manafort after she organized a meeting with then-U.S. President Barack Obama’s [[National Security Council]] and leaders of Ukrainian-American organizations in January 2014, to brief the [[White House]] about the [[Euromaidan Revolution]] that drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power on Feb. 22, 2014.”}}

In late 2015, [[Alexandra Chalupa]] expanded her research into Paul Manafort to include the Trump campaign and possible ties to Russia.
[[File:Alexandra-chalupa-and-ukraine-embassy-in-the-us.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman [[Marcy Kaptur]]’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy staff.<ref>https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/how-to-finance-your-congressional-campaign-with-arms-sales/</ref>]]
In January 2016, Chalupa informed an unknown senior [[DNC]] official that she believed there was a Russian connection with the Trump campaign. Notably, this theme would be picked up by the [[2016 Clinton campaign|Clinton campaign]] in the summer of 2016. Chalupa also told the official to expect Manafort's involvement in the Trump campaign.

Chalupa’s forecast proved prescient, as Manafort reached out to the Trump campaign shortly after, on Feb. 29, 2016, through a mutual acquaintance, Thomas J. Barrack Jr. According to Manafort, he and Trump hadn’t been in communication for years until the Trump campaign responded to Manafort’s offer. On March 28, 2016, Manafort was hired by the Trump campaign. He was reportedly initially hired to lead the Trump campaign’s delegate effort, but was soon promoted, and on May 19, 2016, Manafort became Trump’s campaign chairman and chief strategist.

Just days prior to Manafort’s hiring, on March 24, 2016, Chalupa spoke with the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, and told him of concerns she had regarding Manafort. Reportedly, her concerns were initially rebuffed as Chaly didn’t think Trump had a real chance of winning the presidency.

According to ''Politico'', the day after Manafort’s hiring, Chalupa provided a briefing on “Manafort, Trump and their ties to Russia” to the DNC's communications staff. Notably, “with the DNC’s encouragement,” Chalupa asked the Ukrainian Embassy staff to attempt to arrange an interview with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and have him discuss Manafort's ties to former Ukrainian President Yanukovych. The Ukrainian Embassy reportedly declined the request but, according to Chalupa, did begin working with reporters who were researching Trump.

[[Andrii Telizhenko]], who worked in the Ukrainian Embassy under one of Chaly's top aides, Oksana Shulyar, has repeatedly stated that Chalupa was working closely with the Ukrainian Embassy to obtain information on Trump.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/double-standards-on-ukraine/</ref> In an interview with the Gateway Pundit, Telizhenko said he met Chalupa in the spring of 2016 at the Ukrainian Embassy, where Chalupa told him she was “a DNC operative working for the DNC” and the “Clinton campaign.” Telizhenko continued, noting that Chalupa said she was “collecting any dirt or background information on Manafort, presidential candidate Trump or any other campaign official from the Trump campaign” and was looking for “connections to Russia or the FSB or Russian mob, or Ukrainian mob, etc.” According to Telizhenko, Chalupa said the information would “be used for committee hearings in Congress under a congresswoman.”<ref>Rep. [[Marcy Kaptur]].</ref> Telizhenko didn't disclose the identity of the congresswoman, noting, “I don’t want to mention her name on record.”

In January 2017, Telizhenko told ''Politico'' that Chalupa said, “If we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”

In a recent tweet, Telizhenko summed the situation succinctly, noting
{{quotebox-float|“The Clinton campaign had a Democratic operative working with Ukraine’s embassy in Washington to research Trump’s Russia ties, as well as a Ukrainian lawmaker feeding information to Fusion GPS.”}}

The “Democratic operative” refers to Chalupa, while the “Ukrainian lawmaker” refers to [[Leshchenko]].

====Crowdstrike====
{{See also|Murder of Seth Rich}}
[[File:Trump-convo-with-zelenskyy.jpg |right|350px |thumb |CrowdStrike interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.]]
[[File:Podesta-Emails-600x400.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Clinton campaign manager [[John Podesta]] was notified by [[Google]] that his emails were hacked, not by Russia, but by Ukraine during the 2016 presidential election.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899</ref>]]
[[CrowdStrike]] is an Irvine, [[California]] cyber security company founded in 2011. Crowdstrike was founded by [[Dimitry Alperovitch]], a [[Ukrainian]] [[oligarch]] and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Another owner and senior manager of Crowdstrike is a former senior [[FBI]] man [[Shawn Henry]], who was promoted by [[Robert Mueller]] to be the FBI's Head of Cyber Security in the 2000s.

Crowdstrike is funded by [[Google]],<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref> the arms industry, [[NATO]], the US Military, [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[UAE]], and another Ukrainian oligarch who donated $10 million to the [[Clinton Foundation]] named [[Victor Pinchuk]].<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> Pichuk hosted the September 2013 confabulation in [[Yalta]], [[Crimea]] attended by [[Bill Clinton]], [[Hillary Clinton]], and [[Tony Blair]] to discuss how Ukraine's assets would be carved up after the forthcoming [[Ukrainian coup]].

Russian hacking claims of DNC servers in the Spring of 2016 rely entirely on a report by CrowdStrike.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/think-tank-cyber-firm-center-russian-hacking-charges-misread-data</ref> Despite repeated requests from the FBI, Crowdstrike and the DNC refused to turn over evidence.<ref>https://slate.com/technology/2017/05/the-fbi-is-harder-to-trust-on-the-dnc-hack-because-it-relied-on-crowdstrikes-analysis.html</ref> The [[Obama administration]] never examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/</ref> On July 25, 2019, [[President Trump]] requested [[President Zelensky]] of Ukraine to assist in recovering evidence from Crowdstrike, which contracts with the Ukrainian military.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-mentioned-crowdstrike-to-ukrainian-president-and-crowdstrike-doesnt-seem-to-know-why-2019-09-25</ref>
:*According to journalist and DNC activist Andrea Chalupa on her Facebook page “After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington),<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref> it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a [[Democratic Party]] source who has been directly involved in the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”” July 25, 2016
:*If she was that close to the investigation Crowdstrike did how credible is she? Her sister Alexandra was named one of 16 people that shaped the election by Yahoo news. '''The DNC hacking investigation done by Crowdstrike concluded hacking was done by Russian actors based on the work done by Alexandra Chalupa? That is the conclusion of her sister Andrea Chalupa and obviously enough for Crowdstrike to make the Russian government connection.'''
:*How close is Dimitri Alperovitch to DNC officials? Close enough professionally he should have stepped down from an investigation that had the chance of throwing a presidential election in a new direction. According to Esquire.com, Alperovitch has vetted speeches for Hillary Clinton about cyber security issues in the past. Because of his work on the Sony hack, President Barrack Obama personally called and said the measures taken were directly because of his work.
:*Alperovitch’s relationships with the Chalupas, radical groups, think tanks, Ukrainian propagandists, and Ukrainian state supported hackers [show a conflict of interest]. When it all adds up and you see it together, we have found a Russian that tried hard to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in 2016.

====Fancy Bear is Ukrainian Intelligence====
[[File:Alperovitch-hacker-friends-400x118 (1).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Dimitry Alperovitch, the founder of Crowdstrike, tweeting with Fancy Bear. Crowdstrike claimed the Russians hacked the DNC. The FBI never verified the claim. Private investigators determined it was Ukrainian intelligence who were hired by Alexandra Chalupa, a member of the Democratic National Committee.]]
George Eliason has identified Fancy Bear as Ukrainian intelligence.

Alexandra Chalupa hired this particular hacking terrorist group, which Dimitry Alperovich and Crowdstrike dubbed "[[Fancy Bear]]", in 2015 at the latest. While the Ukrainian hackers worked for the DNC, Fancy Bear had to send in progress reports, turn in research, and communicate on the state of the projects they were working on. Let's face it, once you're in, setting up your Fancy Bear toolkit doesn't get any easier. This is why I said the DNC hack isn't the big crime. It's a big con and all the parties were in on it.

Hillary Clinton exposed secrets to hacking threats by using private email instead of secured servers. Given the information provided she was probably being monitored by our intrepid Ruskie-Ukie union made in hell hackers. [[Anthony Weiner]] exposed himself and his wife [[Huma Abedin]] using Weiner's computer for top-secret State Department emails. And of course Huma Abedin exposed herself along with her top-secret passwords at [[Yahoo]] and it looks like the hackers the DNC hired to do opposition research hacked her.

Here's a question. Did Huma Abedin have Hillary Clinton's passwords for her private email server? It would seem logical given her position with Clinton at the State Department and afterward. This means that Hillary Clinton and the US government top secret servers were most likely compromised by Fancy Bear before the DNC and Team Clinton hired them by using legitimate passwords.

===Relations with Belarus===
On March 1, 2022, the [[Zelensky regime]] threatened [[Belarus]] with a pre-emptive strike.<ref>https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ukraine-Threatens-Belarus-to-Launch-Preemptive-Attack-20220301-0010.html</ref>

On March 15, 2022, Belarus was hit with an organized [[sabotage]] campaign aimed at railroad lines carrying Russian troops and humanitarian supplies into Ukraine.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-699184</ref>

On October 14, 2022, Belarus went on high alert against a [[NATO]] terror attack.<ref>https://youtu.be/NFwID2qF3HY</ref>

On October 17, 2022, the Belarus defense ministry issued a statement saying it reserved the right for preemptive strategic deterrence measures.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1523983</ref>

===Relations with Argentina===
{{Main article|Javier Milei}}
[[File:Zelenski gives a menorah to Milei.jpg|thumbnail|[[Zelenski]] receives a Jewish [[menorah]] from Milei.]]
The Libertarian Argentinian President, [[Javier Milei]] shares religion with Zelenski who game him a [[menorah]] during the inauguration of the first. Milei is pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine. It was the first time Zelenski visited [[Latin America]].

[[Zelenski]] and [[Viktor Orbán]] were present in Milei's inauguration and they both discussed about [[Putin]] during the event.

==Economy==
[[File:96% of Burisma's production comes from Dniepr-Donets Basin.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The heart of Burisma Holdings' Yuzov field in the Dniepr-Dontes Basin.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IFk5wgMl2k8 BURISMA GROUP VIDEO 2018], BURISMA GROUP, Oct 4, 2018. YouTube.</ref>]]
[[File:Dniepr-Donets Basin.PNG|left|300px|thumb|The Dniepr-Donets Basin center of Burisma Holdings on the [[Kharkov front]] during the [[NATO war in Ukraine]].]]
With rich farmlands, a well-developed industrial base, highly trained labor, and a good education system, Ukraine has the potential to become a major European economy. After eight straight years of sharp economic decline from the early to late 1990s, the standard of living for most citizens declined more than 50%, leading to widespread poverty. Beginning in 2000 economic growth has averaged 7.4% per year, reaching 12.1% in 2004 and 7.0% in 2006. Personal incomes are rising. The macro economy is stable, with the hyperinflation of the early post-Soviet period now reduced to just over 11.6% (2006). Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, was introduced in September 1996 and has remained stable despite a small nominal appreciation in April 2005. While economic growth continues, Ukraine's long-term economic prospects depend on acceleration of market reforms. The economy remains burdened by excessive government regulation, corruption, and lack of law enforcement, and while the government has taken steps against corruption and small and medium enterprises have been largely privatized, much remains to be done to restructure and privatize key sectors such as energy and telecommunications and to allow the free sale of farmland.

Ukraine is rich in natural resources. It has a major ferrous metal industry, producing cast iron, steel, and steel pipe, and its chemical industry produces [[Coke from coal|coke]], mineral fertilizers, and sulfuric acid. Manufactured goods include airplanes, turbines, metallurgical equipment, [[Diesel fuel system|diesel]] locomotives, and tractors. It also is a major producer of grain, sunflower seeds, and sugar and has a broad industrial base, including much of the former U.S.S.R.'s space and rocket industry. Although proven onshore and offshore oil and natural gas reserves are small, it has important energy sources, such as coal, and large mineral deposits, and is one of the world's leading energy transit countries, providing transportation of Russian and Caspian oil and gas across its territory.

Ukraine encourages foreign trade and investment. The foreign investment law allows Westerners to purchase businesses and property, to repatriate revenue and profits, and to receive compensation in the event that property were to be nationalized by a future government. However, complex laws and regulations, poor corporate governance, weak enforcement of contract law by courts and particularly corruption have discouraged broad foreign direct investment in Ukraine. While there is a functioning stock market, the lack of protection for minority shareholder rights severely restricts portfolio investment activities. Total foreign direct investment in Ukraine was approximately $21.2 billion as of January 1, 2007. At $447 per capita, this was one of the lowest figures in the region.

While countries of the former Soviet Union remain important trading partners, especially Russia and Turkmenistan for energy imports, Ukraine's trade is becoming more diversified. Europe is now the destination of over one third of Ukraine's exports, while around one quarter of Ukraine's exports go to Russia and the CIS. Exports of machinery and machine tools are on the rise relative to steel, which constitutes over 30% of exports. Ukraine imports over 80% of its oil and 73% of its natural gas. Russia ranks as Ukraine's principal supplier of oil and Russian firms now own and/or operate the majority of Ukraine's refining capacity. Natural gas imports come from Russia and Turkmenistan, which deliver the gas through a pipeline system owned and controlled by [[Gazprom]], Russia's state-owned gas monopoly. In 2005 and 2006, Ukraine switched from barter to cash payments for gas imports. Ukraine controls the gas pipelines on its territory that are also used to transit Russian gas to Western Europe. The complex relationship between supplier, transporter, and consumer has led to some tensions, including Russia's decision to cut off gas supplies for three days in January 2006.

The Government of Ukraine's 12-month $605 million precautionary standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expired in March 2005, and Ukraine currently does not receive IMF financing. In Article IV Consultations, the IMF recommends fiscal discipline and structural reforms, particularly of Ukraine's pension system. In July 2005, the World Bank approved a $250 million Development Policy Loan (formerly a Programmatic Adjustment Loan) to support reforms to improve the investment climate, public administration and financial management, and social inclusion. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) project outlays more than doubled in 2005 to 530 million Euros, bringing its portfolio to 2.2 billion Euros.

In 1992, Ukraine became a member of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It is a member of the EBRD but not a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ukraine applied for membership in the WTO in 1995. Progress on its application had been slow but picked up momentum in 2006. The government has made accession to the WTO a priority in 2007.

===Economic data===
[[File:1-Russia-Ukraine-Biolabs.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. owned biological laboratories in Ukraine.]]
Ukraine is classified as a lower middle-income nation, evolving into a post-soviet developing economy.

Approximate economic statistics are as follows:
* Ukraine's GDP is $103 billion ($103,000,000,000), and has been growing at a rate of 6% fairly consistently.
* Per capita GDP is $2,200, with per capita purchasing power at $7,700.
* Foreign debt is 7% of GDP, and foreign investment is 2% of GDP.
* Average monthly salary is 200 euros per month.
* Commercial prime lending rate is 15%.
* The inflation rate is currently 10%.

The Ukrainian currency is the hryvnia (worth about 20 cents, in $USD), which was introduced 1996 to stabilize runaway inflation (and is currently trading at 5:1 for United States dollars, and at 6:1 for European Union euros).

Taxation rates are as follows:
* Personal income tax is 15%.
* Corporate income tax is 25%.
* Value-added tax (VAT) is 20%.
* Social insurance tax is 30%.

Import/export goods include:
* Metals (35%)
* Machinery (25%)
* Fuel & chemicals (10%)
* Agricultural (10%)
* Other (20%)

Mining includes fuel ores of coal, oil, and natural gas, and metal ores of iron, manganese, titanium, magnesium, nickel, and mercury.

Major trade partners are Russia (25%), then about 5% each for [[Germany]], [[Poland]], Italy, [[Turkey]], and [[China]], and others.

===Environmental Issues===
[[Image:Chornobyl radiation96.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Radiation-affected areas from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as of 1996]]
Ukraine is interested in cooperating on regional environmental issues. Conservation of natural resources is a stated high priority, although implementation suffers from a lack of financial resources. Ukraine established its first nature preserve, Askania-Nova, in 1921 and has a program to breed endangered species.

Ukraine has significant environmental problems, especially those resulting from the [[Chernobyl]] nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 and from industrial pollution. In accordance with its agreement with the G7 and European Commission in 1995, Ukraine permanently closed the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in December 2000. Urgent measures for radiation and worker safety as well as structural improvements to the "sarcophagus" erected by the Soviet Union are largely complete, and the contract for construction of the new shelter to be built around the sarcophagus is expected to be awarded in 2007.

Ukraine also has established a Ministry of Environment and has introduced a pollution fee system, which levies taxes on air and water emissions and solid waste disposal. The resulting revenues are channeled to environmental protection activities, but enforcement of this pollution fee system is lax. Ukraine ratified the Kyoto Protocol in April 2004.

Construction of a shipping canal through a UN-protected core biosphere reserve in the Danube Delta, which began in May 2004, is an environmental issue of international interest.

===Burisma Holdings===
Vice President [[Joe Biden]] oversaw the disbursement of $1 billion allocated by the U.S. to the new government of Ukraine. In 2014, Biden's son [[Hunter Biden]], was appointed to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the largest oil and gas company in Ukraine. Hunter Biden was hired by [[Mykola Zlochevsky]], who served as Ukraine's ecology minister in the previous administration. Hunter Biden was paid $166,000 per month. The money was split with the nephew of [[Whitey Bulger]].

Zlochevsky came under investigation by the new administration for alleged embezzlement of $5 billion while ecology minister. The prosecutor traced payments made to Hunter Biden. Vice President Biden threatened the new Ukrainian administration to withhold $1 billion in U.S. allocated funds unless the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden was fired.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>

Biden bragged about having caused the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor to a [[CFR]] conference.
[[File:Joe Biden at CFR meeting 2018 2.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Biden at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]: "‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired."<ref>https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/deep-dark-secrets-rich-famous-and-powerful-cliff-kincaid</ref>]]
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Joe Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine. Biden threatened Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending Ukraine toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son, Hunter. Biden recounted,
{{quotebox-float|"'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref name="thehill.com">https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref><ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>}}
Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaced Shokin as the prosecutor looking into Burisma, said the evidence in the Burisma case he'd like to present to [[William Barr]], particularly the vice president's intervention.

Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid out by Burisma to an account linked to Biden's and Devon Archer's Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in another case against Archer. The bank records show that, on most months when Burisma money flowed, two wire transfers of $83,333.33 each were sent to the Rosemont Seneca–connected account on the same day. The same Rosemont Seneca–linked account typically then paid Hunter Biden one or more payments ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 each. Ukrainian prosecutors reviewed internal company documents and wanted to interview Hunter Biden and Archer about why they had received such payments, but couldn't because of Joe Biden's intervention.

On September 4, 2019, former Prosecutor General [[Victor Shokin]] made a sworn affidavit outlining Joe Biden's shakedown.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement</ref>

==History==
[[File:Annexations to the territory of Ukraine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Annexations to the territory of Ukraine]]

{{See also|History of Ukraine}}
Modern Ukraine is largely the remains of the failed efforts of [[Bolshevik]] [[nation building]].

In December 2020, after torchlight parades took place all over Ukraine honoring [[Stepan Bandera]], head of the [[OUN-B]], Ukrainian national hero, who was a collaborator with the Nazis during the [[Second World War]], and whose men massacred [[Jews]] and [[Polish]] civilians, [[Poland]] and [[Israel]] issued a joint communiqué to complain about the glorification of Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, the head of the other branch of the OUN, the OUN-M, and all others who actively promoted the [[ethnic cleansing]] of Jews and Poles.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PLinUkraine/status/1212760669285736449 Joint statement of Ambassador of Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki and Ambassador of Israel in Ukraine Joel Lion].</ref>

==Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state==
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

Vladimir Putin: Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.

In 882, Rurik’s successor Prince Oleg, who was, actually, playing the role of regent at Rurik’s young son because Rurik had died by that time, came to Kiev. He ousted two brothers who, apparently, had once been members of Rurik’s squad. So, Russia began to develop with two centers of power, Kiev and Novgorod.

The next, very significant date in the history of Russia, was 988. This was the Baptism of Russia, when Prince Vladimir, the great-grandson of Rurik, baptized Russia and adopted Orthodoxy, or Eastern Christianity. From this time the centralized Russian state began to strengthen. Why? Because of a single territory, integrated economic ties, one and the same language and, after the Baptism of Russia, the same faith and rule of the Prince. The centralized Russian state began to take shape.

Back in the Middle Ages, Prince Yaroslav the Wise introduced the order of succession to the throne, but after he passed away, it became complicated for various reasons. The throne was passed not directly from father to eldest son, but from the prince who had passed away to his brother, then to his sons in different lines. All this led to the fragmentation and the end of Rus’ as a single state. There was nothing special about it, the same was happening then in Europe. But the fragmented Russian state became an easy prey to the empire created earlier by Genghis Khan. His successors, namely, Batu Khan, came to Rus’, plundered and ruined nearly all the cities. The southern part, including Kiev, by the way, and some other cities, simply lost independence, while northern cities preserved some of their sovereignty. They had to pay tribute to the Horde, but they managed to preserve some part of their sovereignty. And then a unified Russian state began to take shape with its centre in Moscow.

The southern part of the Russian lands, including Kiev, began to gradually gravitate towards another ”magnet“ – the centre that was emerging in Europe. This was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was even called the Lithuanian-Russian Duchy, because Russians were a significant part of its population. They spoke the Old Russian language and were Orthodox. But then there was a unification, the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. A few years later, another union was signed, but this time already in the religious sphere. Some of the Orthodox priests became subordinate to the Pope. Thus, these lands became part of the Polish-Lithuanian state.

During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (u kraya) they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

Tucker Carlson: I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

Vladimir Putin: It was in the 13th century.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

Tucker Carlson: It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

Vladimir Putin: But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.

As expected, the war with Poland began. It lasted 13 years, and then in 1654, a truce was concluded. And 32 years later, I think, a peace treaty with Poland, which they called ”eternal peace,“ was signed. And these lands, the whole left bank of the Dnieper, including Kiev, went to Russia, and the whole right bank of the Dnieper remained in Poland.

Under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands, including in the south and west. This all lasted until the Revolution. Before World War I, Austrian General Staff relied on the ideas of Ukrainianization and started actively promoting the ideas of Ukraine and the Ukrainianization. Their motive was obvious. Just before World War I they wanted to weaken the potential enemy and secure themselves favourable conditions in the border area. So the idea which had emerged in Poland that people residing in that territory were allegedly not really Russians, but rather belonged to a special ethnic group, Ukrainians, started being propagated by the Austrian General Staff.

As far back as the 19th century, theorists calling for Ukrainian independence appeared. All those, however, claimed that Ukraine should have a very good relationship with Russia. They insisted on that. After the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to restore the statehood, and the Civil War began, including the hostilities with Poland. In 1921, peace with Poland was proclaimed, and under that treaty, the right bank of the Dnieper River once again was given back to Poland.

In 1939, after Poland cooperated with Hitler — it did collaborate with Hitler, you know —Hitler offered Poland peace and a treaty of friendship and alliance (we have all the relevant documents in the archives), demanding in return that Poland give back to Germany the so-called Danzig Corridor, which connected the bulk of Germany with East Prussia and Konigsberg. After World War I this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Gdansk emerged. Hitler asked them to give it amicably, but they refused.

==Origins of Ukraine: 19th century and World War I==
In the 19th century the Ukrainian was a rural area largely ignored by Russia and Austria. With growing urbanization and modernization, and a cultural trend toward nationalism inspired by romanticism, a Ukrainian intelligentsia committed to national rebirth and social justice emerged. The serf-turned-national-poet [[Taras Shevchenko]] (1814-1861) and the political theorist [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]] (1841-1895) led the growing nationalist movement. Nationalist and socialist parties developed in the late 19th century. '''[[Austrian Galicia]]''', which enjoyed substantial political freedom under the relatively lenient rule of the [[Hapsburgs]], became the center of the nationalist movement. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893.<ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref> Before 1917, one could walk on foot from Kiev to Moscow without noticing any linguistic differences. Defeat in [[World War I]] and the Russian revolutions of 1917 destroyed the Hapsburg and Russian empires. The Ukrainian elite declared statehood: the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Kiev on Nov. 20, 1917, becoming independent on Jan. 22, 1918. The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Lviv on Nov. 1, 1918. A rival Ukrainian Soviet Republic was established at Kharkiv on Dec. 24, 1917. On Jan. 22, 1919, the two people's republics united. Lenin gave Ukraine Kharkiv, Donbass, and the coastal oblasts, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> By then, however, the military situation was desperate, as Polish and Bolshevik armies pressed the Ukrainian nationalists from west and east and the peasant anarchists led by Nestor Makhno took control of large areas. Because communist theory denies the existence of race as the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another, Lenin made the Soviet Union autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power.

===Bolshevik Ukraine===

The war in Ukraine continued for another two years; by 1921, however, most of Ukraine had been taken over by the Soviet Union, while Galicia and Volhynia were incorporated into independent Poland.

A powerful underground Ukrainian nationalist movement rose in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s, led by the Ukrainian Military Organization and the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUN). The movement attracted a militant following among students and harassed the Polish authorities. Legal Ukrainian parties, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an active press, and a business sector also flourished in Poland. Economic conditions improved in the 1920s, but the region suffered from the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The situation in Soviet Ukraine under Communist control were sharply different. The communists gave a privileged position to manual labor, the largest class in the cities, where Russians dominated. The typical worker was more attached to class identity than to ethnicity. Although there were incidents of ethnic friction among workers (in addition to Ukrainians and Russians there were Poles, Germans, Jews, and others in the Ukrainian workforce), industrial laborers had already adopted Russian culture and language to a significant extent. Workers whose ethnicity was Ukrainian were not attracted to campaigns of Ukrainianization or de-Russification in meaningful numbers, but remained loyal members of the Soviet working class. There was no significant antagonism between workers identifying themselves as Ukrainian or Russian; however, anti-Semitism was widespread.

Moscow encouraged a national renaissance in literature and the arts, under the aegis of the Ukrainization policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk (1872-1933).

===Holodomor===
see [[Ukrainian Famine]]

With Stalin's change of course in the late 1920s, however, Moscow's toleration of Ukrainian national identity came to an end. Systematic state terror of the 1930s destroyed Ukraine's writers, artists, and intellectuals; the Communist Party of Ukraine was purged of its "nationalist deviationists"; and the peasantry was crushed by means of collectivization, resulting in the [[Great Famine]] or "Holodomor" (Голодомор) of 1932–1933, which claimed some 3-7 million lives as crops failed and remaining food wtocks were forcibly removed by the government. Besides Ukraine, [[Kazakhstan]] and the Volga region were also hit by the famine. Stalin had full knowledge of the destructive force of the famine. It was a by-product of his war on the peasantry that began with collectivization and dekulakization and as an attempt to eradicate peasant culture in its entirety. Ellman explains the causes for the excess deaths in rural areas of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan during 1931-34 by dividing the causes into three groups: objective nonpolicy-related factors, like the drought of 1931 and poor weather in 1932; inadvertent result of policies with other objectives, like rapid industrialization, socialization of livestock, and neglected crop rotation patterns; and deaths caused intentionally by a starvation policy. The Communist leadership perceived famine not as a humanitarian catastrophe but as a means of [[class struggle]] and used starvation as a punishment tool to teach peasants to work well in the collective farms.<ref>Michael Ellman, "The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1934." ''Europe-Asia Studies'' 2005 57(6): 823-841. Issn: 0966-8136 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

It was largely the same groups of individuals who were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivization, and the Great Terror. These groups were associated with Efim Georgievich Evdokimov (1891-1939) and operated in Ukraine during the civil war, in the North Caucasus in the 1920s, and in the Secret Operational Division within General State Political Administration (OGPU) in 1929–31. Evdokimov transferred into Communist Party administration in 1934, when he became Party secretary for North Caucasus Krai. But he appears to have continued advising Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov on security matters, and the latter relied on Evdokimov's former colleagues to carry out the mass killing operations that are known as the Great Terror in 1937–38.<ref>Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin's Great Terror." ''Australian Journal of Politics and History'' 2007 53(1): 20-43. Issn: 0004-9522 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]; Robert Conquest, ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine'' (1986). Mark B. Tauger, "The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933" ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 70-89, notes the harvest was unusually poor. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199121)50%3A1%3C70%3AT1HATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H online in JSTOR]; R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S. G. Wheatcroft, "Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933," ''Slavic Review,'' Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199523)54%3A3%3C642%3ASGSATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]; online in JSTOR; Michael Ellman. "Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932-33 Revisited," ''Europe-Asia Studies,'' Volume 59, Issue 4 June 2007 , pages 663-93.</ref>

===Nazi collaboration: 1941-1945===
{{See also|Volhynia massacre}}
In 1939, after Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Galicia and Volhynia were annexed to Soviet Ukraine. Northern Bukovina, formerly part of Romania, was incorporated into Ukraine in 1940, as was formerly Czechoslovakian Subcarpathian Ruthenia (the Transcarpathian Oblast) in 1945.
[[File:Ukrainian girls welcoming Germans.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainians girls welcome soldiers of the [[Third Reich]] with the traditional bread and salt peace offering.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
By mid-1941, the Ukrainian SSR had the largest population of Jews in Europe. The addition of the eastern provinces of Poland in late 1939 as well as the seizure of sections of Romanian territory in June 1940 led to some 2.7 million Jews living within the borders of the newly enlarged republic. About 85% lived in cities. By 1944, 1.6 million of these Jews had died at the hands of the Germans and their allies and auxiliaries. Unlike the majority of the [[Holocaust]]'s victims who died in the industrialized mass murder of the death camps, the overwhelming bulk of Ukraine's Jews died in mass shootings during the initial stages of the war.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was welcomed by many Ukrainians at first; the [[Stepan Bandera|OUN]] even attempted to establish a government under German auspices. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) considered Ukraine a strategically important region that should be occupied through capturing the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians. According to Rosenberg, everything should have been done to make the Ukrainians view the Germans as liberators. Though he presented his views on different occasions, [[Adolf Hitler]]'s anti-Slavic racial views prevailed and overrode strategic considerations, leading to a harsh occupation. Very soon the realization that Nazi policies were brutal toward all the Ukrainians, and not only the Jews and Communists, drove most Ukrainians into opposition to the Nazis. Germany forced many Ukrainians to work within the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) on tasks such as agriculture, road and railway building, and the construction of fortifications. The German authorities soon faced a serious local labor shortage, especially among skilled workers, as a result of Soviet evacuations before the invasion, the ongoing murder of the Jewish population, and the brutal recruitment, arrest, and deportation of other groups, usually with the cooperation of the local civilian, military, and police authorities. The pool of labor was further reduced as the Germans lost territory in the later stages of the conflict. Nazi administrator Fritz Sauckel's labor recruitment measures strained relations with local officials responsible for selecting the deportees, leading to bribery and corruption. The Kiev area was the main focus for recruitment and deportation, along with the Vinnitsa region of central Ukraine. Over a million locals and prisoners of war were forced into labor in the Ukrainian coal mines in the Donbas region ([[Donets Basin]]). The forced laborers endured fines, starvation, imprisonment, beatings, and hanging, but also had better chances for more food, money, and mobility.

In Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia the first stage of partisan development, from 1941 to the fall of 1942, was uncoordinated and resulted in a great many losses. The second stage, late 1942 to 1944, was better coordinated; partisan groups were better defined, and relatively large-scale operations were carried out, often in cooperation with the Red Army. Organized leadership and cadres were created, various forms of actions (such as diversions, sabotage, and direct attacks) were developed; the Germans responded with vicious punitive activities against the partisans. In all, more than 1.3 million partisans took part in actions in Germany's rear in 6,200 units; more than 300,000 received decorations for their actions. The OUN created a nationalist partisan fighting force, the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA); many Ukrainians also joined the Soviet partisans and fought in the Soviet Army against the Germans. After World War II, the OUN and the UPA continued a hopeless guerrilla struggle against Soviet rule until 1953. The devastation caused by the war included major destruction in over 700 cities and towns and 28,000 villages.

===Fascist insurgency: 1944-1954===
[[File:SBandera.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalist leader [[Stepan Bandera]].]]
In the June 1944, when Canadian, British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy, their Soviet allies rolled into the German-occupied Western Ukraine. The Red Army soldiers and officers quickly noticed a stark contrast in the attitude of locals compared to other recently liberated regions of the Soviet Union. Instead of cheering crowds of peasant women and children who would offer them water and the traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt, there was an eerie silence in many villages, and few locals would even talk to the new arrivals. Soon, chilling rumors started about murdered Red Army soldiers found hanged or decapitated in the woods. Rumors were soon followed by orders issued to troops stationed in the allegedly safe rear, far behind the frontline, to increase their vigilance, never to venture anywhere alone or unarmed, and to look out for “bandits” hiding in the forests. The [[NKVD]] (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs – as the law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1946 was known) units that followed close behind the Red Army quickly proceeded with their routine practice of rounding up numerous suspected Nazi collaborators, as well as members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground, in Lviv and other west Ukrainian cities. However, a number of feared Soviet secret policemen were soon found dead in Ukrainian villages and Galician forests, and in some areas of the countryside those who dared to venture there had to be heavily armed and in large numbers. This was the start of a brutal insurgency that lasted almost ten years in rural Western Ukraine and resulted in one of the toughest counterinsurgency challenges the Soviets ever faced.

When the [[CIA]] was created by the National Security Act in 1947, one of its top priorities was collaborating with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ([[Banderite]]s) to carry on an armed insurgency in western Ukraine against Soviet authorities which lasted until 1954. Many of these Banderite groups were former formations of the Nazi [[SS Galicia Division]] known for horrendous atrocities against Polish and Jewish civilians. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian himself, pacified the insurgency after Stalin's death and placed Russian Crimea, a famous resort area with a mild climate, under Kyiv administration. In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref>

===Denazificatrion and reconstruction: 1954 to 1991===
Stalin's death finally brought relief in many ways. The thaw initiated by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who had served as Ukrainian party chief in the 1930s, led to the emergence in the late 1950s and the early 1960s of the "sixties generation" of writers, artists, and intellectuals. In order to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954. Following Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Moscow, under [[Leonid Brezhnev]] initiated a series of crackdowns on Ukrainian dissidents, including [[Ivan Dziuba]] (b. 1931), the author of Internationalism or Russification?; Vyacheslav Chornovil (b. 1938), the editor of the underground ''Ukrainian Herald''; and Valentyn Moroz (b. 1936), the author of stinging attacks on Soviet policy. In 1972, Petro Shelest, the national-Communist Ukrainian party chief, was replaced by hardliner Volodymyr Shcherbytsky.

The Number Four reactor at Chernobyl exploded during a routine power test in April 1986. Radioactive contaminants from the [[Chernobyl disaster]] fell on northern Ukraine and several neighboring countries, reaching as far as Japan and the United States, causing casualties, sparking a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union, and inciting fears of nuclear energy.<ref>Jim T. Smith, and Nicholas A. Beresford, ''Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences.'' Springer, 2005. 310 pp.</ref>

The arrival of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1985 started a slow revolution. The [[Chernobyl]] nuclear accident in 1986 undercut trust in Moscow. "Glasnost" permitted Ukrainian intellectuals to discuss the "blank spots" in their history, and growing political liberalization led to the reemergence of dissident groups and the emergence of nationally minded cultural organizations. A major turning point occurred in late 1989, with the founding of Rukh and the removal of Shcherbytsky from power.

In the 47 years of Soviet control after the liberation of Ukraine from German occupation, the Soviet Union as never able to completely de-nazify Ukraine is it did in [[East Germany]].

===Dissolution of the Soviet Union: 1991===
{{See also|Nezalezhnaya‎‎}}
In 1990 [[Leonid Kravchuk]], formerly in charge of ideology in the CPU, was appointed chairman of the presidium of a revamped supreme soviet, one fourth of whose deputies were nationalists and "democrats" elected in the semifree elections of 1990. On July 16, 1990, Ukraine proclaimed its sovereignty, an ambiguous formula that meant independence to the nationalists and autonomy to the Russian minority. On Nov. 21, 1990, Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty recognizing each other's sovereignty and promising not to interfere in each other's affairs.

As the Communist system collapsed in 1991, Ukraine, Russia, and the other republics engaged in lengthy negotiations with Gorbachev over the form of a new union. In August 1991 an abortive coup by committed KGB operatives in Moscow destroyed Gorbachev's strength and impelled the republics to go their own way. The Ukraine national assembly declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991. Several days later the CPU was suspended and its property was confiscated. A popular referendum on independence was held on December 1, and over 90 percent of the voters supported the declaration. Most of the countries of the world recognized the new Republic of Ukraine in the months that followed. Ukraine became a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and after much controversy a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in 1994. As a consequence of the autonomous republics system, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref>
[[File:Ukrainian contractors in Afghanistan.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Although not a member of NATO, Ukrainian contractors served as part of [[George W. Bush]]s "coalition of the willing" in the [[Afghan war]]. The [[Biden regime]] abandoned them in [[Afghanistan]] in August 2021, along with contractors from Bulgaria, Romania, and the Georgian Republic. The Russian Federation evacuated them.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/200d714d-92c4-445e-b42e-a67fab991fd3</ref>]]
The nominal successor to the Soviet Union was the Commonwealth of Independent States; Ukraine joined on Dec. 8, 1991. Serious tensions soon emerged with Russia as Moscow took possession of the [[Black Sea]] fleet anchored at Sevastopol, while some Russian politicians wanted the [[Donbas]] and the Crimea; the latter, being in Russian hands since 1783, had been transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities without referendum or self-determination of peoples in 1954. The Ukrainian government responded by taking steps to create its own army and navy. Crimean secessionists elected Yuri Meshkov as president of the Crimea in early 1994. The Kiyv government established closer economic and political ties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Ukrainian nationalists fears of Russia led it to postpone action on its earlier promise to give up strategic nuclear missiles, prompting concern in the West. After the signing the Budapest Memorandum by the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and the United States in early 1994, Ukraine began shipping these weapons to Russia. Thereafter, Ukraine's relations with the United States and western Europe improved.

[[Leonid Kravchuk]], the most powerful politician, became Ukraine's first popularly elected president, with over 60 percent of the vote, on Dec. 1, 1991. His authority, like that of the legislature, declined precipitously, however, as he proved unable to solve the country's mounting economic difficulties. In contrast to Rukh, which had split into pro-Kravchuk and anti-Kravchuk factions in 1992, the former Communists remained strong, controlling many local government councils, industrial plants, and collective farms. The CPU was officially reconstituted as a powerful political force in late 1993. Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]]s also become more prominent. Elections for the supreme soviet in March 1994 yielded a legislature in which the CPU and its left-wing allies were the strongest bloc, followed by the center-right nationalists grouped about what remained of Rukh and the centrist pro-government "independents." Kravchuk ran for reelection in the presidential election in June 1994. No candidate won a majority, so a second round was held in July, pitting Kravchuk against former premier [[Leonid Kuchma]]. Kuchma won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

The national goal was the creation of a market-oriented economy and the establishment of stable democratic institutions and a system of laws. However the goals were partly frustrated by political deadlock, inexperience, an inefficient state apparatus, a collapsing economy, internal anti-Russian [[xenophobia]], and external tensions with the Russian Federation. The Soviet culture of corruption continued after independence, and rampant criminality became even more widespread in the mid-1990s. In the latter 1990s, [[Viktor Yushchenko]], as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, tamed rampant inflation and introduced responsible economic controls. From 1999 to 2004, Ukraine's GNP nearly doubled.

Official trade unions have been grouped under the Federation of Trade Unions. A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Trade Unions. While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

Ethnic tensions in [[Crimea]] during 1992 prompted a number of pro-Russian political organizations to advocate secession of Crimea and reincorporation to Russia. (Crimea was ceded by the RFSSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, in recognition of historic links and for economic convenience, to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia.) In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy.

In July 1994, [[Leonid Kuchma]] was elected as Ukraine's second president in free and fair elections. Kuchma was reelected in November 1999 to another five-year term, with 56% of the vote. International observers criticized aspects of the election, especially slanted media coverage; however, the outcome of the vote was not called into question. Ukraine's March 2002 parliamentary elections were characterized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as flawed, but an improvement over the 1998 elections. The pro-presidential For a United Ukraine bloc won the largest number of seats, followed by the reformist Our Ukraine bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (who was then a former Prime Minister), and the Communist Party.

===Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances: 1994===
{{See also|Near abroad}}
At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,800 strategic warheads, 176 long-range ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers.

To solidify security commitments to Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the December 5, 1994 [[Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]]. The memorandum included assurances against the threat or use of force against Ukraine's territory or political independence. The countries promised to respect the sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine.

The United States took custody and control of Ukraine's obsolete nuclear stockpiles for disposal in exchange for assurances by the United States and NATO to safeguard Ukraine's independence. Ukraine was coaxed to give up it nuclear weapons in exchange for a written pledge, should Ukraine ever be threatened or invaded, the United States would be there to intervene with military power.

By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its operational nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It took years of political maneuvering and diplomatic work, starting with the Lisbon Protocol in 1992, to remove the weapons and nuclear infrastructure from Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons ]</ref>

===Failed color revolution: 2004===
{{see also|Color revolution|Psyop}}

Kuchma's second term in office as president (1999-2004) was characterized by the collapse of the national democratic-centrist alliance, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, the rise of a non-Communist opposition in the 2002 elections, and the election of [[Viktor Yushchenko]] in 2004 following the [[Open Society Foundations]]' [[Orange Revolution]]. The deep divisions that have become evident under Yushchenko had their origins in Ukraine's regionalism, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, antiregime protests, and different attitudes to dealing with the past. The country is divided by linguistic and regional cleavages that appear sharply in regional polarization in national elections. These divisions have led to constant questioning of the viability of the Ukrainian state and predictions of violence and civil war. Secessionist movements have made few inroads, however, and violence has been nonexistent. Because the Russian "minority" group in Ukraine is actually quite large, it has immense influence in the state without resort to regional autonomy or secession. The balance of power between Ukraine's regions and ethnic groups has ensured that neither side has dominated. This does not make for rapid reform.

The campaign leading to the October 31, 2004 presidential election was characterized by widespread violations of democratic norms, including government intimidation of the opposition and of independent media, abuse of state administrative resources, highly skewed media coverage, and numerous provocations. The two major candidates—Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader (and former Prime Minister) Viktor Yushchenko—each garnered between 39% and 40% of the vote and proceeded to a winner-take-all second round. The November 21 runoff election was marred by credible reports of widespread and significant violations, including illegal expulsion of opposition representatives from election commissions, multiple voting by busloads of people, abuse of absentee ballots, reports of coercion of votes in schools and prisons, and an abnormally high number of (easily manipulated) mobile ballot box votes. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv and other cities to protest electoral fraud and express support for Yushchenko, and conducted ongoing peaceful demonstrations during what came to be known as the "Orange Revolution."

The OSCE International Election Observation Mission found that the November 21, 2004 run-off presidential election "did not meet a considerable number of OSCE commitments and Council of Europe and other European standards for democratic elections…Overall, State executive authorities and the Central Election Commission (CEC) displayed a lack of will to conduct a genuine democratic election process." Other independent observers were similarly critical. On November 24, 2004, the CEC declared Prime Minister Yanukovych the winner with 49.46% compared to 46.61% for Yushchenko. The U.S. and Europe refused to accept the result as legitimate due to the numerous, uninvestigated reports of fraud. European leaders traveled to Kyiv to mediate a political solution between the parties. On November 27, Ukraine's Supreme Rada passed a resolution declaring that the election results as announced did not represent the will of the people. On December 1, the Rada passed a vote of "no confidence" in the government. On December 3, Ukraine's Supreme Court invalidated the CEC's announced results and mandated a repeat of the second round vote to take place on December 26. An agreement mediated by the European leaders resulted in new legislation being passed by the Rada and signed by the President December 8. The electoral law was reformed to close loopholes that had permitted pervasive electoral fraud. The constitution was amended, effective not earlier than September 2005, to transfer power, especially with respect to appointment of ministers, from the president to the cabinet. Yet another law was passed, in first reading, to devolve some powers of the central government to regional councils. In addition, Prime Minister Yanukovych requested and was granted a leave of absence, and Prosecutor General Hennadiy Vasilyev submitted his resignation.

The December 26 re-vote took place in an atmosphere of calm. While irregularities were noted, observers found no systemic or massive fraud. The OSCE Mission noted that "campaign conditions were markedly more equal, observers received fewer reports of pressure on voters, the election administration was more transparent and the media more balanced than in previous rounds…in our collective view Ukraine’s elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other European standards." On January 10, 2005, after the CEC and the Supreme Court had considered and rejected numerous complaints and appeals filed by the Yanukovych campaign, the CEC certified the results: Yushchenko had won 51.99% of the votes, with 44.20% for Yanukovych. President Yushchenko was inaugurated January 23, 2005.

Ukraine held parliamentary and local elections on March 26, 2006. International observers noted that conduct of the Rada election was in line with international standards for democratic elections, making this the most free and fair in Ukraine's history. Unlike the first rounds of the 2004 presidential election, candidates and parties were able to express themselves freely in a lively press and assembled without hindrance. There was no systemic abuse of administrative resources as there had been under the previous regime. The Party of Regions and the bloc of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whose government the President dismissed in September 2005, finished ahead of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. Other parties passing the 3% threshold to enter parliament were the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine. No party held the majority of Rada seats needed to form a government. Following four months of difficult negotiations, a government led by Prime Minister Yanukovych and including representatives from the Party of Regions, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party took office on August 4, 2006. This, the first government formed after the extensive constitutional amendments brokered as part of the Orange Revolution, has been the focus the Prime Minister's growing influence, sometimes at the expense of the President. Amid shifting political alliances, the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" formed by the Party of Regions, Socialist and Communist parties has grown into a "Coalition of National Unity," as some members of the pro-presidential "Our Ukraine" bloc have moved into the Prime Minister's camp. Meanwhile, others have joined forces with Bloc [[Yuliya Tymoshenko]].

===Western-backed Euromaidan regime change: 2014/2015===
''{{See also|Euromaidan coup|Obama war crimes}}
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|colspan="3"|(left) Destruction funded by the United States of the Savur-Mohyla memorial monument to Soviet Soldiers who defeated Nazism and liberated Ukraine; (right) the monument rebuilt and restored with funds provided by the Russian Federation.
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2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair and [[democracy|democratic]] elections certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE). In a 2013, an [[Obama administration]]-backed [[color revolution]] was unleashed, in which the Ukrainians nationalists protested against Yanukovych and wanted a pro-[[EU]] and [[NATO]] course by the government.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/vladimir-tismaneanu/ukrainian-people-power/</ref> These protests were dubbed "[[EuroMaidan]]".<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/putin-vs-pro-west-ukrainians/</ref> The key figures of the opposition were [[Victoria Nuland]], [[Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Vitali Klitschko]] and neo-Nazi [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. As a result, prime minister Mykola Azarov resigned<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25932352</ref> and Yanukovich was discontinued on February 22, 2014, by the parliament.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/22/ukrainian-protesters-claim-control-over-capital/</ref>

In response to the armed fascist coup of a democratically elected president, Russian soldiers landed in Crimea the same month. Because many of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was an ongoing dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to [[Russia]].<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from the illegally US-installed Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> On March 16, 2014, Russia sponsored a referendum in Crimea about joining Russia. As a result of it 95.5% of voters supported joining Russia.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26599776</ref> The decision of the voters was ratified by the Russian Duma. Since March 18, 2014, Russia claims Crimea as a part of its territory.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/18/russia-moves-to-annex-crimea-laughs-at-us-sanctions/</ref> [[Afghanistan]], [[Cuba]], [[Nicaragua]], [[North Korea]], [[Russia]], [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]] recognized Crimea as a part of Russia.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?ref=asia&_r=1</ref>

In response, the United States and Europe imposed the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions sponsored by Sen. [[John McCain]] against Russian trade.

As a result of the reincorporation of Crimea, the [[Donetsk People's Republic]] and the [[Lugansk People's Republic]] declared their independence and created a confederation called "[[Novorossiya|Federal State of Novorossiya]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140607011548/http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_24/Donetsk-Lugansk-Peoples-Republics-unite-in-Novorossiya-1012/</ref> Novorossiya was dissolved in May 2015 but the separate Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics however still exist. In June 2014 [[Petro Poroshenko]] was elected as new president of the Western-installed Kyiv regime<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/poroshenko-sworn-ukraines-president-073208251.html</ref> and [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]] became prime minister. Since then the U.S.-backed Ukrainian regime backed neo-Nazi paramilitary terror attacks against the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics. When President Donald Trump attempted to hold back military aid to the fascist Kyiv regime, U.S. [[Democratic party|Democrats]] impeached him.

===Ukrainian collusion: 2016-2019===
{{See also|Ukrainian collusion|Biden family corruption}}
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Alexandra 'Ali' Chalupa (left) and Col. Alexander Vindman (right), two Ukrainian [[Banderist]]s deeply involved in the plot to remove President Trump and drive the United States to war with Russia.
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The government of Ukraine in collusion with the [[Democratic National Committee]] colluded to interfere in the [[2016 United States Presidential Election]] and to subvert American [[democracy]]. In so doing, they sought to blame Russia for foreign influence.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html</ref>

Paul Sperry of Realclearinvestigations documented how the Ukrainian government, working with both the [[Obama administration]] and the [[2016 Clinton campaign]], Ukrainian officials intervened in the 2016 race to help [[Hillary Clinton]] and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]] where officials worked with Alexander Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American [[Banderist]] and Clinton campaign operative, to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on and investigate their political rival.

Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election. As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also attacked him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in ''[[The Hill]]'', an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on [[social media]].
[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
The Ukrainian mischief is part of Special Counsel [[John Durham]]’s broader Trump-Russia inquiry, as of 2022 a full-blown [[criminal]] investigation with [[grand jury]] indictments – into efforts to falsely target Trump as a [[Kremlin]] conspirator in 2016 and beyond.

Nine days after the U.S. presidential election, the Russian Federation sponsored a U.N. Resolution entitled ''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance'' aimed at condemning the [[neo-fascist]] groups openly displaying Nazi symbols and regalia in Ukraine and Donbas. The [[Obama administration]] voted against the resolution.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

===Impeachment 2.0: 2019-2020===
{{See also|Impeachment sham}}
In December 2016 Sens. [[Lindsey Graham]] and [[John McCain]] visited the Azov Battalion. Graham told them "Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense" to retake Crimea.<ref>https://twitter.com/HTTP_404_NotF/status/1499850899690242048</ref> However, the election of Donald Trump a month earlier interrupted the [[neocon]] [[globalist]] agenda for war with Russia. When the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and [[Mueller investigation]] failed to remove President Trump, undeterred, [[Ukranian nationalist]]s and their American collaborators attempted to impeach President Trump in the fall and winter of 2020 for not enthusiastically supporting war with Russia over Ukraine.

===Russia-Ukraine war: 2022===
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}

In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war. The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed. The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>
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In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> NATO-backed [[neo-Nazi]]s attacked the [[Donbas]] on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February 2022, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 591 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 975 ceasefire violations in the region.<ref>https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683</ref>

With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put a stop to the eight-year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives. After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref> The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

===Historiography===
The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century. The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev, and his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>

Strikingly different interpretations of the medieval state of [[Kievan Rus']] appear in the four schools of historiography within Ukraine: Russophile, Sovietophile, Eastern Slavic, and Ukrainophile. The Sovietophile and Russophile schools have become marginalized in independent Ukraine, with the Ukrainophile school being dominant in the early 21st century. The Ukrainophile school promotes an identity that is mutually exclusive of Russia. It has come to dominate the nation's educational system, security forces, and national symbols and monuments, although it has been dismissed as nationalist by Western historians. The East Slavic school, an eclectic compromise between Ukrainophiles and Russophilism, has a weaker ideological and symbolic base, although it is preferred by Ukraine's centrist former elites.<ref>Taras Kuzio, "National Identity and History Writing in Ukraine," ''Nationalities Papers'' 2006 34(4): 407-427, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref>

Many historians in recent years have sought alternatives to national histories, and Ukrainian history invited approaches that looked beyond a national paradigm. Multiethnic history recognizes the numerous peoples in Ukraine; transnational history portrays Ukraine as a border zone for various empires; and area studies categorizes Ukraine as part of Eurasia, or more often as part of East-Central Europe. Plokhy (2007) argues that looking beyond the country's national history has made possible a richer understanding of Ukraine, its people, and the surrounding regions.<ref>Serhii Plokhy, "Beyond Nationality" ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (4): 25-46,</ref>

After 1991, historical memory was a powerful tool in the political mobilization and legitimation of the post-Soviet Ukrainian state, as well as the division of selectively used memory along the lines of the political division of Ukrainian society. Ukraine did not experience the restorationist paradigm typical of some other post-Soviet nations, including the Baltic states, although the multifaceted history of independence, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Soviet-era repressions, mass famine, and World War II collaboration were used to provide a different constitutive frame for the new Ukrainian nation. The politics of identity (which includes the production of history textbooks and the authorization of commemorative practices) has remained fragmented and tailored to reflect the ideological anxieties and concerns of individual regions of Ukraine.<ref>See Andryi Portnov, "Exercises with history Ukrainian style (notes on public aspects of history's functioning in post-Soviet Ukraine)," ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (3): 93-138, in Ukrainian</ref>

==See also==

* [[Ames Brothers]]
* [[Nuclear target structures]]
*[[Ukraine collusion]]
*[[Ukrainian collusion timeline]]
*[[Essay: Understanding the organization of Ukrainian forces]]

==Bibliography==
[[File:Ukraine-Subtelny.jpg|thumb|250px]]* ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (University of Toronto Press, 1984–93) 5 vol; from [http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/webfiles/eu.htm Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies], partly online
* ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia.'' ed by Volodymyr E. KubijovyČ; University of Toronto Press. 1963; 1188pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58069636 online at [[Questia]]]
* Dalton, Meredith. ''Ukraine'' (Culture Shock! A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette) (2001)
* Evans, Andrew. ''Ukraine'' (2nd ed 2007) The Bradt Travel Guide [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1841621811/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&p=S00T#reader-link online excerpts and search at Amazon.com]
* Johnstone, Sarah. ''Ukraine'' (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Country-Guide-Sarah-Johnstone/dp/1741044812/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256224034&sr=1-7 excerpt and text search]
* Helbig, Adriana et al. ''Culture and Customs of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Customs-Ukraine-Europe/dp/0313343632/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898664&sr=8-17 excerpt and text search]

===Recent (since 1991)===
* Aslund, Anders, and Michael McFaul.''Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough'' (2006)
* Aslund, Anders. '' How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy'' (2009)
* Birch, Sarah. ''Elections and Democratization in Ukraine'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98201086 online edition]
* Kubicek, Paul. ''The History of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Ukraine-Greenwood-Histories-Nations/dp/0313349207/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Kuzio, Taras. ''Ukraine: State and Nation Building'' Routledge, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102997170 online edition]
* Whitmore, Sarah. ''State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian Parliament, 1990-2003'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108557869 online edition]
* Wilson, Andrew. ''Ukraine's Orange Revolution'' (2005)
* Wilson, Andrew. ''The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation,'' 2nd ed. 2002; [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0300093098/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/104-1795140-9172706?ie=UTF8&p=S00L#reader-link online excerpts at Amazon]
* Wolczuk, Roman. ''Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Ukraines-Foreign-Security-1991-2000-European/dp/0700717404/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]
* Zon, Hans van. ''The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine.'' 2000 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98833788 online edition]

===Historical===
* Brandon, Ray, and Wendy Lower, eds. ''The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.'' (2008). 378 pp. [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24078 online review]
* Kohut, Zenon E.; Nebesio, Bohdan Y.; and Yurkevich, Myroslav. ''Historical Dictionary of Ukraine.'' (2005). 854 pp.
* Berkhoff, Karel C. ''Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule.'' (2004). 448 pp.
* Dimarov, Anatoliy et al. ''A Hunger Most Cruel: The Human Face of the 1932-1933 Terror-Famine in Soviet Ukraine'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Most-Cruel-1932-1933-Terror-Famine/dp/096838997X/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256224123&sr=1-19 excerpt and text search]
* Gross, Jan T. ''Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia'' (1988).
* Hrushevsky, Michael. ''A History of Ukraine'' (1986)
* Kubicek, Paul. ''The History of Ukraine'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Ukraine-Greenwood-Histories-Nations/dp/0313349207/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256898525&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Luckyj, George S. ''Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995.'' (1996)
* Lower, Wendy. ''Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine.'' U. of North Carolina Press, 2005. 307 pp.
* Magocsi, Paul Robert. ''A History of Ukraine'' (2nd. ed. 2009)
* Redlich, Shimon. ''Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945.'' Indiana U. Press, 2002. 202 pp.
* Reid, Anna. ''Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96969196 online edition]
* Subtelny, Orest. ''Ukraine: A History'' (3rd ed. 2009), 800pp; the best history in English
* Yekelchyk, Serhy. ''Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation'' (2007), 20th century history
* Zabarko, Boris, ed. ''Holocaust in the Ukraine.'' Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. 394 pp.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html CIA Factbook]
* [https://www.economist.com/countries/Ukraine/ Ukraine page at The Economist]
* [http://www.ukraine.org/ www.ukraine.org]
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/index.html ''Ukraine'' magazine, English edition]
* [https://youtu.be/Cll91vfc_3Q Ukrainian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 – 1945)]
* [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/450303.shtml "Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II,"] a 2003 Canadian film produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski and narrated by Jack Palance.
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm U.S. State Department ''Background Note: Ukraine'' (2008)], the source for several sections of this text
*[https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/ Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy]
*[https://youtu.be/kkg-gI8Wl0U 2014 Mariupol. Crimes of the Ukrainian regime . The war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years.] YouTube.
*[http://warcrimesofkiev.com/?lang=en Civil War in Ukraine 2014-2022]

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History of Ukraine

2024-04-02T06:42:39Z

MattF:

[[File:Annexations to the territory of Ukraine.jpg|right|500px|thumb|Annexations to the territory of Ukraine]]

The name "[[Ukraine]]" is of [[Polish]] origin (Pol. ''u kraya'') literally meaning "at the side" or "borderland". No such entity or [[nation state]] is recorded to exist on any map prior to 1904. The ethno-linguistic group commonly referred to as "Ukrainian" largely resided in the Austro-Hungarian province of [[Galicia]], are of [[Russian]] origin, practice the [[Eastern Orthodox]] [[Christian]] faith under the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], and developed their own [[dialect]] of the Russian language as they became detached from the main body of [[Russian Orthodox]] Christendom, living under the domination of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and later the Roman Catholic [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]].

Of all Russian speaking [[Slav]]s, the Galicians or "Ukrainians" as they have come to be called, are perhaps the most "[[Western Civilization|Westernized]]" [[cultural]]y of the Russian peoples while holding to their [[Eastern Rite]] faith.

==Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state==
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

Vladimir Putin: Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.

In 882, Rurik’s successor Prince Oleg, who was, actually, playing the role of regent at Rurik’s young son because Rurik had died by that time, came to Kiev. He ousted two brothers who, apparently, had once been members of Rurik’s squad. So, Russia began to develop with two centers of power, Kiev and Novgorod.

The next, very significant date in the history of Russia, was 988. This was the Baptism of Russia, when Prince Vladimir, the great-grandson of Rurik, baptized Russia and adopted Orthodoxy, or Eastern Christianity. From this time the centralized Russian state began to strengthen. Why? Because of a single territory, integrated economic ties, one and the same language and, after the Baptism of Russia, the same faith and rule of the Prince. The centralized Russian state began to take shape.

Back in the Middle Ages, Prince Yaroslav the Wise introduced the order of succession to the throne, but after he passed away, it became complicated for various reasons. The throne was passed not directly from father to eldest son, but from the prince who had passed away to his brother, then to his sons in different lines. All this led to the fragmentation and the end of Rus’ as a single state. There was nothing special about it, the same was happening then in Europe. But the fragmented Russian state became an easy prey to the empire created earlier by Genghis Khan. His successors, namely, Batu Khan, came to Rus’, plundered and ruined nearly all the cities. The southern part, including Kiev, by the way, and some other cities, simply lost independence, while northern cities preserved some of their sovereignty. They had to pay tribute to the Horde, but they managed to preserve some part of their sovereignty. And then a unified Russian state began to take shape with its centre in Moscow.

The southern part of the Russian lands, including Kiev, began to gradually gravitate towards another ”magnet“ – the centre that was emerging in Europe. This was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was even called the Lithuanian-Russian Duchy, because Russians were a significant part of its population. They spoke the Old Russian language and were Orthodox. But then there was a unification, the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. A few years later, another union was signed, but this time already in the religious sphere. Some of the Orthodox priests became subordinate to the Pope. Thus, these lands became part of the Polish-Lithuanian state.

During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (u kraya) they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

Tucker Carlson: I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

Vladimir Putin: It was in the 13th century.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

Tucker Carlson: It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

Vladimir Putin: But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.

As expected, the war with Poland began. It lasted 13 years, and then in 1654, a truce was concluded. And 32 years later, I think, a peace treaty with Poland, which they called ”eternal peace,“ was signed. And these lands, the whole left bank of the Dnieper, including Kiev, went to Russia, and the whole right bank of the Dnieper remained in Poland.

Under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands, including in the south and west. This all lasted until the Revolution. Before World War I, Austrian General Staff relied on the ideas of Ukrainianization and started actively promoting the ideas of Ukraine and the Ukrainianization. Their motive was obvious. Just before World War I they wanted to weaken the potential enemy and secure themselves favourable conditions in the border area. So the idea which had emerged in Poland that people residing in that territory were allegedly not really Russians, but rather belonged to a special ethnic group, Ukrainians, started being propagated by the Austrian General Staff.

As far back as the 19th century, theorists calling for Ukrainian independence appeared. All those, however, claimed that Ukraine should have a very good relationship with Russia. They insisted on that. After the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to restore the statehood, and the Civil War began, including the hostilities with Poland. In 1921, peace with Poland was proclaimed, and under that treaty, the right bank of the Dnieper River once again was given back to Poland.

In 1939, after Poland cooperated with Hitler — it did collaborate with Hitler, you know —Hitler offered Poland peace and a treaty of friendship and alliance (we have all the relevant documents in the archives), demanding in return that Poland give back to Germany the so-called Danzig Corridor, which connected the bulk of Germany with East Prussia and Konigsberg. After World War I this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Gdansk emerged. Hitler asked them to give it amicably, but they refused.

==Origins of Ukraine: 19th century and World War I==
In the 19th century the Ukrainian was a rural area largely ignored by Russia and Austria. With growing urbanization and modernization, and a cultural trend toward nationalism inspired by romanticism, a Ukrainian intelligentsia committed to national rebirth and social justice emerged. The serf-turned-national-poet [[Taras Shevchenko]] (1814-1861) and the political theorist [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]] (1841-1895) led the growing nationalist movement. Nationalist and socialist parties developed in the late 19th century. '''[[Austrian Galicia]]''', which enjoyed substantial political freedom under the relatively lenient rule of the [[Hapsburgs]], became the center of the nationalist movement. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893.<ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref> Before 1917, one could walk on foot from Kiev to Moscow without noticing any linguistic differences. Defeat in [[World War I]] and the Russian revolutions of 1917 destroyed the Hapsburg and Russian empires. The Ukrainian elite declared statehood: the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Kiev on Nov. 20, 1917, becoming independent on Jan. 22, 1918. The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Lviv on Nov. 1, 1918. A rival Ukrainian Soviet Republic was established at Kharkiv on Dec. 24, 1917. On Jan. 22, 1919, the two people's republics united. Lenin gave Ukraine Kharkiv, Donbass, and the coastal oblasts, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> By then, however, the military situation was desperate, as Polish and Bolshevik armies pressed the Ukrainian nationalists from west and east and the peasant anarchists led by Nestor Makhno took control of large areas. Because communist theory denies the existence of race as the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another, Lenin made the Soviet Union autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power.

==1917-1922==
After the [[February Revolution]] in Imperial Russia and the creation of the provisional government in 1917 the Ukrainian nationalists assumed the control of many institutions and on April 3, 2017 (Gregorian calendar) they constituted the National Council or Central Rada, while Bolshevik groups created the Soviets of Soldiers and Workers. The Rada requested full autonomy on April 26. On July 13, with the nationalists growing stronger and stronger, it was proclaimed the autonomous territory of Ukraine within the Russia Empire and a provisional government was formed. The Russian government ([[Kerensky regime]]) sent delegates to negotiate the future status, but no agreement had been reached when the Bolsheviks took the power. The [[Rada]] refused to recognize the Soviet government and on November 20, 1917, it was proclaimed the Ukrainian Peoples Republic with the governments of Kiev, Podolia, Volinia, Chernigov,<ref>[https://orthochristian.com/77399.html ST. LAWRENCE OF CHERNIGOV: SOME PROPHECIES AND STATEMENTS ON THE UKRAINIAN SITUATION], Dimitra Dwelley. orthochristian.com</ref> Poltava, [[Kharkov]], Yekaterinoslav, Kerson and Tauride ([[Zaporozhye]]). The yellow and blue flag was adopted on December 29, 1917. Over the next three years Kiev changed hands over twenty times as competing factions vied for control of Ukraine in the Russian Civil War.

Soviet Republic of Ukraine (December 1917): On December 23 the Bolsheviks took Karkov in eastern Ukraine. They also controlled Shmerinka in the west. The first Congress of all the Soviets of Ukraine gathered in Karkov on December 12, 1917, and decided the establishment of the formally proclaimed Soviet Republic on December 25 (Ukrainian Peoples Republic of the Soviets of Workers and Peasants, or Soviet Federal Republic of Ukraine or Soviet Peoples Republic of Ukraine) that had as its capital Karkov. The Soviet Republic encompassed theoretically all the Soviets of Ukraine, each one having established their own republic. It subsisted until May 1918. It used red flag with the national flag in the canton, adopted at the beginning of January 1918. In this month Yekaterisnoslav was occupied. In February 2018 the Bolshevik forces entered in Kiev, but the arrival of German forces (March) forced them to vacate it, losing practically all Ukraine. The Republic of Donetzk-Krivorog was established simultaneously with capital in Karkov, probably as one of the constituent subrepublics.

On December 17, 1917 [[Lenin]] recognized the Republic. France also recognized in December, and in January England recognized it. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian government declared that its aim was a federation of republics emerged from the ancient Russian Empire.

The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Republic of Ukraine occupied Kiev (February 2, 2018) thanks to the fact that many Ukrainian forces changed sides and other refused to fight. The government of the Rada, chaired by Binechenko, that was negotiating a separate peace with the [[Central Powers]], was arrested. The Ukrainian forces concentrated in Pechek, south of Kiev, and the government of the Rada moved to Zhitomir under the presidency of Golubovich. On February 9, 1918, they signed the peace separately with Germany and Austria: Ukraine kept its frontiers and got the territory of Kholm. The German armies broke the ceasefire with Russia on February 18 and entered in Ukraine on February 19. Golubovich, who was in Zhitomir in a desperate situation due to the unstoppable Bolshevik advance, requested help from Germany (February 19). The German troops crossed the Dnieper on March 1 and advanced in all fronts and headed to Kiev that was occupied the following day. On March 3 Bolshevik Russia signed an armistice (that led to the peace of Brest-Litovsk on March 8) and the combats stopped in Russian territory but not in Ukraine. The [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]] assigned to Ukraine a part of [[Belorussia]] (March 8), that however lost part of Kholm. On March 12, 1917 practically all Ukraine was under Austrian or German control.

The Germans established a government known as the Hetmanate. The President of the Rada, Golubovich, collaborated with the Germans but they favored the landowners and conservative classes while the government was [[Social democratic]]. As the anti-German agitation was increasing and the Rada was expressing more and more opposition to the occupation regime, the German Army performed a coup d'état. On April 29 the Parliament or Rada elected Michael Hrushewsky as first president of the Republic. The following day the German forces, with the collaboration of the Cossacks of the Hetman Skoropadsky, performed a ''[[coup d'état]]''. Hrushevsky and other members of the Rada were jailed. Martial law was proclaimed. At the head of the government was put the Hetman Paulov Skoropadsky.

In 1919 Kamenskoye was occupied in turn by the Kuban Cossacks, General Anton Denikin of the anti-Bolshevik White army, and the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno’s Green army. In the area of Guliay-Pole an 'anarchist state' was proclaimed. Makhno fought against the Germans, against the monarchist White armies (on the side of the [[Red Army]]), and against the [[Bolshevik]]s. The flags of the 'makhnovtzy' were black with inscriptions "Anarchy is the mother of order" [Anarkhiya - mat' poriadka] and other inscriptions, or plain black or red-black.

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===Polish-Ukrainian war===
[[File:Galicia.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The former '''Austrian Galicia''' depicted across a map of Poland's post-1945 borders.]]
The political transformation of the [[Eastern Europe]] after 1918 was a direct result of the collapse of the [[German Second Empire]] and the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] during the last months of 1918, as well as due to the unsettled western borders of the ex-[[Russian Empire]] which collapsed in 1917 and which was the midst of revolution and civil war. Most of the boundary changes in Eastern Europe after [[World War I]] resulted from decisions reached by the [[Triple Entente]] powers ([[Western Allied]] and Associated Powers during WWI) at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] that began in early 1919 resulting in five peace treaties, which were named after the castles outside Paris where they were finalized and signed.

On November 1, 1918, when the rule of Austria-Hungary collapsed in the region of '''East Galicia''', Ukrainian political workers from [[West Galicia]] opposed Polish ambitions to unite the whole region of Galicia (Western and Eastern) into a new [[Second Polish Republic]], and organized a [[coup]]. Local Ukrainian [[nationalist]] leaders proclaimed the independence of the West Ukrainian National People’s Republic. Helped by Ukrainian national units, they succeeded in occupying Lvov and other cities in East Galicia. This new state claimed the whole of East Galicia (eastward from the San River with [[Lwów]]) to be Ukrainian followed by [[North Bukovina]] and [[Carpathian Rus']] (Ruthenia). However, these territorial claims immediately were challenged by local [[Pole]]s who fought to unite Galicia with the newly resurrected Polish state. Consequently, the result was a Polish-Ukrainian War that lasted from November 1918 until the summer of 1919, when the Galician-West Ukrainian [[military]] detachments were expelled from East Galicia which finally became a part of the interwar (1919-1939) Polish Second Republic.

For the Ukrainian side in the conflict, the crucial problem was that the West Ukrainian political-military leaders did not succeed in mobilizing the biggest part of the Ukrainian peasantry for their course as the [[peasant]]s have been much more involved in their [[economic]] for existence than the [[political]] interests. Another problem/question Was how much they have felt themselves as “Ukrainians” at all in order to fight against the Poles. In such a political situation, in order to attract the peasants for the Ukrainian course, the [[Ukrainian nationalist]]s tried to make use of some [[social]]-economic slogans and, therefore, promised the peasantry an [[agricultural]] reform after the war–distribution of [[land]] (the [[Bolshevik|Russian Bolshevik]]s were propagating the same at the same time). Nevertheless, the Ukrainian nationalists used all means of force for the reason to mobilize the peasants of West Ukraine for the Ukrainian military to fight Poles in East Galicia.

==Bolshevik Ukraine==

The war in Ukraine continued for another two years; by 1921, however, most of Ukraine had been taken over by the Soviet Union, while Galicia and Volhynia were incorporated into independent Poland.

A powerful underground Ukrainian nationalist movement rose in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s, led by the Ukrainian Military Organization and the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUN). The movement attracted a militant following among students and harassed the Polish authorities. Legal Ukrainian parties, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an active press, and a business sector also flourished in Poland. Economic conditions improved in the 1920s, but the region suffered from the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The situation in Soviet Ukraine under Communist control were sharply different. The communists gave a privileged position to manual labor, the largest class in the cities, where Russians dominated. The typical worker was more attached to class identity than to ethnicity. Although there were incidents of ethnic friction among workers (in addition to Ukrainians and Russians there were Poles, Germans, Jews, and others in the Ukrainian workforce), industrial laborers had already adopted Russian culture and language to a significant extent. Workers whose ethnicity was Ukrainian were not attracted to campaigns of Ukrainianization or de-Russification in meaningful numbers, but remained loyal members of the Soviet working class. There was no significant antagonism between workers identifying themselves as Ukrainian or Russian; however, anti-Semitism was widespread.

Moscow encouraged a national renaissance in literature and the arts, under the aegis of the Ukrainization policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk (1872-1933).

Reconstruction proceeded rapidly in the late 1940s and the 1950s, as the Soviets needed the food and raw materials of Ukraine. Political repression of nationally conscious Ukrainians also intensified. The widespread acculturation and assimilation of the Soviet Jews by the 1930s led Stalin to consider the "Jewish question" as settled; he now viewed the Jews as a national rather than a religious group. With the influx of Jews into the Ukraine and Russia from Poland, the Baltic states, Bessarabia, and Bukovina following the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, there followed an intensification of Jewish religious activity, and the reopening of many synagogues. However, political unrest preceding the creation of the state of Israel unleashed Stalin's massive repression against Jews during the "black years" of 1948–53. Suspected of Zionism and cosmopolitanism, Jews were systematically removed from positions of leadership in culture, science, medicine, politics, and economics. The anti-Semitic campaign ended only with the death of Stalin in March 1953.

===Holodomor===
see [[Ukrainian Famine]]

With Stalin's change of course in the late 1920s, however, Moscow's toleration of Ukrainian national identity came to an end. Systematic state terror of the 1930s destroyed Ukraine's writers, artists, and intellectuals; the Communist Party of Ukraine was purged of its "nationalist deviationists"; and the peasantry was crushed by means of collectivization, resulting in the [[Great Famine]] or "Holodomor" (Голодомор) of 1932–1933, which claimed some 3-7 million lives as crops failed and remaining food wtocks were forcibly removed by the government. Besides Ukraine, [[Kazakhstan]] and the Volga region were also hit by the famine. Stalin had full knowledge of the destructive force of the famine. It was a by-product of his war on the peasantry that began with collectivization and dekulakization and as an attempt to eradicate peasant culture in its entirety. Ellman explains the causes for the excess deaths in rural areas of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan during 1931-34 by dividing the causes into three groups: objective nonpolicy-related factors, like the drought of 1931 and poor weather in 1932; inadvertent result of policies with other objectives, like rapid industrialization, socialization of livestock, and neglected crop rotation patterns; and deaths caused intentionally by a starvation policy. The Communist leadership perceived famine not as a humanitarian catastrophe but as a means of [[class struggle]] and used starvation as a punishment tool to teach peasants to work well in the collective farms.<ref>Michael Ellman, "The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1934." ''Europe-Asia Studies'' 2005 57(6): 823-841. Issn: 0966-8136 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

It was largely the same groups of individuals who were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivization, and the Great Terror. These groups were associated with Efim Georgievich Evdokimov (1891-1939) and operated in Ukraine during the civil war, in the North Caucasus in the 1920s, and in the Secret Operational Division within General State Political Administration (OGPU) in 1929–31. Evdokimov transferred into Communist Party administration in 1934, when he became Party secretary for North Caucasus Krai. But he appears to have continued advising Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov on security matters, and the latter relied on Evdokimov's former colleagues to carry out the mass killing operations that are known as the Great Terror in 1937–38.<ref>Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin's Great Terror." ''Australian Journal of Politics and History'' 2007 53(1): 20-43. Issn: 0004-9522 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]; Robert Conquest, ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine'' (1986). Mark B. Tauger, "The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933" ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 70-89, notes the harvest was unusually poor. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199121)50%3A1%3C70%3AT1HATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H online in JSTOR]; R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S. G. Wheatcroft, "Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933," ''Slavic Review,'' Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199523)54%3A3%3C642%3ASGSATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]; online in JSTOR; Michael Ellman. "Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932-33 Revisited," ''Europe-Asia Studies,'' Volume 59, Issue 4 June 2007 , pages 663-93.</ref>

===Nazi colloboration: 1941-1945===
{{See also|Volhynia massacre}}
In 1939, after Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Galicia and Volhynia were annexed to Soviet Ukraine. Northern Bukovina, formerly part of Romania, was incorporated into Ukraine in 1940, as was formerly Czechoslovakian Subcarpathian Ruthenia (the Transcarpathian Oblast) in 1945.
[[File:Ukrainian girls welcoming Germans.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainians girls welcome soldiers of the [[Third Reich]] with the traditional bread and salt peace offering.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
By mid-1941, the Ukrainian SSR had the largest population of Jews in Europe. The addition of the eastern provinces of Poland in late 1939 as well as the seizure of sections of Romanian territory in June 1940 led to some 2.7 million Jews living within the borders of the newly enlarged republic. About 85% lived in cities. By 1944, 1.6 million of these Jews had died at the hands of the Germans and their allies and auxiliaries. Unlike the majority of the [[Holocaust]]'s victims who died in the industrialized mass murder of the death camps, the overwhelming bulk of Ukraine's Jews died in mass shootings during the initial stages of the war.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was welcomed by many Ukrainians at first; the [[Stepan Bandera|OUN]] even attempted to establish a government under German auspices. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) considered Ukraine a strategically important region that should be occupied through capturing the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians. According to Rosenberg, everything should have been done to make the Ukrainians view the Germans as liberators. Though he presented his views on different occasions, [[Adolf Hitler]]'s anti-Slavic racial views prevailed and overrode strategic considerations, leading to a harsh occupation. Very soon the realization that Nazi policies were brutal toward all the Ukrainians, and not only the Jews and Communists, drove most Ukrainians into opposition to the Nazis. Germany forced many Ukrainians to work within the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) on tasks such as agriculture, road and railway building, and the construction of fortifications. The German authorities soon faced a serious local labor shortage, especially among skilled workers, as a result of Soviet evacuations before the invasion, the ongoing murder of the Jewish population, and the brutal recruitment, arrest, and deportation of other groups, usually with the cooperation of the local civilian, military, and police authorities. The pool of labor was further reduced as the Germans lost territory in the later stages of the conflict. Nazi administrator Fritz Sauckel's labor recruitment measures strained relations with local officials responsible for selecting the deportees, leading to bribery and corruption. The Kiev area was the main focus for recruitment and deportation, along with the Vinnitsa region of central Ukraine. Over a million locals and prisoners of war were forced into labor in the Ukrainian coal mines in the Donbas region ([[Donets Basin]]). The forced laborers endured fines, starvation, imprisonment, beatings, and hanging, but also had better chances for more food, money, and mobility.

In Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia the first stage of partisan development, from 1941 to the fall of 1942, was uncoordinated and resulted in a great many losses. The second stage, late 1942 to 1944, was better coordinated; partisan groups were better defined, and relatively large-scale operations were carried out, often in cooperation with the Red Army. Organized leadership and cadres were created, various forms of actions (such as diversions, sabotage, and direct attacks) were developed; the Germans responded with vicious punitive activities against the partisans. In all, more than 1.3 million partisans took part in actions in Germany's rear in 6,200 units; more than 300,000 received decorations for their actions. The OUN created a nationalist partisan fighting force, the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA); many Ukrainians also joined the Soviet partisans and fought in the Soviet Army against the Germans. After [[World War II]], the OUN and the UPA continued a hopeless guerrilla struggle against Soviet rule until 1953. The devastation caused by the war included major destruction in over 700 cities and towns and 28,000 villages.

===Fascist insurgency: 1944-1954===
[[File:SBandera.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalist leader [[Stepan Bandera]].]]
In the June 1944, when Canadian, British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy, their Soviet allies rolled into the German-occupied Western Ukraine. The Red Army soldiers and officers quickly noticed a stark contrast in the attitude of locals compared to other recently liberated regions of the Soviet Union. Instead of cheering crowds of peasant women and children who would offer them water and the traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt, there was an eerie silence in many villages, and few locals would even talk to the new arrivals. Soon, chilling rumors started about murdered Red Army soldiers found hanged or decapitated in the woods. Rumors were soon followed by orders issued to troops stationed in the allegedly safe rear, far behind the frontline, to increase their vigilance, never to venture anywhere alone or unarmed, and to look out for “bandits” hiding in the forests. The [[NKVD]] (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs – as the law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1946 was known) units that followed close behind the Red Army quickly proceeded with their routine practice of rounding up numerous suspected Nazi collaborators, as well as members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground, in Lviv and other west Ukrainian cities. However, a number of feared Soviet secret policemen were soon found dead in Ukrainian villages and Galician forests, and in some areas of the countryside those who dared to venture there had to be heavily armed and in large numbers. This was the start of a brutal insurgency that lasted almost ten years in rural Western Ukraine and resulted in one of the toughest counterinsurgency challenges the Soviets ever faced.

In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref>

===Denazificatrion and reconstruction: 1954 to 1991===
Stalin's death finally brought relief in many ways. The thaw initiated by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who had served as Ukrainian party chief in the 1930s, led to the emergence in the late 1950s and the early 1960s of the "sixties generation" of writers, artists, and intellectuals. In order to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954. Following Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Moscow, under [[Leonid Brezhnev]] initiated a series of crackdowns on Ukrainian dissidents, including [[Ivan Dziuba]] (b. 1931), the author of Internationalism or Russification?; Vyacheslav Chornovil (b. 1938), the editor of the underground ''Ukrainian Herald''; and Valentyn Moroz (b. 1936), the author of stinging attacks on Soviet policy. In 1972, Petro Shelest, the national-Communist Ukrainian party chief, was replaced by hardliner Volodymyr Shcherbytsky.

The Number Four reactor at Chernobyl exploded during a routine power test in April 1986. Radioactive contaminants from the [[Chernobyl disaster]] fell on northern Ukraine and several neighboring countries, reaching as far as Japan and the United States, causing casualties, sparking a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union, and inciting fears of nuclear energy.<ref>Jim T. Smith, and Nicholas A. Beresford, ''Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences.'' Springer, 2005. 310 pp.</ref>

The arrival of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1985 started a slow revolution. The [[Chernobyl]] nuclear accident in 1986 undercut trust in Moscow. "Glasnost" permitted Ukrainian intellectuals to discuss the "blank spots" in their history, and growing political liberalization led to the reemergence of dissident groups and the emergence of nationally minded cultural organizations. A major turning point occurred in late 1989, with the founding of Rukh and the removal of Shcherbytsky from power.

==Dissolution of the Soviet Union: 1991==

In 1990 [[Leonid Kravchuk]], formerly in charge of ideology in the CPU, was appointed chairman of the presidium of a revamped supreme soviet, one fourth of whose deputies were nationalists and "democrats" elected in the semifree elections of 1990. On July 16, 1990, Ukraine proclaimed its sovereignty, an ambiguous formula that meant independence to the nationalists and autonomy to the Russian minority. On Nov. 21, 1990, Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty recognizing each other's sovereignty and promising not to interfere in each other's affairs.

As the Communist system collapsed in 1991, Ukraine, Russia, and the other republics engaged in lengthy negotiations with Gorbachev over the form of a new union. In August 1991 an abortive coup by committed KGB operatives in Moscow destroyed Gorbachev's strength and impelled the republics to go their own way. The Ukraine national assembly declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991. Several days later the CPU was suspended and its property was confiscated. A popular referendum on independence was held on December 1, and over 90 percent of the voters supported the declaration. Most of the countries of the world recognized the new Republic of Ukraine in the months that followed. Ukraine became a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and after much controversy a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in 1994. As a consequence of the autonomous republics system, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref>
[[File:Ukrainian contractors in Afghanistan.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Although not a member of NATO, Ukrainian contractors served as part of [[George W. Bush]]s "coalition of the willing" in the [[Afghan war]]. The [[Biden regime]] abandoned them in [[Afghanistan]] in August 2021, along with contractors from Bulgaria, Romania, and the Georgian Republic. The Russian Federation evacuated them.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/200d714d-92c4-445e-b42e-a67fab991fd3</ref>]]
The nominal successor to the Soviet Union was the Commonwealth of Independent States; Ukraine joined on Dec. 8, 1991. Serious tensions soon emerged with Russia as Moscow took possession of the [[Black Sea]] fleet anchored at [[Sevastopol]], while some Russian politicians wanted the [[Donbas]] and the Crimea; the latter, being in Russian hands since 1783, had been transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities without referendum or self-determination of peoples in 1954. The Ukrainian government responded by taking steps to create its own army and navy. Crimean secessionists elected Yuri Meshkov as president of the Crimea in early 1994. The Kiyv government established closer economic and political ties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Ukrainian nationalists fears of Russia led it to postpone action on its earlier promise to give up strategic nuclear missiles, prompting concern in the West. After the signing the Budapest Memorandum by the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and the United States in early 1994, Ukraine began shipping these weapons to Russia. Thereafter, Ukraine's relations with the United States and western Europe improved.

[[Leonid Kravchuk]], the most powerful politician, became Ukraine's first popularly elected president, with over 60 percent of the vote, on Dec. 1, 1991. His authority, like that of the legislature, declined precipitously, however, as he proved unable to solve the country's mounting economic difficulties. In contrast to Rukh, which had split into pro-Kravchuk and anti-Kravchuk factions in 1992, the former Communists remained strong, controlling many local government councils, industrial plants, and collective farms. The CPU was officially reconstituted as a powerful political force in late 1993. Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]]s also become more prominent. Elections for the supreme soviet in March 1994 yielded a legislature in which the CPU and its left-wing allies were the strongest bloc, followed by the center-right nationalists grouped about what remained of Rukh and the centrist pro-government "independents." Kravchuk ran for reelection in the presidential election in June 1994. No candidate won a majority, so a second round was held in July, pitting Kravchuk against former premier [[Leonid Kuchma]]. Kuchma won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

The national goal was the creation of a market-oriented economy and the establishment of stable democratic institutions and a system of laws. However the goals were partly frustrated by political deadlock, inexperience, an inefficient state apparatus, a collapsing economy, internal anti-Russian [[xenophobia]], and external tensions with the Russian Federation. The Soviet culture of corruption continued after independence, and rampant criminality became even more widespread in the mid-1990s. In the latter 1990s, [[Viktor Yushchenko]], as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, tamed rampant inflation and introduced responsible economic controls. From 1999 to 2004, Ukraine's GNP nearly doubled.

Official trade unions have been grouped under the Federation of Trade Unions. A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Trade Unions. While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

Ethnic tensions in [[Crimea]] during 1992 prompted a number of pro-Russian political organizations to advocate secession of Crimea and reincorporation to Russia. (Crimea was ceded by the RFSSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, in recognition of historic links and for economic convenience, to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia.) In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy.

In July 1994, [[Leonid Kuchma]] was elected as Ukraine's second president in free and fair elections. Kuchma was reelected in November 1999 to another five-year term, with 56% of the vote. International observers criticized aspects of the election, especially slanted media coverage; however, the outcome of the vote was not called into question. Ukraine's March 2002 parliamentary elections were characterized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as flawed, but an improvement over the 1998 elections. The pro-presidential For a United Ukraine bloc won the largest number of seats, followed by the reformist Our Ukraine bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (who was then a former Prime Minister), and the Communist Party.

===Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances: 1994===
{{See also|Near abroad}}
At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,800 strategic warheads, 176 long-range ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers.

To solidify security commitments to Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the December 5, 1994 [[Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]]. The memorandum included assurances against the threat or use of force against Ukraine's territory or political independence. The countries promised to respect the sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine.

The United States took custody and control of Ukraine's obsolete nuclear stockpiles for disposal in exchange for assurances by the United States and NATO to safeguard Ukraine's independence. Ukraine was coaxed to give up it nuclear weapons in exchange for a written pledge, should Ukraine ever be threatened or invaded, the United States would be there to intervene with military power.

By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its operational nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It took years of political maneuvering and diplomatic work, starting with the Lisbon Protocol in 1992, to remove the weapons and nuclear infrastructure from Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons ]</ref>

===Failed color revolution: 2004===
{{see also|Color revolution|Psyop}}
Kuchma's second term in office as president (1999-2004) was characterized by the collapse of the national democratic-centrist alliance, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, the rise of a non-Communist opposition in the 2002 elections, and the election of [[Viktor Yushchenko]] in 2004 following the [[Open Society Foundations]]' [[Orange Revolution]]. The deep divisions that have become evident under Yushchenko had their origins in Ukraine's regionalism, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, antiregime protests, and different attitudes to dealing with the past. The country is divided by linguistic and regional cleavages that appear sharply in regional polarization in national elections. These divisions have led to constant questioning of the viability of the Ukrainian state and predictions of violence and civil war. Secessionist movements have made few inroads, however, and violence has been nonexistent. Because the Russian "minority" group in Ukraine is actually quite large, it has immense influence in the state without resort to regional autonomy or secession. The balance of power between Ukraine's regions and ethnic groups has ensured that neither side has dominated. This does not make for rapid reform.

The campaign leading to the October 31, 2004 presidential election was characterized by widespread violations of democratic norms, including government intimidation of the opposition and of independent media, abuse of state administrative resources, highly skewed media coverage, and numerous provocations. The two major candidates—Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader (and former Prime Minister) Viktor Yushchenko—each garnered between 39% and 40% of the vote and proceeded to a winner-take-all second round. The November 21 runoff election was marred by credible reports of widespread and significant violations, including illegal expulsion of opposition representatives from election commissions, multiple voting by busloads of people, abuse of absentee ballots, reports of coercion of votes in schools and prisons, and an abnormally high number of (easily manipulated) mobile ballot box votes. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv and other cities to protest electoral fraud and express support for Yushchenko, and conducted ongoing peaceful demonstrations during what came to be known as the "Orange Revolution."

The OSCE International Election Observation Mission found that the November 21, 2004 run-off presidential election "did not meet a considerable number of OSCE commitments and Council of Europe and other European standards for democratic elections…Overall, State executive authorities and the Central Election Commission (CEC) displayed a lack of will to conduct a genuine democratic election process." Other independent observers were similarly critical. On November 24, 2004, the CEC declared Prime Minister Yanukovych the winner with 49.46% compared to 46.61% for Yushchenko. The U.S. and Europe refused to accept the result as legitimate due to the numerous, uninvestigated reports of fraud. European leaders traveled to Kyiv to mediate a political solution between the parties. On November 27, Ukraine's Supreme Rada passed a resolution declaring that the election results as announced did not represent the will of the people. On December 1, the Rada passed a vote of "no confidence" in the government. On December 3, Ukraine's Supreme Court invalidated the CEC's announced results and mandated a repeat of the second round vote to take place on December 26. An agreement mediated by the European leaders resulted in new legislation being passed by the Rada and signed by the President December 8. The electoral law was reformed to close loopholes that had permitted pervasive electoral fraud. The constitution was amended, effective not earlier than September 2005, to transfer power, especially with respect to appointment of ministers, from the president to the cabinet. Yet another law was passed, in first reading, to devolve some powers of the central government to regional councils. In addition, Prime Minister Yanukovych requested and was granted a leave of absence, and Prosecutor General Hennadiy Vasilyev submitted his resignation.

The December 26 re-vote took place in an atmosphere of calm. While irregularities were noted, observers found no systemic or massive fraud. The OSCE Mission noted that "campaign conditions were markedly more equal, observers received fewer reports of pressure on voters, the election administration was more transparent and the media more balanced than in previous rounds…in our collective view Ukraine’s elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other European standards." On January 10, 2005, after the CEC and the Supreme Court had considered and rejected numerous complaints and appeals filed by the Yanukovych campaign, the CEC certified the results: Yushchenko had won 51.99% of the votes, with 44.20% for Yanukovych. President Yushchenko was inaugurated January 23, 2005.

Ukraine held parliamentary and local elections on March 26, 2006. International observers noted that conduct of the Rada election was in line with international standards for democratic elections, making this the most free and fair in Ukraine's history. Unlike the first rounds of the 2004 presidential election, candidates and parties were able to express themselves freely in a lively press and assembled without hindrance. There was no systemic abuse of administrative resources as there had been under the previous regime. The Party of Regions and the bloc of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whose government the President dismissed in September 2005, finished ahead of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. Other parties passing the 3% threshold to enter parliament were the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine. No party held the majority of Rada seats needed to form a government. Following four months of difficult negotiations, a government led by Prime Minister Yanukovych and including representatives from the Party of Regions, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party took office on August 4, 2006. This, the first government formed after the extensive constitutional amendments brokered as part of the Orange Revolution, has been the focus the Prime Minister's growing influence, sometimes at the expense of the President. Amid shifting political alliances, the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" formed by the Party of Regions, Socialist and Communist parties has grown into a "Coalition of National Unity," as some members of the pro-presidential "Our Ukraine" bloc have moved into the Prime Minister's camp. Meanwhile, others have joined forces with Bloc [[Yuliya Tymoshenko]].

==Western-backed regime change: 2011/2021==
{{See also|Euromaidan coup}}
[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|350px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
In 2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair, open and [[democracy|democratic]] presidential election certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).

On June 23, 2011, two emissaries of the [[Obama administration]] — the head of [[Google]], [[Eric Schmidt]], and his aide, and former subordinate to Hillary Clinton in the U.S. State Department, [[Jared Cohen]] — visited [[Julian Assange]] at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, pretending to be on his side, while deceiving him to reveal to them ways to reach out online to members of Ukraine's pro-nazi organizations in order to generate mobs for the demonstrations which were to be organized on Kiev's Maidan Square to overthrow Ukraine's President.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/PYiwx</ref><ref>https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/06/how-and-why-the-us-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</ref>

In the same month the Obama administration quietly put out for bid to American contractors their planned project to renovate a school in [[Sevastopol]], in [[Crimea]], in Ukraine, in the location where Russia since 1783 had (and still has) its largest naval base:

:''Federal Contract Opportunity for Renovation of Sevastopol School #5, Ukraine N33191-13-R-1240. The NAICS Category is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. Posted Aug 20, 2013. Posted by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (DOD - Navy). The work will be performed at Sevastopol 99000.''<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20201102032416/https://ahtribune.com/world/europe/3622-how-the-war-in-ukraine-started.html</ref>

This was before the Maidan coup, and there were 28 years still remaining on Russia's lease there. That part of their plan — to terminate that contract and replace Russia's largest naval base, by yet another U.S. naval base — got foiled by Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, protecting Crimeans when they (as soon as the coup occurred) demanded to have a referendum on becoming restored again to being a part of Russia, as they had been between 1783 and 1954 (when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea, from the Russian part, to the Ukrainian part, of the Soviet Government).<ref>https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2011/S00116/how-the-western-press-lied-about-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine-pretending-that-it-was-instead-a-real-democratic-revolution.htm</ref>

Various [[Soros]]' international [[progressive]] and [[liberal]] [[front organization]]s ([[NGO]]s) organized and funded the Ukrainian ''coup''.<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article181535.html#nb2</ref>

Obama foreign policy shifted at this point forward from the "Russian Reset" of 2008 and the greater "flexibility" Obama promised Russian President [[Dmitri Medvedev]] in 2012, to rabid Russophobia, one factor being Vladimir Putin's lack of support for the [[homosexual agenda]] and [[gay marriage]]. The anti-Russian grip of Soros on American [[foreign policy]] reached a fever pitch in in coming years in efforts to destroy President [[Donald Trump]] who sought to mend relations with Russia after the Maidan coup crisis. With the [[Brexit]] movement, there was little widespread popular support for the [[European Union]]. Yet the United States and NATO peddled the myth of popular support among Ukrainians to join the EU.

===Tech training camp===
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|290px|thumb|Written on the wall is the [[Russophobic]] slogan “Ukraine for Ukrainians.” ]]
On March 1, 2013, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv held its first “Tech Camp”<ref>https://archive.ph/1JqVs</ref> in a series of Tech Camps to teach Ukraine's leading pro-nazis how to reach out to their followers so as to get as many people as possible trained and prepared to follow their instructions on what to do when the Euromaidan 'anti-corruption' demonstrations would be held.

Simultaneously, under Polish Government authorization, the CIA was training in Poland the military [[Right Sector]] leaders how to lead the coming U.S. coup in neighboring Ukraine. As the independent Polish investigative journalist Marek Miszczuk headlined for the Polish magazine NIE (“meaning “NO”) (the original article being in Polish): ''“Maidan secret state secret: Polish training camp for Ukrainians”''.<ref>"An informant who introduced himself as Wowa called the “NIE” editorial office with the information that the Maidan rebels in Wrocław are neo-fascists … [with] tattooed [[swastika]]s, swords, eagles and crosses with unambiguous meaning. … Wowa pleadingly announced that photos of members of the Right Sector must not appear in the press. …

Excited by the importance of the information that was presented to me, I started to verify it.

The Office of the Press Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to answer the questions about the student exchange without giving any reason. It did not want to disclose whether it had actually invited dozens of neo-fascists to Poland to teach them how to overthrow the legal Ukrainian authorities. …

Let us summarize: in September 2013, according to the information presented to me, several dozen Ukrainian students of the Polytechnic University will come to Poland, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In fact, they are members of the Right Sector, an extreme right-wing and nationalist Ukrainian group led by [[Dmytro Jarosz]] – he declined to comment on his visit to Legionowo." ''Maidan secret state secret: Polish training camp for Ukrainians,'' Marek Miszczuk, NIE (“meaning “NO”) (original article in Polish). Published 14 April 2014.</ref>

86 fighters from the then prepared Euromaidan protests flew over the Vistula River into Poland in September 2013 at the invitation of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The pretext was to start cooperation between the Warsaw University of Technology and the National University of Technology in Kyiv. But they were in [[Poland]] to receive special training to overthrow Ukraine's government. The schedule included such specialized training in:
*Day 3 and 4 – theoretical classes: crowd management, target selection, tactics and leadership.
*Day 5 – training in behavior in stressful situations.
*Day 6 – free without leaving the center.
*Day 7 – pre-medical help.
*Day 8 – protection against irritating gases.
*Day 9 – building barricades.

And so on for almost 25 days. The program included:
*classes at the shooting range (including three times with sniper rifles), tactical and practical training in the assault on buildings.<ref>[https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/04/19/history-of-the-ukrainian-war/ History of the Ukraine War], Eric Zuese, ''Modern Diplomacy'', April 2011.</ref>

On November 20, 2013, Ukraine member of parliament [[Oleg Tsarev]] accused the US Embassy in Kyiv of preparing a [[coup]] in Ukraine on the floor of the [[Ukrainian parliament]]. The nationalist faction in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, attempted to shout Tsarov done.<ref>https://youtu.be/CNsGqePNrFg</ref> Tsarov said:
{{quotebox-float|"In my role as a representative of the Ukrainian people, activists from the Volya Public Organization turned to me, providing clear evidence that within our country, with support and direct participation of the US Embassy in Kiev, a “TechCamp” project is under way in which preparations are being made for a civil war in Ukraine.

The “TechCamp” project prepares specialists for information warfare and for the discrediting of state institutions [the Government] using modern media — potential [[revolution]]aries for organizing protests and the toppling of the Government.

This project is overseen by and currently under the responsibility of the US Ambassador to Ukraine, [[Geoffrey R. Pyatt]].

After the conversation with the Volya Organization, I learned that they actually succeeded to access facilities in the “TechCamp” project [they had hacked into it] disguised as a team of IT specialists. To their surprise, were found briefings that were held on peculiarities of modern media. American instructors explained there how social networks and Internet technologies can be used for targeted manipulation of public opinion as well as to activate potential protest to provoke [[violent]] unrest on the territory of Ukraine — [[radical]]ization of the population, and triggering of infighting. American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks to organize protests in [[Egypt]], [[Tunisia]] and [[Libya]]. “Tech Camp” representatives currently hold conferences throughout Ukraine. A total of five events have been held so far. About 300 people have been trained as operatives, who are now active throughout Ukraine. The last conference took place on 13 and 14 November 2013, in the heart of Kiev, inside the US Embassy!

You tell me which country in the world would allow an [[NGO]] to operate out of the US Embassy? This is disrespectful to the Ukrainian Government, and against the Ukrainian people! I thus appeal to the [[constitutional]] authorities of Ukraine with the following question: Is it conceivable that representatives of the US Embassy who organize the “TechCamp” conferences misuse their diplomatic immunity? [Someone tries to interrupt him.] A UN Resolution of 21 December 1965 regulates inadmissibility of interference in the internal “affairs of any State, and protects its independence and [[sovereignty]]." I urge that there be an official investigation into this matter."<ref>https://archive.ph/5Tbgg#selection-1917.0-1925.31</ref>}}

On November 21, 2013, the Yanukovych administration rejected the European Union association agreement in favor of maintaining relations with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The covert path to securing a NATO naval base in [[Sevastopol]] on the [[Black Sea]] was effectively cut off. Soros-sponsored<ref>http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/2014mar14soros-behind-ukrainian-uprising/</ref> Euromaiden riots erupted.
[[File:McCain Tyahnybok2.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[John McCain]] with Oleh Tyahnybok during the Euromaidan coup.]]
November 30, 2013, protesters were ordered to leave Maidan Square.<ref>''Maidan Nezalezhnosti''</ref> In response, radicals began to throw glass, stones, pipes, bottles and burning logs at police officers and Berkut special forces. This provoked the security forces to violently disperse the protesters.

In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland said: “The United States has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” On December 14 Sen. [[John McCain]] met with fascist leader Oleh Tyahnybok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev.<ref>https://progressivedemocrat.org/tag/oleh-tyahnybok/</ref>
[[File:300494605.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Protesters at the CIA backed neo-Nazi Euromaidan torchlight march carrying tiki torches and the "Blood and Soil" flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.]]
{{Anchor|Maidan Self-Defense}}
People started talking about the Pravy Sector on December 1, 2013, when the radicals staged battles with the police guarding the Presidential Administration. They seized several buildings and settled on the 5th floor in the Kiev House of Trade Unions. At that time, the group was formally a hundred of the "Maidan Self-Defense".<ref>Avakov later incorporated these neo-Nazi radicals of the Maidan Self Defense team into the Ministry of Interior. https://avakov.com/biography.html</ref> Militants organized rallies outside Maidan Square. They monitored the protesters and carried out their self-protection. But the PS didn't stop there. They attacked [[law enforcement]] officers, tried to seize the parliament and government buildings, beat the security forces with truncheons, threw cobblestones, smoke bombs, [[Molotov cocktail]]s at them, set fire to buses and trucks. In the battles on the streets, extremists used catapults built like the medieval type. The terrorist frenzy caused shock and dismay even among peaceful advocates of change.

On 1 January 2014 a torchlight mob celebrated the 105th birthday of Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator [[Stepan Bandera]] in the streets of Kyiv<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/ukraine-right-revives-wartime-symbols-amid-revolution-1.1642760|title=Ukraine right revives wartime symbols amid 'revolution'|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=3 January 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25571805|title= Ukraine's far-right Svoboda party hold torch-lit Kiev march|publisher= BBC News|date=1 January 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> Protesters carried the fascist black and red "blood and soil" flag of the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]].

===The Chalupas and DNC===
{{See also|Russiagate}}
[[Alexandra Chalupa]] is a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC). The DNC paid Chalupa $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016, according to [[Federal Election Commission]] records. In 2014, the U.S. United With Ukraine Coalition was founded by Alexandra Chalupa. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'',<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>
[[File:Chalupa.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Paid DNC Russiagate hoaxer Alexandra Chalupa.]]
{{quotebox-float|… “The effort, known as Digital Maidan, gained momentum following the initial Twitter storms. Leading the effort were: Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, Alexandra Chalupa, Constatin Kostenko and others.” The Digital Maidan was also how they raised money for the coup. This was how the Ukrainian emigres bought the bullets that were used on Euromaidan. Ukraine’s chubby nazi, [[Dima Yarosh]] stated openly he was taking money from the Ukrainian emigres during Euromaidan and [[Pravy Sektor]] still fundraises openly in [[North America]]. The “[[Heavenly Hundred|Sniper Massacre]]” on the Maidan in Ukraine by Dr. [[Ivan Katchanovski]], University of Ottowa shows clearly detailed evidence how the massacre happened. It has Pravy Sektor confessions that show who created the “heavenly hundred. Their admitted involvement as leaders of Digital Maidan by both Chalupas is a clear violation of the Neutrality Act and has up to a 25 year prison sentence attached to it because it ended in a coup.}}
[[File:Kiev mall in 2014.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
In a ''Huff Post'' article September 1, 2016, [[Andrea Chalupa]] described Sviatoslav Yarosh as one of Ukraine's important “dreamers.” He is a young activist that founded ''Euromaidan Press''. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yarosh was [[Dmitri Yarosh]]’s spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the Deputy Director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in [[Kiev]]
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In January, 2014 when he showed up at the Maidan protests he was 17 years old. He became the foreign language media representative for [[Vitali Klitschko]], [[Arseni Yatsenyuk]], and [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. All press enquiries went through Yarosh. To meet [[Dimitri Yurash]] you had to go through Sviatoslav Yarosh as a ''Macleans'' reporter found out.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yarosh became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under [[Andrei Paruby]]. He was Dimitri Yarosh’s spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Yarosh.

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yarosh’s ''Euromaidan Press'' which is associated with Informnapalm.org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.<ref>[https://washingtonsblog.com/2017/01/crowdstrikes-russian-hacking-story-fell-apart-say-hello-fancy-bear-2.html Why Crowdstrike’s Russian Hacking Story Fell Apart- Say Hello to Fancy Bear.], George Eliason, ''Washingtonsblog,'' January 3, 2017.</ref>

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===Nuland-Pyatt phone call===
On January 28, 2014 Assistant Secretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]] and US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discussed details of planned overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine.The two discussed which opposition officials would make up the new regime, agreeing that Arseniy Yatsenyuk should be in charge. Nuland referred to as “Yats”. It was also agreed that someone “high profile” be brought in to "make this thing stick". That someone was Joe Biden. Nuland made disparaging remarks about the [[EU]], and thought the [[UN]] would give better cover to make the new US-installed regime appear legitimate. On February 6, an audio recording of the January 28 call between Nuland and Pyatt was leaked.

At the time the call leaked, media were quick to pounce on Nuland's saying “F**k the EU” when Pyatt asked if the EU should be advised. Member states of the EU, particularly [[France]] and [[Germany]], were deeply involved in negotiating a peaceful resolution to the civil strife. But the United States acted alone without consultation of its allies, presenting them with a ''fait accompli''. The comment dominated the headlines (Daily Beast, 2/6/14; BuzzFeed, 2/6/14; Atlantic, 2/6/14; Guardian, 2/6/14), while the evidence of US regime change efforts was downplayed. With the headline “Russia Claims US Is Meddling Over Ukraine,” the ''New York Times'' (2/6/14) put the facts of US involvement in the mouth of an official enemy, blunting their impact on the audience. ''The Times'' (2/6/14) later described the two officials as benignly “talking about the political crisis in Kiev” and sharing “their views of how it might be resolved.”
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Victorias Nuland (center) with [[neo-Nazi]] party founder [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), coup prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) and Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko (rear).]]
''[[The Washington Post]]'' (2/6/14) acknowledged that the call showed “a deep degree of US involvement in affairs that Washington officially says are Ukraine’s to resolve,” but that fact rarely factored into future coverage of the US/Ukraine/Russia relationship.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

On February 6, 2014, Nuland met with neo-Nazi leader [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] and other ringleaders who assumed power after the ''coup''.<ref>http://in.reuters.com/article/ukraine-call-idINDEEA1704520140208</ref> Tyahnybok leads the [[Svoboda]] party. In 2004 Tyahnybok was kicked out of the ruling parliamentary faction after giving a speech calling for a fight against the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia." In 2005 Tyahnybok signed an open letter to Ukrainian leaders calling for the government to halt the "criminal activities" of "organized Jewry", which was spreading its influence through organizations such as the [[Anti-Defamation League]] which ultimately wanted to commit "[[genocide]]" against the Ukrainian people.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20824693</ref> DCLeaks published Soros emails arranging a meeting between [[George Soros]] and Tyahnbok. Soros, an 84-year-old self-admitted collaborator with the Nazi deportations of [[Jew]]s from [[Budapest]] to [[Auschwitz]] organized by [[Adolf Eichmann]],<ref>https://youtu.be/aSeI1f3uERI</ref> parlayed his looted property of [[Holocaust]] victims' into a $25 billion personal fortune after [[World War II]].

{{Anchor|Heavenly Hundred}}

===Heavenly Hundred===
{{See also|Heavenly Hundred}}
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|[[Pravy Sektor]] snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref> As in [[Syria]] and other "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings, ''[[agent provocateurs]]'' began shooting and killing people on both sides to provoke a civil insurrection. Almost 100 Soros-backed activists and 17 police officers were killed.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957</ref> George Friedman, chairman of ''[[Stratfor]]'', called it "the most blatant ''coup'' in history."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/22/the-liberal-idiocy-on-russiaukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2636177</ref>

On February 16, 2014, members of parliament passed a bill toughening penalties for participation in mass [[riot]]s. After that, the Headquarters of the National Resistance (the coordination center of Euromaidan) announced a "peaceful offensive" on the parliament building. On February 17, the Pravy Sektor put its metropolitan and regional units on alert.

The participants of the picket led by people's deputies Oleg Lyashko, [[Andriy Parubiy]], Oleh Tyahnybok, Andriy Illienko planned to demand an urgent decision on the settlement of the conflict in the country. On the morning of February 18, several thousand activists headed from the Maidan to the parliament building, the Verkhovna Rada. But 100 meters from the parliament building, the path was blocked by trucks placed there by the police. In an effort to break through to the Verkhovna Rada, extremists of the Pravy Sector and "Maidan Self-Defense" began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at the security forces. Cars caught fire. Police used [[tear gas]] and stun grenades to suppress the rioters. The peaceful action for stabilization in the country turned into massive bloody clashes.
[[File:NATOs Eastern Prize.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Leafets with instructions handed out to Soros-backed terrorists in Euromaiden Square, Kiev were identical to those handed out in Tahrir Square, Cairo three years earlier. On the left printed in Arabic, on the right in the Ukrainian language. 117 people were killed by Obama and Soros' terrorists.]]
On February 20, 2014, snipers firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed 25 people, both police and protesters. More than 350 citizens were injured, more than 250 were hospitalized. Riots in the center of Kiev continued in the following days. In connection with the tragic events, February 20 was declared a day of mourning. However, on this day, the clashes intensified. Dozens of people were killed by Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory and Hotel Ukraina buildings.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine], Ivan Katchanovski. YouTube.</ref> According to official data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, from February 18 to February 21, 2014, 77 people were killed. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government. Western media blamed Yanukovych and the Berkut police. The mass murder in fact was carried out by the Pravy Sektor, the group Nuland and John McCain were promoting to take over the new regime.

====Eyewitnesses====
A female Maidan medic during the massacre was pointing to the top of a building and shouting about snipers. But her words were translated in a [[BBC]] report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Government ballistic experts confirmed this during on-site investigative experiments.

These revelations were not reported by any Western media. This includes ''The New York Time'', which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting Kiev regime that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.” It also includes [[CNN]], which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces.

The Maidan regime investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.

The official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings.
<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/</ref>

Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to defense lawyers of police from the former regime in the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. They also said that they received instructions from an ex-U.S. Army sniper and then saw Georgian, Baltic States, and Praqvy Sektor-linked snipers shooting from specific Maidan-controlled buildings.

Western media silence also ignored a statement by Anatolii Hrytsenko, who was a Maidan politician and minister of defense, that the investigation of the massacre was stonewalled because of the involvement of someone from the current leadership of Ukraine in the mass killing.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171019101358/http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/ukraine-parliament-yanukovych-kiev-deal/</ref>

====Investigation====
The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref> The forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014, the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref>Katchanovski</ref>

===Yanukovych compromise agreement and flight===
On February 21, 2014, President Vikto Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition that he would not seek re-election the following February since his removal was the protesters primary demand. German Foreign Minister [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], Polish Foreign Minister [[Radosław Sikorski]], a head of department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian observer Vladimir Lukin were witnesses. It was hoped the agreement with opposition leaders would bring ton an end the crisis situation in Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?], By MAX BLUMENTHAL, FEBRUARY 25, 2014.</ref>

In the evening of the same day, on Maidan Square, the Pravy Sektor rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the [[neo-fascist]] Pravy Sektor, [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.

Soon the security forces were withdrawn from the government quarter. This was taken advantage of by [[revolution]]ary militants, deciding not to wait for the expiration of their announced deadline. Neo-nazi [[activist]]s and participants of the [[Maidan Self-Defense]] stormed the Presidential Administration, Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the evening of February 21, 2022 Yanukovych, together with the heads of the Verkhovna Rada and the presidential administration – Volodymyr Rybak and Andriy Kliuyev – fearing for their personal safety fled Kiev to [[Crimea]]. Yanukovych called the overthrow a coup.

On February 27, 2014, Nuland's choice, Yatsenyuk, became prime minister. In the deal, the fascist and neo-Nazi forces, which could not poll 2% in a nationwide election, were awarded six major cabinet ministries, including the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior due to their longstanding ties with [[Western alliance|Western intelligence]] services.

On February 28, 2014 ''BBC Newsnight'' reported on the Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY</ref> Throughout Ukraine, massacres unfolded between supporters and opponents of the U.S.-appointed [[Maidan junta]]. Oligarchic and Ukrainian nationalist elements were involved in these massacres.

===Unconstitutional impeachment===
According to the procedure of impeachment defined in Article 111 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Rada must establish a special investigatory commission to formulate charges against the president, seek evidence to justify the charges and come to conclusions about the president's guilt for the Rada to consider. To find the president guilty, at least two-thirds of Rada members must assent.

Prior to a final vote to remove the president from power, the procedure requires

*the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to review the case and certify that the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration has been followed, and

*the Supreme Court of Ukraine to certify that the acts of which the President is accused are worthy of impeachment.

To remove the president from power, at least three-quarters of Rada members must assent.

The Rada didn't make any pretense of following this procedure. No investigatory commission was established, and the Courts were not involved.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/president-yanukovych_b_7647102.html</ref> On 22 February 2014, the Rada simply passed a resolution purporting to remove Yanukovych from office in accordance with the Constitution.

The constitutionality of Yanukovych's removal from office has been questioned by constitutional experts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yanukovych's removal was unconstitutional|url=https://gpforecasts.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/yanukovychs-removal-was-unconstitutional/|website=wordpress.com|date=March 2014|access-date=}}</ref> According to Daisy Sindelar from Radio Free Europe, the impeachment may have not followed the procedure provided by the constitution: "[I]t is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers." The vote, as analyzed by Sindelar, had ten votes less than those required by the constitutional guidelines. The decision to remove Yanukovich was supported by 328 deputies. Article 11 maintains that a vote on impeachment must pass by two-thirds of the members, and the impeachment itself requires a vote by three-quarters of the members. In this case, the 328 out of 447 votes were about 10 votes short of three-quarters.<ref name="RadioFreeEurope">{{cite web|last=Sindelar |first=Daisy |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274346.html |title=Was Yanukovych's Ouster Constitutional? |publisher=Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (Rferl.org) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Kyiv Post |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html |title=Parliament votes 328–0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election; [[Tymoshenko]] free (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

Two days later Ukraine's parliament dismissed five judges of the Constitutional Court for allegedly violating their oaths, who were then investigated for alleged malpractice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/rada-dismisses-constitutional-court-judges-appointed-from-its-quota-337523.html |title=Rada dismisses Constitutional Court judges appointed from its quota |work=Kyiv Post |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

===Crimean annexation===
{{See also|Crimean Annexation}}
The NATO organization was founded on the solitary premise of collective security to [[Containment|contain Soviet expansion in Europe]]. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, many questioned the need for it's continued existence against an enemy that no longer existed. Several former Soviet satellite states (East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech and Slovak Republics) as well as newly independent former Soviet Republics (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine) wanted EU membership, which of coarse would ultimately mean NATO membership, as well (military alliances exist to protect economic alliances). Russia under [[Boris Yeltsin]] wanted EU and NATO membership. The NATO powers that be made clear they had no interest in going out of business, and Russia argued how unfair it was that they should dissolve their defense alliance (the [[Warsaw Pact]]) and be thrust into another arms race against a growing NATO, which was swallowing up many of Russia's former military allies.

But the case of Ukraine was unique. Ukrainian nationalists wanted out of the Russian orbit. But some the territories of Ukraine are inhabited by a significant majority of ethnic Russians, too, who wanted to maintain close ties to Russia. The official US State Department's position under President [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] at the time was that the Ukraine should remain a sovereign republic within the Russian Federation. Bush argued as much in a speech written by [[Condoleezza Rice]] to the Ukrainian parliament. But the Clinton's took over in early 1993, and caved in to Ukrainian [[nationalist]]s. In exchange for US recognition of a Ukraine independent of the Russian Federation, Ukraine would give up its nuclear stockpile from the Soviet era, and the US would guarantee Ukraine's security, should the Russians ever invade. The agreement reeked a lot like the assurances Great Britain and France gave Poland at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919 that bound them to war with [[Hitler]] in 1939 when Hitler invaded [[Poland]].

Like the Treaty of Versailles, the [[American foreign policy#1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances|1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]] negotiated by [[Bill Clinton]] lasted exactly 20 years. Unlike Great Britain and France who went to war with [[Nazi Germany]] when the agreement was violated, [[Barack Obama]] broke the pledge that Clinton had committed the United States to. US/Russian relations have deteriorated ever since. And converting NATO from a purely defensive alliance based on the idea of collective security to a military machine waging aggressive wars - as it had done in Libya - fulfilled many people's worst nightmare. No longer can negotiation and diplomacy be used to keep the peace, as the Obama administration had thrown American promises on the dunghill. Gaddafi ceased terrorism, gave up his WMD, and became an ally, all predicated on accepting American promises, only to be brutally murdered at the hands of Hillary Rodham Clinton and NATO. Ukraine had given up its Soviet-era nuclear stockpile based on assurances given by Bill Clinton, ignored by Barack Obama. Military force now is the only option remaining to remove nuclear weapons from the hands of [[Kim Jong-un]].
[[File:Crimea Referendum.PNG|left|350px|thumb|Billboard advertising the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum to apply for admission to the Russian Federation.]]
Since the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] in 1942 it should be clear to anyone,<ref>https://youtu.be/RC4fE6sm4r8</ref> Russia will never allow an aggressive and hostile military force, such as NATO transformed itself into in the Obama era, to ally itself or encamp within the Ukraine.

On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref> Because some of the people currently living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March 16, 2014, on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine's constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

In response to the annexation, Sen. John McCain introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion. On March 6, 2015, the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

===Odessa Trade Unions House massacre===
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>'''Left''' Ukrainian girls mixing [[Molotov cocktail]]s '''Right''' Ukrainian girls carrying Molotov cocktails to the Odessa Trade Unions House in Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref>
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With particular cruelty, 48 people protesting against the "Maidan" were brutally killed.<ref>[https://youtu.be/wuOptWUTR3w Odessa, Ukraine: Right sector attacks trade union building, kills 43], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> They were primarily Russians born in Ukraine who believed in the ideas of [[Western]] liberal democracy and non-violent protest. According to unofficial data, there are about 300 dead people, including women and children. About 3,000 Nazis were organized and placed at the site of the provocation in advance. As of 2022 when the [[Special Military Operation]] commenced, no perpetrators were ever prosecuted. There was a complete indifference to the lives of civilians. "Those who are not Ukrainians burned down," was commonly heard in Kyiv.

On April 16, 2014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref> Two weeks later on May 2, 2014, Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 48 Russians, in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref>
[[File:Odessa massacre.PNG|left|500px|thumb|Pregnant strangled Russian woman, left. Victorious Ukrainian Nazis in the next room over, right.]]
According to eyewitnesses the Maidan fascists outnumbered the anti-Kyiv protesters 10 to 1. First the Maidan activists burnt down the tents of anti-Kiev regime protesters outside the building. The anti-Kiev protesters retreated into the building and tried to blockade the door. A group of Maidan girls filled up Molotov cocktails.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref> The Maidan protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails. Soon the building was engulfed in flames. The Maidan fascist crowd began cheering as they set the building ablaze and beat those who tried to escape. A Maidan activist was shooting at people trying to escape from the windows.<ref>https://youtu.be/s-bpkx0d1fM</ref> A fire station less than a kilometer away couldn't respond. The Maidan activists blocked the lone fire truck and wouldn't let the firefighters operate.

Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>https://archive.fo/Gt4UV</ref> The Western-backed Kyiv regime covered up the atrocities, most victims being ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine.

Vladimir Suchan reported on [[Facebook]]:<ref>https://www.facebook.com/vladimir.suchan/posts/10152089309533388?stream_ref=10</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"After massive 1 May antifascist demonstration, the [[Right Sector]] and the Ukrainian National Socialist Organization (and not just "soccer fans") converged on the city.<ref>[https://youtu.be/p2Ga_2K1suQ Odessa, Ukraine: Onslaught of the Right Sector on the city], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> There are numerous videos showing the Odessa junta police and the fascist paramilitaries consulting with each other and the authorities in Kiev their joint actions.

On several videos, the police and the fascist mob can be seen as working closely together--militants shooting from behind the police, the police letting them pass, etc. In the morning hours, the fascist "pro-unity" marches congregated in several central streets of Odessa, thus drawing there antifascist protesters.

It is evident that this early phase was well planned as a diversionary tactic for the main target was the Kulikovo field with the Labor Union building which was the center of nearly all antifascist manifestations in Odessa. It is also there where antifascist patriots set up their makeshift tent city. The junta felt that this needed to be cleared and that, at the same time, the protesters must be taught a harsh lesson which would break the spirit of this "hero city," a title Odessa gained with several other select cities in the [[Great Patriotic War]].

The diversion worked, and many of the young antifascist activists remained in downtown. In well synchronized and organized columns, the fascist paramilitaries then quickly regrouped and moved against their principal target--the antifascist tent city on the Kulikovo field accompanied by units of the Odessa police. Because of the successful diversion, most of the people on the Kulikovo field were middle-age and older people with many women among them. As soon as they arrived there, the militants not only started burning and destroying the tents, but they also started killing the people. They did in such a way that, for most people, the only exit left was into the Labor Union building. That was a trap.

Once they got the people inside, the fascists started throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting. However, as can be seen on the photos and videos, the fire was mainly at the main entrance and in few several rooms elsewhere. Only a smaller number of victims showed signs of being completely burned. Many of the victims died of suffocation or strangling or their upper bodies or faces were burned. Many of the victims were shot into the heads. Many were beaten to death.

This means that most of the victims were hunted and killed one by one inside the building. This killing spree given the size of the building apparently lasted over several hours and as going on even when the much delayed and very feeble response of the fire department was detected.

All this time, the Odessa police stood by and some of the police with ties to the Right Sector reportedly assisted the fascists by shooting into the people who were climbing on the windows. After several hours, the police then acted and detained ... guess who ... some 60-80 antifascist survivors who then, without food or water, were kept for many hours in the police department, and charged with multiple crimes, including murder.

The one main thing, which the police was interested most, was trying to find at least one "Russian" in the group. Alas, this did not succeed. All the victims and now detainees were Odessites (unlike may of the fascist militants). An angry crowd later that day forced their release .... which profoundly upset the Right Sector murderers. An Odessite grandmother was memorably recorded "beating" with lilacs (who used to symbolize Victory Day--lilacs blossom in May) Odessa policemen who were blocking on Saturday the Labor Union building with the corpses (most likely well over 100) still there.

Only when it was dark, the Right Sector crawled back and came back to the scene of their crime singing and shouting "glory" to themselves. Evidently, the corpses were removed soon after--during the night for today, as various videos show, people started to roam the devastated building still shocked, distraught, and upset. As expected and true to its character, the junta first blamed the victims. They allegedly caused the fire themselves and burned themselves by throwing Molotov cocktails on the peaceful pro-junta protesters.

A later modified line, repeated by Western media, was that what happened was a "tragedy," but one without a perpetrator. The one problem identified was some sort of further unspecified failing on the part of the local police. The head of the police was replaced .... with an even more over Right Sector hand.

Following a cue from Catherine Ashton, [[Yatsenyuk]], the junta's PM, then issued a call (to an unspecified addressee) for an "independent investigation." The same assembly of fascist murderous thugs was planning to hit in a similar way Kharkov. The massive outrage and mobilization appears to have stopped this or at least delayed for now.<ref>http://ai-zhilin.livejournal.com/1360753.html</ref>}}
[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]
The Kiev regime took over the investigation and reported 46 dead in the building. However, Voice of Russia reported, "The interim Ukrainian authorities are hiding from the public the true death toll in Friday's tragedy in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, which actually claimed 116 lives, a member of the Odessa regional council told RIA Novosti Monday. "According to our data, there were 116 people killed in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa. Killed, not just "dead". "We don't use the word "burned" or "suffocated", because autopsies are not being performed, since the people have bullet wounds to the head," Vadim Savenko said.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/Bt0JC</ref>

Luc Michel cites Oleg Tsarev: "We believe that in the House of Unions there are more than 100 corpses. The police let nobody in so that the corpses are not counted. We know exactly there are there minor children. We are sure that those in power will do everything possible to conceal the traces of this horrible crime. We want to conduct an investigation and prosecute those responsible for this crime, he told RIA Novosti."<ref>http://www.lucmichel.net/2014/05/07/lucmichel-net-what-hides-kiev-on-the-massacre-of-odessa-more-than-100-dead-children-victims-raped-before-their-death/</ref>

On July 31, 2014, Democratic Sen. [[Mark Udall]] called for CIA Director Brennan's resignation.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213991-senate-dem-calls-for-cia-chiefs-resignation-after-staff-spying</ref>

On September 18, 2015, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] of 48 Ukrainians at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

===Donbas war===
{{See also|Donbas war}}
The Maidan [[lawless]]ness gave rise to unprecedented crimes of neo-Nazis and various radicals – from the Pravy Sektor to the [[Ukrainian Ultras]] soccer hooligans. It was during the short-lived Turchynov administration from February 2014 to June 2014 that the mass murder of civilians in the Odessa House of Trade Unions was committed. Most importantly it was Turchynov who ordered the use of military force against the civilian population of Donbas on April 14, 2014.

On May 26, 2014, after [[Petro Poroshenko]]'s victory in the presidential race, the Ukrainian Air Force began to carry out airstrikes on the cities of Donbas.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7jTR0sjkbA</ref> And on June 2, 2014, the "Bloody Pastor" gave the order to conduct an air raid on [[Lugansk]].
[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk during the 8 years of the Donbas war.<ref>https://youtu.be/zlrYBnttnt4</ref>]]
On July 31, 2014, Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> appears on Hromadske TV discussing [[genocide]] in Donbas. Boutkevitch says Donetsk:
{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED.<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}

Nazification had already gotten to the point where there was a willingness to destroy cities, and physically exterminate the population of one's own country with the tacit approval and complete indifference of people outside Donbas. By 2022 Nazi ideas continued to live on and influence not only the minds of Ukrainian political leaders and activists, but also a very significant part of the population in the central and western Ukraine regions. The so-called "simple but conscious" everyday people absorbed a pathological hatred of Russia, blaming Russia for all their troubles, spreading Russophobia into the social and information space.

Since 2014 and the [[Kyiv regime]]'s policy of [[genocide|ethnic cleansing]] of the Donbas, more than 14,000 people have been killed, mostly civilians.

===Ukrainian collusion: 2016===
{{Main article|Ukrainian collusion}}
The government of Ukraine in collusion with the [[Democratic National Committee]] colluded to interfere in the [[2016 United States Presidential Election]] and to subvert American [[democracy]]. In so doing, they sought to blame Russia for foreign influence.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html</ref>

Paul Sperry of Realclearinvestigations documented how the Ukrainian government, working with both the [[Obama administration]] and the [[2016 Clinton campaign]], Ukrainian officials intervened in the 2016 race to help [[Hillary Clinton]] and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]] where officials worked with Alexander Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American [[Banderist]] and Clinton campaign operative, to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on and investigate their political rival.
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Alexandra 'Ali' Chalupa (left) and Col. Alexander Vindman (right), two Ukrainian [[Banderist]]s deeply involved in the plot to remove President Trump and drive the United States to war with Russia.
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Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election. As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also attacked him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in ''[[The Hill]]'', an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on [[social media]].

The Ukrainian mischief is part of Special Counsel [[John Durham]]’s broader Trump-Russia inquiry, as of 2022 a full-blown [[criminal]] investigation with [[grand jury]] indictments – into efforts to falsely target Trump as a [[Kremlin]] conspirator in 2016 and beyond.

Nine days after the U.S. presidential election, the Russian Federation sponsored a U.N. Resolution entitled ''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance'' aimed at condemning the [[neo-fascist]] groups openly displaying Nazi symbols and regalia in Ukraine and Donbas. The [[Obama administration]] voted against the resolution.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

====Crowdstrike====
{{See also|Murder of Seth Rich}}
[[CrowdStrike]] is a cyber security company founded founded by [[Dimitry Alperovitch]], a Ukrainian oligarch and senior fellow at the [[Atlantic Council]]. Another owner and senior manager of Crowdstrike is a former senior [[FBI]] man [[Shawn Henry]], who was promoted by [[Robert Mueller]] to be the FBI's Head of Cyber Security in the 2000s.

Crowdstrike is funded by Google,<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref> the arms industry, NATO, the US Military, [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[UAE]], and another Ukrainian oligarch who donated $10 million to the [[Clinton Foundation]] named [[Victor Pinchuk]].<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> Pichuk hosted the September 2013 confabulation in [[Yalta]], [[Crimea]] attended by [[Bill Clinton]], Hillary Clinton, and [[Tony Blair]] to discuss how Ukraine's assets would be carved up after the forthcoming [[Ukrainian coup]].

Accusations of Russian hacking DNC servers in the Spring of 2016 rely entirely on a report by CrowdStrike.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/think-tank-cyber-firm-center-russian-hacking-charges-misread-data</ref> Despite repeated requests from the FBI, Crowdstrike and the DNC refused to turn over evidence.<ref>https://slate.com/technology/2017/05/the-fbi-is-harder-to-trust-on-the-dnc-hack-because-it-relied-on-crowdstrikes-analysis.html</ref> The [[Obama administration]] never examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/</ref> On July 25, 2019, [[President Trump]] requested [[President Zelensky]] of Ukraine to assist in recovering evidence from Crowdstrike, which contracts with the Ukrainian military.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-mentioned-crowdstrike-to-ukrainian-president-and-crowdstrike-doesnt-seem-to-know-why-2019-09-25</ref>
:*According to journalist and DNC activist Andrea Chalupa on her Facebook page “After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington),<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref> it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a [[Democratic Party]] source who has been directly involved in the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”” July 25, 2016
:*If she was that close to the investigation Crowdstrike did how credible is she? Her sister Alexandra was named one of 16 people that shaped the election by Yahoo news. '''The DNC hacking investigation done by Crowdstrike concluded hacking was done by Russian actors based on the work done by Alexandra Chalupa? That is the conclusion of her sister Andrea Chalupa and obviously enough for Crowdstrike to make the Russian government connection.'''
:*How close is Dimitri Alperovitch to DNC officials? Close enough professionally he should have stepped down from an investigation that had the chance of throwing a presidential election in a new direction. According to Esquire.com, Alperovitch has vetted speeches for Hillary Clinton about cyber security issues in the past. Because of his work on the Sony hack, President Barrack Obama personally called and said the measures taken were directly because of his work.
:*Alperovitch’s relationships with the Chalupas, radical groups, think tanks, Ukrainian propagandists, and Ukrainian state supported hackers [show a conflict of interest]. When it all adds up and you see it together, we have found a Russian that tried hard to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in 2016.

===Impeachment 2.0: 2019-2020===
{{See also|Impeachment sham}}
In December 2016 Sens. [[Lindsey Graham]] and John McCain visited the Azov Battalion. Graham told them "Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense" to retake Crimea.<ref>https://twitter.com/HTTP_404_NotF/status/1499850899690242048</ref> However, the election of Donald Trump a month earlier interrupted the [[neocon]] [[globalist]] agenda for war with Russia. When the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and [[Mueller investigation]] failed to remove President Trump, undeterred, [[Ukranian nationalist]]s and their American collaborators attempted to impeach President Trump in the fall and winter of 2020 for not enthusiastically supporting war with Russia over Ukraine.

==Zelensky regime==
[[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]]
In late September 2023 Canadian dictator [[Justin Trudeau]] and House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed Zelensky to address the Canadian parliament. A former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka was also invited to attend the address. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and the British Commonwealth during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, were fighting the armed forces of [[Nazi Germany]], of which the Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] were part. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces.

Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947.

International affairs analyst Dr. Andrew Korybko observed that in one fell swoop, Trudeau discredited himself as a so-called “champion of [[human rights]]”, while Zelensky proved beyond any doubt that an ethnic [[Jew]] can indeed glorify the Nazis’ [[genocidal]] allies despite having family who were murdered in the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[https://korybko.substack.com/p/jews-poles-and-russians-have-united Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi], ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.</ref> After being vetted to attend Zelensky's speech by the Canadian government and Trudeau's office, Hunta was introduced by the Speaker as a “Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” and received two extended standing ovations while Zelensky raised a clenched fist in solidarity. To its credit, even ''[[Politico]]'' reported on the number of Jewish organizations that condemned the [[fascist]] ceremony.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/nazi-linked-veteran-ovation-zelenkyy-canada-visit-00117857 Nazi-linked veteran received ovation during Zelenskyy’s Canada visit], By KYLE DUGGAN, ''Politico'', 09/24/2023.</ref> Hunta's family had [[tweet]]ed out days in advance that a separate private meeting had been arranged for Hunta to meet and speak privately with Trudeau and Zelensky.<ref>Mark Sleboda, [https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/canadian-parliament-trudeau-and-zelensky Canadian Parliament, Trudeau & Zelensky Praise and Give Standing Ovation to West Ukrainian Waffen SS Veteran Who "Killed Russians"], Radio Interview on the Critical Hour 25/09/23.</ref>

==NATO war in Ukraine==
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In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war.<ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees], Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization], Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/woOvb US, NATO rule out halt to expansion, reject Russian demands]. By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK, ''Associated Press'', January 7, 2022.</ref> The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed. The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>

In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> NATO-backed [[neo-Nazi]]s attacked the [[Donbas]] on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February 2022, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 591 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 975 ceasefire violations in the region.<ref>https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683</ref>

With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put a stop to the eight-year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives. After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref> The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

NATO-backed neo-Nazi proxy forces attacked the [[Donbas]] again on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> Military forces of the Russian Federation (RF) entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put an end to the ethnic violence and de-nazify the areas where the children and grandchildren of World War II Nazi collaborators had been carrying an ethnic hatred of Russians since the [[Holodomor]] of the 1930s and earlier. A wave of [[patriotism]] swept over Russian society, viewing the operation as a second [[Great Patriotic War]].<ref>https://thesaker.is/two-videos-from-the-ukrainian-blogger-iurii-podoliaka-must-see/</ref> Soldiers felt they were sent to finish the job of de-nazifying Ukraine that their grandfathers left unfinished after World War II. The use of civilian human shields by the U.S-trained Armed Forces of Ukraine led to civilian casualties and was a primary strategy of the NATO proxies. Ukrainian security forces committed reprisal actions and atrocities against ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in areas which Russian forces vacated. Numerous attacks by Ukrainian forces on its own citizens, which had been ongoing in the Donbas region for the eight previous years, spread outside the Donbas to create [[false flag]] images of attacks by Russians. Efforts to rehabilitate the image and reputation of Nazis and Nazism by Western and Ukrainian media and [[psyop]]s were non-stop since the beginning of the Russian incursion, with permanent and debilitating damage to the West's educational system and image throughout the civilized world. By early April 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been so degraded and decimated, or were out of fuel and unable to retreat, the Maidan regime doubled down on soft power, [[psyops|psychological operations]] and propaganda to garner sympathy from the West for continued support.

====Ukraine missile attack on Poland====
On November 15, 2022, two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian [[cruise missile]], were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The Polish government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref>

However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR aircraft (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the Kyiv regime had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its CIA counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021.

When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down. Both socialist premier Joe Biden and NATO chief warlord Jens Stoltenberg blamed Ukraine for the attack. Zelensky refuted the Western leaders' statements that the missile which killed two innocent civilians in Poland was Ukrainian. "I have no doubt that it was not our missile or our missile strike." Zelensky insisted that he received reports from the corrupt Armed Forces of Ukraine command that told him the missile attacks did not come from Ukraine," he told the people in a live nationwide address on Ukrainian state-controlled media.<ref>https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376663/</ref> The [[Russophobic]] ''Financial Times'' of [[London]] quoted a [[diplomat]] from a NATO country in Kyiv saying: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the [[missile]].”<ref>https://archive.ph/mxQ5K#selection-2029.34-2029.282</ref>

==Historiography==
The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century. The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev, and his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>

Strikingly different interpretations of the medieval state of [[Kievan Rus']] appear in the four schools of historiography within Ukraine: Russophile, Sovietophile, Eastern Slavic, and Ukrainophile. The Sovietophile and Russophile schools have become marginalized in independent Ukraine, with the Ukrainophile school being dominant in the early 21st century. The Ukrainophile school promotes an identity that is mutually exclusive of Russia. It has come to dominate the nation's educational system, security forces, and national symbols and monuments, although it has been dismissed as nationalist by Western historians. The East Slavic school, an eclectic compromise between Ukrainophiles and Russophilism, has a weaker ideological and symbolic base, although it is preferred by Ukraine's centrist former elites.<ref>Taras Kuzio, "National Identity and History Writing in Ukraine," ''Nationalities Papers'' 2006 34(4): 407-427, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref>

Many historians in recent years have sought alternatives to national histories, and Ukrainian history invited approaches that looked beyond a national paradigm. Multiethnic history recognizes the numerous peoples in Ukraine; transnational history portrays Ukraine as a border zone for various empires; and area studies categorizes Ukraine as part of Eurasia, or more often as part of East-Central Europe. Plokhy (2007) argues that looking beyond the country's national history has made possible a richer understanding of Ukraine, its people, and the surrounding regions.<ref>Serhii Plokhy, "Beyond Nationality" ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (4): 25-46,</ref>

After 1991, historical memory was a powerful tool in the political mobilization and legitimation of the post-Soviet Ukrainian state, as well as the division of selectively used memory along the lines of the political division of Ukrainian society. Ukraine did not experience the restorationist paradigm typical of some other post-Soviet nations, including the Baltic states, although the multifaceted history of independence, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Soviet-era repressions, mass famine, and World War II collaboration were used to provide a different constitutive frame for the new Ukrainian nation. The politics of identity (which includes the production of history textbooks and the authorization of commemorative practices) has remained fragmented and tailored to reflect the ideological anxieties and concerns of individual regions of Ukraine.<ref>See Andryi Portnov, "Exercises with history Ukrainian style (notes on public aspects of history's functioning in post-Soviet Ukraine)," ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (3): 93-138, in Ukrainian</ref>

==See also==
*[[Ukrainian Sich Riflemen]]
*[[Essay: Understanding the organization of Ukrainian forces]]

==References==
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==External links==

* [http://www.ukraine.org/ www.ukraine.org]
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/index.html ''Ukraine'' magazine, English edition]
* [https://youtu.be/Cll91vfc_3Q Ukrainian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 – 1945)]
* [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/450303.shtml "Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II,"] a 2003 Canadian film produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski and narrated by Jack Palance.
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm U.S. State Department ''Background Note: Ukraine'' (2008)], the source for several sections of this text
* [https://youtu.be/kkg-gI8Wl0U 2014 Mariupol. Crimes of the Ukrainian regime . The war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years.] – ''YouTube
*[https://www.historians.in.ua/index.php/en/doslidzhennya/2906-stephen-velychenko-putin-preludes-secret-russian-police-reports-on-the-ukrainian-national-movement#ftnref48 STEPHEN VELYCHENKO. PUTIN PRELUDES. SECRET RUSSIAN POLICE REPORTS ON THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT]
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History of Ukraine

2024-04-02T06:41:40Z

MattF:

[[File:Annexations to the territory of Ukraine.jpg|right|500px|thumb|Annexations to the territory of Ukraine]]

The name "[[Ukraine]]" is of [[Polish]] origin (Pol. ''u kraya'') literally meaning "at the side" or "borderland". No such entity or [[nation state]] is recorded to exist on any map prior to 1904. The ethno-linguistic group commonly referred to as "Ukrainian" largely resided in the Austro-Hungarian province of [[Galicia]], are of [[Russian]] origin, practice the [[Eastern Orthodox]] [[Christian]] faith under the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], and developed their own [[dialect]] of the Russian language as they became detached from the main body of [[Russian Orthodox]] Christendom, living under the domination of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and later the Roman Catholic [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]].

Of all Russian speaking [[Slav]]s, the Galicians or "Ukrainians" as they have come to be called, are perhaps the most "[[Western Civilization|Westernized]]" [[cultural]]y of the Russian peoples while holding to their [[Eastern Rite]] faith.

==Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson the origin of the Ukrainian state==
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin explained the origins of the Ukrainian state with the following statements.<ref>https://theduran.com/full-transcript-the-interview-of-president-putin-with-tucker-carlson-video/</ref>

Vladimir Putin: Let’s look where our relationship with Ukraine started from. Where does Ukraine come from?

The Russian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its statehood, and in Novgorod there is a memorial dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the country.

In 882, Rurik’s successor Prince Oleg, who was, actually, playing the role of regent at Rurik’s young son because Rurik had died by that time, came to Kiev. He ousted two brothers who, apparently, had once been members of Rurik’s squad. So, Russia began to develop with two centers of power, Kiev and Novgorod.

The next, very significant date in the history of Russia, was 988. This was the Baptism of Russia, when Prince Vladimir, the great-grandson of Rurik, baptized Russia and adopted Orthodoxy, or Eastern Christianity. From this time the centralized Russian state began to strengthen. Why? Because of a single territory, integrated economic ties, one and the same language and, after the Baptism of Russia, the same faith and rule of the Prince. The centralized Russian state began to take shape.

Back in the Middle Ages, Prince Yaroslav the Wise introduced the order of succession to the throne, but after he passed away, it became complicated for various reasons. The throne was passed not directly from father to eldest son, but from the prince who had passed away to his brother, then to his sons in different lines. All this led to the fragmentation and the end of Rus’ as a single state. There was nothing special about it, the same was happening then in Europe. But the fragmented Russian state became an easy prey to the empire created earlier by Genghis Khan. His successors, namely, Batu Khan, came to Rus’, plundered and ruined nearly all the cities. The southern part, including Kiev, by the way, and some other cities, simply lost independence, while northern cities preserved some of their sovereignty. They had to pay tribute to the Horde, but they managed to preserve some part of their sovereignty. And then a unified Russian state began to take shape with its centre in Moscow.

The southern part of the Russian lands, including Kiev, began to gradually gravitate towards another ”magnet“ – the centre that was emerging in Europe. This was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was even called the Lithuanian-Russian Duchy, because Russians were a significant part of its population. They spoke the Old Russian language and were Orthodox. But then there was a unification, the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. A few years later, another union was signed, but this time already in the religious sphere. Some of the Orthodox priests became subordinate to the Pope. Thus, these lands became part of the Polish-Lithuanian state.

During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (u kraya) they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.

So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…

Tucker Carlson: I beg your pardon, can you tell us what period… I am losing track of where in history we are?

Vladimir Putin: It was in the 13th century.

Now I will tell what happened later and give the dates so that there is no confusion. And in 1654, even a bit earlier, the people who were in control of the authority over that part of the Russian lands, addressed Warsaw, I repeat, demanding their rights be observed that they send to them rulers of Russian origin and Orthodox faith. When Warsaw did not answer them and in fact rejected their demands, they turned to Moscow so that Moscow took them away.

So that you don’t think that I am inventing things… I’ll give you these documents…

Tucker Carlson: It doesn’t sound like you are inventing it, but I am not sure why it’s relevant to what’s happened two years ago.

Vladimir Putin: But still, these are documents from the archives, copies. Here are letters from Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the man who then controlled the power in this part of the Russian lands that is now called Ukraine. He wrote to Warsaw demanding that their rights be upheld, and after being refused, he began to write letters to Moscow asking to take them under the strong hand of the Moscow Tsar. There are copies of these documents. I will leave them for your good memory. There is a translation into Russian, you can translate it into English later.

Russia would not agree to admit them straight away, assuming that the war with Poland would start. Nevertheless, in 1654, the Pan-Russian Assembly of top Clergy and Landowners headed by the Tsar (Zemsky Sobor), which was the representative body of power of the Old Russian state, decided to include a part of the Old Russian lands into the Moscow Kingdom.

As expected, the war with Poland began. It lasted 13 years, and then in 1654, a truce was concluded. And 32 years later, I think, a peace treaty with Poland, which they called ”eternal peace,“ was signed. And these lands, the whole left bank of the Dnieper, including Kiev, went to Russia, and the whole right bank of the Dnieper remained in Poland.

Under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands, including in the south and west. This all lasted until the Revolution. Before World War I, Austrian General Staff relied on the ideas of Ukrainianization and started actively promoting the ideas of Ukraine and the Ukrainianization. Their motive was obvious. Just before World War I they wanted to weaken the potential enemy and secure themselves favourable conditions in the border area. So the idea which had emerged in Poland that people residing in that territory were allegedly not really Russians, but rather belonged to a special ethnic group, Ukrainians, started being propagated by the Austrian General Staff.

As far back as the 19th century, theorists calling for Ukrainian independence appeared. All those, however, claimed that Ukraine should have a very good relationship with Russia. They insisted on that. After the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to restore the statehood, and the Civil War began, including the hostilities with Poland. In 1921, peace with Poland was proclaimed, and under that treaty, the right bank of the Dnieper River once again was given back to Poland.

In 1939, after Poland cooperated with Hitler — it did collaborate with Hitler, you know —Hitler offered Poland peace and a treaty of friendship and alliance (we have all the relevant documents in the archives), demanding in return that Poland give back to Germany the so-called Danzig Corridor, which connected the bulk of Germany with East Prussia and Konigsberg. After World War I this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Gdansk emerged. Hitler asked them to give it amicably, but they refused.

===Origins of Ukraine: 19th century and World War I===
In the 19th century the Ukrainian was a rural area largely ignored by Russia and Austria. With growing urbanization and modernization, and a cultural trend toward nationalism inspired by romanticism, a Ukrainian intelligentsia committed to national rebirth and social justice emerged. The serf-turned-national-poet [[Taras Shevchenko]] (1814-1861) and the political theorist [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]] (1841-1895) led the growing nationalist movement. Nationalist and socialist parties developed in the late 19th century. '''[[Austrian Galicia]]''', which enjoyed substantial political freedom under the relatively lenient rule of the [[Hapsburgs]], became the center of the nationalist movement. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893.<ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref> Before 1917, one could walk on foot from Kiev to Moscow without noticing any linguistic differences. Defeat in [[World War I]] and the Russian revolutions of 1917 destroyed the Hapsburg and Russian empires. The Ukrainian elite declared statehood: the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Kiev on Nov. 20, 1917, becoming independent on Jan. 22, 1918. The West Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed at Lviv on Nov. 1, 1918. A rival Ukrainian Soviet Republic was established at Kharkiv on Dec. 24, 1917. On Jan. 22, 1919, the two people's republics united. Lenin gave Ukraine Kharkiv, Donbass, and the coastal oblasts, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> By then, however, the military situation was desperate, as Polish and Bolshevik armies pressed the Ukrainian nationalists from west and east and the peasant anarchists led by Nestor Makhno took control of large areas. Because communist theory denies the existence of race as the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another, Lenin made the Soviet Union autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power.

==1917-1922==
After the [[February Revolution]] in Imperial Russia and the creation of the provisional government in 1917 the Ukrainian nationalists assumed the control of many institutions and on April 3, 2017 (Gregorian calendar) they constituted the National Council or Central Rada, while Bolshevik groups created the Soviets of Soldiers and Workers. The Rada requested full autonomy on April 26. On July 13, with the nationalists growing stronger and stronger, it was proclaimed the autonomous territory of Ukraine within the Russia Empire and a provisional government was formed. The Russian government ([[Kerensky regime]]) sent delegates to negotiate the future status, but no agreement had been reached when the Bolsheviks took the power. The [[Rada]] refused to recognize the Soviet government and on November 20, 1917, it was proclaimed the Ukrainian Peoples Republic with the governments of Kiev, Podolia, Volinia, Chernigov,<ref>[https://orthochristian.com/77399.html ST. LAWRENCE OF CHERNIGOV: SOME PROPHECIES AND STATEMENTS ON THE UKRAINIAN SITUATION], Dimitra Dwelley. orthochristian.com</ref> Poltava, [[Kharkov]], Yekaterinoslav, Kerson and Tauride ([[Zaporozhye]]). The yellow and blue flag was adopted on December 29, 1917. Over the next three years Kiev changed hands over twenty times as competing factions vied for control of Ukraine in the Russian Civil War.

Soviet Republic of Ukraine (December 1917): On December 23 the Bolsheviks took Karkov in eastern Ukraine. They also controlled Shmerinka in the west. The first Congress of all the Soviets of Ukraine gathered in Karkov on December 12, 1917, and decided the establishment of the formally proclaimed Soviet Republic on December 25 (Ukrainian Peoples Republic of the Soviets of Workers and Peasants, or Soviet Federal Republic of Ukraine or Soviet Peoples Republic of Ukraine) that had as its capital Karkov. The Soviet Republic encompassed theoretically all the Soviets of Ukraine, each one having established their own republic. It subsisted until May 1918. It used red flag with the national flag in the canton, adopted at the beginning of January 1918. In this month Yekaterisnoslav was occupied. In February 2018 the Bolshevik forces entered in Kiev, but the arrival of German forces (March) forced them to vacate it, losing practically all Ukraine. The Republic of Donetzk-Krivorog was established simultaneously with capital in Karkov, probably as one of the constituent subrepublics.

On December 17, 1917 [[Lenin]] recognized the Republic. France also recognized in December, and in January England recognized it. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian government declared that its aim was a federation of republics emerged from the ancient Russian Empire.

The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Republic of Ukraine occupied Kiev (February 2, 2018) thanks to the fact that many Ukrainian forces changed sides and other refused to fight. The government of the Rada, chaired by Binechenko, that was negotiating a separate peace with the [[Central Powers]], was arrested. The Ukrainian forces concentrated in Pechek, south of Kiev, and the government of the Rada moved to Zhitomir under the presidency of Golubovich. On February 9, 1918, they signed the peace separately with Germany and Austria: Ukraine kept its frontiers and got the territory of Kholm. The German armies broke the ceasefire with Russia on February 18 and entered in Ukraine on February 19. Golubovich, who was in Zhitomir in a desperate situation due to the unstoppable Bolshevik advance, requested help from Germany (February 19). The German troops crossed the Dnieper on March 1 and advanced in all fronts and headed to Kiev that was occupied the following day. On March 3 Bolshevik Russia signed an armistice (that led to the peace of Brest-Litovsk on March 8) and the combats stopped in Russian territory but not in Ukraine. The [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]] assigned to Ukraine a part of [[Belorussia]] (March 8), that however lost part of Kholm. On March 12, 1917 practically all Ukraine was under Austrian or German control.

The Germans established a government known as the Hetmanate. The President of the Rada, Golubovich, collaborated with the Germans but they favored the landowners and conservative classes while the government was [[Social democratic]]. As the anti-German agitation was increasing and the Rada was expressing more and more opposition to the occupation regime, the German Army performed a coup d'état. On April 29 the Parliament or Rada elected Michael Hrushewsky as first president of the Republic. The following day the German forces, with the collaboration of the Cossacks of the Hetman Skoropadsky, performed a ''[[coup d'état]]''. Hrushevsky and other members of the Rada were jailed. Martial law was proclaimed. At the head of the government was put the Hetman Paulov Skoropadsky.

In 1919 Kamenskoye was occupied in turn by the Kuban Cossacks, General Anton Denikin of the anti-Bolshevik White army, and the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno’s Green army. In the area of Guliay-Pole an 'anarchist state' was proclaimed. Makhno fought against the Germans, against the monarchist White armies (on the side of the [[Red Army]]), and against the [[Bolshevik]]s. The flags of the 'makhnovtzy' were black with inscriptions "Anarchy is the mother of order" [Anarkhiya - mat' poriadka] and other inscriptions, or plain black or red-black.

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===Polish-Ukrainian war===
[[File:Galicia.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The former '''Austrian Galicia''' depicted across a map of Poland's post-1945 borders.]]
The political transformation of the [[Eastern Europe]] after 1918 was a direct result of the collapse of the [[German Second Empire]] and the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] during the last months of 1918, as well as due to the unsettled western borders of the ex-[[Russian Empire]] which collapsed in 1917 and which was the midst of revolution and civil war. Most of the boundary changes in Eastern Europe after [[World War I]] resulted from decisions reached by the [[Triple Entente]] powers ([[Western Allied]] and Associated Powers during WWI) at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] that began in early 1919 resulting in five peace treaties, which were named after the castles outside Paris where they were finalized and signed.

On November 1, 1918, when the rule of Austria-Hungary collapsed in the region of '''East Galicia''', Ukrainian political workers from [[West Galicia]] opposed Polish ambitions to unite the whole region of Galicia (Western and Eastern) into a new [[Second Polish Republic]], and organized a [[coup]]. Local Ukrainian [[nationalist]] leaders proclaimed the independence of the West Ukrainian National People’s Republic. Helped by Ukrainian national units, they succeeded in occupying Lvov and other cities in East Galicia. This new state claimed the whole of East Galicia (eastward from the San River with [[Lwów]]) to be Ukrainian followed by [[North Bukovina]] and [[Carpathian Rus']] (Ruthenia). However, these territorial claims immediately were challenged by local [[Pole]]s who fought to unite Galicia with the newly resurrected Polish state. Consequently, the result was a Polish-Ukrainian War that lasted from November 1918 until the summer of 1919, when the Galician-West Ukrainian [[military]] detachments were expelled from East Galicia which finally became a part of the interwar (1919-1939) Polish Second Republic.

For the Ukrainian side in the conflict, the crucial problem was that the West Ukrainian political-military leaders did not succeed in mobilizing the biggest part of the Ukrainian peasantry for their course as the [[peasant]]s have been much more involved in their [[economic]] for existence than the [[political]] interests. Another problem/question Was how much they have felt themselves as “Ukrainians” at all in order to fight against the Poles. In such a political situation, in order to attract the peasants for the Ukrainian course, the [[Ukrainian nationalist]]s tried to make use of some [[social]]-economic slogans and, therefore, promised the peasantry an [[agricultural]] reform after the war–distribution of [[land]] (the [[Bolshevik|Russian Bolshevik]]s were propagating the same at the same time). Nevertheless, the Ukrainian nationalists used all means of force for the reason to mobilize the peasants of West Ukraine for the Ukrainian military to fight Poles in East Galicia.

==Bolshevik Ukraine==

The war in Ukraine continued for another two years; by 1921, however, most of Ukraine had been taken over by the Soviet Union, while Galicia and Volhynia were incorporated into independent Poland.

A powerful underground Ukrainian nationalist movement rose in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s, led by the Ukrainian Military Organization and the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUN). The movement attracted a militant following among students and harassed the Polish authorities. Legal Ukrainian parties, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an active press, and a business sector also flourished in Poland. Economic conditions improved in the 1920s, but the region suffered from the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The situation in Soviet Ukraine under Communist control were sharply different. The communists gave a privileged position to manual labor, the largest class in the cities, where Russians dominated. The typical worker was more attached to class identity than to ethnicity. Although there were incidents of ethnic friction among workers (in addition to Ukrainians and Russians there were Poles, Germans, Jews, and others in the Ukrainian workforce), industrial laborers had already adopted Russian culture and language to a significant extent. Workers whose ethnicity was Ukrainian were not attracted to campaigns of Ukrainianization or de-Russification in meaningful numbers, but remained loyal members of the Soviet working class. There was no significant antagonism between workers identifying themselves as Ukrainian or Russian; however, anti-Semitism was widespread.

Moscow encouraged a national renaissance in literature and the arts, under the aegis of the Ukrainization policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk (1872-1933).

Reconstruction proceeded rapidly in the late 1940s and the 1950s, as the Soviets needed the food and raw materials of Ukraine. Political repression of nationally conscious Ukrainians also intensified. The widespread acculturation and assimilation of the Soviet Jews by the 1930s led Stalin to consider the "Jewish question" as settled; he now viewed the Jews as a national rather than a religious group. With the influx of Jews into the Ukraine and Russia from Poland, the Baltic states, Bessarabia, and Bukovina following the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, there followed an intensification of Jewish religious activity, and the reopening of many synagogues. However, political unrest preceding the creation of the state of Israel unleashed Stalin's massive repression against Jews during the "black years" of 1948–53. Suspected of Zionism and cosmopolitanism, Jews were systematically removed from positions of leadership in culture, science, medicine, politics, and economics. The anti-Semitic campaign ended only with the death of Stalin in March 1953.

===Holodomor===
see [[Ukrainian Famine]]

With Stalin's change of course in the late 1920s, however, Moscow's toleration of Ukrainian national identity came to an end. Systematic state terror of the 1930s destroyed Ukraine's writers, artists, and intellectuals; the Communist Party of Ukraine was purged of its "nationalist deviationists"; and the peasantry was crushed by means of collectivization, resulting in the [[Great Famine]] or "Holodomor" (Голодомор) of 1932–1933, which claimed some 3-7 million lives as crops failed and remaining food wtocks were forcibly removed by the government. Besides Ukraine, [[Kazakhstan]] and the Volga region were also hit by the famine. Stalin had full knowledge of the destructive force of the famine. It was a by-product of his war on the peasantry that began with collectivization and dekulakization and as an attempt to eradicate peasant culture in its entirety. Ellman explains the causes for the excess deaths in rural areas of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan during 1931-34 by dividing the causes into three groups: objective nonpolicy-related factors, like the drought of 1931 and poor weather in 1932; inadvertent result of policies with other objectives, like rapid industrialization, socialization of livestock, and neglected crop rotation patterns; and deaths caused intentionally by a starvation policy. The Communist leadership perceived famine not as a humanitarian catastrophe but as a means of [[class struggle]] and used starvation as a punishment tool to teach peasants to work well in the collective farms.<ref>Michael Ellman, "The Role of Leadership Perceptions and of Intent in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1934." ''Europe-Asia Studies'' 2005 57(6): 823-841. Issn: 0966-8136 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

It was largely the same groups of individuals who were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivization, and the Great Terror. These groups were associated with Efim Georgievich Evdokimov (1891-1939) and operated in Ukraine during the civil war, in the North Caucasus in the 1920s, and in the Secret Operational Division within General State Political Administration (OGPU) in 1929–31. Evdokimov transferred into Communist Party administration in 1934, when he became Party secretary for North Caucasus Krai. But he appears to have continued advising Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov on security matters, and the latter relied on Evdokimov's former colleagues to carry out the mass killing operations that are known as the Great Terror in 1937–38.<ref>Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin's Great Terror." ''Australian Journal of Politics and History'' 2007 53(1): 20-43. Issn: 0004-9522 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]; Robert Conquest, ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine'' (1986). Mark B. Tauger, "The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933" ''Slavic Review'', Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 70-89, notes the harvest was unusually poor. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199121)50%3A1%3C70%3AT1HATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H online in JSTOR]; R. W. Davies, M. B. Tauger, S. G. Wheatcroft, "Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933," ''Slavic Review,'' Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 642-657 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(199523)54%3A3%3C642%3ASGSATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]; online in JSTOR; Michael Ellman. "Stalin and the Soviet famine of 1932-33 Revisited," ''Europe-Asia Studies,'' Volume 59, Issue 4 June 2007 , pages 663-93.</ref>

===Nazi colloboration: 1941-1945===
{{See also|Volhynia massacre}}
In 1939, after Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Galicia and Volhynia were annexed to Soviet Ukraine. Northern Bukovina, formerly part of Romania, was incorporated into Ukraine in 1940, as was formerly Czechoslovakian Subcarpathian Ruthenia (the Transcarpathian Oblast) in 1945.
[[File:Ukrainian girls welcoming Germans.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainians girls welcome soldiers of the [[Third Reich]] with the traditional bread and salt peace offering.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]
By mid-1941, the Ukrainian SSR had the largest population of Jews in Europe. The addition of the eastern provinces of Poland in late 1939 as well as the seizure of sections of Romanian territory in June 1940 led to some 2.7 million Jews living within the borders of the newly enlarged republic. About 85% lived in cities. By 1944, 1.6 million of these Jews had died at the hands of the Germans and their allies and auxiliaries. Unlike the majority of the [[Holocaust]]'s victims who died in the industrialized mass murder of the death camps, the overwhelming bulk of Ukraine's Jews died in mass shootings during the initial stages of the war.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was welcomed by many Ukrainians at first; the [[Stepan Bandera|OUN]] even attempted to establish a government under German auspices. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) considered Ukraine a strategically important region that should be occupied through capturing the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians. According to Rosenberg, everything should have been done to make the Ukrainians view the Germans as liberators. Though he presented his views on different occasions, [[Adolf Hitler]]'s anti-Slavic racial views prevailed and overrode strategic considerations, leading to a harsh occupation. Very soon the realization that Nazi policies were brutal toward all the Ukrainians, and not only the Jews and Communists, drove most Ukrainians into opposition to the Nazis. Germany forced many Ukrainians to work within the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) on tasks such as agriculture, road and railway building, and the construction of fortifications. The German authorities soon faced a serious local labor shortage, especially among skilled workers, as a result of Soviet evacuations before the invasion, the ongoing murder of the Jewish population, and the brutal recruitment, arrest, and deportation of other groups, usually with the cooperation of the local civilian, military, and police authorities. The pool of labor was further reduced as the Germans lost territory in the later stages of the conflict. Nazi administrator Fritz Sauckel's labor recruitment measures strained relations with local officials responsible for selecting the deportees, leading to bribery and corruption. The Kiev area was the main focus for recruitment and deportation, along with the Vinnitsa region of central Ukraine. Over a million locals and prisoners of war were forced into labor in the Ukrainian coal mines in the Donbas region ([[Donets Basin]]). The forced laborers endured fines, starvation, imprisonment, beatings, and hanging, but also had better chances for more food, money, and mobility.

In Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia the first stage of partisan development, from 1941 to the fall of 1942, was uncoordinated and resulted in a great many losses. The second stage, late 1942 to 1944, was better coordinated; partisan groups were better defined, and relatively large-scale operations were carried out, often in cooperation with the Red Army. Organized leadership and cadres were created, various forms of actions (such as diversions, sabotage, and direct attacks) were developed; the Germans responded with vicious punitive activities against the partisans. In all, more than 1.3 million partisans took part in actions in Germany's rear in 6,200 units; more than 300,000 received decorations for their actions. The OUN created a nationalist partisan fighting force, the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA); many Ukrainians also joined the Soviet partisans and fought in the Soviet Army against the Germans. After [[World War II]], the OUN and the UPA continued a hopeless guerrilla struggle against Soviet rule until 1953. The devastation caused by the war included major destruction in over 700 cities and towns and 28,000 villages.

===Fascist insurgency: 1944-1954===
[[File:SBandera.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainian nationalist leader [[Stepan Bandera]].]]
In the June 1944, when Canadian, British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy, their Soviet allies rolled into the German-occupied Western Ukraine. The Red Army soldiers and officers quickly noticed a stark contrast in the attitude of locals compared to other recently liberated regions of the Soviet Union. Instead of cheering crowds of peasant women and children who would offer them water and the traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt, there was an eerie silence in many villages, and few locals would even talk to the new arrivals. Soon, chilling rumors started about murdered Red Army soldiers found hanged or decapitated in the woods. Rumors were soon followed by orders issued to troops stationed in the allegedly safe rear, far behind the frontline, to increase their vigilance, never to venture anywhere alone or unarmed, and to look out for “bandits” hiding in the forests. The [[NKVD]] (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs – as the law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1946 was known) units that followed close behind the Red Army quickly proceeded with their routine practice of rounding up numerous suspected Nazi collaborators, as well as members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground, in Lviv and other west Ukrainian cities. However, a number of feared Soviet secret policemen were soon found dead in Ukrainian villages and Galician forests, and in some areas of the countryside those who dared to venture there had to be heavily armed and in large numbers. This was the start of a brutal insurgency that lasted almost ten years in rural Western Ukraine and resulted in one of the toughest counterinsurgency challenges the Soviets ever faced.

In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref>

===Denazificatrion and reconstruction: 1954 to 1991===
Stalin's death finally brought relief in many ways. The thaw initiated by [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who had served as Ukrainian party chief in the 1930s, led to the emergence in the late 1950s and the early 1960s of the "sixties generation" of writers, artists, and intellectuals. In order to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954. Following Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Moscow, under [[Leonid Brezhnev]] initiated a series of crackdowns on Ukrainian dissidents, including [[Ivan Dziuba]] (b. 1931), the author of Internationalism or Russification?; Vyacheslav Chornovil (b. 1938), the editor of the underground ''Ukrainian Herald''; and Valentyn Moroz (b. 1936), the author of stinging attacks on Soviet policy. In 1972, Petro Shelest, the national-Communist Ukrainian party chief, was replaced by hardliner Volodymyr Shcherbytsky.

The Number Four reactor at Chernobyl exploded during a routine power test in April 1986. Radioactive contaminants from the [[Chernobyl disaster]] fell on northern Ukraine and several neighboring countries, reaching as far as Japan and the United States, causing casualties, sparking a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union, and inciting fears of nuclear energy.<ref>Jim T. Smith, and Nicholas A. Beresford, ''Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences.'' Springer, 2005. 310 pp.</ref>

The arrival of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1985 started a slow revolution. The [[Chernobyl]] nuclear accident in 1986 undercut trust in Moscow. "Glasnost" permitted Ukrainian intellectuals to discuss the "blank spots" in their history, and growing political liberalization led to the reemergence of dissident groups and the emergence of nationally minded cultural organizations. A major turning point occurred in late 1989, with the founding of Rukh and the removal of Shcherbytsky from power.

==Dissolution of the Soviet Union: 1991==

In 1990 [[Leonid Kravchuk]], formerly in charge of ideology in the CPU, was appointed chairman of the presidium of a revamped supreme soviet, one fourth of whose deputies were nationalists and "democrats" elected in the semifree elections of 1990. On July 16, 1990, Ukraine proclaimed its sovereignty, an ambiguous formula that meant independence to the nationalists and autonomy to the Russian minority. On Nov. 21, 1990, Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty recognizing each other's sovereignty and promising not to interfere in each other's affairs.

As the Communist system collapsed in 1991, Ukraine, Russia, and the other republics engaged in lengthy negotiations with Gorbachev over the form of a new union. In August 1991 an abortive coup by committed KGB operatives in Moscow destroyed Gorbachev's strength and impelled the republics to go their own way. The Ukraine national assembly declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991. Several days later the CPU was suspended and its property was confiscated. A popular referendum on independence was held on December 1, and over 90 percent of the voters supported the declaration. Most of the countries of the world recognized the new Republic of Ukraine in the months that followed. Ukraine became a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and after much controversy a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in 1994. As a consequence of the autonomous republics system, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref>
[[File:Ukrainian contractors in Afghanistan.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Although not a member of NATO, Ukrainian contractors served as part of [[George W. Bush]]s "coalition of the willing" in the [[Afghan war]]. The [[Biden regime]] abandoned them in [[Afghanistan]] in August 2021, along with contractors from Bulgaria, Romania, and the Georgian Republic. The Russian Federation evacuated them.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/200d714d-92c4-445e-b42e-a67fab991fd3</ref>]]
The nominal successor to the Soviet Union was the Commonwealth of Independent States; Ukraine joined on Dec. 8, 1991. Serious tensions soon emerged with Russia as Moscow took possession of the [[Black Sea]] fleet anchored at [[Sevastopol]], while some Russian politicians wanted the [[Donbas]] and the Crimea; the latter, being in Russian hands since 1783, had been transferred to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities without referendum or self-determination of peoples in 1954. The Ukrainian government responded by taking steps to create its own army and navy. Crimean secessionists elected Yuri Meshkov as president of the Crimea in early 1994. The Kiyv government established closer economic and political ties with Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Ukrainian nationalists fears of Russia led it to postpone action on its earlier promise to give up strategic nuclear missiles, prompting concern in the West. After the signing the Budapest Memorandum by the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, and the United States in early 1994, Ukraine began shipping these weapons to Russia. Thereafter, Ukraine's relations with the United States and western Europe improved.

[[Leonid Kravchuk]], the most powerful politician, became Ukraine's first popularly elected president, with over 60 percent of the vote, on Dec. 1, 1991. His authority, like that of the legislature, declined precipitously, however, as he proved unable to solve the country's mounting economic difficulties. In contrast to Rukh, which had split into pro-Kravchuk and anti-Kravchuk factions in 1992, the former Communists remained strong, controlling many local government councils, industrial plants, and collective farms. The CPU was officially reconstituted as a powerful political force in late 1993. Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]]s also become more prominent. Elections for the supreme soviet in March 1994 yielded a legislature in which the CPU and its left-wing allies were the strongest bloc, followed by the center-right nationalists grouped about what remained of Rukh and the centrist pro-government "independents." Kravchuk ran for reelection in the presidential election in June 1994. No candidate won a majority, so a second round was held in July, pitting Kravchuk against former premier [[Leonid Kuchma]]. Kuchma won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

The national goal was the creation of a market-oriented economy and the establishment of stable democratic institutions and a system of laws. However the goals were partly frustrated by political deadlock, inexperience, an inefficient state apparatus, a collapsing economy, internal anti-Russian [[xenophobia]], and external tensions with the Russian Federation. The Soviet culture of corruption continued after independence, and rampant criminality became even more widespread in the mid-1990s. In the latter 1990s, [[Viktor Yushchenko]], as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, tamed rampant inflation and introduced responsible economic controls. From 1999 to 2004, Ukraine's GNP nearly doubled.

Official trade unions have been grouped under the Federation of Trade Unions. A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Trade Unions. While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

Ethnic tensions in [[Crimea]] during 1992 prompted a number of pro-Russian political organizations to advocate secession of Crimea and reincorporation to Russia. (Crimea was ceded by the RFSSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, in recognition of historic links and for economic convenience, to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia.) In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy.

In July 1994, [[Leonid Kuchma]] was elected as Ukraine's second president in free and fair elections. Kuchma was reelected in November 1999 to another five-year term, with 56% of the vote. International observers criticized aspects of the election, especially slanted media coverage; however, the outcome of the vote was not called into question. Ukraine's March 2002 parliamentary elections were characterized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as flawed, but an improvement over the 1998 elections. The pro-presidential For a United Ukraine bloc won the largest number of seats, followed by the reformist Our Ukraine bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (who was then a former Prime Minister), and the Communist Party.

===Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances: 1994===
{{See also|Near abroad}}
At the time of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,800 strategic warheads, 176 long-range ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers.

To solidify security commitments to Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the December 5, 1994 [[Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]]. The memorandum included assurances against the threat or use of force against Ukraine's territory or political independence. The countries promised to respect the sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine.

The United States took custody and control of Ukraine's obsolete nuclear stockpiles for disposal in exchange for assurances by the United States and NATO to safeguard Ukraine's independence. Ukraine was coaxed to give up it nuclear weapons in exchange for a written pledge, should Ukraine ever be threatened or invaded, the United States would be there to intervene with military power.

By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its operational nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It took years of political maneuvering and diplomatic work, starting with the Lisbon Protocol in 1992, to remove the weapons and nuclear infrastructure from Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons ]</ref>

===Failed color revolution: 2004===
{{see also|Color revolution|Psyop}}
Kuchma's second term in office as president (1999-2004) was characterized by the collapse of the national democratic-centrist alliance, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, the rise of a non-Communist opposition in the 2002 elections, and the election of [[Viktor Yushchenko]] in 2004 following the [[Open Society Foundations]]' [[Orange Revolution]]. The deep divisions that have become evident under Yushchenko had their origins in Ukraine's regionalism, the "Kuchmagate" crisis, antiregime protests, and different attitudes to dealing with the past. The country is divided by linguistic and regional cleavages that appear sharply in regional polarization in national elections. These divisions have led to constant questioning of the viability of the Ukrainian state and predictions of violence and civil war. Secessionist movements have made few inroads, however, and violence has been nonexistent. Because the Russian "minority" group in Ukraine is actually quite large, it has immense influence in the state without resort to regional autonomy or secession. The balance of power between Ukraine's regions and ethnic groups has ensured that neither side has dominated. This does not make for rapid reform.

The campaign leading to the October 31, 2004 presidential election was characterized by widespread violations of democratic norms, including government intimidation of the opposition and of independent media, abuse of state administrative resources, highly skewed media coverage, and numerous provocations. The two major candidates—Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader (and former Prime Minister) Viktor Yushchenko—each garnered between 39% and 40% of the vote and proceeded to a winner-take-all second round. The November 21 runoff election was marred by credible reports of widespread and significant violations, including illegal expulsion of opposition representatives from election commissions, multiple voting by busloads of people, abuse of absentee ballots, reports of coercion of votes in schools and prisons, and an abnormally high number of (easily manipulated) mobile ballot box votes. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv and other cities to protest electoral fraud and express support for Yushchenko, and conducted ongoing peaceful demonstrations during what came to be known as the "Orange Revolution."

The OSCE International Election Observation Mission found that the November 21, 2004 run-off presidential election "did not meet a considerable number of OSCE commitments and Council of Europe and other European standards for democratic elections…Overall, State executive authorities and the Central Election Commission (CEC) displayed a lack of will to conduct a genuine democratic election process." Other independent observers were similarly critical. On November 24, 2004, the CEC declared Prime Minister Yanukovych the winner with 49.46% compared to 46.61% for Yushchenko. The U.S. and Europe refused to accept the result as legitimate due to the numerous, uninvestigated reports of fraud. European leaders traveled to Kyiv to mediate a political solution between the parties. On November 27, Ukraine's Supreme Rada passed a resolution declaring that the election results as announced did not represent the will of the people. On December 1, the Rada passed a vote of "no confidence" in the government. On December 3, Ukraine's Supreme Court invalidated the CEC's announced results and mandated a repeat of the second round vote to take place on December 26. An agreement mediated by the European leaders resulted in new legislation being passed by the Rada and signed by the President December 8. The electoral law was reformed to close loopholes that had permitted pervasive electoral fraud. The constitution was amended, effective not earlier than September 2005, to transfer power, especially with respect to appointment of ministers, from the president to the cabinet. Yet another law was passed, in first reading, to devolve some powers of the central government to regional councils. In addition, Prime Minister Yanukovych requested and was granted a leave of absence, and Prosecutor General Hennadiy Vasilyev submitted his resignation.

The December 26 re-vote took place in an atmosphere of calm. While irregularities were noted, observers found no systemic or massive fraud. The OSCE Mission noted that "campaign conditions were markedly more equal, observers received fewer reports of pressure on voters, the election administration was more transparent and the media more balanced than in previous rounds…in our collective view Ukraine’s elections have moved substantially closer to meeting OSCE and other European standards." On January 10, 2005, after the CEC and the Supreme Court had considered and rejected numerous complaints and appeals filed by the Yanukovych campaign, the CEC certified the results: Yushchenko had won 51.99% of the votes, with 44.20% for Yanukovych. President Yushchenko was inaugurated January 23, 2005.

Ukraine held parliamentary and local elections on March 26, 2006. International observers noted that conduct of the Rada election was in line with international standards for democratic elections, making this the most free and fair in Ukraine's history. Unlike the first rounds of the 2004 presidential election, candidates and parties were able to express themselves freely in a lively press and assembled without hindrance. There was no systemic abuse of administrative resources as there had been under the previous regime. The Party of Regions and the bloc of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko, whose government the President dismissed in September 2005, finished ahead of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. Other parties passing the 3% threshold to enter parliament were the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine. No party held the majority of Rada seats needed to form a government. Following four months of difficult negotiations, a government led by Prime Minister Yanukovych and including representatives from the Party of Regions, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party took office on August 4, 2006. This, the first government formed after the extensive constitutional amendments brokered as part of the Orange Revolution, has been the focus the Prime Minister's growing influence, sometimes at the expense of the President. Amid shifting political alliances, the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" formed by the Party of Regions, Socialist and Communist parties has grown into a "Coalition of National Unity," as some members of the pro-presidential "Our Ukraine" bloc have moved into the Prime Minister's camp. Meanwhile, others have joined forces with Bloc [[Yuliya Tymoshenko]].

==Western-backed regime change: 2011/2021==
{{See also|Euromaidan coup}}
[[File:Swastika on display in a Kyiv mall 2019.PNG|right|350px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
In 2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair, open and [[democracy|democratic]] presidential election certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).

On June 23, 2011, two emissaries of the [[Obama administration]] — the head of [[Google]], [[Eric Schmidt]], and his aide, and former subordinate to Hillary Clinton in the U.S. State Department, [[Jared Cohen]] — visited [[Julian Assange]] at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, pretending to be on his side, while deceiving him to reveal to them ways to reach out online to members of Ukraine's pro-nazi organizations in order to generate mobs for the demonstrations which were to be organized on Kiev's Maidan Square to overthrow Ukraine's President.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/PYiwx</ref><ref>https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/06/how-and-why-the-us-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</ref>

In the same month the Obama administration quietly put out for bid to American contractors their planned project to renovate a school in [[Sevastopol]], in [[Crimea]], in Ukraine, in the location where Russia since 1783 had (and still has) its largest naval base:

:''Federal Contract Opportunity for Renovation of Sevastopol School #5, Ukraine N33191-13-R-1240. The NAICS Category is 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. Posted Aug 20, 2013. Posted by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (DOD - Navy). The work will be performed at Sevastopol 99000.''<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20201102032416/https://ahtribune.com/world/europe/3622-how-the-war-in-ukraine-started.html</ref>

This was before the Maidan coup, and there were 28 years still remaining on Russia's lease there. That part of their plan — to terminate that contract and replace Russia's largest naval base, by yet another U.S. naval base — got foiled by Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, protecting Crimeans when they (as soon as the coup occurred) demanded to have a referendum on becoming restored again to being a part of Russia, as they had been between 1783 and 1954 (when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea, from the Russian part, to the Ukrainian part, of the Soviet Government).<ref>https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2011/S00116/how-the-western-press-lied-about-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine-pretending-that-it-was-instead-a-real-democratic-revolution.htm</ref>

Various [[Soros]]' international [[progressive]] and [[liberal]] [[front organization]]s ([[NGO]]s) organized and funded the Ukrainian ''coup''.<ref>http://www.voltairenet.org/article181535.html#nb2</ref>

Obama foreign policy shifted at this point forward from the "Russian Reset" of 2008 and the greater "flexibility" Obama promised Russian President [[Dmitri Medvedev]] in 2012, to rabid Russophobia, one factor being Vladimir Putin's lack of support for the [[homosexual agenda]] and [[gay marriage]]. The anti-Russian grip of Soros on American [[foreign policy]] reached a fever pitch in in coming years in efforts to destroy President [[Donald Trump]] who sought to mend relations with Russia after the Maidan coup crisis. With the [[Brexit]] movement, there was little widespread popular support for the [[European Union]]. Yet the United States and NATO peddled the myth of popular support among Ukrainians to join the EU.

===Tech training camp===
[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|290px|thumb|Written on the wall is the [[Russophobic]] slogan “Ukraine for Ukrainians.” ]]
On March 1, 2013, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv held its first “Tech Camp”<ref>https://archive.ph/1JqVs</ref> in a series of Tech Camps to teach Ukraine's leading pro-nazis how to reach out to their followers so as to get as many people as possible trained and prepared to follow their instructions on what to do when the Euromaidan 'anti-corruption' demonstrations would be held.

Simultaneously, under Polish Government authorization, the CIA was training in Poland the military [[Right Sector]] leaders how to lead the coming U.S. coup in neighboring Ukraine. As the independent Polish investigative journalist Marek Miszczuk headlined for the Polish magazine NIE (“meaning “NO”) (the original article being in Polish): ''“Maidan secret state secret: Polish training camp for Ukrainians”''.<ref>"An informant who introduced himself as Wowa called the “NIE” editorial office with the information that the Maidan rebels in Wrocław are neo-fascists … [with] tattooed [[swastika]]s, swords, eagles and crosses with unambiguous meaning. … Wowa pleadingly announced that photos of members of the Right Sector must not appear in the press. …

Excited by the importance of the information that was presented to me, I started to verify it.

The Office of the Press Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to answer the questions about the student exchange without giving any reason. It did not want to disclose whether it had actually invited dozens of neo-fascists to Poland to teach them how to overthrow the legal Ukrainian authorities. …

Let us summarize: in September 2013, according to the information presented to me, several dozen Ukrainian students of the Polytechnic University will come to Poland, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In fact, they are members of the Right Sector, an extreme right-wing and nationalist Ukrainian group led by [[Dmytro Jarosz]] – he declined to comment on his visit to Legionowo." ''Maidan secret state secret: Polish training camp for Ukrainians,'' Marek Miszczuk, NIE (“meaning “NO”) (original article in Polish). Published 14 April 2014.</ref>

86 fighters from the then prepared Euromaidan protests flew over the Vistula River into Poland in September 2013 at the invitation of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The pretext was to start cooperation between the Warsaw University of Technology and the National University of Technology in Kyiv. But they were in [[Poland]] to receive special training to overthrow Ukraine's government. The schedule included such specialized training in:
*Day 3 and 4 – theoretical classes: crowd management, target selection, tactics and leadership.
*Day 5 – training in behavior in stressful situations.
*Day 6 – free without leaving the center.
*Day 7 – pre-medical help.
*Day 8 – protection against irritating gases.
*Day 9 – building barricades.

And so on for almost 25 days. The program included:
*classes at the shooting range (including three times with sniper rifles), tactical and practical training in the assault on buildings.<ref>[https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/04/19/history-of-the-ukrainian-war/ History of the Ukraine War], Eric Zuese, ''Modern Diplomacy'', April 2011.</ref>

On November 20, 2013, Ukraine member of parliament [[Oleg Tsarev]] accused the US Embassy in Kyiv of preparing a [[coup]] in Ukraine on the floor of the [[Ukrainian parliament]]. The nationalist faction in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, attempted to shout Tsarov done.<ref>https://youtu.be/CNsGqePNrFg</ref> Tsarov said:
{{quotebox-float|"In my role as a representative of the Ukrainian people, activists from the Volya Public Organization turned to me, providing clear evidence that within our country, with support and direct participation of the US Embassy in Kiev, a “TechCamp” project is under way in which preparations are being made for a civil war in Ukraine.

The “TechCamp” project prepares specialists for information warfare and for the discrediting of state institutions [the Government] using modern media — potential [[revolution]]aries for organizing protests and the toppling of the Government.

This project is overseen by and currently under the responsibility of the US Ambassador to Ukraine, [[Geoffrey R. Pyatt]].

After the conversation with the Volya Organization, I learned that they actually succeeded to access facilities in the “TechCamp” project [they had hacked into it] disguised as a team of IT specialists. To their surprise, were found briefings that were held on peculiarities of modern media. American instructors explained there how social networks and Internet technologies can be used for targeted manipulation of public opinion as well as to activate potential protest to provoke [[violent]] unrest on the territory of Ukraine — [[radical]]ization of the population, and triggering of infighting. American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks to organize protests in [[Egypt]], [[Tunisia]] and [[Libya]]. “Tech Camp” representatives currently hold conferences throughout Ukraine. A total of five events have been held so far. About 300 people have been trained as operatives, who are now active throughout Ukraine. The last conference took place on 13 and 14 November 2013, in the heart of Kiev, inside the US Embassy!

You tell me which country in the world would allow an [[NGO]] to operate out of the US Embassy? This is disrespectful to the Ukrainian Government, and against the Ukrainian people! I thus appeal to the [[constitutional]] authorities of Ukraine with the following question: Is it conceivable that representatives of the US Embassy who organize the “TechCamp” conferences misuse their diplomatic immunity? [Someone tries to interrupt him.] A UN Resolution of 21 December 1965 regulates inadmissibility of interference in the internal “affairs of any State, and protects its independence and [[sovereignty]]." I urge that there be an official investigation into this matter."<ref>https://archive.ph/5Tbgg#selection-1917.0-1925.31</ref>}}

On November 21, 2013, the Yanukovych administration rejected the European Union association agreement in favor of maintaining relations with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The covert path to securing a NATO naval base in [[Sevastopol]] on the [[Black Sea]] was effectively cut off. Soros-sponsored<ref>http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/2014mar14soros-behind-ukrainian-uprising/</ref> Euromaiden riots erupted.
[[File:McCain Tyahnybok2.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[John McCain]] with Oleh Tyahnybok during the Euromaidan coup.]]
November 30, 2013, protesters were ordered to leave Maidan Square.<ref>''Maidan Nezalezhnosti''</ref> In response, radicals began to throw glass, stones, pipes, bottles and burning logs at police officers and Berkut special forces. This provoked the security forces to violently disperse the protesters.

In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland said: “The United States has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” On December 14 Sen. [[John McCain]] met with fascist leader Oleh Tyahnybok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev.<ref>https://progressivedemocrat.org/tag/oleh-tyahnybok/</ref>
[[File:300494605.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Protesters at the CIA backed neo-Nazi Euromaidan torchlight march carrying tiki torches and the "Blood and Soil" flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.]]
{{Anchor|Maidan Self-Defense}}
People started talking about the Pravy Sector on December 1, 2013, when the radicals staged battles with the police guarding the Presidential Administration. They seized several buildings and settled on the 5th floor in the Kiev House of Trade Unions. At that time, the group was formally a hundred of the "Maidan Self-Defense".<ref>Avakov later incorporated these neo-Nazi radicals of the Maidan Self Defense team into the Ministry of Interior. https://avakov.com/biography.html</ref> Militants organized rallies outside Maidan Square. They monitored the protesters and carried out their self-protection. But the PS didn't stop there. They attacked [[law enforcement]] officers, tried to seize the parliament and government buildings, beat the security forces with truncheons, threw cobblestones, smoke bombs, [[Molotov cocktail]]s at them, set fire to buses and trucks. In the battles on the streets, extremists used catapults built like the medieval type. The terrorist frenzy caused shock and dismay even among peaceful advocates of change.

On 1 January 2014 a torchlight mob celebrated the 105th birthday of Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator [[Stepan Bandera]] in the streets of Kyiv<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/ukraine-right-revives-wartime-symbols-amid-revolution-1.1642760|title=Ukraine right revives wartime symbols amid 'revolution'|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=3 January 2014|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25571805|title= Ukraine's far-right Svoboda party hold torch-lit Kiev march|publisher= BBC News|date=1 January 2014|accessdate=}}</ref> Protesters carried the fascist black and red "blood and soil" flag of the [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]].

===The Chalupas and DNC===
{{See also|Russiagate}}
[[Alexandra Chalupa]] is a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC). The DNC paid Chalupa $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016, according to [[Federal Election Commission]] records. In 2014, the U.S. United With Ukraine Coalition was founded by Alexandra Chalupa. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'',<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>
[[File:Chalupa.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Paid DNC Russiagate hoaxer Alexandra Chalupa.]]
{{quotebox-float|… “The effort, known as Digital Maidan, gained momentum following the initial Twitter storms. Leading the effort were: Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, Alexandra Chalupa, Constatin Kostenko and others.” The Digital Maidan was also how they raised money for the coup. This was how the Ukrainian emigres bought the bullets that were used on Euromaidan. Ukraine’s chubby nazi, [[Dima Yarosh]] stated openly he was taking money from the Ukrainian emigres during Euromaidan and [[Pravy Sektor]] still fundraises openly in [[North America]]. The “[[Heavenly Hundred|Sniper Massacre]]” on the Maidan in Ukraine by Dr. [[Ivan Katchanovski]], University of Ottowa shows clearly detailed evidence how the massacre happened. It has Pravy Sektor confessions that show who created the “heavenly hundred. Their admitted involvement as leaders of Digital Maidan by both Chalupas is a clear violation of the Neutrality Act and has up to a 25 year prison sentence attached to it because it ended in a coup.}}
[[File:Kiev mall in 2014.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall, February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
In a ''Huff Post'' article September 1, 2016, [[Andrea Chalupa]] described Sviatoslav Yarosh as one of Ukraine's important “dreamers.” He is a young activist that founded ''Euromaidan Press''. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yarosh was [[Dmitri Yarosh]]’s spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the Deputy Director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in [[Kiev]]
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In January, 2014 when he showed up at the Maidan protests he was 17 years old. He became the foreign language media representative for [[Vitali Klitschko]], [[Arseni Yatsenyuk]], and [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. All press enquiries went through Yarosh. To meet [[Dimitri Yurash]] you had to go through Sviatoslav Yarosh as a ''Macleans'' reporter found out.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yarosh became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under [[Andrei Paruby]]. He was Dimitri Yarosh’s spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Yarosh.

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yarosh’s ''Euromaidan Press'' which is associated with Informnapalm.org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.<ref>[https://washingtonsblog.com/2017/01/crowdstrikes-russian-hacking-story-fell-apart-say-hello-fancy-bear-2.html Why Crowdstrike’s Russian Hacking Story Fell Apart- Say Hello to Fancy Bear.], George Eliason, ''Washingtonsblog,'' January 3, 2017.</ref>

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===Nuland-Pyatt phone call===
On January 28, 2014 Assistant Secretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]] and US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discussed details of planned overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine.The two discussed which opposition officials would make up the new regime, agreeing that Arseniy Yatsenyuk should be in charge. Nuland referred to as “Yats”. It was also agreed that someone “high profile” be brought in to "make this thing stick". That someone was Joe Biden. Nuland made disparaging remarks about the [[EU]], and thought the [[UN]] would give better cover to make the new US-installed regime appear legitimate. On February 6, an audio recording of the January 28 call between Nuland and Pyatt was leaked.

At the time the call leaked, media were quick to pounce on Nuland's saying “F**k the EU” when Pyatt asked if the EU should be advised. Member states of the EU, particularly [[France]] and [[Germany]], were deeply involved in negotiating a peaceful resolution to the civil strife. But the United States acted alone without consultation of its allies, presenting them with a ''fait accompli''. The comment dominated the headlines (Daily Beast, 2/6/14; BuzzFeed, 2/6/14; Atlantic, 2/6/14; Guardian, 2/6/14), while the evidence of US regime change efforts was downplayed. With the headline “Russia Claims US Is Meddling Over Ukraine,” the ''New York Times'' (2/6/14) put the facts of US involvement in the mouth of an official enemy, blunting their impact on the audience. ''The Times'' (2/6/14) later described the two officials as benignly “talking about the political crisis in Kiev” and sharing “their views of how it might be resolved.”
[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Victorias Nuland (center) with [[neo-Nazi]] party founder [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), coup prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) and Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko (rear).]]
''[[The Washington Post]]'' (2/6/14) acknowledged that the call showed “a deep degree of US involvement in affairs that Washington officially says are Ukraine’s to resolve,” but that fact rarely factored into future coverage of the US/Ukraine/Russia relationship.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

On February 6, 2014, Nuland met with neo-Nazi leader [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] and other ringleaders who assumed power after the ''coup''.<ref>http://in.reuters.com/article/ukraine-call-idINDEEA1704520140208</ref> Tyahnybok leads the [[Svoboda]] party. In 2004 Tyahnybok was kicked out of the ruling parliamentary faction after giving a speech calling for a fight against the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia." In 2005 Tyahnybok signed an open letter to Ukrainian leaders calling for the government to halt the "criminal activities" of "organized Jewry", which was spreading its influence through organizations such as the [[Anti-Defamation League]] which ultimately wanted to commit "[[genocide]]" against the Ukrainian people.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20824693</ref> DCLeaks published Soros emails arranging a meeting between [[George Soros]] and Tyahnbok. Soros, an 84-year-old self-admitted collaborator with the Nazi deportations of [[Jew]]s from [[Budapest]] to [[Auschwitz]] organized by [[Adolf Eichmann]],<ref>https://youtu.be/aSeI1f3uERI</ref> parlayed his looted property of [[Holocaust]] victims' into a $25 billion personal fortune after [[World War II]].

{{Anchor|Heavenly Hundred}}

===Heavenly Hundred===
{{See also|Heavenly Hundred}}
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|[[Pravy Sektor]] snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia. Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref> As in [[Syria]] and other "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings, ''[[agent provocateurs]]'' began shooting and killing people on both sides to provoke a civil insurrection. Almost 100 Soros-backed activists and 17 police officers were killed.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957</ref> George Friedman, chairman of ''[[Stratfor]]'', called it "the most blatant ''coup'' in history."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/22/the-liberal-idiocy-on-russiaukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2636177</ref>

On February 16, 2014, members of parliament passed a bill toughening penalties for participation in mass [[riot]]s. After that, the Headquarters of the National Resistance (the coordination center of Euromaidan) announced a "peaceful offensive" on the parliament building. On February 17, the Pravy Sektor put its metropolitan and regional units on alert.

The participants of the picket led by people's deputies Oleg Lyashko, [[Andriy Parubiy]], Oleh Tyahnybok, Andriy Illienko planned to demand an urgent decision on the settlement of the conflict in the country. On the morning of February 18, several thousand activists headed from the Maidan to the parliament building, the Verkhovna Rada. But 100 meters from the parliament building, the path was blocked by trucks placed there by the police. In an effort to break through to the Verkhovna Rada, extremists of the Pravy Sector and "Maidan Self-Defense" began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at the security forces. Cars caught fire. Police used [[tear gas]] and stun grenades to suppress the rioters. The peaceful action for stabilization in the country turned into massive bloody clashes.
[[File:NATOs Eastern Prize.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Leafets with instructions handed out to Soros-backed terrorists in Euromaiden Square, Kiev were identical to those handed out in Tahrir Square, Cairo three years earlier. On the left printed in Arabic, on the right in the Ukrainian language. 117 people were killed by Obama and Soros' terrorists.]]
On February 20, 2014, snipers firing from a building controlled by the Pravy Sektor shot and killed 25 people, both police and protesters. More than 350 citizens were injured, more than 250 were hospitalized. Riots in the center of Kiev continued in the following days. In connection with the tragic events, February 20 was declared a day of mourning. However, on this day, the clashes intensified. Dozens of people were killed by Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory and Hotel Ukraina buildings.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine], Ivan Katchanovski. YouTube.</ref> According to official data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, from February 18 to February 21, 2014, 77 people were killed. The organized mass killing of both protesters and the police had the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government. Western media blamed Yanukovych and the Berkut police. The mass murder in fact was carried out by the Pravy Sektor, the group Nuland and John McCain were promoting to take over the new regime.

====Eyewitnesses====
A female Maidan medic during the massacre was pointing to the top of a building and shouting about snipers. But her words were translated in a [[BBC]] report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Government ballistic experts confirmed this during on-site investigative experiments.

These revelations were not reported by any Western media. This includes ''The New York Time'', which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting Kiev regime that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.” It also includes [[CNN]], which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces.

The Maidan regime investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.

The official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings.
<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/the-buried-maidan-massacre-and-its-misrepresentation-by-the-west/</ref>

Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to defense lawyers of police from the former regime in the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. They also said that they received instructions from an ex-U.S. Army sniper and then saw Georgian, Baltic States, and Praqvy Sektor-linked snipers shooting from specific Maidan-controlled buildings.

Western media silence also ignored a statement by Anatolii Hrytsenko, who was a Maidan politician and minister of defense, that the investigation of the massacre was stonewalled because of the involvement of someone from the current leadership of Ukraine in the mass killing.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171019101358/http://world.time.com/2014/02/21/ukraine-parliament-yanukovych-kiev-deal/</ref>

====Investigation====
The official investigation by the coup regime was fabricated and stonewalled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8</ref> The forensic investigations which were made public at the Maidan massacre trial revealed that on February 20, 2014, the absolute majority of the protesters were shot from side and back directions and from top to bottom directions, while videos and photos of the massacre showed them facing the Berkut special police force on the same ground level. In January 2015, a forensic ballistic examination conducted upon the request of prosecution concluded that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match the bullet samples from any Kalashnikov assault rifle which members of the Berkut special police force were then armed. The findings of this computer-based ballistic examination and results of the other 40 ballistic examinations were reversed in a couple of ballistic examinations conducted manually in the very end of the investigation. Such unexplained reversals which contradicted other evidence, such as testimonies of wounded protesters and results of forensic medical examinations, suggested that the findings of the new examinations of bullets were unreliable and likely falsified. The forensic ballistic examinations also found that many protesters were killed on February 18–20 by hunting pellets and expanding hunting bullets, in particular, with caliber that did not match calibers of weapons used by the special police company, whose members were charged with killings these protesters.<ref>Katchanovski</ref>

===Yanukovych compromise agreement and flight===
On February 21, 2014, President Vikto Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition that he would not seek re-election the following February since his removal was the protesters primary demand. German Foreign Minister [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], Polish Foreign Minister [[Radosław Sikorski]], a head of department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian observer Vladimir Lukin were witnesses. It was hoped the agreement with opposition leaders would bring ton an end the crisis situation in Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?], By MAX BLUMENTHAL, FEBRUARY 25, 2014.</ref>

In the evening of the same day, on Maidan Square, the Pravy Sektor rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the [[neo-fascist]] Pravy Sektor, [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.

Soon the security forces were withdrawn from the government quarter. This was taken advantage of by [[revolution]]ary militants, deciding not to wait for the expiration of their announced deadline. Neo-nazi [[activist]]s and participants of the [[Maidan Self-Defense]] stormed the Presidential Administration, Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the evening of February 21, 2022 Yanukovych, together with the heads of the Verkhovna Rada and the presidential administration – Volodymyr Rybak and Andriy Kliuyev – fearing for their personal safety fled Kiev to [[Crimea]]. Yanukovych called the overthrow a coup.

On February 27, 2014, Nuland's choice, Yatsenyuk, became prime minister. In the deal, the fascist and neo-Nazi forces, which could not poll 2% in a nationwide election, were awarded six major cabinet ministries, including the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior due to their longstanding ties with [[Western alliance|Western intelligence]] services.

On February 28, 2014 ''BBC Newsnight'' reported on the Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine.<ref>https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY</ref> Throughout Ukraine, massacres unfolded between supporters and opponents of the U.S.-appointed [[Maidan junta]]. Oligarchic and Ukrainian nationalist elements were involved in these massacres.

===Unconstitutional impeachment===
According to the procedure of impeachment defined in Article 111 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Rada must establish a special investigatory commission to formulate charges against the president, seek evidence to justify the charges and come to conclusions about the president's guilt for the Rada to consider. To find the president guilty, at least two-thirds of Rada members must assent.

Prior to a final vote to remove the president from power, the procedure requires

*the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to review the case and certify that the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration has been followed, and

*the Supreme Court of Ukraine to certify that the acts of which the President is accused are worthy of impeachment.

To remove the president from power, at least three-quarters of Rada members must assent.

The Rada didn't make any pretense of following this procedure. No investigatory commission was established, and the Courts were not involved.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/president-yanukovych_b_7647102.html</ref> On 22 February 2014, the Rada simply passed a resolution purporting to remove Yanukovych from office in accordance with the Constitution.

The constitutionality of Yanukovych's removal from office has been questioned by constitutional experts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yanukovych's removal was unconstitutional|url=https://gpforecasts.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/yanukovychs-removal-was-unconstitutional/|website=wordpress.com|date=March 2014|access-date=}}</ref> According to Daisy Sindelar from Radio Free Europe, the impeachment may have not followed the procedure provided by the constitution: "[I]t is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers." The vote, as analyzed by Sindelar, had ten votes less than those required by the constitutional guidelines. The decision to remove Yanukovich was supported by 328 deputies. Article 11 maintains that a vote on impeachment must pass by two-thirds of the members, and the impeachment itself requires a vote by three-quarters of the members. In this case, the 328 out of 447 votes were about 10 votes short of three-quarters.<ref name="RadioFreeEurope">{{cite web|last=Sindelar |first=Daisy |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274346.html |title=Was Yanukovych's Ouster Constitutional? |publisher=Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (Rferl.org) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=Kyiv Post |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html |title=Parliament votes 328–0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election; [[Tymoshenko]] free (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO) |date=23 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

Two days later Ukraine's parliament dismissed five judges of the Constitutional Court for allegedly violating their oaths, who were then investigated for alleged malpractice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/rada-dismisses-constitutional-court-judges-appointed-from-its-quota-337523.html |title=Rada dismisses Constitutional Court judges appointed from its quota |work=Kyiv Post |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=}}</ref>

===Crimean annexation===
{{See also|Crimean Annexation}}
The NATO organization was founded on the solitary premise of collective security to [[Containment|contain Soviet expansion in Europe]]. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, many questioned the need for it's continued existence against an enemy that no longer existed. Several former Soviet satellite states (East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech and Slovak Republics) as well as newly independent former Soviet Republics (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine) wanted EU membership, which of coarse would ultimately mean NATO membership, as well (military alliances exist to protect economic alliances). Russia under [[Boris Yeltsin]] wanted EU and NATO membership. The NATO powers that be made clear they had no interest in going out of business, and Russia argued how unfair it was that they should dissolve their defense alliance (the [[Warsaw Pact]]) and be thrust into another arms race against a growing NATO, which was swallowing up many of Russia's former military allies.

But the case of Ukraine was unique. Ukrainian nationalists wanted out of the Russian orbit. But some the territories of Ukraine are inhabited by a significant majority of ethnic Russians, too, who wanted to maintain close ties to Russia. The official US State Department's position under President [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] at the time was that the Ukraine should remain a sovereign republic within the Russian Federation. Bush argued as much in a speech written by [[Condoleezza Rice]] to the Ukrainian parliament. But the Clinton's took over in early 1993, and caved in to Ukrainian [[nationalist]]s. In exchange for US recognition of a Ukraine independent of the Russian Federation, Ukraine would give up its nuclear stockpile from the Soviet era, and the US would guarantee Ukraine's security, should the Russians ever invade. The agreement reeked a lot like the assurances Great Britain and France gave Poland at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in 1919 that bound them to war with [[Hitler]] in 1939 when Hitler invaded [[Poland]].

Like the Treaty of Versailles, the [[American foreign policy#1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances|1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]] negotiated by [[Bill Clinton]] lasted exactly 20 years. Unlike Great Britain and France who went to war with [[Nazi Germany]] when the agreement was violated, [[Barack Obama]] broke the pledge that Clinton had committed the United States to. US/Russian relations have deteriorated ever since. And converting NATO from a purely defensive alliance based on the idea of collective security to a military machine waging aggressive wars - as it had done in Libya - fulfilled many people's worst nightmare. No longer can negotiation and diplomacy be used to keep the peace, as the Obama administration had thrown American promises on the dunghill. Gaddafi ceased terrorism, gave up his WMD, and became an ally, all predicated on accepting American promises, only to be brutally murdered at the hands of Hillary Rodham Clinton and NATO. Ukraine had given up its Soviet-era nuclear stockpile based on assurances given by Bill Clinton, ignored by Barack Obama. Military force now is the only option remaining to remove nuclear weapons from the hands of [[Kim Jong-un]].
[[File:Crimea Referendum.PNG|left|350px|thumb|Billboard advertising the March 16, 2014 Crimean referendum to apply for admission to the Russian Federation.]]
Since the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] in 1942 it should be clear to anyone,<ref>https://youtu.be/RC4fE6sm4r8</ref> Russia will never allow an aggressive and hostile military force, such as NATO transformed itself into in the Obama era, to ally itself or encamp within the Ukraine.

On February 27, 2014, Russian soldiers landed in [[Crimea]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref> Because some of the people currently living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March 16, 2014, on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine's constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref>

In response to the annexation, Sen. John McCain introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion. On March 6, 2015, the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

===Odessa Trade Unions House massacre===
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>'''Left''' Ukrainian girls mixing [[Molotov cocktail]]s '''Right''' Ukrainian girls carrying Molotov cocktails to the Odessa Trade Unions House in Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref>
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With particular cruelty, 48 people protesting against the "Maidan" were brutally killed.<ref>[https://youtu.be/wuOptWUTR3w Odessa, Ukraine: Right sector attacks trade union building, kills 43], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> They were primarily Russians born in Ukraine who believed in the ideas of [[Western]] liberal democracy and non-violent protest. According to unofficial data, there are about 300 dead people, including women and children. About 3,000 Nazis were organized and placed at the site of the provocation in advance. As of 2022 when the [[Special Military Operation]] commenced, no perpetrators were ever prosecuted. There was a complete indifference to the lives of civilians. "Those who are not Ukrainians burned down," was commonly heard in Kyiv.

On April 16, 2014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref> Two weeks later on May 2, 2014, Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 48 Russians, in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref>
[[File:Odessa massacre.PNG|left|500px|thumb|Pregnant strangled Russian woman, left. Victorious Ukrainian Nazis in the next room over, right.]]
According to eyewitnesses the Maidan fascists outnumbered the anti-Kyiv protesters 10 to 1. First the Maidan activists burnt down the tents of anti-Kiev regime protesters outside the building. The anti-Kiev protesters retreated into the building and tried to blockade the door. A group of Maidan girls filled up Molotov cocktails.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref> The Maidan protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails. Soon the building was engulfed in flames. The Maidan fascist crowd began cheering as they set the building ablaze and beat those who tried to escape. A Maidan activist was shooting at people trying to escape from the windows.<ref>https://youtu.be/s-bpkx0d1fM</ref> A fire station less than a kilometer away couldn't respond. The Maidan activists blocked the lone fire truck and wouldn't let the firefighters operate.

Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>https://archive.fo/Gt4UV</ref> The Western-backed Kyiv regime covered up the atrocities, most victims being ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine.

Vladimir Suchan reported on [[Facebook]]:<ref>https://www.facebook.com/vladimir.suchan/posts/10152089309533388?stream_ref=10</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"After massive 1 May antifascist demonstration, the [[Right Sector]] and the Ukrainian National Socialist Organization (and not just "soccer fans") converged on the city.<ref>[https://youtu.be/p2Ga_2K1suQ Odessa, Ukraine: Onslaught of the Right Sector on the city], Ukraine Human Rights</ref> There are numerous videos showing the Odessa junta police and the fascist paramilitaries consulting with each other and the authorities in Kiev their joint actions.

On several videos, the police and the fascist mob can be seen as working closely together--militants shooting from behind the police, the police letting them pass, etc. In the morning hours, the fascist "pro-unity" marches congregated in several central streets of Odessa, thus drawing there antifascist protesters.

It is evident that this early phase was well planned as a diversionary tactic for the main target was the Kulikovo field with the Labor Union building which was the center of nearly all antifascist manifestations in Odessa. It is also there where antifascist patriots set up their makeshift tent city. The junta felt that this needed to be cleared and that, at the same time, the protesters must be taught a harsh lesson which would break the spirit of this "hero city," a title Odessa gained with several other select cities in the [[Great Patriotic War]].

The diversion worked, and many of the young antifascist activists remained in downtown. In well synchronized and organized columns, the fascist paramilitaries then quickly regrouped and moved against their principal target--the antifascist tent city on the Kulikovo field accompanied by units of the Odessa police. Because of the successful diversion, most of the people on the Kulikovo field were middle-age and older people with many women among them. As soon as they arrived there, the militants not only started burning and destroying the tents, but they also started killing the people. They did in such a way that, for most people, the only exit left was into the Labor Union building. That was a trap.

Once they got the people inside, the fascists started throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting. However, as can be seen on the photos and videos, the fire was mainly at the main entrance and in few several rooms elsewhere. Only a smaller number of victims showed signs of being completely burned. Many of the victims died of suffocation or strangling or their upper bodies or faces were burned. Many of the victims were shot into the heads. Many were beaten to death.

This means that most of the victims were hunted and killed one by one inside the building. This killing spree given the size of the building apparently lasted over several hours and as going on even when the much delayed and very feeble response of the fire department was detected.

All this time, the Odessa police stood by and some of the police with ties to the Right Sector reportedly assisted the fascists by shooting into the people who were climbing on the windows. After several hours, the police then acted and detained ... guess who ... some 60-80 antifascist survivors who then, without food or water, were kept for many hours in the police department, and charged with multiple crimes, including murder.

The one main thing, which the police was interested most, was trying to find at least one "Russian" in the group. Alas, this did not succeed. All the victims and now detainees were Odessites (unlike may of the fascist militants). An angry crowd later that day forced their release .... which profoundly upset the Right Sector murderers. An Odessite grandmother was memorably recorded "beating" with lilacs (who used to symbolize Victory Day--lilacs blossom in May) Odessa policemen who were blocking on Saturday the Labor Union building with the corpses (most likely well over 100) still there.

Only when it was dark, the Right Sector crawled back and came back to the scene of their crime singing and shouting "glory" to themselves. Evidently, the corpses were removed soon after--during the night for today, as various videos show, people started to roam the devastated building still shocked, distraught, and upset. As expected and true to its character, the junta first blamed the victims. They allegedly caused the fire themselves and burned themselves by throwing Molotov cocktails on the peaceful pro-junta protesters.

A later modified line, repeated by Western media, was that what happened was a "tragedy," but one without a perpetrator. The one problem identified was some sort of further unspecified failing on the part of the local police. The head of the police was replaced .... with an even more over Right Sector hand.

Following a cue from Catherine Ashton, [[Yatsenyuk]], the junta's PM, then issued a call (to an unspecified addressee) for an "independent investigation." The same assembly of fascist murderous thugs was planning to hit in a similar way Kharkov. The massive outrage and mobilization appears to have stopped this or at least delayed for now.<ref>http://ai-zhilin.livejournal.com/1360753.html</ref>}}
[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]
The Kiev regime took over the investigation and reported 46 dead in the building. However, Voice of Russia reported, "The interim Ukrainian authorities are hiding from the public the true death toll in Friday's tragedy in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, which actually claimed 116 lives, a member of the Odessa regional council told RIA Novosti Monday. "According to our data, there were 116 people killed in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa. Killed, not just "dead". "We don't use the word "burned" or "suffocated", because autopsies are not being performed, since the people have bullet wounds to the head," Vadim Savenko said.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/Bt0JC</ref>

Luc Michel cites Oleg Tsarev: "We believe that in the House of Unions there are more than 100 corpses. The police let nobody in so that the corpses are not counted. We know exactly there are there minor children. We are sure that those in power will do everything possible to conceal the traces of this horrible crime. We want to conduct an investigation and prosecute those responsible for this crime, he told RIA Novosti."<ref>http://www.lucmichel.net/2014/05/07/lucmichel-net-what-hides-kiev-on-the-massacre-of-odessa-more-than-100-dead-children-victims-raped-before-their-death/</ref>

On July 31, 2014, Democratic Sen. [[Mark Udall]] called for CIA Director Brennan's resignation.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213991-senate-dem-calls-for-cia-chiefs-resignation-after-staff-spying</ref>

On September 18, 2015, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] of 48 Ukrainians at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

===Donbas war===
{{See also|Donbas war}}
The Maidan [[lawless]]ness gave rise to unprecedented crimes of neo-Nazis and various radicals – from the Pravy Sektor to the [[Ukrainian Ultras]] soccer hooligans. It was during the short-lived Turchynov administration from February 2014 to June 2014 that the mass murder of civilians in the Odessa House of Trade Unions was committed. Most importantly it was Turchynov who ordered the use of military force against the civilian population of Donbas on April 14, 2014.

On May 26, 2014, after [[Petro Poroshenko]]'s victory in the presidential race, the Ukrainian Air Force began to carry out airstrikes on the cities of Donbas.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7jTR0sjkbA</ref> And on June 2, 2014, the "Bloody Pastor" gave the order to conduct an air raid on [[Lugansk]].
[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk during the 8 years of the Donbas war.<ref>https://youtu.be/zlrYBnttnt4</ref>]]
On July 31, 2014, Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> appears on Hromadske TV discussing [[genocide]] in Donbas. Boutkevitch says Donetsk:
{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED.<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}

Nazification had already gotten to the point where there was a willingness to destroy cities, and physically exterminate the population of one's own country with the tacit approval and complete indifference of people outside Donbas. By 2022 Nazi ideas continued to live on and influence not only the minds of Ukrainian political leaders and activists, but also a very significant part of the population in the central and western Ukraine regions. The so-called "simple but conscious" everyday people absorbed a pathological hatred of Russia, blaming Russia for all their troubles, spreading Russophobia into the social and information space.

Since 2014 and the [[Kyiv regime]]'s policy of [[genocide|ethnic cleansing]] of the Donbas, more than 14,000 people have been killed, mostly civilians.

===Ukrainian collusion: 2016===
{{Main article|Ukrainian collusion}}
The government of Ukraine in collusion with the [[Democratic National Committee]] colluded to interfere in the [[2016 United States Presidential Election]] and to subvert American [[democracy]]. In so doing, they sought to blame Russia for foreign influence.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html</ref>

Paul Sperry of Realclearinvestigations documented how the Ukrainian government, working with both the [[Obama administration]] and the [[2016 Clinton campaign]], Ukrainian officials intervened in the 2016 race to help [[Hillary Clinton]] and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]] where officials worked with Alexander Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American [[Banderist]] and Clinton campaign operative, to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on and investigate their political rival.
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|colspan="3"|<hr/>Alexandra 'Ali' Chalupa (left) and Col. Alexander Vindman (right), two Ukrainian [[Banderist]]s deeply involved in the plot to remove President Trump and drive the United States to war with Russia.
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Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election. As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also attacked him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in ''[[The Hill]]'', an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on [[social media]].

The Ukrainian mischief is part of Special Counsel [[John Durham]]’s broader Trump-Russia inquiry, as of 2022 a full-blown [[criminal]] investigation with [[grand jury]] indictments – into efforts to falsely target Trump as a [[Kremlin]] conspirator in 2016 and beyond.

Nine days after the U.S. presidential election, the Russian Federation sponsored a U.N. Resolution entitled ''Combating glorification of [[Nazism]], Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of [[racism]], racial discrimination, [[xenophobia]] and related intolerance'' aimed at condemning the [[neo-fascist]] groups openly displaying Nazi symbols and regalia in Ukraine and Donbas. The [[Obama administration]] voted against the resolution.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-votes-against-anti-nazi-resolution-at-united-nations/</ref>

====Crowdstrike====
{{See also|Murder of Seth Rich}}
[[CrowdStrike]] is a cyber security company founded founded by [[Dimitry Alperovitch]], a Ukrainian oligarch and senior fellow at the [[Atlantic Council]]. Another owner and senior manager of Crowdstrike is a former senior [[FBI]] man [[Shawn Henry]], who was promoted by [[Robert Mueller]] to be the FBI's Head of Cyber Security in the 2000s.

Crowdstrike is funded by Google,<ref>https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/</ref> the arms industry, NATO, the US Military, [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[UAE]], and another Ukrainian oligarch who donated $10 million to the [[Clinton Foundation]] named [[Victor Pinchuk]].<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> Pichuk hosted the September 2013 confabulation in [[Yalta]], [[Crimea]] attended by [[Bill Clinton]], Hillary Clinton, and [[Tony Blair]] to discuss how Ukraine's assets would be carved up after the forthcoming [[Ukrainian coup]].

Accusations of Russian hacking DNC servers in the Spring of 2016 rely entirely on a report by CrowdStrike.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/think-tank-cyber-firm-center-russian-hacking-charges-misread-data</ref> Despite repeated requests from the FBI, Crowdstrike and the DNC refused to turn over evidence.<ref>https://slate.com/technology/2017/05/the-fbi-is-harder-to-trust-on-the-dnc-hack-because-it-relied-on-crowdstrikes-analysis.html</ref> The [[Obama administration]] never examined the DNC servers to determine if indeed they were hacked, or attempted to identify who the hacker might have been.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/</ref> On July 25, 2019, [[President Trump]] requested [[President Zelensky]] of Ukraine to assist in recovering evidence from Crowdstrike, which contracts with the Ukrainian military.<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-mentioned-crowdstrike-to-ukrainian-president-and-crowdstrike-doesnt-seem-to-know-why-2019-09-25</ref>
:*According to journalist and DNC activist Andrea Chalupa on her Facebook page “After Chalupa sent the email to Miranda (which mentions that she had invited this reporter to a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Washington),<ref>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3962</ref> it triggered high-level concerns within the DNC, given the sensitive nature of her work. “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a [[Democratic Party]] source who has been directly involved in the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.”” July 25, 2016
:*If she was that close to the investigation Crowdstrike did how credible is she? Her sister Alexandra was named one of 16 people that shaped the election by Yahoo news. '''The DNC hacking investigation done by Crowdstrike concluded hacking was done by Russian actors based on the work done by Alexandra Chalupa? That is the conclusion of her sister Andrea Chalupa and obviously enough for Crowdstrike to make the Russian government connection.'''
:*How close is Dimitri Alperovitch to DNC officials? Close enough professionally he should have stepped down from an investigation that had the chance of throwing a presidential election in a new direction. According to Esquire.com, Alperovitch has vetted speeches for Hillary Clinton about cyber security issues in the past. Because of his work on the Sony hack, President Barrack Obama personally called and said the measures taken were directly because of his work.
:*Alperovitch’s relationships with the Chalupas, radical groups, think tanks, Ukrainian propagandists, and Ukrainian state supported hackers [show a conflict of interest]. When it all adds up and you see it together, we have found a Russian that tried hard to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in 2016.

===Impeachment 2.0: 2019-2020===
{{See also|Impeachment sham}}
In December 2016 Sens. [[Lindsey Graham]] and John McCain visited the Azov Battalion. Graham told them "Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense" to retake Crimea.<ref>https://twitter.com/HTTP_404_NotF/status/1499850899690242048</ref> However, the election of Donald Trump a month earlier interrupted the [[neocon]] [[globalist]] agenda for war with Russia. When the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and [[Mueller investigation]] failed to remove President Trump, undeterred, [[Ukranian nationalist]]s and their American collaborators attempted to impeach President Trump in the fall and winter of 2020 for not enthusiastically supporting war with Russia over Ukraine.

==Zelensky regime==
[[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]]
In late September 2023 Canadian dictator [[Justin Trudeau]] and House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed Zelensky to address the Canadian parliament. A former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka was also invited to attend the address. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and the British Commonwealth during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, were fighting the armed forces of [[Nazi Germany]], of which the Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] were part. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces.

Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947.

International affairs analyst Dr. Andrew Korybko observed that in one fell swoop, Trudeau discredited himself as a so-called “champion of [[human rights]]”, while Zelensky proved beyond any doubt that an ethnic [[Jew]] can indeed glorify the Nazis’ [[genocidal]] allies despite having family who were murdered in the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[https://korybko.substack.com/p/jews-poles-and-russians-have-united Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi], ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.</ref> After being vetted to attend Zelensky's speech by the Canadian government and Trudeau's office, Hunta was introduced by the Speaker as a “Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” and received two extended standing ovations while Zelensky raised a clenched fist in solidarity. To its credit, even ''[[Politico]]'' reported on the number of Jewish organizations that condemned the [[fascist]] ceremony.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/nazi-linked-veteran-ovation-zelenkyy-canada-visit-00117857 Nazi-linked veteran received ovation during Zelenskyy’s Canada visit], By KYLE DUGGAN, ''Politico'', 09/24/2023.</ref> Hunta's family had [[tweet]]ed out days in advance that a separate private meeting had been arranged for Hunta to meet and speak privately with Trudeau and Zelensky.<ref>Mark Sleboda, [https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/canadian-parliament-trudeau-and-zelensky Canadian Parliament, Trudeau & Zelensky Praise and Give Standing Ovation to West Ukrainian Waffen SS Veteran Who "Killed Russians"], Radio Interview on the Critical Hour 25/09/23.</ref>

==NATO war in Ukraine==
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In the run up to the war, both the [[United States]] and [[NATO]] rejected without consideration two treaty proposals by the [[Russian Federation]] to avoid war.<ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees], Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization], Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, 17 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/woOvb US, NATO rule out halt to expansion, reject Russian demands]. By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK, ''Associated Press'', January 7, 2022.</ref> The treaty proposals would require NATO to pledge not granting Ukraine and the [[Republic of Georgia]] NATO membership; U.S. missiles in Poland and [[Romania]] to be removed; and NATO deployments to [[Eastern Europe]] reversed. The U.S. and NATO rejected the proposals without consideration and instead sent more NATO forces to Eastern Europe and continued to heavily arm Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/</ref>

In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> NATO-backed [[neo-Nazi]]s attacked the [[Donbas]] on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February 2022, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 591 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 975 ceasefire violations in the region.<ref>https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683</ref>

With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put a stop to the eight-year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives. After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref> The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

NATO-backed neo-Nazi proxy forces attacked the [[Donbas]] again on February 14, 2022.<ref>https://mronline.org/2021/11/13/military-knows-it-looks-bad-but-works-with-neo-nazis-anyway/</ref><ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/17/western-media-is-literally-peddling-neo-nazi-propaganda-to-prompt-war-between-russia-and-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3848518841859137</ref> Military forces of the Russian Federation (RF) entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to put an end to the ethnic violence and de-nazify the areas where the children and grandchildren of World War II Nazi collaborators had been carrying an ethnic hatred of Russians since the [[Holodomor]] of the 1930s and earlier. A wave of [[patriotism]] swept over Russian society, viewing the operation as a second [[Great Patriotic War]].<ref>https://thesaker.is/two-videos-from-the-ukrainian-blogger-iurii-podoliaka-must-see/</ref> Soldiers felt they were sent to finish the job of de-nazifying Ukraine that their grandfathers left unfinished after World War II. The use of civilian human shields by the U.S-trained Armed Forces of Ukraine led to civilian casualties and was a primary strategy of the NATO proxies. Ukrainian security forces committed reprisal actions and atrocities against ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in areas which Russian forces vacated. Numerous attacks by Ukrainian forces on its own citizens, which had been ongoing in the Donbas region for the eight previous years, spread outside the Donbas to create [[false flag]] images of attacks by Russians. Efforts to rehabilitate the image and reputation of Nazis and Nazism by Western and Ukrainian media and [[psyop]]s were non-stop since the beginning of the Russian incursion, with permanent and debilitating damage to the West's educational system and image throughout the civilized world. By early April 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been so degraded and decimated, or were out of fuel and unable to retreat, the Maidan regime doubled down on soft power, [[psyops|psychological operations]] and propaganda to garner sympathy from the West for continued support.

====Ukraine missile attack on Poland====
On November 15, 2022, two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian [[cruise missile]], were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The Polish government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref>

However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR aircraft (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the Kyiv regime had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its CIA counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021.

When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down. Both socialist premier Joe Biden and NATO chief warlord Jens Stoltenberg blamed Ukraine for the attack. Zelensky refuted the Western leaders' statements that the missile which killed two innocent civilians in Poland was Ukrainian. "I have no doubt that it was not our missile or our missile strike." Zelensky insisted that he received reports from the corrupt Armed Forces of Ukraine command that told him the missile attacks did not come from Ukraine," he told the people in a live nationwide address on Ukrainian state-controlled media.<ref>https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376663/</ref> The [[Russophobic]] ''Financial Times'' of [[London]] quoted a [[diplomat]] from a NATO country in Kyiv saying: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the [[missile]].”<ref>https://archive.ph/mxQ5K#selection-2029.34-2029.282</ref>

==Historiography==
The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century. The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev, and his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>

Strikingly different interpretations of the medieval state of [[Kievan Rus']] appear in the four schools of historiography within Ukraine: Russophile, Sovietophile, Eastern Slavic, and Ukrainophile. The Sovietophile and Russophile schools have become marginalized in independent Ukraine, with the Ukrainophile school being dominant in the early 21st century. The Ukrainophile school promotes an identity that is mutually exclusive of Russia. It has come to dominate the nation's educational system, security forces, and national symbols and monuments, although it has been dismissed as nationalist by Western historians. The East Slavic school, an eclectic compromise between Ukrainophiles and Russophilism, has a weaker ideological and symbolic base, although it is preferred by Ukraine's centrist former elites.<ref>Taras Kuzio, "National Identity and History Writing in Ukraine," ''Nationalities Papers'' 2006 34(4): 407-427, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref>

Many historians in recent years have sought alternatives to national histories, and Ukrainian history invited approaches that looked beyond a national paradigm. Multiethnic history recognizes the numerous peoples in Ukraine; transnational history portrays Ukraine as a border zone for various empires; and area studies categorizes Ukraine as part of Eurasia, or more often as part of East-Central Europe. Plokhy (2007) argues that looking beyond the country's national history has made possible a richer understanding of Ukraine, its people, and the surrounding regions.<ref>Serhii Plokhy, "Beyond Nationality" ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (4): 25-46,</ref>

After 1991, historical memory was a powerful tool in the political mobilization and legitimation of the post-Soviet Ukrainian state, as well as the division of selectively used memory along the lines of the political division of Ukrainian society. Ukraine did not experience the restorationist paradigm typical of some other post-Soviet nations, including the Baltic states, although the multifaceted history of independence, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Soviet-era repressions, mass famine, and World War II collaboration were used to provide a different constitutive frame for the new Ukrainian nation. The politics of identity (which includes the production of history textbooks and the authorization of commemorative practices) has remained fragmented and tailored to reflect the ideological anxieties and concerns of individual regions of Ukraine.<ref>See Andryi Portnov, "Exercises with history Ukrainian style (notes on public aspects of history's functioning in post-Soviet Ukraine)," ''Ab Imperio'' 2007 (3): 93-138, in Ukrainian</ref>

==See also==
*[[Ukrainian Sich Riflemen]]
*[[Essay: Understanding the organization of Ukrainian forces]]

==References==
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==External links==

* [http://www.ukraine.org/ www.ukraine.org]
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/index.html ''Ukraine'' magazine, English edition]
* [https://youtu.be/Cll91vfc_3Q Ukrainian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 – 1945)]
* [http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/450303.shtml "Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II,"] a 2003 Canadian film produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski and narrated by Jack Palance.
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3211.htm U.S. State Department ''Background Note: Ukraine'' (2008)], the source for several sections of this text
* [https://youtu.be/kkg-gI8Wl0U 2014 Mariupol. Crimes of the Ukrainian regime . The war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years.] – ''YouTube
*[https://www.historians.in.ua/index.php/en/doslidzhennya/2906-stephen-velychenko-putin-preludes-secret-russian-police-reports-on-the-ukrainian-national-movement#ftnref48 STEPHEN VELYCHENKO. PUTIN PRELUDES. SECRET RUSSIAN POLICE REPORTS ON THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT]
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