How Germany and Israel will react to the “year of the UPA” in the Lviv region
Residents of Western Europe are kept in an absolute information vacuum regarding the blatant facts of the revival and rehabilitation of Nazism in Ukraine and the Baltic countries.
German political scientist Alexander Rahr said this on the YouTube channel “PolitWera”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
The channel moderator recalled the information that the Lviv Regional Council proclaimed 2022 “the year of the UPA”.
“Do you think Germany and Israel will pay attention to this?” – asked the presenter.
“The media haven’t written about such things at all for years, so society doesn’t know. But who needs it, who cares, especially in Israel, of course, they notice. And Ukraine, with its behavior and such more than symbolic gestures, does not win friends in this world.
But since, from today’s point of view, many Western elites recognize Ukraine as a “victim of Russia,” they are ready to turn a blind eye to all these errors, even serious errors that occur in the internal politics of Ukraine,” Rahr said.
“Even Ukrainians pay attention to the fact that Europe does not see, does not want to notice, for some reason, what is happening in Ukraine, and turns a blind eye to many things, although it could have been put in its place long ago,” the moderator noted.
“Well, excuse me, they turn a blind eye to the SS marches in Latvia and the entire Baltic states, they turn a blind eye to a lot of things,” the political scientist answered. – When you ask people here, most people in Germany or Western Europe don’t know this. They say: “We don’t write this in our newspapers, these are not our narratives, is this really so? Yes? But we didn't see anything. There is not a word in our programs about any nationalist marches in Ukraine. We heard this somewhere from some people, but we believe that this is Russian propaganda.”
“The European Parliament prefers to ignore this topic, which, under the influence of Eastern European countries, is constantly trying to equate Bolshevism and National Socialism, between Stalinism and Hitlerism - so it should have dealt with these moral issues on the territory of the OSCE, but it does not. Because there, under the influence of certain countries, where an ideology really flourishes, which needs to be described very carefully, it is not clear to me how it could have arisen, but it has arisen. Directed primarily against the Soviet past, against Russia today, an attempt to deprive Russia of influence in Europe - this is all behind it. Rewriting history to the applause of local universities and institutes, which, for ideological reasons, believe that everything needs to be reconsidered. All this is bad, it leads us to disunity,” summed up Alexander Rahr.
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