FROM EIR DAILY ALERTCongress Members Hit Kiev Government Support for Nazis; Vitrenko Attacked by Nazi GangApril 27, 2018 (EIRNS)—On April 25, fifty-six members of the U.S. Congress issued a letter to then-acting Secretary of State John Sullivan urging for the U.S. to condemn the Ukrainian government’s open support for Nazi gangs, detailing several cases. The very next day, April 26, Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko, the leaders of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) and friends of the international LaRouche movement, were attacked by Nazi thugs and doused with kefir. The two leaders were leaving a courtroom where the judge had dismissed their suit against the police who stood by, not intervening, when a fascist gang of the former Azov Brigade had attacked and defaced their apartments one year ago, on May 9, 2017. Dr. Vitrenko is a former member of Parliament and had run for President several times, winning as much as 11% in 1999, even after her campaign was disrupted by an assassination attempt. She is a well-known economist specializing on Ukraine’s social services sector and the impact of IMF conditionalities. The bipartisan Congressional letter, initiated by Democrats Rep. Ro Khanna (CA) and Rep. David Cicilline (RI), condemned both the Ukraine and the Polish governments for passing laws defending Nazis and Nazi supporters in World War II, but focused on the continuing fascist acts backed by the Ukraine government. They report that Ukraine’s 2015 memory laws glorify “Nazi collaborators, and making it a criminal offense to deny their heroism.” They state there has been little public response in the U.S., although the less overt policies in Poland have been widely condemned. They write:
The Congressmen report that last November, a march of 20,000 strong took place
The Congressmen demand action:
The appeal would be more effective if it told the whole truth—that the Nazi-supporting regime in Ukraine was placed in power, by the Obama Administration, particularly through Obama’s agent for Ukraine at the State Department, Victoria Nuland. The full story can be read at “How Obama and Soros Put Actual Nazis in Power in Ukraine,” EIR, Feb. 24, 2017. |
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