[ Iskander ] It seems Russophobia turned out to be a good business
[ Vladimir ] They've betrayed Ukraine, robbed it,
and given it to the Americans to feast upon:
[ Vladimir ] Ukraine, my homeland
[ Aleksey ] These people prepared quite openly
[ Aleksey ] Funding efforts were widespread,
and we know the actors who got that funding
[ Iskander ] For eight years, they've been on this
path to dehumanise Russians and sever all ties
[ Evgeny ] The key word is 'systemic'
[ Aleksandr ] It's a characteristic of Nazi ideology to dehumanise the enemy
"They're cockroaches, not people"
[ Aleksandr ] A follower of Nazi ideology feels no
sympathy, they don't see other humans as equals
but as inferior beings, so they feel no remorse, and we see that
UKRAINE 24 CHANNEL
"I tell my doctors,
I have always been a humanitarian and maintain
that a wounded man is no enemy, but a patient
But now, there are strict orders to castrate all men"
[ Aleksandr ] For a doctor who took the Hippocratic Oath, it's not humane,
but they find it acceptable, for example,
to quote Nazi criminals and promote doing
what they did on today's Ukrainian TV channels
"I subscribe to Adolf Eichmann's doctrine:
so that neither you nor your children inhabit this earth,
we need victory and, if that means killing your families...
I'll be among the first to do it"
FAST FORWARD TO FASCISM
[ VO ] What was happening in Ukraine before February the 24, 2022 and what’s
happening now was a result of consistent and systematic planning.
KIEV VETERANS’ MOVEMENT
[ Aleksandr ] There's a fallacy that neo-Nazism emerged suddenly in Ukraine, by accident
[ GEO ] KIEV 2021
[ Man ] Fascist symbols are forbidden
[ Man ] This insignia represents a Nazi, fascist division,
an SS division
[ Man ] As far as I know, that criminal organisation is banned
No, it's not It was banned at the Nuremberg Tribunal
That's not true A fascist, Nazi organisation, and you allow it
[ Aleksey Mukhin, Director, Centre For Political
Information ] Rewriting history and indoctrination are
prerequisites for any military operation
[ Aleksey ] This was fully implemented in Ukraine
[ VO ] This is a footage the Donetsk region shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
[ VO ] This is 2014.
[ VO ] And this is 2015.
[ Woman ] Shelling was heavy
At first, we heard whistling, then it got bad, I thought planes were bombing
2016
2017
2018
2019
[ VO ] This rally rook place in Kiev in 2019. People with flags and
posters went out to protest against giving Donbass special status.
[ VO ] The protesters presented the President with a letter demanding the war continue.
[ GEO ] DONETSK APRIL 2019
[ Lyudmila ] The house was ruined
[ Lyudmila ] My building was ruined, my son's was ruined
[ Lyudmila ] They shell every day
[ Lyudmila Zavakevich, Resident, Donetsk ] Homes are on fire, destroyed
[ Lyudmila ] People in basements, like rabbits
[ Lyudmila ] We can't go on like this
[ GEO ] KIEV 2020
CAPITULATION = DEATH
[ VO ] Another demonstration in Kiev in 2020. The
country’s leadership welcomes the protesters.
[ Christoph Hоrstel Journalist, Politician, Germany ] If you ask how many people
were killed in Donbass, people would question was there anybody killed at all?
[ Christoph ] If we watch now what happens in the social media and things like that,
that is a guided communication battle against the Russian people.
[ Donetsk resident ] It flew this way and exploded...
once and a second time, then there was shrapnel
[ Donetsk resident ] Then there were some mortars...
small arms
[ VO ] Residents in these regions can identify the
ammunitions they’re shelled with just by their sound.
[ Vladimir Blokhin, Political Scientist, History
Phd ] Today, we're witnessing heinous crimes
against people in Donbass - 14,000 were murdered -
against their own population
[ GEO ] KIEV 2014
[ VO ] In late 2013, and early 2014 a huge protest was held in Kiev.
[ VO ] And it went on for 3 months. The end result of Maidan 2014 was the coup d'etat.
[ Aleksandr Asafov, Political Observer, Civil Society
Activist ] By 2014, when Maidan started, there was
already a network of neo-Nazi organisations
that didn't hide their ideology
[ Aleksandr ] The Ukrainian state didn't pursue them at all
[ Aleksandr ] When it began, they were ready, trained by Western instructors
[ Aleksandr ] Essentially, they were combat-ready units and terrorist cells
[ Nikolay Azarov, Ukrainian Prime Minister, 2010-2014 ] How can a perfectly sane
person, who'd be afraid to kill a chicken,
pick up a weapon and shoot another living human being,
and have no qualms about doing so?
[ Iskander Khisamov, Editor-In-Chief, ‘Ukraina.Ru’
Website ] This ideology won't stop until
it has the tool to implement it - an army
[ VO ] Nationalist battalions began forming with the
backing of right-wing parties. Having started on
Maidan they continued their activities at
anti-Maidan rallies in a number of Ukrainian cities.
[ Nikolay ] It was a process of dehumanisation...
where the normal sense of human compassion left those people
[ GEO ] ODESSA MAY 2, 2014
[ VO ] The people in Odessa came up against the
ultra-right group. And it resulted in tragedy.
[ Nikolay ] How else can facts like that be explained? When people...
jump from a burning building in Odessa, from the Trade Union House,
and are shot as they jump from the windows
[ Nikolay ] And after landing, injured by the fall, they were finished off with clubs
"They have weapons! What for?"
[ Nikolay ] When the mob applauded
and called out that they were roasting 'Russian kebabs', and applauded them...
[ Nikolay ] Isn't that Nazism?
The killing and burning of dozens of people can't be justified
[ Evgeny Kopatko, Sociologist ] It was filmed on video
[ Evgeny ] There are dozens, hundreds of photographs, all kinds of evidence
[ Evgeny ] You can't just erase them
[ GEO ] LONDON, 2015
[ VO ] At the time world opinion still considered Neo-Nazi acts
as crimes against humanity. But it’s not true today.
[ VO ] For 2 years after the events in Odessa
[ GEO ] BERLIN, 2016
the world remembered the victims. But by the 3d year
Europe considered it had fulfilled its Anti-Fascist duties.
Europe pretends not to see that there's already Nazism in Ukraine
It's not nascent, it exists, and if Europe
hopes it won't affect them, as it did in 1933,
they're deeply mistaken
It is already near
[ Evgeny ] There are no 'ifs' in history
[ Evgeny ] But if history had gone differently...
if an investigation had seen the guilty being punished... but that didn't happen
"Kiev! Don't anger Donbass!"
[ GEO ] DONETSK 2014
[ VO ] Anti-Maidan rallies also took place in Donetsk.
BLOODY GOVERNMENT OUT! WE WANT A REFERENDUM!!!
[ VO ] They called to observe the Constitution and demanded that the people be protected
from fascism. On April 7th acting President of Ukraine Turchinov made a speech:
[ Aleksandr Turchinov, Interim President, Ukraine, 2014 ] Anti-terrorist measures will
be used against those who take up arms
[ Oleg Tyagnibok, Shairman,
‘Freedom’ All-Ukrainian Union ] The heads of
all local authorities should arrange roadblocks
[ Arsen Avakov, Minister Of Internal Affairs,
Ukraine, 2014-2021 ] I believe a new type of
Ukrainian army will be based on units like 'Azov'
[ Aleksey ] Right Sector Party activists and
nationalist battalions, like 'Aidar', 'Azov',
were, on Arsen Avakov's initiative, integrated with all Ukrainian Army units
2 or 3 people oversaw what they call racial purity and purity of thought
[ VO ] In April 2014 Ukraine’s leaders started to
divide the country’s population into “us and them”.
[ Iskander ] Speaking through President Kuchma,
Ukraine once declared that it was not Russia
[ Iskander ] Then, it suddenly turned into some ideology
that claimed Ukraine wasn't just 'not Russia',
but far superior to Russia, and that Russia itself is despicable and so on, and...
it must be reformed and dehumanised
[ VO ] These photos of people grotesquely tied up can be seen by anyone.
[ Aleksandr ] Peaceful people are accused of looting
[ Aleksandr ] Young girls, old men and teenagers are tied up in the street,
often naked, daubed in green, and beaten, subjected to humiliations
[ Iskander ] This shows the roots of Banderite Ukrainian Nazism
[ Iskander ] It is a dark mass that...
their hatred knows no limits
[ VO ] Any normal person would find these pictures shocking.
[ Iskander ] They now show the world that they're Nazis, but the world won't see
[ Vladimir ] The phenomenon of Ukrainian nationalism,
which has morphed into fascism,
is the result of all the effort to reshape historical consciousness
[ GEO ] NUREMBERG 1946
[ VO ] After World War II the atrocities of fascism were still vivid in people’s minds.
[ VO ] And hearts were heavy.
[ VO ] Shocking documentary film and photos exposing Nazism
were shown at the Nuremberg Trial for the first time.
[ VO ] Similar documentaries of unspeakable crimes are now widely available. people who
haven’t forgotten history can compare the events of 80 years ago with those of today.
[ VO ] 1934. Germany. Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor, and 25,000
stormtroopers moved in torchlight processions through Berlin.
[ VO ] And this is contemporary shot in Kiev. These
torches were lit in honour of Stepan Bandera,
[ GEO ] KIEV 2022
[ VO ] Who is famous for being one of the leaders of the OUN.
THE OUN, ORGANISATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS, ESTABLISHED IN VIENNA IN 1929.
[ VO ] In 1934 the OUN headquarters became the department of the Gestapo.
[ VO ] Bandera’s track record includes plotting the murders of
a Soviet consul and Poland’s Minister of Home Affairs.
[ VO ] In 1941 the OUN organised the massacre at the Jewish
ghetto in Lvov in which nearly 7,000 people were killed.
1941
[ VO ] In 1943, after the turning point in World War II the OUN decided to start
guerrilla activities and establish the UPA. The flag and hymn remained the same.
THE UPA UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY ESTABLISHED IN 1943
[ VO ] Bandera was the mastermind behind the movement.
[ VO ] During the war about 100,000 civilians and 15,000 soldiers fell victim to the UPA.
[ VO ] In 2010 Bandera was made a national hero of Ukraine
and such torchlight processions take place every year.
[ Vladimir Oleynik, Member Of Ukrainian Parlament,
2006-2014 ] If that infernal fiend was still out there,
he'd surely be spinning in his grave
He wouldn't understand why
He was simply a terrorist
"Our hero!"
"Our land"
[ Aleksandr ] That was a real Nazi, Banderite parade
on Stepan Bandera's birthday, with all the flags and paraphernalia
[ Nikita Buranov, Military Historian,
Russian Military Historical Society ] The red and
black means blood and soil, 'Blut und Ehre' in German
1934
[ Nikita ] That's what was written on the knives given to members of the Hitler Youth
[ Evgeny ] Before 2014, Russians weren't seen as a minority in Ukraine
[ Evgeny ] That's important - most Ukrainians thought more united them than divided them
[ Evgeny Kopatko, Sociologis ] But this takes support, it takes effort
[ Evgeny ] And the nationalists who came...
[ Evgeny ] As I said, it wasn't just at the snap of a finger
[ Evgeny ] It went on for years
[ Evgeny ] At first, there were few, then there were more
[ Evgeny ] They had a tiny political presence, but the ideology was slowly accepted
through education and mass media
[ Vladimir ] Suddenly, in 2013,
we saw them jumping: 'If you don't jump, you're a Muscovite,'
[ Vladimir ] 'Hang Muscovites,' because the process of Russophobia had begun
[ GEO ] DROGOBYCH 2014
"If you don't jump, you're a Muscovite"
[ Iskander ] It seems Russophobia turned out to be a good business
[ Iskander ] Many will pay well for an anti-Russian stance
[ Iskander ] Not just by supplying weapons, but in supporting the economy,
to anyone who's anti-Russia
[ VO ] This is a children’s camp founded under the
auspices of the Azov nationalist battalion.
[ GEO ] KHARKOV 2017
[ VO ] Youngsters were taught hand-to-hand combat and more.
"You've become part of the family,
part of the great 'Azov' tribe"
[ GEO ] KHARKOV 2019
"And you must begin to understand that Ukraine is our home, Ukraine is our land"
"Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes"
[ GEO ] KIEV REGION 2019
[ VO ] Children receive the same as adults’, but the explanations
were simplified so they could understand them.
[ Vitaly Onishchuk, Children’s Camp Counselor ]
Our goal is to tell children how it really was,
who the UPA were and what they fought for
That's the gist
[ Nikita ] You can tell children whatever you want: 'black is white and white is black'
[ Nikita ] They're just kids!
[ Nikita ] Experiments show they'll believe something eventually if you repeat it enough
Hitler Youth is described in detail in history.
They didn’t have to come up with anything new.
It’s a time tested method of working with young people.
[ Nikita ] They appealed to schoolchildren, who are generally open-minded and susceptible
[ Nikita ] They try to equate SS death squads and
[ Nikita ] Soviet liberators and defenders in their consciousness
[ Nikita ] That's why 'Azov' militants and nationalist battalions
have no qualms about using the SS insignia
[ Nikita ] It's all about what figures and arguments you use
[ Nikita ] Then you just weave your narrative
[ Nikita ] We lost more than 600,000 soldiers liberating Ukraine
[ Nikita ] But they give the German losses because the Germans 'defended Ukraine'
from Stalin's 'drunken Mongols'
[ VO ] Such events haven’t been seen Ukraine for a long time. But it’s
impossible to forget the courage of the people who died for freedom
and the 200+ death camps in Ukraine where
fascists massacred people of all nationalities.
[ VO ] All the people of the Soviet Union liberated Ukraine together.
[ VO ] They hoisted the banner on the Reichstag together,
and grieved for their fallen comrades together.
[ VO ] Victory in 1945 over the world’s greatest evil united
people. And it wasn’t questioned anywhere for 80 years.
"There is a barricade in Ukraine"
[ GEO ] KIEV 2017
"We, the veterans, stand on one side of it
And, on the other, is the government,
which wants us to reconcile with criminals"
[ VO ] Cases from shells, their compatriots in Donbass were killed with,
are now given to children as souvenirs.
"These shells were fired at the enemy"
"So, you take a piece of what destroyed our enemies with you"
"I want a black one!" "I want blue!"
[ VO ] In modern Ukraine they decided to honour the memory of those who
had been earlier considered traitors: collaborators and UPA members.
[ Nikita ] No one doubts that their grandfather did the right thing
by joining the Germans for the sake of his brewery
[ Nikita ] The Germans were never going to give
the Ukrainians anything - they were expendable
[ Nikita ] No one was ever going to give them their own republics, rights, or languages
[ Nikita ] There are plenty of German documents,
many belonging to the SS command,
that clearly state this will not happen, that they will all be eliminated afterwards
[ VO ] But the young people of today aren’t told about the SS commanders’ real plans.
[ VO ] The rest is copied with amazing accuracy.
"UPA - official and recognised!"
[ Nikita ] This procession with all these banners with the blue and yellow Galician lion…
[ Nikita ] You can see these in images from parades
in Lvov when it was occupied by the Third Reich
[ Nikita ] It all looked exactly the same:
these embroidered shirts, patches, shields with SS runes, and so on
[ Nikita ] These tactics of genocide and killing civilians that the Germans deployed...
they certainly implied what I call a 'blood bond'
[ VO ] The parallel between those principles and current events is clear.
[ Vladimir ] Ukraine sent over 370,000 people to Donbass
during its so-called 'Anti-Terrorist Operation'
[ Vladimir ] Why so many? The idea was quite simple – bind them all together with blood
[ Nikita ] When they were shooting up and killing people in Khatyn, Belarus,
that nationalist Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft battalion was in the village
[ Nikita ] Why had it been deployed there?
[ Nikita ] To bind them with blood and pit people
of different nationalities against each other
[ Vladimir ] But in Soviet times, this was hushed
up because 'Ukrainians are our brothers', etc.
[ VO ] Facts are now in the open, however, not all of them
[ Nikita ] According to the logic of a Banderite UPA insurgent,
civilians lie outside the scope of his attention or protection
[ Nikita ] Civilians are just a certain means of
achieving something for him as a 'Defender of Ukraine'
[ Vladimir ] Today, we know they keep people on
roofs, so the buildings they're holed up in
won't be fired on
[ Vladimir ] So, they shield themselves, set up HQs in schools: this is an ideology...
of hatred
[ Vladimir ] It's not about saving common people from
war and death, but about hatred and human shields
[ VO ] This is the footage from 1941,
and this from 2022.
[ VO ] The Lugansk region. The Aidar assault battalion was formerly based here.
[ VO ] Before 2015 it was a volunteer national battalion, but
it later became part of the regular Ukrainian army.
[ VO ] There remain others, and they are all alike with the same slogans and
calls to action. The main focus is on military and ideological training.
[ VO ] Such bases not only trained fighters’ but also kept
prisoners too. The SBU secret prisons were quite similar.
[ VO ] This isn’t fiction. Too many people have been
through them. Such crimes are impossible to hide.
[ Aleksandr ] All these 8 years, Donbass civilians
have suffered not only from the shelling,
but also from the neo-Nazis and their crimes, like looting and murder,
the cruellest abuse of people… The same goes for Mariupol
[ Aleksandr ] It was in Mariupol in 2015 that members
of the 'Azov' Regiment, which is banned in Russia,
broke into people's houses, and interrogated and beat them,
looking for 'domestic separatists'
[ Heiromonk Feofan (Georgy Kratirov) ] A local man who drove our
brothers around often visited Ukrainian Special Services (SBU)
[ Feofan ] By March of 2015, they had decided to take me in
[ Feofan ] I hadn't known that he worked for the SBU
[ Feofan ] They beat me with a bat
[ Feofan ] Well, I think it was a bat because it was rounded with no corners
[ Feofan ] They shocked my legs, right here
[ Feofan ] That wasn't enough for them, so they
lay me on the floor and put a rag on my face…
[ Feofan ] This was at the shooting range
[ Feofan ] And then, they began to pour water on me
[ Feofan ] A big guy sat on me and held me with his legs, so I couldn't move a muscle
[ Feofan ] And, at the same time, they were beating my legs with the bat
[ Feofan ] I was tortured like that several hours per day
[ Aleksandr ] A lot of similar cases and crimes
against humanity have been documented in Ukraine
[ Aleksandr ] Most were either condoned or directly
ordered by the current or former leadership in Kiev
[ Aleksandr ] These are Nazi-like crimes
[ Nikita ] The Third Reich of Nazi Germany not only
used local nationalist groups in its SS ranks,
like the 'Galician' Division,
but also the dysfunctional strata of society - serious criminals, to put it simply
[ Nikita ] For example, the infamous German SS 'Dirlewanger' Brigade,
which drowned the Warsaw Uprising in blood
[ Nikita ] They massacred 1,000s of Poles - a nightmare!
[ Nikita ] Some people remember walking knee-deep in blood…
all by released criminals
[ Nikita ] What do we see now?
[ Nikita ] Ukraine's Prosecutor General said, 'Everything's under control'
[ Nikita ] They released prisoners from the
'Tornado' battalion that has a Mujahedeen criminal
charged with kidnapping, torture, murder, dismemberment… just insane crimes!
[ Nikita ] He's a sick man, no sane person does that
[ Nikita ] So, a new 'Dirlewanger' Brigade
[ Iskander ] They've long been working outside
the law, using various unconstitutional methods
and also illegal means
[ Iskander ] All their dirty work is performed by the 'Right Sector', 'Azov' Regiment,
and other Nazi groups,
which help the current government stay afloat
"Glory to Ukraine!"
"Glory to the heroes!"
[ Christoph ] There are real old Nazis — that are against Jews, the
Hitler fans, and the new type of Nazis, who are against
Russians now, and want to nationalise, so to say, make
argent red hot burning nationalists of their people.
"Glory to Ukraine!"
[ Aleksey ] We're dealing with centralised
funding aimed at turning Ukraine against Russia
[ Aleksey ] They handed out grants to educate not
just a generation, but entire professional groups:
propagandists, people who disperse certain info on social media, etc.
[ Aleksey ] This funding was quite voluminous and backed by the UK and US
[ Christoph ] It would never have grown that far and that much if the Americans
had not paid hundreds of millions of dollars to sponsor that.
RUSSIA - MURDERER
[ Aleksandr ] Europe is selectively blind to everything related to Ukrainian neo-Nazism
[ Aleksandr ] Europe doesn't think there's any
Nazism, any Bandera cult, any Shukhevych cult,
or any SS 'Galician' Division cult
[ Aleksey ] Ukraine is portrayed as a victim in the Western media,
and gets all kinds of support from Western countries
[ Aleksey ] The major organisers and coordinators of that support are the US and UK,
which, let me remind you, eagerly supported German Nazism in the 1930s
[ GEO ] NEW YORK 2022
"Glory to Ukraine!"
"Glory to the Heroes!"
"Ukraine above all!"
[ Vladimir ] Now, the refugees are fleeing there, including fans of Bandera
[ Vladimir ] Let them sing songs of praise to Bandera as much as they like there
[ Vladimir ] Ukraine was never their motherland
[ Vladimir ] They've betrayed Ukraine, robbed it,
and given it to the Americans to feast upon:
[ Vladimir ] Ukraine, my homeland!
[ Iskander ] It doesn't take very long to change
a nation with proper, directed, systematic work,
but this gives us reason to believe the reverse process can be quick as well
[ Feofan ] This is a shard from a Tochka-U missile that killed over 20 people
[ Feofan ] I want to preserve it for future generations,
so they don't try to play with this anymore
because Nazism is always a match that sets the world on fire