Washington’s and Kiev’s Nazi Sympathizers: Is There a Lesser Evil

It has recently been reported that the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved a draft resolution directed against the glorification of Nazism and racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. The resolution expresses concern about the fact that in a number of countries, famed Nazi movement leaders and former members of the SS are honored, and monuments to fighters against fascism are demolished or subjected to desecration. The document calls on states to pass legislation prohibiting the denial of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Second World War.

One may notice that a total of 131 countries supported this resolution draft, while 48 states, including UN Member States have abstained. The United States was one of three countries to vote against this UN resolution, while Ukraine and Palau were the other no votes.

The US and Ukraine have been repeatedly voting against all sorts of UN resolutions against the glorification of Nazism, which would protect the monuments erected to honor those who gave their lives in a bid to fight Nazism from being desecrated. Even though the UN member states have been trying to take measures to prevent the denial of despicable war crimes that were committed during the Second World War, all of their attempts fall flat. All of the drafts have been expressing the international community’s deep concern about the glorification of any form of the Fascism movement in any form, that is now taking place in some Baltic states, the Ukraine and some European countries.

As you must now, Ukraine fell the victim of a pro-Western government coup that resulted in fascist forces taking all power in the country, which resulted in the enforced worship of Ukrainian Third Reich collaborators, which are now being worshiped in monuments, while Ukrainian streets and civilian objects are now being called with their names. Therefore, it’s not surprising that such a government would vote against the above mentioned UN resolution.

AS for the ruling elite of the United States, they are acting under the guise of various diplomatic excuses, without directly admitting their “warm” attitude towards all sorts of Fascists. However, one could easily clarify the position of the United States, if he’s to take a look at a string of publications in various international media.

Back in 2010 the French journal L’Express would release a report that was of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) that was officially declassified. According to this report, the US government was working closely with a total of one thousand former Third Reich officials. The New York Times would only publish short exceptions from this 600 pages long report.

The New York Times would state that the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés, since it goes further that any previous paper in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations. It’s clear that FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover and CIA’s Allen W. Dulles were determined to collaborate with the most despicable criminal in history only to put an end to the spread of communism across the world.

But have we learnt everything we could about the connections that the US government had with Nazi criminals? In his interview for Le Figaro Professor Norman Goda from University of Florida would state that there’s a lot of classified documents left in this area, therefore we would never learn the truth the exact number of former Fascist collaborators and criminals that were working for the CIA.

It’s curious that the WWII ended seven decades ago, yet a certain amount of documents is still being kept secret from the public, since it’s believed that those can still contain “sensitive information”. Maybe because the Cold War never really ended, and Washington is still interested in collaborating with all sorts of Nazis, that’s why it prefers to keep the information about its actual involvement in the Fascist affairs. At times when neo-Nazis in Europe can be used to stir controversy and destabilization, when an openly fascist pro-Western government is still residing in Kiev, it would be rather uncomfortable for Washington to end up with anti-Nazi UN resolution on its hands.

Jean Périer is an independent researcher and analyst and a renowned expert on the Near and Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”