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https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Operation_Aerodynamic

Operation Aerodynamic was a CIA program which began in the late 1950s to support anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalists (including Nazi collaborators) which would eventually be installed in the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine.[1][2][3] Even earlier was the Belladonna Project of 1946.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Lebed

Lebed was described as a "Ukrainian fascist leader and suspected Nazi collaborator",[1] and later labeled as a "well-known sadist and collaborator of the Germans" by United States Army counterintelligence.[2] He was among those tried, convicted, and imprisoned for the murder of Polish interior minister Bronisław Pieracki in 1934. The court sentenced him to death, but the state commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. He escaped when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939.[3]: 73  As a leader of OUN-B, he was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.[4][5][6]

In 2009, the United States Congress directed the National Archives and Records Administration to review declassified intelligence records pertaining to the activities of the Nazis and the Japanese Imperial Government that were not processed in time for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group's (IWG) final report in 2007.: pref.  The follow-up report from the IWG's Richard Breitman and Norman J. W. Goda included a discussion of Lebed's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War.: pref.  In 1949 he emigrated to the United States and lived in New York. Through Prolog Research Corporation, his CIA funded organization, he gathered intelligence on the Soviet Union as late as into the late 1960s. The CIA project name for the operation was AERODYNAMIC.[3]: 85ff.  The report stated that as late as 1991 the CIA, for fear of compromising the operation and triggering outrage within the Ukrainian émigré community, shielded Lebed from prosecution for war crimes by preventing the United States Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations from learning about his wartime connections to the Nazis.: 90–91.  He died in 1998.[7]

From 1949, Lebed lived in the United States. During 1952–1974, he headed the Prolog Research Center in New York; in 1982–85, he was Deputy Chairman and since 1974 he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the institution. In 1956-91 he was a member of the board of the Ukrainian Society of Foreign Studies in Munich and Toronto, publishing committee "Chronicle of the UPA (1975). Author memories "UPA" (1946, 1987). Thanks to his collaboration with the CIA and their active shielding of him, Lebed was never tried for the war crimes he and his men had allegedly committed against Poles and Jews during WWII.[9]

https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

Not surprisingly, Ukrainian émigrés are among the harshest and most power­ful critics of Nazi-hunting. They have sought to kill both the Justice Depart­ment’s Office of Special Investigations and the Canadian Deschenes Commis­sion — and with good reason. Sol Littman, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Toronto, recently presented the com­mission with the names of 475 suspected Nazi collaborators. He reports that Ukrainians were “very heavily represent­ed” on the list.

Just as the Nazis used the OUN for their own ends, so has Reagan exploited the famine, from his purple-prosed com­memoration of “this callous act” to his backing of the Mace commission. Faced with failing fascist allies around the world, from Nicaragua to South Africa, the U.S. war lobby needs to boost anti­-Communism as never before. Public en­thusiasm to fight for the contras will not come easy. But if people could be con­vinced that Communism is worse than fascism; that Stalin was an insane mon­ster, even worse than Hitler; that the seven million died in more unspeakable agony than the six million …. Well, we just might be set up for the next Gulf of Tonkin. One cannot appease an Evil Em­pire, after all.

According to the journalist Sennen Andriamirado, who wrote two early books on Sankara, the Burkinabè leader believed that “Stalin killed Leninism by stifling the soviets and making all-powerful the Cheka [secret police], the military,” and other repressive bodies.

Hmm, I wonder if protecting the socialist leadership was a factor in this. Too bad he got assassinated, proving that using state power to oppose the reactionary forces is critically important in a nascent socialist state.

Looks nice but definitely going to take some getting used to the new UI changes. Liking it for most part.

Not able to successfully post an image so far, maybe something broke with iterations going on. They never show a thumbnail after upload and disappear from the post.

NJB on why driving in the Netherlands is better than driving anywhere else is such a good analysis. When you design your transportation infrastructure to reduce conflicts between different travel modes, all the modes benefit.

our foreign policy towards Israel hasn’t changed in the last 65 years

Which party do you think is most likely to see the light

How's that blue MAGA brunch going?

Current list of US sanctions and embargoes

Balkans-related
Belarus
Burundi
Central African Republic
China
Counter Narcotics Trafficking
Counter Terrorism
Cuba
Cyber Related
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Iran
Iraq-related
Lebanon-related
Libya
Magnitsky
Non-Proliferation
North Korea
Rough Diamond Trade Controls
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Transnational Criminal Organizations
Ukraine-related
Venezuela
Yemen
Zimbabwe

Semiotics is the study of signs. It is an interdisciplinary field that examines what signs are, how they form sign systems, and how individuals use them to communicate meaning. Its main branches are syntactics, which addresses formal relations between signs; semantics, which addresses the relation between signs and their meanings; and pragmatics, which addresses the relation between signs and their users.

I wonder if memes are collections of signs with meanings in relation to each other and their users. I'm sure that's NOT the case tho.

That sounds like a political opinion. OH NO!

So this isn't a shitpost? Mods should delete this then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_police_shoving_incident

https://streamable.com/unjnw9

This video is required viewing for all the downvoters.

Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts : Western Ukraine's fascist settlers :: Gaza and West Bank : Israel's fascist settlers

That's why Ukrainian nationalists (Banderites) burned down a Trade Union building in Odessa in 2014. Ukrainian nationalists supported by the US took power in a coup. There was then an anti-Russian ethnic cleansing campaign across Ukraine but most especially in the ethnic Russian regions for 8 years along the Eastern border.

History does not start in 2022.