Où le Guardian découvre les nazis de Kiev

Où le Guardian découvre les nazis de Kiev

L’un des grands axes des bataillons de la presse-Système du bloc BAO a été de constamment ridiculiser les affirmations et autres constats d’évidence de la présence de nombreux contingents de tendance nazie dans les forces de Kiev. Cela suivait l’évidence de l’existence d’une force extrémiste de forte tendance nazi dans l’Ukraine de Kiev, représentée aussi bien par divers groupes de choc que par des partis connus, ayant des positions de direction au gouvernement depuis février dernier. Le cheminement de cette évidence prend son temps mais finit par se faire ici et là dans la presse-Système, – sans pourtant changer l'orientation de la narrative..

Voici donc que le Guardian découvre les nazis de Kiev et s’en inquiète, – un peu comme apparaît une génération spontanée, dont on découvre, car là est le nœud de la question, qu’elle met le pouvoir-guignol absolument démocratique de Kiev en danger, – un peu comme si ce pouvoir-guignol, lui non plus, n’était pas au courant qu’il y a tant de nazis dans ses colonnes d’infanterie... Tant d’étonnements, de surprises inquiètes, de vertus soudain dans la préoccupation et sur la défensive ! Se pourrait-il que la grande démocratie ukrainienne soit menacée par un autre danger que l’omniprésente menace poutinienne ?

Voici donc l’article du 11 septembre 2014, du Guardian certes, qui explore et dénonce la menace que constitue le bataillon Azov, parmi d’autres... Mais ce n’est pas fini et l’on vous rassure aussitôt. En effet, la tonalité de l’arrticle autant que les confidences d’un Dimitri, bien à propos puisqu’il est Russe, vous suggèrent des conceptions encore plus audacieuses. Ce n’est rien de moins que cette idée selon laquelle, bien qu’ayant combattu les séparatistes prorusses et les très nombreuses divisions russes qui occupent l’Ukraine de l’Est comme on ne peut pas ne pas le savoir, les nazis d’Azov sont finalement assez pro-russes, c’est-à-dire pro-extrémistes russes, en faveur de ces gens qui veulent une Grande Russie expansionniste, – ce qui juistifie complètement la russophobie habituelle du Guardian et du reste. Dimitri, du bataillon Azov, n’en veut finalement qu’à Poutine, notre Hitler postmoderne de service, dont on apprend alors de la bouche du même Dilitri du bataillon Azov qu’il est juif (on parle de Poutine, là, pas de Hitler ni de Dimitri). Du coup, la “démonisation” de Poutine reste tout de même un facteur à réexaminer au sein de la fantasy-narrative en pleine refonte. Il est bien lourd de complexités diverses et humaines, le sort du conteur de fantasy-narrative.

«“I have nothing against Russian nationalists, or a great Russia,” said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a machine gunner positioned in the back. “But Putin's not even a Russian. Putin's a Jew.” Dmitry – which he said is not his real name – is a native of east Ukraine and a member of the Azov battalion, a volunteer grouping that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war with pro-Russia separatists. The Azov, one of many volunteer brigades to fight alongside the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, has developed a reputation for fearlessness in battle.

»But there is an increasing worry that while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state, when the conflict in the east is over. The Azov causes particular concern due to the far right, even neo-Nazi, leanings of many of its members.

»Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a military leader, and believes the Holocaust never happened. Not everyone in the Azov battalion thinks like Dmitry, but after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views, and almost all to be intent on “bringing the fight to Kiev” when the war in the east is over.

»The battalion's symbol is reminiscent of the Nazi Wolfsangel, though the battalion claims it is in fact meant to be the letters N and I crossed over each other, standing for “national idea”. Many of its members have links with neo-Nazi groups, and even those who laughed off the idea that they are neo-Nazis did not give the most convincing denials. “Of course not, it's all made up, there are just a lot of people who are interested in Nordic mythology,” said one fighter when asked if there were neo-Nazis in the battalion. When asked what his own political views were, however, he said “national socialist”. As for the swastika tattoos on at least one man seen at the Azov base, “the swastika has nothing to do with the Nazis, it was an ancient sun symbol,” he claimed. The battalion has drawn far-right volunteers from abroad, such as Mikael Skillt, a 37-year-old Swede, trained as a sniper in the Swedish army, who described himself as an “ethnic nationalist” and fights on the front line with the battalion.

»Despite the presence of these elements, Russian propaganda that claims Kiev's “fascist junta” wants to cleanse east Ukraine of Russian speakers is overblown. The Azov are a minority among the Ukrainian forces, and even they, however unpleasant their views may be, are not anti-Russian; in fact the lingua franca of the battalion is Russian, and most have Russian as their first language.

»Indeed, much of what Azov members say about race and nationalism is strikingly similar to the views of the more radical Russian nationalists fighting with the separatist side. The battalion even has a Russian volunteer, a 30-year-old from St Petersburg who refused to give his name. He said he views many of the Russian rebel commanders positively, especially Igor Strelkov, a former FSB officer who has a passion for military re-enactments and appears to see himself as a tsarist officer. He “wants to resurrect a great Russia, said the volunteer; but Strelkov “is only a pawn in Putin's game,” he said, and he hoped that Russia would some time have a “nationalist, violent Maidan” of its own.»

Miw en ligne le 11 septembre 2014 à 11H12