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The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations & World Anticommunist League The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations & World AntiCommunist League The ABN logo Postwar service to empire “Prime Minister of Ukraine” Yaroslav used an an- After WWII, the CSN had to replace (Jun. 30 ~ Jul. 5, 1941) cient German its Nazi sponsors. In 1946, with OUN-B leader: Deputy Stetsko wolfsangel funding from the US, UK and West (1940-68), Chair. (1960- 68) and Pres. (1968-86) emblem. It German governments,5 the CSN Chair., ABN (1946-86) was an early became the ABN. Its “most active Exec. Board Member, group” remained the OUN(B).6 In symbol of the WACL (1966-86) Nazis and their 1951, US army intelligence said the SS divisions. OUN(B) was “composed of rough, tough younger men of strong The wolfangel was later used by AZOV convictions without white-power Aryan Nations, the Chris- the slightest aversion tian Identity movement, Ukraine’s neo- to violent murder or Nazi Social-National Party (now Svo- otherwise ruthlessly boda) and the Azov Battalion (a fascist disposing of any and militia that aided the 2014 Maidan coup all opposition.”7 and is now part of Ukraine’s military). ABN leadership was a he Edmonton-based Encyclopedia who’s who of fascists. Its president from World AntiCommunist League (WACL) of Ukraine states that the AntiBol- 1946 until his death in 1986, was Bandera’s Through the 1950s and 1960s, Stetsko attended shevik Bloc of Nations (ABN): deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko. During a 1981 visit meetings of the Asian People’s AntiCommunist T League. Created in 1954 by US-backed regimes attributes its existence and its ideologi- to the US to celebrate the 40th anniversary cal foundations to an underground con- of the OUN-B declaration of an “independ- in South Korea, South Vietnam, Taiwan and the ference of representatives of non-Russian ent” proNazi Ukraine, Stetsko summed up Philippines, it joined with Stetsko’s ABN and oth- peoples ... on 21-22 Nov. 1943 near Zhy- the ABN’s goal and its violent strategy: er fascist entities from six continents to form the tomyr [Ukraine] on the initiative of the The complete destruction of the Russian World AntiCommunist League (WACL) in 1966. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists empire through a Ukrainian national Besides Stetsko, the WACL’s leaders in- [OUN] and at which a platform of joint revolution and armed uprisings of all cluded Japanese war criminals, Nazi politicians, revolutionary struggle against Russian subjugated nations is the only means for Italian terrorists, death-squad organizers from El communism was formulated.... The goal achieving an independent Ukrainian state of the ABN was the dismemberment of Salvador and Guatemala, US-allied dictators (Ar- 1 and the liberation of all nations subju- the Soviet Union into national states.... gated by Moscow.8 (Emphasis added) gentina’s Jorge Videla, South Korea’s Park Chung- This 1943 meeting, facilitated by Stepan Other ABN leaders included fascist Hungar- hee and Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner), CIA of- Bandera’s OUN(B), was instigated by the ian general Ferenc Farkas, Croatian general ficials, Moonie cult leaders, Saudi sheikhs, Nica- Nazis to create an “Anti-Bolshevik Front.” Hinko Alabanda (whose Ustaša death camps raguan contras, Afghan mujahideen and retired Its 39 delegates from twelve “enslaved” So- killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews US Gen. John Singlaub who founded WACL’s viet ethnic groups formed a network of “un- and Roma), and CIA advisor Ferdinand Dur- US chapter (1981) and led the WACL (1984-86). derground” armies. Calling themselves the canský, former foreign minister of clerico- WACL events were graced by Senators, Committee of Subjugated Nations (CSN), fascist state of Slovakia. (See pp.40-41.) Congressmen, MPs and archbishops. Its 1984 this alliance of fascist armies “was the di- As a Cold War asset of the CIA, the confab had greetings from US Pres. Reagan. No rect precursor” of the ABN, “though nation- ABN was central to its propaganda vehicles, mere think tank, it was “an instrument for the 2 alists continue to deny its Nazi origins.” like Radio Liberation from Bolshevism. (See practice of unconventional warfare—assassina- The Red Army defeated the Nazis in pp.10-11.) As Jonathan Levy notes: tions, death squads, sabotage—throughout the 9 huge 1943 battles in Kursk and Stalingrad. The ABN became the darling of the cold world.” After the USSR’s destruction, it became Nazi military intelligence (Abwehr) and the warriors ... and its questionable person- the World League for Freedom and Democracy. Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern alities given full access to Radio Liberty References and notes and other propaganda venues. Radio Lib- Territories (led by fascist ideologue Alfred 1. Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, Encyclopedia of erty itself was sharply criticized as a Rosenberg) turned to their strongest eastern Ukraine. bit.ly/2qxw1TV allies: the OUN-B and its Ukrainian Insur- mouthpiece for antisemitism and glorifi- cation of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators.9 2. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of gent Army (UPA). In 1943, they were joined Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, 2000, Throughout the Cold War, the ABN held by deserters from the Red Army and from p.229. bit.ly/MI6-OUNB non-German SS units, including Belo- some of its largest large events in Toronto. 3. Ibid. russians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turke- (See pp.60-63.) Its 1986 congress there re- 4. Russ Bellant, Old Nazis New Right and the Repub- stanians, Cossacks, Armenians, Uzbeks, ceived “warm greetings” from Pres. Reagan lican Party, 1991, pp.72-73. Tartars and even Russians.3 and PM Mulroney. Toronto was fertile 5. Scott Anderson and Jon Anderson, Inside the Besides the UPA, the CSN includ- ground for the ABN because many of the League, 1986, p.35. ed Romania’s Iron Guard, Hungary’s Arrow far-right immigrants selected by Canada, 6. Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, op. cit. Cross, Slovakia’s Hlinka Guard and other settled in Toronto after the war. There they 7. Cited by Jonathan Levy, The Intermarium: Wilson, Madison, and East Central European Federalism, fascist legions from the Baltics, Bulgaria and formed groups representing the antiSoviet 4 2006, p.319. (PhD thesis, Poli. Sci.) bit.ly/Levy-ABN Belorussia. Sharing the Nazi’s rabid hatred diaspora from Europe’s “captive nations.” 8. Syracuse Herald-American, Oct.11, 1981, in ABN of Russians, Jews and communists, the CSN In 1996, after achieving the Nazi- Correspondence, Mar/Apr 1982, p.39. bit.ly/ABN-82 sought to obliterate the USSR by dividing it cum-CIA dream of destroying their common 9. Ibid., p.321 into ethnically-cleansed, Christian states. Soviet enemy, the ABN ceased operations. 10. Anderson and Anderson, op. cit., p.11. 48 Press for Conversion! Issue # 70 January 2021 Yaroslav Stetsko: Leader of proNazi Ukraine, 1941 Whitewashing Stetsko’s Ukraine Ukrainian ethnonationalists deny OUN(B) Etobicoke links to Nazism. For example, in its article Ontario on the 1941 Act of Ukrainian Statehood, the 2012 Encyclopedia of Ukraine does not mention the OUN-B’s declaration’s effusive alliance with Hitler, the Nazis and “the Allied Ger- man Army against Moscovite occupation.” Instead, it decries communist criticism of the OUN(B) efforts saying: “Soviet author- ities ... painted them in the blackest terms as the perfidious undertakings of evil collabo- rators riding on the coattails of the Nazis.”4 Celebrating Stetsko’s 100th anniversary Similarly, the proBandera-Stetsko at a Ukrainian cultural centre, uniformed League of Ukrainian Canadians used the ca- members of the Ukrainian Youth Assoc. sko100 nard of Nazi-Soviet equivalency to praise tet marched with flags of Ukraine, Canada the OUN-B’s 1941 proclamation, by saying: and Bandera’s fascist OUN(B) army. when Ukraine was sandwiched between bit.ly/S two likeminded, murderous invaders, So- n June 30, 1941, one week after Promoting genocide viet Russia from the east and Nazi Ger- their Operation-Barbarossa inva- That same day, OUN(B) notices plastered many from the west ... Stepan Bandera sion of the USSR, the Nazis took all over Lviv incited Ukrainians to ethnical- and Yaroslav Stetsko, gave the nation O hope for a better, free, democratic future Lviv, Ukraine. Marching with them was the ly cleanse their newly-created nation state: by bravely declaring independence....5 Nachtigall Battalion. It was allied to Stepan Do not throw away your weapons now. Bandera’s fascist Organization of Ukrain- Take them in your hands. Destroy the en- References and notes emy .… People! Know! Moscow, Po- ian Nationalists (OUN-B) which then pro- 1. Samostiyna Ukraina, July 10, 1941, p.1, cited land, the Hungarians, the Jews are your in John A. Armstrong, Ukrainian National- claimed an “independent” Ukraine and gave enemies. Destroy them! ism, 1963, pp.79-80. bit.ly/UkraineAct its total support to Nazi Germany. Bandera’s Know! Your leadership is the Lead- Ibid. deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko, declared himself ership of Ukrainian Nationalists, is the 2. , p.81. 3. Nationalist placard posted in Lviv on 30 June the prime minister, while Nachtigall com- OUN. Your Leader is Stepan Bandera. Your goal is an Independent United 1941 incites pogroms bit.ly/OUNBsigns mander and OUN(B) leader, Roman Shuk- 4. Michael Savaryn, “Proclamation of Ukrain- hevych, became deputy defence minister. Ukrainian State. Your path is the path of the Ukrainian National Revolution, the ian statehood, 1941,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 1993. bit.ly/ActUkraine Ukraine’s fascist state, 1941 path of armed struggle, the path of the OUN. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the He- (The author is likely Peter Savaryn’s son, see p.X.) The 1941 Act of Ukrainian Statehood glori- roes! Glory to the Leader!3 5. Ihor Dlaboha, “75 Years Ago Ukrainian Na- fied what it called their “bloody battle with After thus unleashing mass murder in Lviv, tion re-established Statehood,” Jun.
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