Stanislav Byshok Alexey Kochetkov NEONAZIS & EUROMAIDAN From democracy to dictatorship [Second edition] 2014 Stanislav Byshok, Alexey Kochetkov NEONAZIS & EUROMAIDAN. From democracy to dictator- ship. [Second edi on]. “Whoever is not jumping is a Moskal” is a chant that women and men of diff erent ages who took to Kiev Independence Square in win- ter 2013-2014 repeated trying to get warm. They kept jumping and laughing, for nobody in the ‘brave new world’ of the Ukrainian revo- lu on under Stepan Bandera’s banner fancied gaining the character of a staunch enemy of Ukrainian statehood. Mass demonstra ons of “angry ci zens” in Ukraine had objec ve reasons. This was a protest against ineff ec ve and corrupt govern- ment, against police and bureaucra c abuse of power, against unclear and dead-end policies of the President and the Government. All na onal libera on movements use the popular ideas and po- li cal sen ments that dominate the society as their posi ve mani- festo. Thus, exclusively le -wing ideologies were mainstream in the Russian Empire in 1917, radical Islamism was most popular in Arab countries during the Arab spring of 2012, whereas na onalism, also radical, turned mainstream in the Ukraine of 2013-2014. The book describes the development of Ukraine’s na onal- ist groups since 1991 un l present day. It focuses on the history of the parliamentary right-wing radical Svoboda party and the non- parliamentary Right Sector movement. The authors study the ideol- ogy, psychology and methods of poli cal struggle of these structures. The experts seek to answer the ques on: how did the radical neo-Nazi groups manage to become the key driving force behind the Ukrainian revolu on? wwww.kmbook.ru ISBN © Stanislav Byshok, Alexey Kochetkov, 2014 © Alexei Semenov, 2014 Transla on Anna E. Nikiforova, PhD in poli cal science CONTENTS Preface. Split Ukraine ..................................................................... Foreword to the Second Edi on ...................................................... Social-Na onal Party of Ukraine in the 1990s ................................. • Independent Ukraine .................................................................. • From SNPU to Svoboda: a brief history ....................................... • Internship in Chechnya ................................................................ • Interna onal connec ons of the SNPU ....................................... • Radical racism .............................................................................. • Eurointegra on “for Whites only” ............................................... The SNPU transforma on into Svoboda .......................................... • Fundamental Russophobia .......................................................... • Final solu on to the Russian ques on ........................................ • Language Myth ............................................................................ • War Myth .................................................................................... • Gender Mythology ...................................................................... • An -Semi sm .............................................................................. - 3 - Crimea and Tatar Allies of Svoboda ................................................. Svoboda crosses The Dnieper River ................................................. • “Party of Power” Special Project ................................................. • Na onal Socialism from Krupp to Kolomoyskyi ........................... • Pulp Fic on Made in Galicia ........................................................ Ukrainian Neo-Nazism against “Moscow” Orthodox Church ............................................... Na onalists in the Ukrainian Parliament ......................................... • Russian, Language of Occupants ................................................. • The European Parliament Denounces Ukrainian Neo-Nazis ................................................. • Ukrainian Na onalists Deny the Genocide against the Polish ........................................................................ • Fire at City Councils! .................................................................... • The Svoboda Party Takes Part in Blocking Up the Rada ............... Tyahnibok vs Yanukovich: Failed Plan of the Party of Regions .................................................. Stepan Bandera’s Euromaidan ........................................................ • New Year with Old Bandera ......................................................... • Bloody February .......................................................................... - 4 - The Right Sector ............................................................................. • Ukrainian Tyler Durden ............................................................... • Stepan Bandera Tryzub ................................................................ • The Patriots of Ukraine organiza on ........................................... • Ties between Neo-Nazi and Secret Services of Ukraine .................................................... • The UNA-UPSD ............................................................................ • The White Hammer ..................................................................... EuroNazis on the Euromaidan ......................................................... The Odessa massacre ...................................................................... • Trade-Unions Building on Fire ...................................................... • “Bravo to the murderers!” ........................................................... • Historical Parallels ........................................................................ The Psychology of Ukrainian Neo-Nazism ....................................... • Men Among the Ruins ................................................................. • Free-Floa ng Anxiety .................................................................. • Ritualism ...................................................................................... • What is Good and What is Bad? .................................................. • “It Is Not Us – It Is Life” ............................................................... • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters .................................... • Collec vism as Way Out of Individualism .................................... • Necessary Roughness .................................................................. • Mythology Yet Another Time ...................................................... • Stockholm Syndrome a la Ukraine ............................................... • Freedom from What and Freedom to What? .............................. - 5 - Conclusion ...................................................................................... Appendix ........................................................................................ • Manifesto of the Social Na onal Assembly – Patriots of Ukraine ...................................................................... • The Program of Implementa on of Ukrainian Na onal Idea in the Na on-Building of the Stepan Bandera Tryzub All-Ukrainian organiza on (summary) ......................................... • Alexei Semenov “Chronicle of the Crimes Commi ed by the Right-Wing Radical in Ukraine in February-March 2014” ............................................................ - 6 - Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed. The worst sufferer in this respect is, of course, the word liberty. Friedrich A. von Hayek, the economist and philosopher Our enemy has always been the Moscow nation itself as well as the current regime, whether Tsarist or Bolshevist, and the state and social system. Stepan Bandera, the leader of Ukrainian nationalism Preface. Split Ukraine “Whoever is not jumping is a Moskal1” is a chant that women and men of different ages who took to Kiev Maidan Neza- lezhnosti (Independence Square) in winter 2013-2014 repeated trying to get warm. They kept jumping and laughing, for nobody in the ‘brave new world’ of the Ukrainian revolution under Stepan Bandera’s banner fancied gaining the character of a staunch en- emy of Ukrainian statehood. The dictionary of the contemporary Ukrainian language and slang “Mislovo” calls Euromaidan the word of 2013. The word “maidan” (square) that became popular ten years before and seemed to have acquired a clear European implication. If any- thing, the EU and US officials welcomed mass demonstrations of citizens in the center of Kiev calling them nothing but a manifesta- tion of a conscious pro-European choice of the Ukrainian people. However, the first shots were heard afterwards and the first blood of the future “holy hundred” was shed. Mass demonstrations of “angry citizens” in Ukraine had objec- tive reasons. This was a protest against ineffective and corrupt gov- 1. Moskals (stems from a “Muscovite”) is a derogatory and pejorative label used by Ukrainians to talk about Russians. - 9 - ernment, against police and bureaucratic abuse of power, against unclear and dead-end policies of the President and the Govern- ment. The draconian crackdown by Berkut police unit on a few hundreds of students who took to Maidan who were unhappy