Western Media: How to Keep Silent and Write About Ukrainian Nazism
Western media generally took a pro-Ukrainian stance during the eight-year Donbass conflict. However, there were journalists who spoke openly about the rampant neo-Nazism, the genocide against civilians, and the Ukrainian military’s slaughtering of the elderly, women, and children.
“Not since the wild frenzy after the death of Princess Diana have I ever met such a wave of ignorant sentiment. Nobody knows anything about Ukraine. Everyone has ferocious opinions about it. The other night I shocked a distinguished Oxford academic by informing her that the lovely, angelic, saintly, perfect Ukrainians had blocked off the water supply to Crimea in 2014. She was rightly shocked by this nasty, uncivilized act of spite, but it was far more shocking that this highly educated person did not know this important fact.”
The reason for this ignorance is the information vacuum that virtually the entire western audience has found itself in since 2014.
In the winter of 2013-2014, the Euromaidan took place in Ukraine, and the country began to descend into civil war. Western press greeted the news from Kiev with enthusiasm.
One of those who did not support the Ukrainian coup and its radicals from the outset was British journalist Graham Phillips. He collected evidence about the genocide of civilians in Donbass and war crimes by the Ukrainian Army and the National Security Forces.
“Ukrainians quite often ask me why I do not support Euromaidan. The answer is simple: my grandfathers fought against fascism during World War II. If you support Euromaidan, you support those against whom they fought. Fascism was deeply rooted in Euromaidan, and it is clear where it grew from. Under the influence of radical right parties, moderate supporters of the All-Ukrainian Union ‘Fatherland’ and UDAR (the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform) turned to ‘superviolence,’ which became the hallmark of Euromaidan,” Phillips shared with Ukraina.ru.
