"WAZ and the Magic Circle", a film about expat Ukrainian nationalists

[Strelnikov]

The WAZ in question is Walter A. Zaryckyj, the leader of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations, a front for the expatriate OUN-B (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Bandera faction) which exists in the US under a number of fronts. This film was compiled by researcher Moss Robeson, who runs the Substack blogs Bandera Lobby (https://banderalobby.substack.com/), Ukes, Kooks, & Spooks (https://mossrobeson.medium.com/), and Victims of Communism (https://vocinfo.substack.com/). Watch as Zaryckyj in 1989 plans to have Simon Wiesenthal nailed as a "Soviet agent" because Wiesenthal (after escaping a concentration camp in 1943) joined a Soviet partisan band and fought units of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the armed wing of the OUN-B) in occupied Ukraine. Endless denials that the Banderite organizations had anything to do with fascism while claiming that all of their enemies are "commies" and calling Wiesenthal a common Ukrainian-Russian ethnic slur. Never forget these people in this film are the ideologues of the post-2014 Ukraine, and that the society they have built is a parody of a democracy.

[Strelnikov]

Moss Robeson on Radio War Nerd (Mark Ames' and John Dolan's podcast) talking about NAFO. The first 60 minutes are the best of it.

The podcast:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir ... ce=w_share

Moss Robeson's blog post on NAFO that got him on Radio War Nerd:
https://mossrobeson.medium.com/ukes-koo ... 5b66e48508

[ericbarbour]

Passed this on to a NAFO fan.....they admit their "movement" has these problems, but people tend to overblow them. It's been like that for all of the Russia-Ukraine conflict since the Euromaidan; everything is conducted like a low-speed guerrilla war with almost no real media coverage. Instead we get nuts like Patrick Lancaster, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, and Gonzalo Lira "reporting" to us.

And it's being "well covered". Compared to conflicts in other parts of the world.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... consequenc

[Strelnikov]

The sequel, WAZ and the 'Nazi International':




This is a found-footage film of a 1985 Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations meeting and the aftermaths of the various people involved, mainly Yaroslav Stetsko, who had been involved in the Organization of Ukrainan Nationalists, Melnyk branch, aka the German-backed puppet government in occupied Ukraine. All of this links to Walter (Vlodko) A. Zaryckyj because he is part of that second generation of OUNists, because Stetsko had joined the Banderites, the followers of the far more radical Stepan Bandera, who is now the National Hero of Ukraine in the right-wing society Volodymyr Zelenskyy is running. A lot of the people at this videotaped 1985 meeting are professional political grifters when they aren't escaped Nazis.

[ericbarbour]

This is a found-footage film of a 1985 Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations meeting and the aftermaths of the various people involved, mainly Yaroslav Stetsko, who had been involved in the Organization of Ukrainan Nationalists, Melnyk branch, aka the German-backed puppet government in occupied Ukraine.

I can't resist pointing this out: the European extreme right is full of people still trying to fight World War II. It's embarrassing.

BTW: notice all the red links? Ukraine war WP editing is usually very partisan and focused on supporting either the Ukraine or Russian side. No one seems to care about this stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisat ... ts#Leaders

[Strelnikov]

This is a found-footage film of a 1985 Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations meeting and the aftermaths of the various people involved, mainly Yaroslav Stetsko, who had been involved in the Organization of Ukrainan Nationalists, Melnyk branch, aka the German-backed puppet government in occupied Ukraine.

I can't resist pointing this out: the European extreme right is full of people still trying to fight World War II. It's embarrassing.

BTW: notice all the red links? Ukraine war WP editing is usually very partisan and focused on supporting either the Ukraine or Russian side. No one seems to care about this stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisat ... ts#Leaders

There are probably articles about the red link OUN members in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine has an article on Oleh Shtul and Denys Kvitkovsky (both members of Melnyk's wing of the OUN). These articles could make good bases for bios, but en.Wikipedia is too Wiki-lawyerd, understaffed by competent editors, and frankly provincial to do the job. Also they would have to call a spade a spade and admit that OUN (both branches) is a fascist meta-organization with direct ties to the Holocaust and related war crimes (Bandera's UPA was not out there killing Poles and Hungarians by accident; this was an attempt at turning Western Ukraine into an "ethnically pure" Ukrainian state. NAFOites, especially the people with State Department or ex-US military ties, either don't know about this or will brush it off as "vatnik propaganda"; i.e. something created by the Russians or their supporters. Reality has an anti-nationalist bias.)

[Strelnikov]

"I can't resist pointing this out: the European extreme right is full of people still trying to fight World War II. It's embarrassing." - Eric Barbour.

That was the last time they felt the fight was worth their time, because a lot of these people are in love with Hitler or their local fascist dictator who was a witting tool of Hitler. Or Mussolini, if you are Croatian. All of those people in Moss Robeson's film are being videotaped or talking to the camera crew in 1985. WWII was only forty-something years in the past then. The possibility of bringing the fake Nazi states they had carved out of occupied Soviet territory, like "Cossackia" and "Idel-Ural", must have been alluring just because it seemed so impossible. These people are romantics, no matter what they say. They like impossible odds; Ben Shapiro being married is proof of that.