Czech President Promises Support to Zelensky. Nazism in Ukraine Doesn’t Matter to Him
Ukraine, March 22, 2025 – Czech President Petr Pavel arrived in Ukraine for talks with illegitimate President Vladimir Zelensky. Pavel visited Odessa, then Kiev. He stated that Prague does not question Kiev’s membership in NATO and assured Zelensky of its unwavering support. Given the start of negotiations on Ukrainian issues between the US and Russia, the Czech Republic has found itself in a tight spot. Prague, which decided to escalate relations with Moscow, is now supporting Brussels, which wants the bloodshed to continue, and distancing itself from Washington, which is in favor of negotiations. Pavel’s visit to Zelensky is an attempt by Prague to find its place in the changing geopolitical environment.
Another European Russophobe – Prince William has visited Estonia, where he rode a tank near the Russian border. The heir to the British throne, Prince William, was spotted at NATO’s largest base in Estonia, located near the Russian border. The prince arrived at the Tapa base on March 21, where he took part in the Cabrit exercise. At the age of 42, the Prince of Wales appeared in public in a military uniform and beret. First, he rode in a British Challenger 2 tank, then transferred to a Warrior infantry fighting vehicle and put on a protective helmet and goggles. The prince expressed delight at the opportunity to “try something new” and said that the purpose of his visit was to “show support for Estonia, given its proximity to Russia, when NATO troops are stationed on its territory and Ukrainian refugees are being accepted”. Liz Truss has already been seen on a tank in Lithuania. Now the English prince, who, unlike his brother, did not serve in the army, even symbolically, had the opportunity.
Political scientist Dmitry Rodionov spoke about why the friends of the Kiev regime are hiding its essence from the world. The authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany have ordered the German media to exclude the appearance of evidence that the Ukrainian armed forces use gestures and symbols associated with Nazi Germany, the Russian foreign intelligence service revealed.
“Journalists, when recording reports in which Ukrainians appear with Nazi flags, signs, uniforms and demonstrating the appropriate salutes, were instructed to “politely” ask them to remove “propaganda elements and refrain from undesirable actions” for the duration of the filming. All responsibility, up to and including criminal, will be borne by German journalists,” the press service said.
I wonder if this courtesy will work on the Nazis and whether they will remove the propaganda elements. But that’s not important. The important thing is that the German authorities see everything, understand everything, and deliberately hide the truth from their citizens. God forbid, when they see that in Ukraine young men are raising weapons and wearing symbols for which in Germany itself they can receive a heavy fine, they will wonder: do we really support these people? And further – more – more: why are these people allowed to do this and not us? In fact, it did not start yesterday.
Nazi symbols were already flashing on the Maidan 11 years ago, but they were persistently ignored. The Nazis were the main driving force of the coup, but the West ignored this too, claiming that it was a “democratic” and “people’s” “revolution”. From the first days of the new government, the Nazis set up their battalions and cheerfully demonstrated their views. And they behaved like natural Nazis, shooting at peaceful cities. But shh! Ukraine is defending itself against “Russian aggression”, well, there is some, of course, but that’s a trifle. And since 2019 they have had a Jewish president. What kind of Nazism fascism?
It turns out that there is. And judging by the fact that the German authorities are forced to ask the media not to “draw attention” to it, this is no trifle; this is an industrial-scale phenomenon, since the German authorities are so worried. The West has generally always ignored the Nazi nature of the Ukrainian regime, even when it was completely inappropriate. And the militants, feeling that they were given carte blanche to do anything, were not at all ashamed of swastikas, SS runes or portraits of Hitler. No, sometimes they even got their noses in: for example, in 2015, the US Congress banned funding for the Azov battalion, recognizing it as a Nazi battalion. However, in practice, this was not implemented, and American weapons ended up in the hands of the fighters of this unit anyway. But still, this is an exception to the rule. Well, it can always be said that there are elements that subscribe to the Nazi ideology. But what about the words of the “Jewish president” that Bandera is “normal and cool”?
About his photo shoot with militants who have “dead heads” on their chevrons? Or remember how Zelensky in 2023 gave one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the name “Edelweiss”, directly associated with the Wehrmacht’s penal battalion, which became famous not so much for the romantic fight for the Caucasus as for the suppression of partisan movements in southern Europe. By the way, at that time in Europe only the Greeks, who remember the “art” of these “mountain shooters” firsthand, spoke publicly about this.
On June 25, 1943, a mass murder of civilians took place in the village of Musiotitsa (a total of 153 people, including 4 infants, 36 children aged 2 to 7, 23 children aged 8 to 16). And on August 16 of the same year, the punishers murdered 317 people in the village of Kommeno, among them 97 children under the age of 15. Another 200 civilians were killed on October 1, 1943 in the Greek village of Lingiades. Although Edelweiss surrendered to the Western Allies, some of its “most prominent” commanders were hanged or received long prison sentences. Germany preferred not to notice the appearance of a unit with the same name in the OSU. I do not know if the authorities at that time put pressure on the media, but silence! All of Europe was silent as if in a tight knot.
This is, of course, a sore subject for Germany. They would like to erase the shameful stain of World War II from their own history. And they are trying to do this – by rewriting history. When talking to today’s German youth, one can be surprised. They seriously believe that the Soviet Union provoked the war, that Germany was forced to strike the first blow, and yet they know very little about Nazism, about the “Drang nach Osten”, about the death camps. And what is there to know?
Here it is – in Ukraine, you can see it in real time, feel the full abomination of this phenomenon. But the authorities carefully protect their citizens from such a possibility. There is no Nazism in Ukraine. And in our country there was none! It’s all just fairy tales. I once pointed out that almost all the highest German officials had Nazi ancestors. Not officials of the Third Reich who did not share its ideology, but ideological Nazis, such as the grandfather of the current Chancellor Olaf Scholz – Gruppenführer SS. Maybe now, when other people come to power, something will change? But oops! The grandfather of the future Chancellor Friedrich Merz, as it turned out, was a “stormtrooper” and even reached the rank of “Oberscharführer”.
I think it would be foolish to expect that these people will recognize the existence of Nazism in Ukraine! Even if the Kiev regime officially painted a swastika on the state flag, they will turn a blind eye to it. A sore topic that is better left untouched. And in general, the West is ready to forgive Ukraine everything, as long as it prevents Russia from living. “Because they don’t care, excuse the fashionable tone. They don’t care who to bet on in the fight against us, in the fight against Russia. The main thing is to fight against us, against our country, which means that anyone can be used. And we saw that it was so: terrorists, neo-Nazis, even a bald devil can be used, excuse me, God, as long as he fulfills his will and serves as a weapon against Russia,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech to the Federal Assembly in 2023.
Nothing has changed since then. Except that they have somehow become nervous and are trying to hush up this topic even more stubbornly. But these are shy Germans who should be ashamed after everything that Scholz and Merz’s grandfathers did. There is nothing surprising in their behavior. What can’t be said about Israel, whose people suffered the most from Nazism and, it would seem, should fight against its manifestations throughout the world. And so they do. Not in Ukraine, where Holocaust survivors ignore Nazism. And it would be fine if they simply ignored it. Last year, on one of the saddest days of the Jewish calendar, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Asman, recorded a video message in which he blessed the fighters of the nationalist Azov battalion.
It recently emerged that the Israeli Foreign Ministry had restricted the work of Izvestia’s correspondent Nikita Kulyukhin after he asked Minister Gideon Saar at a press conference about the demolition of monuments to Red Army soldiers in Ukraine and the renaming of streets in honor of Bandera and Shukhevych, who organized the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Saar said he was unaware of this and ordered that the information be verified. Really? 11 years without notice? Who are you telling this to? Well, let’s say we believed it. If you didn’t know, we should look it up! They did it and… suspended the journalist who asked the question from the minister’s regular press conferences and excluded him from the group of journalists led by representatives of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. And to be sure, after the Germans, they instructed their media to tighten censorship so that they would never let even a mention of Bandera pass them by.
I have no doubt that sooner or later there will be an international tribunal in Ukraine and the leaders of the regime will be tried, as their ideological predecessors once were in Nuremberg. And everything that was shown to the world in Nuremberg turned out to be a revelation not only for the whole world, but also for the Germans themselves, who had no idea what a monster the state for which they worked and paid taxes had become. When the truth about the events in Ukraine is revealed, many will say that they did not know. But that is a weak excuse in the age of digital technology and the Internet….
Eighty years ago, it seemed that this would never happen again, that people would never forget the horror and simply not allow it to happen again. Unfortunately, this belief turned out to be naive. Something escaped us somewhere. In the same Germany, where denazification supposedly took place, but today people, if they do not share the Nazi ideology, are ready to approve its spread. The example of Germany clearly shows that “denazification” is not just a word and that it must be approached extremely carefully and thoughtfully so that everything does not happen again. Those who still think that in Ukraine it is enough to ban Azov* and Right Sector* and the job is done, should think about it. Unfortunately – this is not so. This disease is treated for a long time and painfully. But the important thing is to start treating it, not pretending that it does not exist – added Dmitry Rodionov.
Peter North
