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Three Neo-Nazis Lead Ukraine’s Presidential Contest

Gallup Finds Ukrainians Despise All the Candidates

Eric Zuesse

Gallup headlined on March 21st, “Ukraine’s Election: Voters Disenchanted Ahead of Key Vote”, and “World-Low 9% of Ukrainians Confident in Government”.

Might the reason for both be that no candidate in the contest is respected by the Ukrainian public, and that only three — the candidates with the least-low public approval — are the only ones who have even a remote chance of winning, and that all three of those candidates are racist-fascists, or hold the ideology of nazism? This will be documented here:

Nazism, which is the ideology of fascism but with a heavy added component of racism, has been doing well in post-‘revolutionary’, or post-2013, or post ‘Maidan’ ‘revolution’, Ukrainian politics. The form of racism that dominates today’s Ukraine is against Russians more than against Jews, and so though the ideology is the same as was Germany’s nazi ideology, its main ethnic target isn’t the same. Some of Ukraine’s leading nazis are, in fact, Jews who hate Russians. Whereas Germany’s nazis wanted to exterminate all Jews, Ukraine’s nazis want to exterminate all Russians. But this is all that Ukraine’s voters are being offered, ever since the democratically elected President was thrown out in February 2014. He was fairly unpopular, but not as despised as the politicians who replaced him and his Government are.

The three top Presidential contenders in the upcoming March 31st election, as shown in all the polling, are:

I. Yulia Tymoshenko, the former ‘gas princess’ who had been convicted and sent to prison for skimming from Ukraine’s gas monopoly, the National Oil and Gas Company of Ukraine. She had established herself as a passionately anti-Russian Prime Minister and had been the preferred candidate of the Barack Obama US Administration to win the 25 May 2014 election, but that election was instead won by a more moderate anti-Russian, the candy and shipbuilding oligarch Petro Poroshenko, who, as President, continued the ethnic-cleansing campaign that had been started by the interim leader of Ukraine who had been selected as Ukraine’s leader in a famous phone call by Victoria Nuland, who was US President Obama’s top operative planning and executing the February 2014 US coup, which coup overthrew the elected President, who hadn’t been sufficiently anti-Russian to suit US President Obama.

When I posted the transcript of that phone call years later, I noted that: “This historically mega-important phone-call, which was posted to the internet a week later, on February 4th — three weeks before the man whom she named there received (just as she had instructed) the appointment to lead the post-coup Ukraine — isn’t even being denied by Washington. Instead, it’s either ignored by them, or else totally misrepresented, in the ‘historical’ accounts by the agents of the US regime.”

The person she selected there to rule the interim government was “Yats” Yatsenyuk, Tymoshenko’s choice, who was chosen because if Nuland had appointed Tymoshenko, then Tymoshenko would have been unable to run in the 25 May 2014 Ukrainian Presidential election.

II. Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent President, and Ukrainian oligarch who had beaten Tymoshenko in the 2014 contest. He continued the ethnic cleansing campaign because unless enough of the voters in the far eastern region of Ukraine — where the elected President who had been ousted had received over 90% of the votes — were killed or else evacuated Ukraine (mostly by fleeing into neighboring Russia), Ukraine would again have an insufficiently anti-Russian Government to satisfy the US Government, which wanted Ukraine in NATO.

Consequently, both the Obama Administration and the IMF were strong supporters of continuing the ethnic-cleansing campaign. (And the US regime is also using white phosphorous to burn whole areas to death in Syria, and a French officer who complained about it was punished by the French Government.) That campaign in far-east former Ukraine had enough success so as to ensure continuation of a rabidly anti-Russian Ukrainian Government, in elections such as now are taking place.

III. Volodmyr Zelenskiy, the popular Ukrainian actor and comedian who played Ukraine’s President on Ukranian TV, in a series telecast on a TV channel that is owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who, as a US-appointed governor in eastern Ukraine during Poroshenko’s Presidency, had planned and overseen in Odessa on 2 May 2014 a massacre of opponents of the US coup. Subsequently, Poroshenko fired Kolomoyskyi — an oil and gas oligarch himself — because Kolomoyskyi’s personal team of thugs, which he called his “militia,” had raided the National Oil and Gas Company of Ukraine, in order to expel the new government-appointed chief. So, Kolomoyskyi hates Poroshenko, and is determined that Poroshenko not be re-elected. His preferred candidate, and employee, Zelenskiy, leads in the polling, thus far. Zelenskiy is like a Ukrainian Donald Trump, who also won because he had no plicy-making track-record and he ran against people who did.

Here are recent polling results:

On March 13th, Reuters headlined “Comedian Zelenskiy extends Ukraine presidential poll lead”, and reported SOCIS polling during 5-10 March showed 20.7% for Zelenskiy, 13.2% for Poroshenko, and 11.0% for Tymoshenko.

Wikipedia’s article “Opinion polling for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election” shows trendlines for each polling organization and for each of the three major candidates. Zelenskiy is now around 25%, and both Poroshenko and Tymoshenko are each around 18%.

Therefore, Zelenskiy seems to be heading into a run-off against either Poroshenko or Tymoshenko.

The Gallup report on March 21st, “World-Low 9% of Ukrainians Confident in Government”, said that:

Currently in the lead — according to other national polls in Ukraine — is comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelensky, who is most widely known for playing the president of Ukraine in the popular television series “Servant of the People.” Like his character on the show, Zelensky is campaigning largely on an anti-corruption platform — which likely resonates with many voters. Incumbent Poroshenko is working to shift the focus off of the many scandals he has been accused of and is taking a hard-line stance, promising to join NATO and reclaim Crimea if he wins re-election. Tymoshenko initially led the large field of candidates but has fallen in the polls recently as rumors regarding her involvement in corrupt deals for natural gas have resurfaced.

However, whoever will ultimately win, will almost certainly continue the US Government’s campaign to get Ukraine admitted into America’s anti-Russian military alliance, NATO, so as to be able to place US missiles close enough to Moscow so that a blitz knockout blow to conquer Russia could — some US strategists hope and believe — become possible.

Obama’s strategy to conquer Russia is being carried forward by his successor, Trump.

Here is additional background on each of the three individuals who is a prospective next President of Ukraine:

Tymoshenko: In a phone-conversation with a political supporter on 18 March 2014, while Tymoshenko was Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s preferred candidate to replace the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Obama’s February 2014 entirely illegal and very bloody coup in Ukraine had just recently overthrown, the then Ukrainian candidate to replace Yanukovych, Tymoshenko said “We should take weapons and shoot those God damned Russians along with their leader [Putin]. … I hope that [as Ukraine’s President] I will use all my connections [especially Obama and Clinton], and stir the entire world to action in order to make Russia into a field of scorched earth. … We should burn them with nuclear weapons!” Since Ukraine had no nuclear weapons, she was expressing there the hope that her connections inside the US White House and State Department would produce a Third World War that would terminate Russia.

Poroshenko: The way he carried out the ethnic-cleansing campaign that had been started by the interim leader of Ukraine whom Obama’s agent Victoria Nuland had appointed, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, was to capture and kill all leaders of the resistance, and to bomb and terrorize into submission the residents in the resisting region. Under Yatsenyuk, a system was planned to be patterned upon Hitler’s treatment of Jews, Gypsies and other unwanted people, and it entailed concentration camps, but Poroshenko just wanted the people to die or else escape into Russia, so they’d not be voting in any future Ukrainian election. He also wanted the US to help him to defeat the resistors, so that Ukraine could retake Crimea, which had been part of Ukraine during 1954-2014 but was Russian — and strongly pro-Russian ever since at least 1783. The Soviet dictator, Khruschchev, had been Ukrainian, and he arbitrarily transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954. Obama and Clinton insisted that Khruschev’s arbitrary decision continue to be honored, regardless of what the residents of Crimea wanted. Trump does likewise.

Zelenskiy: His patron, Kolomoyskyi, was one of the two main planners of the 2 May 2014 extermination inside the Odessa Trade Unions building, in which people who had distributed leaflets opposing the coup were trapped and burned and clubbed and shot to death. Like Donald Trump when Trump had run for the US Presidency in 2016 against Clinton, Zelenskiy has no political track-record, but only political blatherings, by which his alleged policy-views can become (however dubiously) inferred by voters. And he seems likely to become Ukraine’s President in the same way that Trump did: by having no actual policymaking track-record, and running against opponent(s) whose policymaking track-records the electorate already know to be rotten.

The US regime praises Ukraine now as a ‘democracy’ (and Americans apparently believe that). Before the US take-over, it was called (by the US Government and its allies) ‘authoritarian’ or ‘a dictatorship’. (That was when Ukraine had a freely elected President, who represented the whole country, instead of a truncated country, without the two regions that have the most strongly pro-Russia voters, who had voted the heaviest for that democratically elected President. The US regime wants to control those regions, too, but without its residents. The US regime wants the land, but not the people. The US wants those people there eliminated. This is the type of ‘democracy’ America now is.)

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Kseeva
Kseeva
Aug 6, 2019 9:27 AM

Are You idiot?

Moscow Exile
Moscow Exile
Mar 27, 2019 1:22 PM

“The Soviet dictator, Khruschchev, had been Ukrainian, and he arbitrarily transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954.”

Khruschchev did not transfer the Crimea from Russia to the Ukraine in 1954: he transferred the Crimean Oblast’ (province) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR), both of which Soviet republics were subjects of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

There was no country called the Ukraine in 1954, nor was there then a country called Russia.

The transfer was done in order to alter the internal administration of the USSR, and illegally done at that.

[In what I have written above, I have not followed the prescriptive English grammatical “rules” concerning the use of articles before the names of countries as laid down by self-appointed Ukrainian experts in my mother tongue. I wonder why they never criticize German speakers for saying “die Ukraine”, or, as the case may be as regards the case of that noun in a sentence, “der Ukraine”?]

axisofoil
axisofoil
Mar 26, 2019 5:49 AM

Damn!!!….wrong choice
https://youtu.be/LrBIm1zKhW4

vierotchka
vierotchka
Mar 26, 2019 4:42 AM

I am trying hard to work out which of these three is the lesser evil.

Perhaps there is no lesser evil there.

David Eire
David Eire
Mar 26, 2019 1:59 AM

Yulia Tymoshenko would make a great villain in a Bond movie

Igor
Igor
Mar 26, 2019 1:01 AM

The “gas princess” has Lizzie Holmes’ (Theranos fraud) fashion sense.

Igor
Igor
Mar 26, 2019 12:59 AM

Before I read he article I looked at the images. The left image looked like a typical Jewish entertainer.

I’d make a sarcastic comment about the quality of candidates, but after USA 2016’s crop of candidates, I can’t see where Ukraine is any different.

The ZioNATO empire cannot die too soon.

eddie
eddie
Mar 25, 2019 5:01 PM

Surprising to see General Porkchop’s ratings improve by 10 points in the past 2 weeks, but then the ‘unofficial word’ is that a vote for him is now worth 5000 UAH ($185 ), whereas it was only 1000 UAH ($36) 2 weeks ago.
In some recent public campaigning in his ‘safe’ Lvov region, He has somehow managed to gain bad publicity with his responces to negative questions at these forums; rudely tweaking a miner’s nose, knocking the cap off of a girl’s head, doubting whether an impovorished pensioner was actually impovorished, etc, and drunkenly thanking them for “assisting” the aggressors (russians)..

The unofficial word (www.infocenter-odessa.com) is that the Gas Princess is only offering 500 UAH ($18) for a vote, but what is a poor girl to do, after sitting a Kharkov prison sentence for corruption, with little time to pilfer more swag?

The Zelensky ‘bad actor’ seems to be the wild card, and might be the people’s only protest vote against 2 verifiable scoundrels..

Egor Tilpunov
Egor Tilpunov
Mar 25, 2019 1:30 PM

Nice article. The author should consider a carrier with RT or globalresearch.ca

Eric Zuesse
Eric Zuesse
Mar 26, 2019 2:58 PM
Reply to  Egor Tilpunov

Global Research’s owner Michel Chossudovsky took a disliking to me when I suggested some ways in which he can improve his site. So, since that time, he hasn’t accepted any of my submitted articles. RT never did.

tutisicecream
tutisicecream
Mar 25, 2019 1:03 PM

Sadly Ukraine has become another basket case in the region, no amount of soap can polish that pig! I’ve lived and worked the region over a period of 20 years and always found Russians to be polite and hospitable but Ukrainians to be somewhat crass and often crude.

Of course I’m generalising to some degree. However when you observe the political situation you realise that the lies which have been spun through the WMSM are pure fiction. The blatant destabilisation of the region by the Obama administration through the unelected technocrat Nuland in cahoots with the CIA [Brennan] and Pyatt indicate the level of planned subversion. Not to forget the Labour Baroness Catherine Ashton and her supine diplomatic response to this cabal leaves you with a clear view of the crock which has been created there under the auspices of the EU also.

All under instructions from the US of A. So now we have another stage in the devolution of the Ukraine an election of European proportions where the candidates are resented by the population almost as much as Macron is in France! So democracy is alive and well in the Neo-con/ Neo-liberal brain cell it’s just not what you thought it was…or what they led you to believe.

Frankly Speaking
Frankly Speaking
Mar 25, 2019 10:57 AM

World War 3 will break out over Ukraine.

wardropper
wardropper
Mar 25, 2019 8:32 PM

WW3 will break out over our amazing ability to tolerate absolutely anything in our so-called representatives.

John A
John A
Mar 25, 2019 9:42 AM

The US wants Ukraine for 3 reasons;
1. Crimea as a Nato naval base
2. The wonderful fertile breadbasket soil for GMO crops
3. Fracking potential, Biden Snr and Jnr already had their fingers in that pie.
If it takes ethnic cleansing as in the US of native indians and Palestine of native Palestinians, then so be it.

Some Random Passer-by
Some Random Passer-by
Mar 25, 2019 7:18 PM
Reply to  John A

Not so sure that it’s because NATO want the base. It’s more to do with depriving the Russians.

If my memory serves me correctly, Crimea is the only Atlantic access port. If the Russians lose the port, they lose a lot of power and mobility.

Also makes it easy for the Septics (and willful accomplices) to lock down their naval operations with only Pacific access

vierotchka
vierotchka
Mar 26, 2019 4:40 AM

Crimea is Russia’s only Mediterranean access port. Russia has an Atlantic access ports in St Petersburg, in Arkhangelsk, in Murmansk and in Kaliningrad.

Jen
Jen
Mar 26, 2019 5:35 AM

NATO wants the base at Sevastopol because whoever controls the base can exercise surveillance of the entire Black Sea area (including Turkey’s maritime territory along its north coast) and monitor all sea traffic.
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It’s an open secret on Internet forums that the US Navy had issued tenders for the renovation of a school for naval officers’ children in the Sevastopol military base in early 2014.

http://theduran.com/u-s-navy-tender-construction-work-sevastopol-crimea-hints-u-s-military-coveted-controlling-historic-russian-peninsula/

The tender itself:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=2bb691b61c59be3a68180bd8c614a0cb&_cview=1%E2%80%9D

Antonym
Antonym
Mar 27, 2019 3:19 AM

Creating animosity between Ukraine from Russia has already given Langley / Pentagon big pay off. The USSR defense industry had spread their production units all around. Today a main jet engine factory is in the Ukraine, while the plane body shop is in Russia: result is that non can deliver an existing order of a full planes or helicopters to their clients abroad or domestically. Same with certain ships etc.
Mission accomplished for the US defense industry.

MichaelK
MichaelK
Mar 25, 2019 7:58 AM

Having family roots in the west of Ukraine going back centuries; Austrians moving, fighting, east along the Carpathian mountains, I was amused and stunned by the Guardian’s sudden interest in that part of eastern Europe, especially as they appeared to have next to no actual understanding, knowlege or perceptions worthy of the name about the place! Indeed, as with so much in the Guardian and the wider media, ignorance and stupidity actully seem to be a ‘qualification’ for them, for example, Luke Harding.

Yarkob
Yarkob
Mar 25, 2019 5:11 PM
Reply to  MichaelK

calling Luke Harding ignorant and stupid is a bit of an insult to ignorant, stupid people everywhere