Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine Declares Nazism Must Be Banned To Win Peace in Ukraine

Dec. 25, 2019 (EIRNS)—The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU), chaired by Schiller Institute co-thinker, economist, and former deputy in the Supreme Rada Natalia Vitrenko, issued a policy statement on Dec. 5 just prior to the Dec. 9 Normandy Format meeting of the Presidents of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in Paris. The PSPU there reiterated its commitment to the Minsk Accords and advocacy of a long-term, mutually-beneficial gas contract with Russia, but warned bluntly that in order for there to be any progress towards restoring peace in Ukraine, the “continuing unlimited power of the Nazi parties, movements and militarized battalions” over Ukraine’s power structures (the National Guard, Ministry of Internal Affairs, National Police, and Ministry of Defense, included), must be internationally recognized and crushed.

The statement summarized this point in its conclusion:

“The previous [Normandy Format] Paris meeting [in 2015] omitted a question of greatest importance for Ukraine and the world community: that is, to condemn Ukrainian Nazism and recognize it as a terrorist ideology, and to demand a ban on all Nazi and neo-Nazi fascist political parties and movements, and militarized battalions, and their dissolution. Without resolving this most crucial problem, there will not be peace in Ukraine, agreements will not be implemented, and the country will not be democratized. On the contrary, there will be a growing threat of yet another bloody coup in Ukraine. [President Volodymyr] Zelensky is going to Paris, and he is afraid to adopt or approve the decisions needed for the world, because he fears a Nazi coup.”

The party states that these Nazi militants and politicians are “implementing the Brzezinski-Obama foreign principle: war with Russia to the ‘last Ukrainian,’ ” and concludes:

“The PSPU Central Committee insists that without the denazification of Ukraine, a movement that threatens the entire continent will continue to strengthen in the center of Europe.”