„Within a few years, the whole earth will be trembling under the marching feet of the useful idiots, for their resources are inexhaustible.”
„The Peace Movement And The Soviet Union” [„Пацифисты против мира”] (1982) by Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (1942–2019) [1]
As the leader of the state, the main object of admiration for George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878–1953), whose he defended indiscriminately for a decade. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 was recognized by Shaw as a triumph for the Soviet dictator; „now had Hitler under his thumb”.
At the invitation of Stalin, at the age of 75, G. B. Shaw, together with Nacy Astor (1879–1964), went on a journey to the Soviet Union in 1931. The Irish-British playwright, a loyal apologist for Stalinism, proclaimed that the Gulag was something kind of a luxury holiday resort, and that large population prisoners it is caused only by the „difficulties in convincing [them] to leave it […]”.
– „From what I gather, they can stay there as long they like”. – He said.
During a dinner issued for part of it in Moscow, Shaw, demonstrating cynical sarcasm, remarked to those gathered:
– „I have seen all the »terrors« and I was terribly pleased by them”.
On the last day of his pilgrimage, before leaving the USSR, during an audience with Joseph Stalin, delighted with the journey, he said:
– „Tomorrow I leave this land of hope and return to our Western countries – the countries of despair”.
Returning from Moscow, he stated:
– „I was a will be a friend of the Soviet Union until the end of my days”.
Immediately after his return to Europe, in an interview in Berlin, he recognized Stalin as a „giant”, unlike the entire political class of „pygmies”.
In 1932, referring to his visit to the USSR, he recognized the reports of famine in the Soviet Union as „nonsense”.
– „I ate the most slashing dinner there in my life”. – said a useful Kremlin idiot who called Stalin „a Georgian gentleman”.
On March 2, 1933, Shaw became one of the co-signatories of the letter against „the continual falsification of Soviet achievements”.
In 1933, he wrote a letter to the editorial office of the „Manchester Guardian” condemnation Malcolm Muggeridgeʼs (1903–1990) article on the Great Famine in Ukraine as „lying” and „slanderous” [2].
Similar useful Kremlin idiots are still active, and right next to them CCP useful idiots and CCP collaborators. Of course, not all are as famous as G. B. Shaw, however, just like him, tend to be sometimes effective; expressing the greatness of modern General Secretaries, they justify the fight against „terrorism” [3] and „Nazism”.
Nazism of the Wagner Group and the Rusich Group and the genesis of neo-Nazism in Ukraine
The Russian Federation is a state that actively supports the Wagner Group [4] founded by the former Lt. Col., commander of 700th Independent Detachment 2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade GRU [5] Dmitry Valerievich Utkin (1970–2023) [6] and headed by Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (1961–2023) [7], and similar neo-Nazi unit, the DShRG Rusich Group [8] founded by Aleksey Yuryevich Milchakov [9]. In 2014, during the war in Donbas, Milchakov cut off the ears of dead Ukrainian soldiers and carved out a „kolovrat” („Hand of Svarog”) [10] (which was the emblem of his unit) on their faces. He posted a selfie with of the burned corpses of Ukrainians as the background on social media. During the interview, he told how he loves the smell of burnt human flesh [11].
Thus the Russia cannot be authoritative in deciding which country is neo-Nazi and which is not [12]. Of course, the vatniks retort that there are neo-Nazis among the Ukrainian soldiers, especially in the Azov Battalion. Knowing the history of its creation, certainly this is, in fact, so [13], despite dubious „evidence” like a famous photo.
As part of the destabilization of the situation in Western Europe, the KGB supported extremism, both left and right. In September 1985, Rainer Sonntag [Mersiowsky] (1955–1991), a 28-year-old neo-Nazi leader from Dresden met with official interpreter of the Soviet embassy, in fact Major serving in the First Main Directorate of the KGB – Vladimir Vladimirovich Pootin [14]. In 1987, Sonntag left for West Germany, where he established cooperation with local neo-Nazis [15].
The Russian razvedka applied the same pattern in Ukraine, instilling neo-Nazism (associated inter alia with the creation of the already mentioned Azov Battalion), where the leading figure of the cult was no longer Stepan Bandera (1909–1959) – as is the case in neo-Banderist organizations Right Sectorʼs [16] in Western Ukraine [17] – but Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) [18].
It is worth mentioning here the Russian neo-Nazi Denis „Nikitin” Kapustin [19] [20] [21], commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps [22] fighting on the side of Ukraine. The second Russian formation supporting Ukraine, the Freedom of Russia Legion, probably has little to do with humanity neo-Nazism, although of course one should be careful because it consists of Russian volunteers and prisoners of war who have expressed a desire to join its ranks.
Neo-Nazism is therefore present in both Russia and Ukraine [23]. There is, however, a fundamental difference here, the Ukrainians defend their country, as opposed to the vatniks who invaded a foreign country to fight for the Russkiy Mir idea.
Endnotes:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bukovsky
[2] https://aquabiografie.water.blog/2022/05/02/holodomor/
[3] https://www.newsweek.com/beijings-terrifying-repression-campaigns-opinion-1533951
https://www.newsweek.com/topic/uyghur
https://www.newsweek.com/china-uyghur-muslim-xinjiang-genocide-human-rights-1697536
https://theins.ru/politika/263003
https://mediazona.ca/article/2024/01/26/xinjiang-stories
The article [a] by dr. Michael Clarke [b] of the National Security College [c]
[a] https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/chinas-uyghur-re-education-centers-and-the-ghosts-of-totalitarians-past/
[b] https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/about-us/contributor-biographies/michael-clarke
[c] https://nsc.crawford.anu.edu.au/
https://www.devex.com/organizations/the-national-security-college-of-the-australian-national-university-63769
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60947877
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/19/u-s-cable-russian-paramilitary-group-set-to-get-cash-infusion-from-expanded-african-mine-00078551
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/15/africa/central-african-republic-russian-mercenaries-cmd-intl/index.html
https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/reports/decoding-wagner-group-analyzing-role-private-military-security-contractors-russian-proxy-warfare/executive-summary-key-findings/
https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2019/11/20/82805-golovorezy-21
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/02/20/tsentr-dose-nazval-imena-boitsov-chvk-vagner-kotorye-otrezali-golovu-siriitsu-v-2017-godu-news
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/video/2022/04/22/charnier-filme-au-nord-du-mali-l-armee-francaise-accuse-les-mercenaires-russes-du-groupe-wagner-de-manipulation_6123290_3212.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1650646624
https://www.svoboda.org/a/hronika-voiny-v-ukraine/31715636.html?lbis=317293
https://archive.ph/s38yQ
https://archive.ph/NJdIK
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/oil-on-the-jihadi-fire-the-repercussions-of-a-wagner-group-deployment-to-burkina-faso/
https://www.respublica.lt/post/neonacizmas-rusijos-samdiniu-tarpe
https://theins.ru/news/256117
https://theins.ru/en/news/256138
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9D%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/09/16/if-you-didn-t-follow-instructions-they-shot-you
https://youtu.be/t4dJRPHuzFg
https://youtu.be/c1aZpSbg80M
https://meduza.io/feature/2022/11/13/opublikovano-video-ubiystva-byvshego-zaklyuchennogo-evgeniya-nuzhina-kotoryy-voeval-v-chvk-vagnera-i-sdalsya-v-plen-vsu-prigozhin-nazval-rolik-prekrasnoy-rezhisserskoy-rabotoy
https://www.severreal.org/a/mat-ischet-syna-zaverbovannogo-iz-kolonii-na-voynu/32150890.html
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-63656584
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/14/family-expresses-horror-at-video-of-killing-of-russian-wagner-group-defector
https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/wagner-group-oligarch-praises-sledgehammer-execution-video/
https://t.me/grey_zone/15767
https://www.gorecenter.com/execution-of-a-former-russian-mercenary/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Guards_Spetsnaz_Brigade
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin
https://www.svoboda.org/a/igral-destruktivnuyu-rolj-zhiznj-i-dela-evgeniya-prigozhina-/32562966.html
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1213703.pdf
https://www.newamerica.org/future-frontlines/reports/putin-mobilization-wagner-group/
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/01/20/enemy-of-the-state-or-its-founding-element
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/01/23/the-man-in-the-matching-uniform-investigating-a-rusich-atrocity-in-syria/
https://rus.azattyq.org/a/31873520.html
https://meaww.com/what-is-task-force-rusich-inside-russian-neo-nazi-mercenary-unit-deployed-in-ukraine
https://www.respublica.lt/post/neonacizmas-rusijos-samdiniu-tarpe
https://focus.ua/voennye-novosti/511372-v-ukraine-zasvetilis-neonacisty-dshrg-rusich-vozglavlyaemye-milchakovym-foto
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-neo-nazis-fighting-ukraine/31871760.html
https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/08/my-hotim-ubivat
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1749838523304186259.html
[10] https://www.britannica.com/topic/swastika
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-the-symbolism-of-the-swastika-was-ruined
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/history-of-the-swastika
http://retropress.pl/wiadomosci-literackie/co-oznacza-hitlerowska-swastyka/
https://histmag.org/Swastyka-najmroczniejszy-symbol-szczescia-w-historii-21191/
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/co-oznacza-swastyka-czyli-krzyzyk-niespodziany-6032744045126785a
[11] https://youtu.be/LhJD7CYu64M
[12] https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-at-the-third-committee-adoption-of-the-combating-glorification-of-nazism/
https://www.voanews.com/a/critics-say-un-resolution-on-nazism-too-restrictive/2534525.html
https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/combating-glorification-nazism-neo-nazism-and-other-practices-contribute
https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/08/my-hotim-ubivat
[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiment_Asow
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
https://oko.press/pulk-azow-neonazisci-kibole-czy-obroncy-ukrainy-rozmowa/
[14] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wladimir_Wladimirowitsch_Putin
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/25/private-life-putin-man-behind-iron-curtain/
[15] https://zona.media/article/2022/08/08/dresden
[16]
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80
[17] https://russianpropagandabot.blogspot.com/2022/04/declassidied-operation-novorossiya.html
https://russianpropagandabot.blogspot.com/2022/05/operation-novorossiya-history-of.html
https://russianpropagandabot.blogspot.com/2022/05/operation-novorossiya-history-of_3.html
https://russianpropagandabot.blogspot.com/2022/05/operation-novorossiya-history-of_9.html
https://russianpropagandabot.blogspot.com/2022/06/operation-novorossiya-azov-russias.html
https://russianpropagandabot.blogspot.com/2022/07/part-6-of-6-operation-novorossiya.html
[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Kapustin_(militant)
[20] https://www.agents.media/white-rex/
[21] https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_eu/status/1636003125109596160
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/03/15/rosfinmonitoring-vnes-osnovatelia-rdk-denisa-kapustina-v-perechen-ekstremistov-i-terroristov-news
[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Volunteer_Corps
[23] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/08/30/ukrainian-far-right-fighters-white-supremacists-trained-major-european-security-firm/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/09/04/the-hardcore-russian-neo-nazi-group-that-calls-ukraine-home/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/02/15/defend-the-white-race-american-extremists-being-co-opted-by-ukraines-far-right/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/10/21/how-to-mainstream-neo-nazis-a-lesson-from-ukraines-new-government/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/11/11/ukraines-ministry-of-veterans-affairs-embraced-the-far-right-with-consequences-to-the-u-s/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/01/22/ukraines-far-right-is-boosting-a-pro-putin-fascist/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/01/at-ukraines-asgardsrei-a-french-connection/
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/01/02/dispatches-from-asgardsrei-ukraines-annual-neo-nazi-music-festival/
