EUROPE MUST CONDEMN COMMUNISM AND ITS RELATED CRIMINAL IDEOLOGY

Polish opinion journal Wszystko Co Najważniejsze in late 2020 published an article by Renato Cristin, professor at the University of Trieste in Italy and research associate of the Fondazione Liberal in Rome. Cristin called for condemnation of the crime commited by communism. Excerpts below:

In 1945, nearly thirty years from the creation of the Soviet Union in 1917, communism, understood as a political regime and a state form, divided the European continent in two. Marked out by terror and blood, the boundary was like a deep wound that made the nations of Eastern Europe suffer, whilst the inhabitants of Europe’s western part were shocked.

A microcosm of this great geopolitical rift was the city of Berlin where the essence of the Iron Curtain was encapsulated by the Wall and where human drama and tragedy caused by communism could be observed as if under a microscope in a laboratory.

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For almost fifty years, communism kept the world and, consequently, Europe split into two blocs. Importantly, hostile behaviour was the domain of states or governments: social-communist on the one hand, liberal-democratic on the other.

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Today,more than thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellite regimes, understanding the evil represented by communism can help bring the nations of Europe closer together. I believe that, once we decide to condemn communism irrevocably, as we were right to do in the case of National Socialism, the unanimous rejection of this non-liberal, anti-European, anti-Christian, criminal and inhuman ideology could strengthen relations both between people and the nations of Europe.

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…Europe is still torn internally by this disease of the soul which is communist ideology. In order to analyse its persistence in contemporary Europe, we must start with a straightforward question: why did we not treat communism in the same way as we treated National Socialism (which was the only right thing to do)?

When I equate the two systems, I want to emphasise both their criminal and genocidal similarities as well as differences in how they applied the methods of social control and mass extermination. I believe that it is precisely out of respect for the unique nature of the Shoah, that is the Holocaust, that we must also condemn communist crimes and genocidal killings unconditionally.

It is only when the matter is finally settled in all seriousness with no understatements, that communism can become a monster to be feared, a tragedy that must never be allowed to happen again…We must make Europeans understand that communism is a virus, a foreign body in the midst of true European traditions and an enemy of Europe’s civilisation.

The final condemnation of communism should therefore be a political goal the EU must strive for. On the one hand, the nations of Eastern Europe expect a historical judgement which would prevent communism from returning in any form whatsoever to oppress them again, and on the other, western nations should get to know this ideology, be afraid of it and suppress its outbreaks in their respective countries.

Motivated by this line of thinking, last year, together with my late friend Vladimir Bukovsky, we drafted and made public a document calling for a Nuremberg trial of communism, a trial whose value would be not only historical but political and moral. Condemnation of crimes perpetrated in the name of communist ideology is a necessary step required by civil and moral conscience of people living in the free world. Our collective conscience should learn lessons from the unsolicited experiences of Central and Eastern European countries.

However, attempts to reach this goal have long met with a lot of resistance in Europe. The progressive world of culture and the media, in all its various forms, has always supported cultural Marxism. It has refused to equate communism with Nazism, limited its criticism to the so-called real socialism and offered communism a helping hand by presenting it as the ideal of goodness and justice.

This monstrous historical and theoretical lie made it possible to propagate communism in Europe and all over the world. It is now high time to expose it and tell the world the truth, allowing it perhaps to condemn this ideology forever.

SENATOR TOM COTTON (R): WALL STREET, DEMOCRATS AND COMMUNIST CHINA

Fox News on December 8, 2020 reported on a comment by Senator Tom Cotton, Republican, Arkansas, concerning communist China’s influence in the United States. Excerpts below:

Top American business leaders have effectively become “lobbyists for communist China, “selfishly advocating  for the same foreign power that seeks to undermine the United States and its democratic system, Senator Tom Cotton said.

“A lot of these Democrats have been in bed with China and a lot of them have been there for a very long time,” Cotton said to Fox, “But unfortunately, a lot of America’s corporate leaders have been as well.

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“There was reporting, when a Chinese trade negotiator came to America last year, they met at the Chamber of Commerce with a bunch of business executives and asked them to lobby the president and lobby Congress on China’s behalf,” Cotton said.

“Sadly, that’s been the case now for 20 or 30 years, that many American businesses are effectively lobbyists for communist China. That needs to stop,” Cotton continued. “They need to recognize that America should come first, not their profits.”

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“No matter what the titans of industry may think, China is our adversary,” Cotton also said, “ripping us off and stealing our jobs and taking our factories and threatening our allies and interests in the Western Pacific for 30 years.”

Cotton, a member of the Senate Intelligence Commitee, accused politicians in Washington of looking the other way because China “has cultivated American business to such a great degree.

“The time for that has got to stop,”  Cotton said. “These corporate CEOs need to focus on bringing those jobs back to America, or at least getting them out of China. Because as long as you’re operating in China, you’re susceptible to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party.”

POLITICAL WARFARE AGAINST UKRAINE AT LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN

Institute for a Political-Psychological Freedom Campaign (IPPFC)

IPPFC will report from time to time on the research project “Ukrainian Long-Distance Nationalism in the Cold War” at Lund University, Sweden,  headed by Project Leader Per Anders Rudling. He has published for years with the intent to defame Ukraine and Ukrainian freedom fighters.

Already in 2012 a number of Ukrainian-Canadian organizations sent a letter to the Swedish university protesting against his attempts to portray leading Ukrainian anticommunists as war criminals.

In the summer of 2020 the League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC) and League of Ukrainian Canadian Women issued a statement in general concerning the defamation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Canadian Community through anti-Ukrainian disinformation.

STATEMENT ON DEFAMING UKRAINE AND THE UKRAINIAN CANADIAN COMMUNITY

 After Ukraine’s loss of its War for Independence  in 1918-1921, the country fell again under the control of neighbouring foreign powers, namely:  Soviet Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania.  This set the stage for the emergence of a massive Ukrainian Liberation Movement spearheaded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which during  World War II directed its struggle against Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.  Ukraine became the main battlefield between those two totalitarian superpowers, and where their violence was especially and unprecedentedly extreme.

As a renowned American journalist Edgar Snow noted: “The whole titanic struggle […] was first of all a Ukrainian war.  No fewer than 10 million people had been ‘lost’ to Ukraine since 1941. […]  No single European country suffered deeper wounds to its cities, its industry, its farmland and its humanity.” According to official statistics, Ukraine’s human losses in World War II were up to 10 million dead:  4.1 – military; 5.9 – civilian, which remains the highest casualty rate among all combatant nations in World War II.

Since the end of WWII, Russia, either in its Soviet incarnation or now under Putin’s rule, has spared no effort to defame the Ukrainian nation and its global diaspora, including the Ukrainian Canadian community. Hence, today as before discredited allegations from non-credible sources are again being dredged up to smear Ukrainian Canadians for their admiration for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), including their leaders, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, respectively, and the Ukrainian liberation struggle against both Nazi and Communist regimes during WWII as a whole.

To dismiss these attacks and not respond would be a prudent course, so as not to draw further attention to them. By responding, it also could be construed as giving credence to the accusations. However, to allow lies and disinformation repeated ad nauseam to go unanswered, especially by a campaign reminiscent of Russian hybrid information warfare, can create a veneer of credibility that can be taken at face value by unaware Canadians, and that have even led to acts of violence against monuments and memorials. And, therefore, we are compelled to respond with the following for the record:

Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, agreed to form a Ukrainian Legion in the regular German Army comprised of two battalions, Nachtigall and Roland. On behalf of the Ukrainian side, the commander of the Nachtigall Battalion was Roman Shukhevych, and on behalf of the Germans, Theodor Oberländer.

OUN’s strategic objective was a plan to proclaim the restoration of Ukraine’s independence once the Ukrainian Legion was on Ukrainian soil. Nachtigall entered Lviv on June 29, 1941. The next day, June 30, 1941, OUN proclaimed Ukraine’s independence. In response, the German high command ordered the arrest and execution of numerous OUN leaders and many of the battalions’ officers and demobilized the battalions. Stepan Bandera and the Head of the Ukrainian Government Yaroslav Stetsko spent 3 years in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen, while Bandera’s two brothers died in Auschwitz. Roman Shukhevych avoided arrest by going underground.

 Subsequently, in 1942, many soldiers from Nachtigall and its partner battalion Roland joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, commanded by Roman Shukhevych. The UPA fought Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia to the end of WWII and continued its armed struggle against the Soviets well into the 1950s.

Six separate and exhaustive investigations established that neither Stepan Bandera, nor Yaroslav Stetsko, nor the OUN, nor its members in the Nachtigall and Roland Battalions, nor the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, including Roman Shukhevych, participated in the heinous war crimes in 1941 and pogroms against the Jews:

The investigation of the Extraordinary State Commission on German atrocities, created by the Soviet government in 1944, identified the specific individuals and the branches of the German security services, who perpetrated war crimes and pogroms. The findings contained no direct or indirect reference, much less accusations, against members of the OUN, Nachtigall, or Roland.

Subsequently, the exhaustive Nuremberg war crimes trials, again, exhaustively reviewed the evidence concerning war crimes and pogroms and, again, made no mention of OUN, UPA, or the Nachtigall and Roland battalions. Moreover, a German document presented cynically by Soviet prosecutors (USSR-014) at the Nuremberg Trials referred to an order issued to the Einsatzkommando on November 25, 1941, which stated: “The Bandera organization is preparing an uprising in Reichkommisariat Ukraine with the aim of establishing an independent Ukrainian state. All members of Bandera’s organization must be arrested and, after rigorous interrogation, are to be secretly executed on the pretext of being looters.”

During the German occupation of Ukraine (1941-1944) up to 10,000 members of the Ukrainian liberation movement were killed by the Nazis.

 The conspiracy was invented in 1959, following the assassination of Stepan Bandera in Munich, West Germany, by a Soviet KGB agent. The point was to discredit the OUN and Nachtigall. The KGB plot was an elaborate attempt to compromise Theodor Oberländer, the then Minister for Displaced Persons for West Germany, and to delegitimize the OUN as a national liberation movement. The allegation was that Oberländer, as the commanding German officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in Lviv in 1941, launched pogroms against the Jews.

However, after an extensive trial, the West German court concluded that there were no grounds for accusing Oberländer, Shukhevych, or anyone else associated with Nachtigall or OUN of any criminal acts against Jews in Lviv in July 1941. On the contrary, the court established that it was the German Security Service (SD), the Security Police, and the Einsatzkommando 5 that had perpetrated the mass murder of Jews and Poles.

The fourth investigation was at the request of Oberländer, himself. An international commission of eminent and unimpeachable international jurists, none of whom were German, convened in The Hague from November 1959 to March 1960. They unanimously concluded, “that the accusations against the Nachtigall Battalion and the then Lieutenant and currently Federal Minister Oberländer has no foundation in fact.” The commission further found that the KGB disinformation campaign was primarily designed to deflect attention away from itself for the assassination of Bandera by casting blame on Oberländer and the Germans.

Similarly, a report prepared by US intelligence agencies in 1952 established that the Ukrainian nationalist underground, OUN, and its military wing, UPA, were neither fascists nor Nazis, but rather a legitimate liberation movement of the Ukrainian people fighting for an independent state of their own, that they fought against both the German and Russian forces, and continued the fight against the Russian occupiers well beyond WWII.

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Finally, the Canadian government’s Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada investigated all allegations concerning war crimes. At the request of Stepan Bandera’s family in Canada, Bandera was included in the investigation and, in its final report in 1986, the Commission cleared Stepan Bandera of any direct or indirect involvement in war crimes.

However, attacks against Ukrainian Canadians are not limited to the OUN/UPA and hate speech alone. A monument to Roman Shukhevych was again vandalized in Edmonton last year.

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Apparently, the perpetrators of this act of hate speech and violence ignore that which doesn’t fit their narrative, including the definitive findings of Canada’s own Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals.

Notwithstanding the exhaustive investigations and overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the campaign to delegitimize the national struggle for the independence of Ukraine by demonizing the OUN and the UPA continues. It continues because Ukrainians’ liberation struggle during the 20^th century is an inspiration to Ukrainians today. The Kremlin and its fellow travelers abroad still cannot come to terms with a free, independent and democratic Ukraine, where its citizens of all religious and ethnic backgrounds, be they Ukrainians, Jews, or Russians, live in greater harmony and individually enjoy more freedoms than in any other country of the former Soviet Russian empire. Ethnic and religious tolerance is the hallmark of Ukrainian society.

Today, Ukraine is in a six-year long war with Russia. Resistance to Russian aggression has come at a high cost. Over fourteen thousand Ukrainian men, women, and children are dead, tens of thousands maimed, and nearly two million rendered internal refugees. No less costly are the consequences of Russia’s hybrid war tactics that penetrate deep into the country far from the battlefield, which disrupts the economy, and includes information warfare and cyber attacks on infrastructure, fomenting political turmoil, media manipulation, etc. There is no aspect of Ukrainian society that is not targeted by Russia.

A priority for Russia is to discredit the Ukrainian national liberation struggle as a source of pride and determination in Ukrainians’ ongoing quest to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the millions of innocent Ukrainian victims of Russia’s campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, a campaign designed to eliminate Ukrainians as a political nation worthy of an independent country of their own.   Every day,  Ukrainians of every ethnic and religious persuasion suffer directly and indirectly as a result of the Russian invaders. Irrespective of their backgrounds, millions of Ukrainians reject anti-Ukrainian disinformation spread by Russia’s hybrid war machine, including its agents, fellow travelers, and useful idiots in the West. Ukrainians honor Bandera and Shukhevych and OUN/UPA as symbols of resistance to German and Russian aggression and colonial occupation of their land. Bandera, Shukhevych, and their courageous freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for the independence of Ukraine and human liberties for all of its citizens.

In March 2018, the Government of Canada declared Mr Kirill Kalinin, an intelligence operative working out of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ottawa, to be a persona non grata. He was subsequently removed from this country. Kalinin had been identified by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as responsible for orchestrating a campaign of slander directed against the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, currently the Deputy Prime Minister. He was also promoting stories about an alleged “Nazi monument” in the St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery in Oakville, abetted in his efforts by fellow travelers and other persons manifestly less interested in history than in perpetuating disproven allegations, even to the extent of provoking or indulging in hate crimes. The Moscow operatives’ campaign in Canada was supported by the Russian media with close ties to the Kremlin, including notorious TV host Dmitry Kiselyov (currently on Canada’s economic sanctions list), who broadcasted in prime time on a Russian national TV network a propaganda segment repeating many of the above stated lies, also attacking Canadian Members of Parliament and Ukrainian Canadian community organizations. In his conspiracy theory, Mr Kiselyov went as far as suggesting that Nazi-loving Ukrainians were running Canada’s government. 

In the past and again today, Canada is the target of efforts to discredit the Ukrainian Canadian community, turn Canadians against each other, and undermine Canada’s support for a free and independent, democratic, and tolerant Ukraine. By seeking to tarnish the history of the Ukrainian people’s heroic and unrelenting struggle against both the Nazi and Communist regimes and the Ukrainian Canadian community for its long-standing defence of the liberation of Ukraine, they try to undermine our community’s reputation of respect for our fellow Canadian citizens and their ethnic and religious communities.

The current attacks on Ukraine and the Ukrainian Canadian community will not stand. We call on our fellow Canadians to reject purveyors of historical revisionism, hate speech, and disinformation. These attacks are designed to destabilize Canadians’ national unity and undercut our government’s opposition to Putin’s Russia and support for Ukraine’s quest to consolidate its hard-won independence and continue on the path to building a free and democratic society.

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Toronto – July 22, 2020

League of Ukrainian Canadians and League of Ukrainian Canadian Women

National Executives

DID CHINA INFLUENCE AMERICAN POLICIES FOR DECADES THROUGH A COVERT NETWORK?

Washington Times on December 6, 2020 reported on a speech by Professor Di Donhsheng of Beijing University indicating that Hunter Biden was helped by the CCP to obtain business deals. Excerpts below:

On influencing the United States, Mr. Di said, he could not provide further details about the work of Chinese agents without compromising their identities. However, he said President Trump’s trade war with China upset decades of close ties between Washington and Beijing that the agent network facilitated.

Mr. Di could not be reached for comment. The university’s Contemporary China Studies Program, where Mr. Di works, had no immediate comment.

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“The intelligence is clear,” Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in a published article. “Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically. There are no moral or ethical boundaries to their pursuit of power.”

Bill Evanina, director of the DNI Counterintelligence and Security Center, said China has begun targeting officials slated to hold posts in an incoming Biden administration.

A senior Trump administration official said Mr. Di‘s speech was a rare case of a Chinese official revealing very sensitive information.

Mr. Di is a frequent consultant to Chinese Communist Party and government organs, including the Foreign Ministry and the International Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the Central Organization Department and other ministries and commissions.

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Mr. Di:

In plain and simple language, during the last three to four decades, we used the core circle inside America’s real power, he said. As I said, the Wall Street had a very profound influence over America’s domestic and foreign affairs since the 1970s. We used to heavily rely on them.

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On Mr. Trump’s comments that Hunter Biden has financial interests around the world, Mr. Di said: “But who helped Biden‘s son build his global companies? You understand? There are indeed buy-and-sell transactions involved in here. So I think at this particular time…it is of strategic and tactical value for us to show goodwill to Mr. Biden. Of course, this is just from my limited perspective as a political economist.”

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China expert Gordon Chang said, “Di Dongsheng’s comments show the breathtaking arrogance of the Chinese elite, which now has no hesitation about expressing in public its belief that with a Democratic President  China will once again control the highest levels in Washington.”

HISTORIEDOCENTEN I LUND TROR SIG VARA BÅDE POLIS, ÅKLAGARE OCH DOMARE I PROPAGANDAN MOT UKRAINA

Lundadocenten Per Anders Rudling bedriver propaganda mot Ukraina och landets frihetskämpar i kampen för frihet och självständighet. Vid en konferens i USA har docenten hållit ett föredrag om Mykola Lebed (1909 – 1998), en frihetskämpe och gerillakrigare som var generalsekreterare i Högsta motståndsrådet UHVR under andra världskrigets kamp mot sovjetiska och nazityska trupper. Från 1949 bodde Lebed i USA och var då chef för Prologue Research and Publishing house i New York från 1952 till 1974.

En ledande ukrainsk historiker beskriver Rudlings föredrag på följande sätt i en ukrainsk tidskrift i USA:

Pers Anders Rudling gave a paper on Mykola Lebed…with the single goal of portraying him as a war criminal. “He never faced justice or accountability for his wartime activities,” Rudling lamented. Putting aside the fact that it is not the task of academics to serve as courts of law, the obsession with Lebed’s alleged war criminality ignores, to cite one example, his leadership and organization of the Prolog Research and Publishing house for a quarter of a century from

1953 to 1978 during which it became the centre of Ukrainian diaspora liberal political life.

Selecting elements of Lebed’s biography from the 1930s and certain allegations about his wartime activities…while ignoring everything else can hardly be construed as objective scholarship. There are countless guerrillas who become politicians and state leaders. Charles de Gaulle served as Prime Minister and President during five of the nine years (1958-1962) of the Algerian war of independence (1954- 1962) during which 1.5 million died from conflict, executions and torture. But, a biography of de Gaulle that only focused on his responsibility as head of state during the commission of French war crimes in Algeria would not be a valid representation of his political life.

DEFECTOR GROUP WANTS TO OVERTHROW NORTH KOREAN REGIME

A defector group that calls itself Free Joseon (Free North Korea) has promised to liberate North Korea. In 2019 it claimed responsibility for a February 22 raid on Pyongyang’s embassy in Madrid. Ten intruders then armed with knives and replica pistols entered the embassy.

Free Joseon operatives tied up North Korean diplomats and made off with computers, cellphones and other equipment .

Normally, says Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korean studies expert at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, North Korea would not mention anything at all that might puncture “the myth of invincible, unassailable, infallible, omnipotent leadership.” But too much information was flowing into North Korea for the regime to keep the Madrid embassy incident a secret.

Free Joseon has declared the aim is to topple the dictator and has established a “provisional government” to take power in Pyongyang.

Reports of the group came already in 2017, following the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. Under a new name Cheollima Civil Defense (Cheollima is the Korean equivalent of Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology), it claimed it had taken Kim Jong Nam’s son Kim Han Sol under its protection.

 On March 1, 2019, the group posted on Youtube a video in which a woman, whose face is obscured, reads the group’s declaration of revolution and the establishment of a government in exile.

“We the people of North Korea,” she says, “indict this immoral and illegitimate regime for the starvation of millions, despite the ability to feed them, for government-sponsored murder, torture and imprisonment.”

Even if the Pyongyang regime eventually falls the entire government system will not be eradicated,” says Kim Jung-bong, a former official with South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. “I think a new government will emerge from within North Korea.”

Park Sang Hak, director of a Seoul-based umbrella group called the Association of North Korea Human Rights, expresses envy of his fellow defectors in the Free Joseon group.  

Free Joseon says on its website that it is planning big things for the future.

COMPUTERIZED DOMINION VOTING SYSTEM A THREAT TO LAWFUL ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

Newsmax has in several reports during November 2020 reported on problems with the Dominion Voting System in the 2020 American elections. The Dominion company seems to be Canadian but in reality it is owned by two Venezuelans with a bad reputation. See below for excerpts:

There are too many coincidences of election irregularities for them to be accidental, particularly the Dominion Voting Systems tied to Venezuela and China, according to Trump legal team coordinator Rudy Giuliani.

“Curiously, in the very, very close states where Trump lost by less than 1%, it’s those machines that are being used,” Giuliani said…”Nevada, Michigan, and Georgia use those machines. Those machines should not be used in any American election. Again, they’re foreign machines.

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“Dominion was counting the votes in 29 states,” Giuliani said. “Dominion shouldn’t be counting the votes anywhere. Dominion, when you look into it with just a little bit of investigation, you find out that Dominion uses a software, Smartmatic, which is a company that goes back to 2004.

“It was founded by two Venezuelans and Cesar Chavez. It has a terrible history of having fixed elections in Argentina, having fixed elections in Venezuela. It was all outlined in 2008 by the House of Representatives. It got kicked out of Texas for being woefully incompetent

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The China connections include parts made in China…

“This has been going on with Democrats for years,” Giuliani told Catsimatidis. “They get away with it because they do it only in Democratic cities that they own. “You see them doing it in places where the Democratic Party owns the city.”

CAN CHINA AVOID THE NEMESIS OF SOVIET RUSSIA?

To answer this question it is necessary to go back to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated by the Communist International (Comintern) agent Grigori Voitinsky (1893 – 1953). He was secretary of the Far Eastern Bureau (FEB) of the Comintern. He later became the founder of Soviet sinology. Voitinsky operated from Irkutsk, Siberia. The bureau was founded the same year as the Soviets initiated what was called ”the united front from below” meaning that ”enemy parties” should be subverted by infiltration

The party was officially founded in Shanghai in 1921. Mao attended the founding as one of a small group of 57 delegates. Voitinsky operated from Irkutsk, Siberia.

The united front tactics of Comintern was used by Antifa in the United States in the runup to the election during 2020. The Comintern in 1933 directed the Soviet-led Communist Party USA to form the American League Against War and Fascism. That group was in turn patterned after Germany’s Antifascist Action – or Antifa – formed one year earlier in 1932.

CPUSA leader Manning Johnson testified to Congress in 1953 that the goal of the front group was never the abolishment of fascism, but rather “the subversion and subsequent overthrow of the United States.”

The US National Security Council’s Robert O’Brien in 2020 described Antifa foot soldiers as “militant radicals who come into our cities and cross state lines.” “They’re organized to use Molotov cocktails, fireworks and gas to burn down our cities, especially businesses in minority neighborhoods. It’s got to be stopped,” he said.

That China uses political warfare tactics of the now defunct CPSU does not bode well for the CCP. The question seems only to be when CCP will follow CPSU on the ash heap of history.

The 1980s was a crucial decade for victory of the West  in the Cold War. When President Ronald Reagan took over in 1980 the reduced defense spending had begun to threaten the security of the United States. President Reagan turned this around and spending increased from US $ 134 billion in 1980 to US $ 253 billion in 1985. The objective was to balance the Soviet buildup and thus give the United States strength at the negotiating table.

The Reagan Administration also reversed the trend of Soviet expansionism. The half‑hearted efforts in the field of containment resulted in Soviet expansionism in 1975 to 1980. The Soviet Union was actively seeking global hegemony and control on all continents.

The policy of containment had been abandoned  in the 1970s and replaced by détente. Now the Reagan administration reversed the trend using a number of means.

The National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs) were important. A National Security Decision Directive was a formal written order directing senior advisers and departments on policy. President Reagan signed a large number of such directives 1980 – 1988 but three of them are especially important for the victory in the Cold War.

One of them was NSDD 32. It did  in short made clear that the United States would not accept Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The principal objectives were:

Support for underground movements in the Soviet dominated part of Europe. In detail it authorized aid for the Solidarity labour movement in Poland, the creation of clandestine Polish newspapers and broadcasting operations and cooperation with Vatican political initiatives in for instance Poland.

Intensification of psychological operations, particularly radio broadcasts such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

Economic war against the regime in Moscow and attempts via diplomacy to weaken the heavy reliance of the East European regimes on Moscow were included.

The directive was signed in May, 1982.

It took around ten years to dismantle the CPSU. It may take somewhat longer to dismantle the CCP with its 90 million members.

MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE FREE OF ALL CHARGES IN ITALY

Vitaliy Markiv (born in 1989) moved to Italy in 2003 with his mother and sister. He graduated from a technical college and acquired Italian citizenship. He worked as a DJ. Markiv returned in Ukraine in December 2013, during Euromaidan. He actively took part in the protest, and later enrolled in the National Guard of Ukraine, where he served in the General Kulchytskyi battalion. In spring and summer 2014, his unit was deployed near Sloviansk. Markiv’s participation in the combat actions became a pretext for his arrest in Italy: he was charged in the murder case of Italian photojournalist Rocchelli.    What was Markiv accused of? Why was he charged? Vitaliy Markiv was arrested upon his arrival in Bologna, on June 30, 2017. From then he was held in custody. The indictment was based on the testimony of two key witnesses: French photographer William Roguelon, a survivor of the attack, and Italian freelance journalist Ilaria Morani, whose piece published in “Corriere della Sera” newspaper was seen as evidence of Markiv’s involvement. Still, credibility of their testimony was doubted on a variety of occasions. Thus, Roguelon changed his testimony several times, while Morani, when speaking in court, failed to prove that her conversation with Markiv (in which he allegedly “confessed”) quoted in her article, actually happened.   The prosecution claimed that on May 24, 2014, Vitaliy Markiv, a National Guard “commander” was involved in 30 mortar rounds fired upon the foot of the Karachun hill, where the journalists were staying. According to the prosecution, he passed the information on journalists’ location to the Ukrainian troops that allegedly fired upon them from mortars. In the attack, Andrea Rocchelli and his fixer Andrey Mironov were killed. The plaintiffs in court were Rocchelli’s family, the Italian National Press Federation (FNSI), Journalists’ Union in Lombardy (ALG), and “Cesura Lab” organization founded by Rocchelli. Markiv did not deny that on May 25, 2014, when the journalistic crew was killed, he was with his battalion on the hill Karachun. Markiv’s tablet, seized from him upon arrest, had dozens of photos made from the hill. The prosecution decided that some of the pictures recorded his permanent combat position. From there, the investigators concluded, the site where the journalists came under attack was visible. Initially, Italian media reported that Markiv was charged over a mortar attack that he and his battalion made upon the ravine. Later, after the National Guard presented evidence that mortars were not in service with them at the time, the version of the events was amended. The sentence of the first-instance court states that Markiv while watching a sector near the foot of the Karachun hill, saw unarmed reporters and fired upon them from the rifle, later, he directed the mortar fire by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The role of Russia’s propaganda in Markiv’s guilty verdict. Ukrainian journalist Olha Tokariuk, who has been covering the Markiv case since its onset and is a co-author of the “Crossfire” documentary about the case, is convinced that a number of facts point at the trace of Russia’s propaganda in Italy that contributed to the atmosphere around the case, in which the sentence was made. Firstly, a lot of paragraphs in investigation documents seem to be copied from Russia’s propaganda materials. Thus, Markiv was called a “militant from an illegal group”, while the Ukrainian Army was presented as chaotic and incompetent. Ukraine was accused of the lack of will to cooperate over Rocchelli’s death case (in part, those accusations are true – Ukraine failed to hold a thorough investigation immediately in 2014-2015. It kept sending invitations to hold a joint investigation after Markiv’s arrest, but Italy ignored those invitations.) The prosecutors also referred to pieces from websites of Russia’s propaganda and those of Russia’s proxies (for example “Russkaya Vesna”) as evidence in court. Besides, the coverage of the case by Italian media was often one-sided: they only covered the position of the prosecution. It shaped the public opinion seeing Ukrainians as dangerous radical right, and Markiv as a merciless murderer.   Russia’s propaganda had ground for these manipulations well-prepared, as its affirmations on “the civil war” in Donbas, “Nazi-led” Ukraine and “the coup” in Maidan were broadly distributed by Italian media since 2014. The distorted picture could have affected the jury’s decision.   Arguments of the defense. Markiv’s defense insisted that the charges are absurd and no real evidence is in place. Besides, a surprisingly severe sentence issued by the court in 2019, saw Ukraine’s Minister of Interior Arsen Avakov actively engage in the case. The National Guard, where Markiv served, is part of the Ministry of Interior.   Markiv’s defense and Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior insisted that as of May 2014, the units of the National Guard were provided with light weapons only, and that was not possible for Vitaliy Markiv to “command” a mortar unit. Following dozens of interrogations and examinations that Ukrainian investigators made, in August 2020, the Minister said that Ukraine’s law enforcement got evidence of Markiv’s innocence. Interviews of the National Guardsmen who served together with Markiv, allowed to locate the precise position of the defendant. It was 1,760 meters away from the site where the journalistic crew was killed, meaning that precision fire from a Kalashnikov rifle that Markiv had at the time, was not possible from his position. Besides, the ravine could not be seen from the position.    Ukrainian policemen reported they found a guy, who possibly jumped into the ravine together with the journalists and the taxi driver. He is a local, he said that the first series of shots on May 24, 2014 were fired not from Karachun, but from the side of the “Zeus” factory controlled by the militants at the time. Investigators analyzed the audio that Rocchelli made minutes before his death. They found that the shots were fired not from the 500-meter distance, where the Ukrainian troops were stationed, but from 200 to 300-meter distance to the “Zeus” factory. Acquittal, release from custody, and return in Ukraine. The appeal was considered by the Milan Court of Appeal. Markiv was acquitted on November 3, he was back in Ukraine on November 4. Upon his release, Markiv said that the day marks the paramount victory over the insidious propaganda “that not only aimed at compromising Ukraine’s integrity, dignity, and honor, but targeted the Ukrainian nation as a whole.” “I cannot believe that. I was preparing myself for the worst scenario while hoping for the best. My sole wish and hope was for the Italian court to stay on the just side,” Markiv told “Radio Liberty” moments after release from custody. He thanked all who supported him in jail, he also confessed that he is not angry at Italians, as not all of them agreed with the court’s decision. Similarly, his attitude to journalists did not get worse, even though his case gained pace due to an article. “I purposefully avoid naming the person who wrote an article about me. But there were both Ukrainian and foreign journalists, who write the truth. They got curious: if he is ‘journalists’ ardent foe’, as he is presented, why are the facts in discordance with that?” Markiv proceeds.   Vitaliy Markiv added that he plans to continue military service and sees his future in Ukraine. “I promised myself to stay strong for the heroes who sacrificed their lives and those who are fighting for the independence,” he added.    He said, together with the lawyers he is considering a possibility of claiming compensation from those responsible for his three years in custody, those who “were trying to compromise” not just the National Guard, but entire Ukraine. Source: Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Kyiv. A highly recommended media organization.

RECENT AMERICAN INDICTMENTS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST REGIME

President Donald Trump on July 14, 2020, signed into law the Hong Kong Autonomy Act. He also signed an executive order that ends U.S. preferential treatment of Hong Kong. Sanctions is now in effect on entities that help violate Hong Kong’s autonomy and financial institutions that do business with them. This is because of Beijing’s new security law for the city.

On July 16, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced sanctions of three Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials over treatment of minorities in the Xinjiang region. Uyghurs and other minorities are suffering forced labor and other human rights abuses. More than one million ethnic Turkic minorities are believed to be detained by the Beijing regime.

China has answered by sanctioning Republican Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas as well as Ambassador Sam Brownback and the Congressional Executive Commission on China.
Attorney General Bill Barr on July 16, 2020, in a speech at the Gerald R. Ford Museum condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s global ambitions.

China aims at dominating world economy and wants to replace the United States as world’s top superpower using predatory and unlawful tactics like currency manipulation, theft of intellectual property, cyberattacks and espionage, Barr said. America is already dangerously dependent on rare earth material and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). If China decides to limit or restrict APIs in the United States it could lead to severe shortages. Chinese nationals working at U.S. pharmaceutical companies have been caught stealing secrets, he continued.

The ultimate ambitions of the CCP is to raid the United States.

Hollywood regularly censors its own movies to appease the CCP. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all too willing to collaborate with the CCP. Apple has for instance removed the app Quartz because China complained that it covered demonstrations in Hong Kong. PRC’s goal is to replace Apple so the removal only brings short-term reward, Barr concluded.