Dear CCI Friends,
We at CCI are attempting to counter the coverage in mainstream media regarding the Russia/Ukraine/NATO tragedy. It worsens by the day.
Today’s article is by Dan Kovalik, author of “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia”. I met Dan in 2017 shortly after his book was published. It was so ‘out there,” I was worried for his safety. However, he is still alive and educating. Please give us your thoughts, pro and con, on his latest piece below.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Eastern Ukraine had good reason to join Russia, after Kyiv’s aggression
November 30, 2022
By Dan Kovalik
Once a Pittsburgh sister city also known for its steel industry, Donetsk, and the greater Donbas region in which it is located, has been at war since 2014. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, 14,000 people died in this conflict, even before Russia began its military operations in February. I’ve just returned from there.
Before Russia’s intervention, the conflict had been between the people of that region and the government in Kiev, after an unconstitutional coup took 2014. This coup, known as “Maiden,” was — as then US Ambassador to Ukraine Victoria Nuland explained in a recorded telephone conversation — managed by the United States.
The coup brought to power a pro-Western, anti-Russian, government, which contained elements which were far-right and even Nazi. The best known element, as the Nation Magazine reported in 2019, is the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which has been part of Ukraine’s National Guard since 2014. Its commander Andriy Biletsky once wrote that Ukraine’s mission is to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade…against the Semite-led Untermenschen.”