The results of the latest elections in the Ternopol Region of Ukraine, which were held against the wishes of Ukrainian Parliament itself, but held under personal and heavy-handed pressure of President Yushenko, should send shock waves over all people living in Ukraine about its future. The “Freedom Party” – the brainchild of Ukrainian nationalistic leadership of the present government, is a marginalized party, but with heavy state publicity support as well as financial support by President Yushenko and his cohorts. How could such a small party-movement gain such support, based on nationalism-fascism?
How could this happen in a country that suffered as no other country during the fascist aggression and occupation?
Of course, during this election campaign in Ternopol Region, the 24 hours per day anti-Soviet propaganda and hysteria against the Soviet Red Army and its heroic deeds as it liberated Ukraine, was called “occupiers”. The State apparatus used books, radio, TV and all tools to cast dirt and slime against the heroic Soviet Union and Socialism. The Ukrainian nationalist-fascists who came to invade Ukraine with the German Nazis in their “Nachtigal and Roland” battalions and their hand will always be bloody with the thousands of murdered Ukrainian people as well as all other Soviet people – in the service of Hitler and fascism!
The present regime, after the “Orange counter-revolution” has renamed streets, squares and erected monuments to these fascists, while demolishing monuments to the Soviet liberators which they now call “Soviet occupiers”. These Ukrainian fascist veterans are given medals and monuments are being erected to these killers.
All of this propaganda unfortunately had its effect on the Ternopol Region of Ukraine and thus the victory to these Ukrainian nationalists.
The people have lost faith in the parties that promised heaven on earth for them, only to see the economic situation going from bad to worse. The economic situation now is so bad that the people feel this on their own skin and not as they only read about such crisis when the USSR was alive and reported what the economic situation was like under capitalism.
People now do not believe or trust these “orange victors” or other bourgeois parties anymore, and are against President Yushenko.
In this situation the cleverly promoted party “Freedom” managed to full the people who were dissatisfied and were looking for any answer to their economic woes. This Ternopol Region is the hardest hit by the capitalist exploitation and disorganization in the whole of Ukraine.
The way out of this creeping nationalism-fascism – chasing out of Ukraine these discredited political blocks and parties – first of all, President Yushenko and his nationalist-fascist clique – followers of fascism.
Presidium of he Antifascist Committee of Ukraine
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