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In a LaRouchePAC statement issued April 14, Lyndon LaRouche demanded that top U.S. State Department neo-Con Victoria Nuland be held personally responsible if any harm comes to Ukrainian party leader Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, who is threatened by the Nazis Nuland brought to power in Ukraine.

LaRouche: If anything happens to Vitrenko, Nuland must be held responsible

On April 15 Oleh Kalashnikov, a Ukrainian MP and a member of former president Yanukovich’s Party of Regions, was assassinated near his residence in Kiev. “One of his relatives told local media,” according to Sputnik News, “that Kalashnikov was recently threatened with bodily harm due to his political views.”

An interview with Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) leader Dr. Vitrenko was included in a Channel One Russia TV segment April 12 on the adoption of drastic laws against freedom of expression in Ukraine. Vitrenko described how it is currently impossible for her, a former member of Parliament and Presidential candidate, to organize politically in her country:

“I cannot have contact with the population. I am never allowed on Ukrainian television channels. I cannot hold a rally, because it’s immediately taken over by goons, who come with sticks, chains, and stones, and maim people taking part in the rally.”

Vitrenko reviewed her attack on the nazi laws passed in the Rada on April 9 which she published in a press release last week, calling on President Poroshenko not to sign them.

Amid the renewal of artillery shelling around Donetsk, this past Orthodox Easter weekend saw nighttime attacks in which statues of Soviet-era figures were torn down in the city of Kharkov. Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh, now a Defense Ministry official, posted on his Facebook page images of grenades, decorated as Easter eggs and captioned with a call for divine help in achieving “Victory in the Holy War with the Russian-terrorist bands.”

During the Rada session, which adopted the laws with minimal discussion, testimony on behalf of their passage was given by Yuri Shukhevych, son of Roman Shukhevych, a commander in the German Abwehr’s Nachtigall Battalion, and in 1943 a key figure in the UPA’s Volhynia massacres of Poles living in western Ukraine. Long the head of UNA-UNSO, which became a component of Right Sector, the younger Shukhevych is now an MP from Oleg Lyashko’s Radical Party.

In the Channel One Russia broadcast, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko, who himself was interrogated by the SBU for 11 hours last week, told an interviewer:

“There is now a dictatorship in the country — of one opinion and one ideology; a dictatorship of those who came to power through the Maidan, and that excludes any pluralism of views.”

The report also highlighted the case of Ukrainian Labor Party leader Alexander Bondarchuk, currently on trial and facing five years in prison for “infringing the territorial integrity of Ukraine” through articles published last August in the newspaper he edits.

In a LaRouchePAC statement issued April 14, Lyndon LaRouche demanded that top U.S. State Department neo-Con Victoria Nuland be held personally responsible if any harm comes to Ukrainian party leader Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, who is threatened by the Nazis Nuland brought to power in Ukraine.

LaRouche: If anything happens to Vitrenko, Nuland must be held responsible

On April 15 Oleh Kalashnikov, a Ukrainian MP and a member of former president Yanukovich’s Party of Regions, was assassinated near his residence in Kiev. “One of his relatives told local media,” according to Sputnik News, “that Kalashnikov was recently threatened with bodily harm due to his political views.”

An interview with Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) leader Dr. Vitrenko was included in a Channel One Russia TV segment April 12 on the adoption of drastic laws against freedom of expression in Ukraine. Vitrenko described how it is currently impossible for her, a former member of Parliament and Presidential candidate, to organize politically in her country:

“I cannot have contact with the population. I am never allowed on Ukrainian television channels. I cannot hold a rally, because it’s immediately taken over by goons, who come with sticks, chains, and stones, and maim people taking part in the rally.”

Vitrenko reviewed her attack on the nazi laws passed in the Rada on April 9 which she published in a press release last week, calling on President Poroshenko not to sign them.

Amid the renewal of artillery shelling around Donetsk, this past Orthodox Easter weekend saw nighttime attacks in which statues of Soviet-era figures were torn down in the city of Kharkov. Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh, now a Defense Ministry official, posted on his Facebook page images of grenades, decorated as Easter eggs and captioned with a call for divine help in achieving “Victory in the Holy War with the Russian-terrorist bands.”

During the Rada session, which adopted the laws with minimal discussion, testimony on behalf of their passage was given by Yuri Shukhevych, son of Roman Shukhevych, a commander in the German Abwehr’s Nachtigall Battalion, and in 1943 a key figure in the UPA’s Volhynia massacres of Poles living in western Ukraine. Long the head of UNA-UNSO, which became a component of Right Sector, the younger Shukhevych is now an MP from Oleg Lyashko’s Radical Party.

In the Channel One Russia broadcast, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko, who himself was interrogated by the SBU for 11 hours last week, told an interviewer:

“There is now a dictatorship in the country — of one opinion and one ideology; a dictatorship of those who came to power through the Maidan, and that excludes any pluralism of views.”

The report also highlighted the case of Ukrainian Labor Party leader Alexander Bondarchuk, currently on trial and facing five years in prison for “infringing the territorial integrity of Ukraine” through articles published last August in the newspaper he edits.

In a LaRouchePAC statement issued April 14, Lyndon LaRouche demanded that top U.S. State Department neo-Con Victoria Nuland be held personally responsible if any harm comes to Ukrainian party leader Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, who is threatened by the Nazis Nuland brought to power in Ukraine.

LaRouche: If anything happens to Vitrenko, Nuland must be held responsible

On April 15 Oleh Kalashnikov, a Ukrainian MP and a member of former president Yanukovich’s Party of Regions, was assassinated near his residence in Kiev. “One of his relatives told local media,” according to Sputnik News, “that Kalashnikov was recently threatened with bodily harm due to his political views.”

An interview with Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) leader Dr. Vitrenko was included in a Channel One Russia TV segment April 12 on the adoption of drastic laws against freedom of expression in Ukraine. Vitrenko described how it is currently impossible for her, a former member of Parliament and Presidential candidate, to organize politically in her country:

“I cannot have contact with the population. I am never allowed on Ukrainian television channels. I cannot hold a rally, because it’s immediately taken over by goons, who come with sticks, chains, and stones, and maim people taking part in the rally.”

Vitrenko reviewed her attack on the nazi laws passed in the Rada on April 9 which she published in a press release last week, calling on President Poroshenko not to sign them.

Amid the renewal of artillery shelling around Donetsk, this past Orthodox Easter weekend saw nighttime attacks in which statues of Soviet-era figures were torn down in the city of Kharkov. Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh, now a Defense Ministry official, posted on his Facebook page images of grenades, decorated as Easter eggs and captioned with a call for divine help in achieving “Victory in the Holy War with the Russian-terrorist bands.”

During the Rada session, which adopted the laws with minimal discussion, testimony on behalf of their passage was given by Yuri Shukhevych, son of Roman Shukhevych, a commander in the German Abwehr’s Nachtigall Battalion, and in 1943 a key figure in the UPA’s Volhynia massacres of Poles living in western Ukraine. Long the head of UNA-UNSO, which became a component of Right Sector, the younger Shukhevych is now an MP from Oleg Lyashko’s Radical Party.

In the Channel One Russia broadcast, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko, who himself was interrogated by the SBU for 11 hours last week, told an interviewer:

“There is now a dictatorship in the country — of one opinion and one ideology; a dictatorship of those who came to power through the Maidan, and that excludes any pluralism of views.”

The report also highlighted the case of Ukrainian Labor Party leader Alexander Bondarchuk, currently on trial and facing five years in prison for “infringing the territorial integrity of Ukraine” through articles published last August in the newspaper he edits.

LaRouche movement organizer Michele Steinberg briefed several dozen people around the country participating last night in a special Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) conference call on the fascist threat in Ukraine, on the threat to Ukrainian patriot and friend of the LaRouches, Natalia Vitrenko.

The PDA, which is working on a draft resolution that they want the Progressives in Congress to adopt, to support the Minsk II agreement, featured special guest Ray McGovern, the well-known outspoken campaigner against the neo-Conservative betrayal of the American republic, on the call. McGovern went after the myth that the Ukraine crisis started over Crimea, situating it instead in the United States’ breaking of its “handshake” promise to Russian leaders after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that there would be no NATO expansion. He identified the central role of State Department Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland in installing Nazis and neo-Nazis in power in Ukraine today, and warned that he is more afraid than ever of nuclear war, due to President Obama and his policies, including the BMD.

The attack on Vitrenko was taken very seriously when it was raised in the discussion period. McGovern reported that he had met Natalia Vitrenko at a Schiller Institute conference in Europe where both had spoken, and one of the PDA organizers of the call announced that the LaRouche movement’s release on the threat would be posted to a new “Google group” that PDA has set up.

The growing horror of American patriots over the Nazi regime which Obama and Nuland have installed in Ukraine, was reflected in Tufts University professor Gary Leupp’s article, “Ukraine: The Truth,” published yesterday by Counterpunch. Leupp concludes, after detailing Nuland’s role and Right Sector neo-fascists installed in the government and wielding such shock troops as the notorious Azov Battalion:

“There is a fascist-friendly regime in Ukraine, ushered into power by the U.S. State Department. And it does want to enter NATO, and weaken Russia if possible, by re-establishing control over Crimea and booting the Russian fleet out…

“…[w]ith crazies running the U.S. State Department, successfully promoting a bogus narrative about what’s happened in Ukraine over the last two years—a narrative echoed slavishly by a clueless mainstream media—it’s just barely conceivable that there might come a day in which U.S. forces join the Azov Battalion in battling forces of the Peoples Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.

“It won’t have anything to do with freedom, any more than the last few U.S. wars have had anything to do with that abstraction. It will be about imperial expansion, which while it might serve the .01% that rules this country, is not in your interest at all.”