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Natalia Vitrenko, the president of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, issued an open letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and other world leaders yesterday, titled “The West’s Loyalty to Yatsenyuk’s Neo-Nazi Outburst Is a Provocation of War in Eurasia.”

“During his visit to Germany on Jan. 8,” she wrote, “Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in an interview to the German television station ARD, permitted himself to express, on behalf of the people of Ukraine, statements and ideologies that are monstrous in their nature and political implications.

“Having arrived at the home of Hitler’s Nazism, the ideas of which plunged the whole of mankind into a global tragedy of unprecedented proportions, Yatsenyuk spoke, not even as a Ukrainian neo-Nazi, but as a German neo-Nazi. Here are his words, which have not been properly condemned either by the UN, the Western countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, or the victims of Nazism and fascism: ‘We all still remember the Soviet invasion of Ukraine and Germany.’

“And Germany, which unleashed the bloody Second World War and was defeated in

it, and which repented for its crimes, was in no rush to condemn Yatsenyuk and expel him from its territory.

“I draw your attention to the ominous meaning and future political consequences for the global community of Yatsenyuk’s 9 words.

“With these words, first of all, he rehabilitated Hitlerite Nazism as a national socialist ideology for constructing a world order, justified the aggression of Hitler’s Germany and the horrendous crimes committed by it, which were perpetrated by it along with collaborators in the occupied territories, including the territories of Ukraine. And he came to Germany immediately after demonstrations by many thousands of Ukrainian Banderite neo-Nazis, the heirs of Hitler’s collaborators.

“As an official of the State of Ukraine—a country that was a victim of Nazi aggression—Yatsenyuk spoke as a provocateur, demolishing the principles of international law, destroying its foundations in the form of the Charter and Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.”

Vitrenko went on to quote the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal and various declarations of the Big Three Allied powers, concerning the nature of their common fight against Nazism. “All the above-named documents show without a doubt,” she wrote, “that it was not only the Soviet Union that was fighting against Hitlerite Germany, but also the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, which joined the forces of all anti-fascist, progressive mankind.”

Yatsenyuk’s statement, as one of the organizers of the coup in Ukraine, should be evaluated as that of an envoy of the U.S.A., determined to draw Germany into sparking World War III, she wrote.

She proceeded to quote from statements at the Nuremberg Tribunals by the prosecutors of the four victorious powers, including Robert Jackson (USA), Hartley Shawcross (U.K.), François de Menthon (France), and Roman Rudenko (U.S.S.R.). On the last, she notes: “The Chief Prosecutor of the U.S.S.R., the country that paid the highest price, 27 million lives from the total of 50 million victims, and, of course, which played a decisive role in the victory over Nazi Germany, was Roman Rudenko, a native of [Ukraine’s] Chernihiv region, at that time the public prosecutor of the Ukrainian S.S.R.”

In conclusion, she quoted Article 26 of the Nuremberg Charter: “The judgment … shall be final and not subject to review,” and appealed to the world leaders to take action.

Mikhail Gorbachov, the last leader of the Soviet Union, warned, in an interview published by Germany’s Der Spiegel, yesterday, that the U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine could lead to a major war. “Such a war today would inevitably turn into a nuclear war. If someone loses their nerve because of the acrimonious atmosphere, we will not survive the coming year,” he said. “I do not say this lightly. This is of truly the utmost concern to me.”

This is just the latest of Gorbachov’s high-profile warnings of the potential consequences of British/NATO policy toward Russia—which have been echoed recently by top members of the political class in Germany, France, and Italy.

Gorbachov decried the “loss of trust” between Russia and the West as “catastrophic,” and said ties must be “defrosted.” He, Gorbachov, accused the West and NATO of destroying the structure of European security by expanding its alliance. “No head of the Kremlin can ignore such a thing,” he said, adding that the U.S. was unfortunately starting to establish a “mega empire.”

Gorbachov also blasted the role of Germany in the current crisis and, in doing so, reminded it of its own history. “The new Germany wants its hands in every pie. There seems to be a lot of people who want to be involved in a new division of Europe,” he said. “Germany has already tried to expand its influence of power towards the East — in World War II. Does it really need another lesson?”

Gorbachov also denounced the U.S. sanctions against Russia as “damn stupid and highly dangerous.”