{"id":200,"date":"2014-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/post-193-ukrainian-insurgent-army-1944-and-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"post-193-ukrainian-insurgent-army-1944-and-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/post-193-ukrainian-insurgent-army-1944-and-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-193: Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1940s and 2010s)"},"content":{"rendered":"
An anti-government barricade, in Kiev, in one the past few wild days in that city:\n<\/div>\n
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Anti-government barricade, Kiev, Feb. 2014 <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
This is a still from the 2:05 mark in this video<\/a> (graphic content), from the Russia Today<\/em> world-news service. If you look closely at the video footage, you see a red-and-black flag, flying high and clear, at the center. A closer shot (top left):\n<\/div>\n
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Close-up shot of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army flag <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
What is this red-and-black flag? I wondered. I searched. I found it:

It belonged to the<\/span><\/span> The Ukrainian Insurgent Army<\/a> [UIA].<\/strong> The UIA was a radically-anti-Communist, nationalistic paramilitary group in the 1940s, whose goal was the elimination of Communism and the overthrow of Soviet rule. The UIA was the “military wing” of a Ukrainian nationalist political party<\/a>. They were actively pro-German in WWII.<\/strong> <\/div>\n
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It’s an oddly-untold story, which I first learned when in Estonia in 2007: An enormous number of non-German Europeans volunteered to serve, under arms, “with the Germans” in WWII (i.e., to fight against the USSR). There were entire Ukrainian divisions in the field,<\/span><\/span> outfitted and supplied by the Germans. (Most European nations had at least one full regiment (thousands of men), I’ve learned; there were even a couple of Norwegian regiments; Norwegians formed the core of a division nicknamed Nordland<\/em> . In my time in Berlin, I came across the dramatic history of Nordland’s<\/em> last stand in the April 1945 Battle of Berlin.

<\/span><\/span>Half a million non-Germans served in foreign divisions to fight in the East. “Better dead than Red”, they said.<\/p>\n

These thoughts occur to me, as I hear news that seems very much like war coverage:<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n

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Ukrainian anti-government paramilitaries carrying a man injured by a government sniper <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Anti-government protestor-paramilitaries in Maidan Square(?) <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Maidan Square, Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 20th(?) 2014 <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Spotting the flag of this “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” suggests that things are not quite as the U.S. media wants\/is-able-to report. The hard-core of the anti-government side probably doesn’t<\/em> want some kind of soft-bellied, free-market, “gay-rights” liberal-democracy. No; no. They don’t want that, at all, I’m thinking.
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