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[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]] [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] with (left) Victorias Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) [[Vitali Klitschko]] (rear).]]

[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Ukrainian [[neo-Nazi]] [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] with (left) Victorias Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) [[Vitali Klitschko]] (rear).]]

[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]

[[File:Euromaidan coup.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Burnt victims of what the [[Western alliance|Western media]] and diplomats call the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/xWS2Q</ref>]]

{{quotebox-float|While Yushchenko's successor [[Viktor Yanukovych]] has revoked the hero status of [[Bandera]] and [[Shukhevych]] and largely put an end to the state cult of the ultra-nationalists, in Western Ukraine, apologetics for the [[Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists#Banderists|Waffen-SS Galizien]] is entering the mainstream. On April 28, 2011, the 68th anniversary of the establishment of Waffen-SS Galizien, neo-fascist 'autonomous nationalists,' together with the far-right Svoboda Party, which dominates the [[Lvov|L'viv]] city government organized a march through the city. Led by Svoboda ideologue Iurii Mykhal'chyshyn of the L'viv city council, the nearly 700 participants (2,000 according to the organizers), carrying banners with neo-Nazi symbols marched down the streets of L'viv, shouting slogans like 'Halychyna—division of heroes!,' and 'One race, one nation, one Fatherland!' Svoboda, which dominates the L'viv city council, decorated the city with billboards with the symbol of the unit, accompanied by the texts 'the treasure of the nation' and 'they defended Ukraine'.}}

{{quotebox-float|While Yushchenko's successor [[Viktor Yanukovych]] has revoked the hero status of [[Bandera]] and [[Shukhevych]] and largely put an end to the state cult of the ultra-nationalists, in Western Ukraine, apologetics for the [[Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists#Banderists|Waffen-SS Galizien]] is entering the mainstream. On April 28, 2011, the 68th anniversary of the establishment of [[Waffen-SS]] Galizien, neo-fascist 'autonomous nationalists,' together with the far-right Svoboda Party, which dominates the [[Lvov|L'viv]] city government organized a march through the city. Led by Svoboda ideologue Iurii Mykhal'chyshyn of the L'viv city council, the nearly 700 participants (2,000 according to the organizers), carrying banners with neo-Nazi symbols marched down the streets of L'viv, shouting slogans like 'Halychyna—division of heroes!,' and 'One race, one nation, one Fatherland!' Svoboda, which dominates the L'viv city council, decorated the city with billboards with the symbol of the unit, accompanied by the texts 'the treasure of the nation' and 'they defended Ukraine'.}}

Amid these heightened tensions, the [[mainstream media]] in the United States and Europe joined in the full-scale Russia/Putin-bashing, holding Russia at fault for everything.  A new McCarthyism emerged, deeming anyone who dared disagree a “Moscow surrogate” or a “Russian propagandist.”  The ugliness penetrated into the [[2016 presidential election]] campaign as [[Hillary Clinton]] took a belligerent line toward Russia while Donald Trump broke with the Republican establishment and called for improved ties between [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Moscow]].  After Trump's victory the anti-Russian hysteria gained added strength as Democrats were so angry that [[liberal]] and [[progressive]] operatives saw a chance to build a movement and raise lots of money by pushing the [[Trump-Russia]] accusations.  This opportunism turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a new pro-Cold War constituency, willing to engage in a new breed of [[McCarthyism]], by demanding investigations into any relations between Americans and Russians.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>

Amid these heightened tensions, the [[mainstream media]] in the United States and Europe joined in the full-scale Russia/Putin-bashing, holding Russia at fault for everything.  A new McCarthyism emerged, deeming anyone who dared disagree a “Moscow surrogate” or a “Russian propagandist.”  The ugliness penetrated into the [[2016 presidential election]] campaign as [[Hillary Clinton]] took a belligerent line toward Russia while Donald Trump broke with the Republican establishment and called for improved ties between [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Moscow]].  After Trump's victory the anti-Russian hysteria gained added strength as Democrats were so angry that [[liberal]] and [[progressive]] operatives saw a chance to build a movement and raise lots of money by pushing the [[Trump-Russia]] accusations.  This opportunism turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a new pro-Cold War constituency, willing to engage in a new breed of [[McCarthyism]], by demanding investigations into any relations between Americans and Russians.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>