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Cities in eastern and southern Ukraine have
become battlefields as the junta in Kiev has unleashed military and
paramilitary thugs on the people of those regions.
At the same time the media, with its critical
role in shaping public opinion, has also become one of the principal
theaters in this ongoing conflict, with Western propaganda being one of the most potent weapons.
Seventy-three years ago this October, the infamous “Odessa Massacre” of
1941, which killed more than 30,000 Jews in the Ukrainian port city and
surrounding areas, was carried out by Romanian fascist troops in
collaboration with their Nazi patrons and allies. The pogrom, merely one
of many against Jews and other minorities in Ukraine, is a stark
historical reminder to the people of Odessa (and all those throughout
the former Soviet Union who fought against fascism during the war) of
the depravity, inhumanity, and barbarism of Nazis and their
collaborators.
And now, 73 years later, Odessa is the scene
of yet another horrific war crime carried out by fascists against
innocent civilians. The fire and massacre at the Trade Unions building
which killed dozens of anti-fascist activists and employees in the
building, will serve as a painful testimony to the ongoing struggle
against the junta in Kiev and its neo-Nazi paramilitary foot soldiers.
This obvious war crime, along with a number of others committed by the
Right Sector and other ultra-nationalist (read fascist) militias, should
undoubtedly be the issue making headlines around the world.
And yet, it seems that somehow the slaughter
of innocents, and the issue of criminal accountability for those who
ordered and carried out the massacre, has been completely and
systematically distorted and/or omitted from the Western narrative.
Instead, the corporate media has deliberately attempted to obscure the
true nature of the events of that day, and those leading up to and
subsequent to it, in order to dilute the impact of the self-evident, and
quite damning, criminality of the fascist militias and their leaders
and patrons. By using subtle, coded language that deliberately minimizes
the barbarism of the events and shifts blame from Kiev to Moscow, the
mainstream Western media once again acts as the dutiful servant of the
US-EU ruling establishment.
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