Genocide masterplan

Experts alarmed after Kremlin intellectual calls for 'cleansed' Ukraine

This page consists of three parts.  The first is an introductory commentry by Alexander Nazaryan, a senior White House correspondent, on an article by Timofey Sergeytsev.  This is followed by a commentary by Mariia Kravchenko, and then the article itself.  

March 11, 2022 13:53


Article: What Should Russia Do With Ukraine? :author, Timofey Sergeytsev



WASHINGTON: Ukrainian society must be “cleansed of Nazi elements,” a leading Russian intellectual wrote in an essay published on Sunday, as Ukrainian soldiers sifted through the gruesome aftermath of a slaughter of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha.

The article, titled “What Should Russia Do With Ukraine?” was published on the website of RIA Novosti, a news agency controlled by the Kremlin.  Its author, Timofey Sergeytsev, is described as a “political technologist.” He previously worked for Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Kremlin president of Ukraine ousted during protests in 2014.

Faithfully echoing the arguments that have been proffered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sergeytsev even puts the blame on the civilian population.  “A significant number of common people are also guilty of being passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices,” Sergeytsev writes.  “They supported the Nazi authorities and pandered to them.”

Sergeytsev has made “outlandish, outrageous claims in the past,” Oxford expert on Russian affairs Samuel Ramani told Yahoo News.  But in this case, the article “represents mainstream Kremlin thinking.”

Ukrainian activists translated the article into English after the Russian-language version was circulated widely on social media.

“This is what real #Russia wants,” the activists wrote.

“As naked an endorsement of genocide as you'll read in a state-owned media organ,” wrote Russia expert Michael Weiss on Twitter about the Sergeytsev article.

The article amounts to a “genocide masterplan,” Berlin-based Russia expert Sergej Sumlenny told Yahoo News in a text message.  He predicted that Sergeytsev's musings would be used as justification for more atrocities like the one at Bucha.

Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in February under the fictitious pretenses that the nation's leadership was rife with “Nazi” extremists.  Although there are far-right elements in Ukraine's society, and its military, they constitute an out-of-power fringe, as they do in other European states.  Russia's claims are rendered especially absurd given the fact that Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is one of the few Jewish leaders on the world stage.  Zelensky and some of his predecessors have sought to orient the nation away from Russia, toward the West, thus incurring the Kremlin's ire.

Russia is “not just after piecemeal annexation of territory,” Ramani told Yahoo News of Sergeytsev's lengthy musings.  “It's about suppressing the Ukrainian identity, and it equates any kind of expression of Ukrainian nationalism with Nazism,” even when those expressions of national feeling are being voiced by Zelensky, who had family members who fought against the Nazis in World War II - and others who perished in the Holocaust.

In his RIA Novosti article, Sergeytsev essentially calls for the elimination of Ukrainian national identity.  “The name 'Ukraine' cannot be kept as a title of any fully de-nazified state entity on the territory liberated from the Nazi regime,” he writes.  “The people's republics, newly created on the territories free from Nazism, must and will develop on the basis of practices of economic self-government and social security, restoration and modernization of systems of essential services for the population.”

Zelensky addressed the article in a call with Romanian politicians on Monday, saying it would be used as “evidence in a future tribunal of Russian war crimes.” He said the article called for “the annihilation of everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainian.”

Putin has long seen Ukraine as part of a broader, Moscow-led Slavic empire, a vision articulated by intellectuals who have provided a philosophical backing for the Kremlin's aggressive aims in Ukraine and elsewhere.  Although Ukrainians share cultural, religious and linguistic similarities with Russia, they have long bristled at being treated like a junior partner.  Ukraine has been its own nation since the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1991.

Sergeytsev's article is a window into how the Kremlin apparently continues to see the Ukraine invasion, despite seemingly abandoning its “de-nazification” project last week amid mounting military losses.

Regime change is no longer a public Russian condition for peace.  But whether the Kremlin truly seeks an end to fighting remains unclear.

For one, the Kremlin continues to promote its unfounded claims of Ukrainian extremism, with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev writing in a Monday social media post that “a passionate segment of Ukrainian society has been praying to the Third Reich for the last 30 years.  Literally.”

Going even further in his RIA Novosti essay, Sergeytsev argues that “Ukra-nazism poses a much bigger threat to the world and Russia than the Hitler version of German Nazism.” Russian media has been full of lurid stories about the supposed slaughter of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian troops.  Outlandish conspiracy theories about bioweapons laboratories funded by Hunter Biden, the president's son, and George Soros, the Jewish philanthropist, have also proliferated widely in Russian media - and without any evident skepticism.

Adolf Hitler was responsible for the deaths of millions of Russians and Ukrainians, as well as the extermination of 6 million Jews.  Russian propaganda has latched on to the fact that there were also Ukrainian collaborators who worked with the Nazis during Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.  Those Ukrainian nationalists hoped to secure independence from the brutal Soviet rule, which was itself (sic).

Zelensky and his supporters argue that if any regime represents modern-day Nazi Germany, it is the one found in Moscow.

“It’s important to spread this article,” wrote the Ukrainians who posted the English-language version of Sergeytsev’s essay.  “The world should be aware of Russian methods, crimes, and plans.  Putin will not stop until he is stopped.”




What should Russia do with Ukraine? [Translation of a propaganda article by a Russian publication]
Mariia Kravchenko
Apr 4, 2022

Disclaimer: What you are about to read is a direct translation of an article written by a russian propagandist.  This is what real #Russia wants.  Please read and share.  This text will soon be translated into other languages so that everyone in the world can read about Russia's crimes.

The original article in Russian is here.  In case of deletion - a link to the web archive.

This is the article that was published by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti (Russian: ??? ???????).  This medium through the years was one of the main voices of Russian propaganda and fake news.

RIA Novosti is known for its systematic support of the Kremlin, violation of journalistic standards and works according to so-called “temnik” (directives and agendas from the government).  The position in this article corresponds to the position of Russia.

This particular article is an indication of the Russian main narrative right now.  RIA Novosti is trying to hide Russian crimes and spread cynical lies about the Ukrainian army, but also to provide media support for a full-scale program of destroying independent Ukraine.

How does it work? Russians state the facts about cities that were destroyed and civilians that were tortured and murdered.  They are talking about Mariupol (a city as big as Edinburgh, Florence, or Lyon) that was almost wiped out, as well as Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv - cities under bombardment.  They mention the horrors of Bucha, where hundreds of people were murdered and tortured to death.  They are talking about 161 children that died in Ukraine during these 40 days.  However, they claim that it was the Ukrainian army that committed all these war crimes.

The author, a Russian political technologist, also has the audacity to talk about the Soviet occupation of Ukraine.  He is trying to support Putin's narrative about Ukraine as an artificial country.  Instead, the world should remember that the Soviet Union terrorized Ukraine for almost a century with forced collectivization, Great Purge, Terror-Famine (Holodomor), forced deportation, etc.

In this article, the author is describing ways how Russians want to wipe out Ukraine in the same way the Soviet regime did it.

It's important to spread this article.  The Russian war should be stopped now.  It was supposed to be stopped 8 years ago when it only began.  71% of Russians feel proud about this war.  75.5% of Russians approve of the idea of a military invasion of the next country and believe that it should be Poland.  According to respondents, this is a logical continuation of the so-called “military special operation of the Russian Federation”.

The world should be aware of Russian methods, crimes, and plans.  Putin will not stop until he is stopped.


What should Russia do with Ukraine?


Timofey Sergeytsev

We wrote about the inevitability of Ukraine's de-nazification as early as last April.  We do not need a Nazi, Banderite Ukraine, the enemy of Russia and a tool of the West used to destroy Russia.  Today, the de-nazification issue has taken a practical turn.

De-nazification is necessary when a considerable number of population (very likely most of it) has been subjected to the Nazi regime and engaged into its agenda.  That is, when the “good people - bad government” hypothesis does not apply.  Recognizing this fact forms the backbone of the de-nazification policy and all its measures, while the fact itself constitutes its subject.

This is the situation Ukraine has found itself in.  The fact that the Ukrainian voter was choosing between the “Poroshenko peace” and the “Zelenskyy peace” must not deceive you: Ukrainians were quite happy with the shortest way to peace via a blitzkrieg, which was strongly alluded to by the last two Ukrainian presidents when they were elected.  This was the method used to “pacify” home antifascists in Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro (the RU original uses the city's former name “Dnipropetrovsk”), Mariupol, and other Russian cities - the method of total terror.  And ordinary Ukrainians were fine with it.  De-nazification is a set of actions aimed at the nazified bulk of the population, who technically cannot be directly punished as war criminals.

Those Nazis who took up arms must be destroyed on the battlefield, as many of them as possible.  No significant distinction should be made between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the so-called “nationalist battalions,” as well as the Territorial Defense, who have joined the two other types of military units.  They are all equally complicit in the horrendous violence towards civilians, equally complicit in the genocide of the Russian people, and they do not comply with the laws and customs of war.  War criminals and active Nazis must be punished in such a way as to provide an example and a demonstration.  

A total lustration must be conducted.  
Lustration is a process of public scrutiny, often implemented after regime changes, to assess the past conduct of individuals in public office, particularly in relation to human rights abuses or collaboration with previous authoritarian regimes.  It aims to prevent those who engaged in harmful actions from holding positions of power in the new government and to promote accountability for past wrongs.  The process can involve investigations, screening of records, and potential restrictions on holding public office.  

From the Latin “lustratio”, meaning "purification by sacrifice": the removal of public officials and judges who are associated with a tainted political regime.

All organizations involved in Nazi actions must be eliminated and prohibited.  However, besides the highest ranks, a significant number of common people are also guilty of being passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices.  They supported the Nazi authorities and pandered to them.  A just punishment for this part of the population can only be possible through bearing the inevitable hardships of a just war against the Nazi system, waged as carefully and sparingly as possible relates civilians.  

The further de-nazification of this bulk of the population will take the form of re-education through ideological repressions (suppression) of Nazi paradigms and a harsh censorship not only in the political sphere but also in the spheres of culture and education.  It was through culture and education that the pervasive large-scale Nazification of the population was conducted, ensured by the guarantees of dividends from the Nazi regime victory over Russia, by the Nazi propaganda, internal violence and terror, and the 8-year-long war against the people of Donbas, who have rebelled against the Ukrainian Nazism.

De-nazification can only be conducted by the winner, which requires (1) their unconditional control over the de-nazification process and (2) that the authority that can ensure such control.  For this purpose, a country that is being de-nazified cannot possess sovereignty.  The de-nazifier state, Russia, cannot take a liberal approach towards de-nazification.  The de-nazifier ideology cannot be challenged by the guilty party that is being de-nazified.  When Russia admits that Ukraine needs to be de-nazified, it essentially admits that the Crimea scenario cannot be applied to the whole Ukraine.  In all fairness, this scenario was also not possible in the insurgent Donbas in 2014.  Only the 8-year-long rebellion against the Nazi violence and terror managed to result in an internal unification and deliberate, explicit, broad-scale refusal of retaining any association with or relation to Ukraine, which has identified itself as a Nazi community.

The period of de-nazification can take no less than one generation that has to be born, brought up and mature under the conditions of de-nazification.  The nazification of Ukraine has been going on for more than 30 years - starting from as early as 1989, when Ukrainian nationalism was given legal and legitimate forms of political self-expression and led the movement for “independence”, setting a course for Nazism.

The current nazified Ukraine is characterized by its formlessness and ambivalence, which allow it to disguise Nazism as the aspiration to “independence” and the “European” (Western, pro-American) path of “development” (in reality, to degradation) and claim that “there is no Nazism” in Ukraine, “only few sporadic incidents.” Indeed, there isn't a main Nazi party, no Fuhrer, no full-fledged racial laws (only a cutdown version in the form of repressions against the Russian language).  As a result - no opposition or resistance against the regime.

However, all listed above does not make Ukrainian Nazism a “light version” of the German Nazism of the first half of the 20th century.  Quite the opposite: since Ukrainian Nazism is free from such “genre” norms and limitations (which are essentially a product of political technologies), it can spread freely just like a basis for any Nazism - both European and, in its most developed form, the American racism.  That is why there can be no compromise during de-nazification, as in the case of the “no to NATO, yes to EU” formula.  The collective West is in itself the architect, source, and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism, while the Banderite supporters from Western Ukraine and their “historical memory” is just one of the tools of the nazification of Ukraine.  Ukro-nazism poses a much bigger threat to the world and Russia than the Hitler version of German Nazism.

Apparently, the name “Ukraine” cannot be kept as a title of any fully de-nazified state entity on the territory liberated from the Nazi regime.  The people's republics, newly created on the territories free from Nazism, must and will develop on the basis of practices of economic self-government and social security, restoration and modernization of systems of essential services for the population.

Their political direction cannot be neutral in practice: the redemption of their guilt before Russia for treating it like an enemy can be manifested only by relying on Russia in the processes of restoration, revival, and development.  No “Marshall Plans” can be allowed to happen on these territories.  No “neutrality” in the ideological and practical sense that is compatible with de-nazification can be possible.  Individuals and organizations who are to become tools of de-nazification in the new de-nazified republics cannot but rely on the direct organizational and force support from Russia.

De-nazification will inevitably include de-ukrainization - the rejection of the large-scale artificial inflation of the ethnic component in the self-identification of the population of the historical Malorossiya and Novorossiya territories, which was started by the Soviet authorities.  Being a tool of the Communist superpower, this artificial ethnocentrism was not left unclaimed after its fall.  It was transferred in its subservient role to a different superpower (the power above states) - the superpower of the West.  It needs to be brought back within its natural boundaries and stripped of political functionality.

Unlike, for example, Georgia or the Baltic States, history has proved it impossible for Ukraine to exist as a nation-state, and any attempts to “build” such a nation-state naturally lead to Nazism.  Ukrainism is an artificial anti-Russian construct that has no civilizational substance of its own, a subordinate element of an extraneous and alien civilization.  De-banderization alone will not be enough for de-nazification: the Banderite element is only a hand and a screen, a disguise for the European project of the Nazi Ukraine, which is why the de-nazification of Ukraine means its inevitable de-europeanization.

The Banderite elites must be eliminated; their re-education is impossible.  The social “bog,” which has actively and passively supported them through action and inaction, must go through the hardships of war and internalize the lived experience as a historical lesson and the redemption of its guilt.  Those who did not support the Nazi regime and suffered from it and the war it started in Donbas must be consolidated and organized, must become the backbone of the new authorities, their vertical and horizontal framework.  History has shown that the tragedies and dramas of the war time benefit the peoples who were tempted and carried away by their role as the enemy of Russia.

De-nazification as a goal of the special military operation within the limits of the operation itself means:
The latter, in its turn, must begin with the establishment of local governments, militia, and defense institutions, cleansed of Nazi elements, the launching on their basis of constituent processes to create a new republican statehood, the integration of this statehood into the close cooperation with the Russian agency on Ukraine de-nazification (newly established or reorganized on the basis of, for example, Rossotrudnichestvo), the adoption of the republican regulatory framework (legislation) on de-nazification under Russian control, the definition of boundaries and frameworks for the direct application of Russian law and Russian jurisdiction in the liberated territory in regard to de-nazification, the establishment of a tribunal for crimes against humanity in the former Ukraine.  In this regard, Russia should act as the guardian of the Nuremberg Trials.

All of the above means that in order to achieve the de-nazification goals, the support of the population is necessary, as well as its transition to the Russian side after its liberation from the terror, violence, and ideological pressure of the Kyiv regime, and after their withdrawal from informational isolation.  

Of course, it will take some time for people to recover from the shock of military hostilities, to be convinced of Russia's long-term intentions, meaning “they will not be abandoned.”

It is impossible to foresee exactly in which territories such a mass of the population will constitute a critically needed majority.  The “Catholic province” (Western Ukraine, made up of five oblasts) is unlikely to become part of the pro-Russian territories.  The exclusion line, however, will be found experimentally.

Behind the line, a forcibly neutral and demilitarized Ukraine will remain, with the formally banned Nazism and hostile to Russia.  This is where the haters of Russia will go.  The threat of an immediate continuation of the military operation in case of non-compliance with the listed requirements must become a guarantee of the preservation of this obsolete Ukraine in a neutral state.  Perhaps this will require a permanent Russian military presence on its territory.  From the exclusion line to the Russian border, there will be a territory of potential integration into the Russian civilization, which is inherently anti-fascist.

The operation to de-nazify Ukraine, which began with a military phase, will follow the same logic of stages in peacetime as during the military operation.  At each stage, it will be necessary to achieve irreversible changes, which will become the results of the corresponding stage.  

In this case, the necessary initial steps of de-nazification can be defined as follows:

Russia will have no allies in the de-nazification of Ukraine.  Because this is a purely Russian business.  And also because it is not just the Bandera version of Nazi Ukraine that will be eradicated.  The process will also, and above all, affect Western totalitarianism, the imposed programs of civilizational degradation and disintegration, and the mechanisms of subjugation under the superpower of the West and the United States.

In order to put the Ukraine de-nazification plan into practice, Russia itself will have to finally part with pro-European and pro-Western illusions, acknowledge itself as the last authority in protecting and preserving those values of historical Europe (the Old World) that deserve to be preserved and that the West ultimately abandoned, losing the fight for itself.  This struggle continued throughout the 20th century and found its expression in the world war and the Russian revolution, which were inextricably linked with each other.

Russia did everything possible to save the West in the 20th century.  It implemented the main Western project that constituted an alternative to capitalism, which defeated the nation-states - the Socialist red project.  It crushed German Nazism, a monstrous offspring of the crisis of Western civilization.  The last act of Russian altruism was its outstretched hand of friendship, for which it received a monstrous blow in the 1990's.

Everything that Russia has done for the West, it has done at its own expense, by making the greatest sacrifices.  The West ultimately rejected all these sacrifices, devalued Russia's contribution to resolving the Western crisis, and decided to take revenge on Russia for the help that it had selflessly provided.  From now on, Russia will follow its own way, not worrying about the fate of the West, relying on another part of its heritage - the leadership in the global process of decolonization.

As part of this process, Russia has a high potential for partnerships and alliances with countries that the West has oppressed for centuries and which are not going to put on its yoke again.  Without Russian sacrifice and struggle, these countries would not have been liberated.  The de-nazification of Ukraine is at the same time its decolonization, which the population of Ukraine will have to understand as it begins to free itself from the intoxication, temptation, and dependence of the so-called European choice.

* An extremist organization banned in Russia.

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Translation: By a team of Ukrainian volunteers