Blowback

[János Széky]

"Controversial" is a mild term, it's a nice piece of Russian information
warfare, which is guite Pynchonesque itself with its paranoid mixture of
facts and deliberate fallacies.

János


2014-08-21 22:37 GMT+02:00 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:

> This article references Christopher Simpson's important book "Blowback"
> and is related to one of (early) Pynchon's themes, i.e. the recruitment of
> Nazis by CIC and later the CIA etc. for the Cold War. But most of all, it
> links the early Cold War period to the present. I quite like the beginning,
> prosewise, although, of course, terms like "Kiev junta" etc. are
> controversial:
>
> 'I assume, in jest, that at least a tiny part of the media blackout over
> the “anti-terrorist” wonton brutalities against civilians in southeastern
> Ukraine (Novorossya) may be the result of the decidedly unsexy quality of
> the fascist cohort participating in the Kiev junta’s campaign there. Foot
> soldiers of Svoboda and Right Sector paramilitary army (the Kiev junta’s
> so-called National Guard, formed as a volunteer army after the coup) look
> comically lumpen. Moreover, they feel like a postmodern pastiche of the
> original Nazis—and so does their cult, a virtual fan club, of Stepan
> Bandera, the Galician butcher who notoriously collaborated with the Axis
> forces in the extermination of Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and other
> undesirables in the East. Ideologically, they seem unreal, as though they
> had just crawled out of a deep bomb hole in history, which had not been
> quite repaired in the post war, absurdly calling out for “Glory to
> Ukraine.”  A glimpse at fascist-parade photographs and videos of their
> subterranean, wormy faces set in the bully’s obstinate scowl, their heads
> shaven kapo style, hobnail-booted and pudgily stuffed in fascist-regulation
> black, makes one think of hastily rounded up layabouts as extras for an
> implausible B-movie about an improbable skin-head warfare in a high school
> anywhere in the USA.  Despite their obvious fantasies, Aryan warriors
> headed for Valhalla they are not. So, if they can’t be advertised as
> shining knights in America’s democracy armor or as specimen of a superior
> brand of military men, why were these retrogrades recruited to lead the
> Western-backed “pro-democracy” crusade in the Kiev Maidan and its
> aftermath?'
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/08/americas-
> recruitment-of-nazis-then-and-now/
>
> Thomas
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