It Doesn’t Take A Whole Lot Of Fascists To Spoil A Movement (But The U.S. State Department Is Okay With That)

I just watched the opening minutes of the film Winter On Fire, a movie made in response to Oliver Stone’s movie Ukraine On Fire. As opposed to Oliver Stone’s movie which explained how the U.S. supported a coup in Ukraine and was willing to work with the worst kind of fascists and neo-Nazis to do it, Winter On Fire took the official U.S. line on the events of 2013–4. In case you were wondering, it was WAY easier to find than Oliver Stone’s film. In fact I wasn’t even looking for it, I just stumbled upon it while looking for a good documentary to watch.

The movie opens with an interview of a pro-revolution protestor speaking about the leadup to the protests. The camera pans out to reveal he is wearing a scarf with the image of Stepan Bandera on it. Within a moment or two, the red and black flag of UNSO (the military arm of UNA) can be seen in the background. This flag is ubiquitous in the background (or foreground) of almost all the footage I watched (I only watched the first twenty minutes or so). The fact that the creators of the documentary found it either impossible or unnecessary to avoid overt Nazi imagery is telling.

There are those who will say that Bandera wasn’t really that bad a guy, and that even if he was, the people with…