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 On May 9, the neo-Nazi "National Corps" (former Azov Battalion unit) staged a new attack on Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) leaders Dr. Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko. On that day of commemoration of victory over fascism in 1945, these two leading anti-fascists in Ukraine, both of them former members of Parliament, heard their doorbells ring and threatening voices outside in the hallways. Gangs from the neo-Nazi "National Corps Party," formerly a unit of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion under the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, were attempting to break down the doors of their apartments. During a five-hour stand-off, police refused to remove the attackers forcibly. The neo-Nazis declared that their purpose was to prevent Vitrenko and her PSPU from holding Victory Day rallies or other ceremonies on that day.

Vitrenko is famous not only for her nearly quarter-centurylong battle against the murderous imposition of neoliberal monetarist economic policies, but also for warning for two decades of an insurgent fascist movement in Ukraine, marching under Nazi-derived banners and those of Ukrainian 20th-century fascist Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

In October of last year, the PSPU’s national headquarters and all the party’s records of 20 years were seized on the pretext of a commercial dispute, and turned over to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which continues to gestate a case against Vitrenko on trumped-up charges of "separatism" (cf SAS 45/16).

On May 4, 2017, Vitrenko had appealed to world leaders to investigate the gross violation of the "rights of citizens of Ukraine to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of expression of their views and convictions, freedom of association in political parties and public organizations, and freedom of assembly for the peaceful conduct of actions, rallies and demonstrations." She stated her conviction that if the world EIR STRATEGIC ALERT 4 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER n°20 / 2017 community "fails to condemn these processes in Ukraine" and to force the authorities to put a stop to the activity of the rightwing radicals, "then a Nazi state will be formed in the center of Europe in the near future, and this will give rise to a Third World War."

In a communication on May 12 to friends abroad, Vitrenko voiced hope that Western leaders could be organized to pressure the Ukrainian government to stop the Azov Battalion, which the U.S. Congress has officially recognized as a "neoNazi" group, and its political spin-offs like the National Corps Party. Vitrenko also warned against a possible military coup by Internal Affairs Minister Avakov and allies of his who have also been sponsors of the neo-Nazi gangs.

Источник: E.I.R. N20-may 18,  2017