By Vestnik Kavkaza
On Sunday a shell launched from Ukrainian territory hit a residential building in Donetsk, a town in the Rostov Region of Russia. One person was killed, another was heavily injured. Since that time various circles in Moscow are stating that the most effective way to stop gunfire attacks by Ukraine could be a reverse usage of precision-guided weapons.
Vladislav Shurygin, editor-in-chief of Zhurnalistskaya Pravda, told Vestnik Kavkaza: “The necessity is long overdue. We can see constant attacks on our territories where our citizens live. And international law not only lets Russia off the leash, but demands protection of its territory.”
Senator Bushmin also doubts the possibility of an agreement with the Ukrainian side for military activity in the country not to touch Russian regions even indirectly, as the Kyiv authorities do not control the situation. “There are terrorist groups which are controlled by Kolomoisky, Right Sector, and those who act independently,” he added.
However, in Moscow the threat from Ukraine is not thought to be the only one. “The Ukrainian crisis has shown what various political, ethnic and social groups really think about Russia and the Russian people,” Member of the Russian Presidential Council for Inter-ethnic Relations, Bogdan Bespalko, says. “Russian nationalists sympathize with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, who chanted anti-Russian slogans. People who insist that they represent the interests of the Russian people, in fact consider those who fight against Russians and whose ideology is based on hatred for Russia, the Russian people and everything connected to Russia. Liberal democrats supported this movement, that their hatred for the Russian political system is more important to them than the ideals of the liberals of the 19th century, who believed in individual rights and freedoms.”
Bespalko says that “certain extremist forces, which are struggling for the independence of some Russian regions, also supported neo-Nazis in Ukraine. All political forces interested in such a collapse are ready to use any problem Russia is facing for their interests. It may be social problems, inter-ethnic conflicts or religious conflicts. We know what is going on in Ukraine. The forces interested in the revolution were using all possible means, for instance the idea of a national church. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was the core of this idea. They were also using historical myths, according to which Ukrainians have always been persecuted and repressed by Russians. They were also using hatred for Ukraine's tycoons, who are now replaced by Poroshenko and Kolomoisky.”
Speaking about neo-Nazi ideology in Ukraine, Bespalko says: “Some people believe that Nazism and radical nationalism is typical only for Germany of the 20th century, but there is such a thing as local nationalism, which can also be very cruel, no less cruel than actual Nazism. I fact I have to say that in Nazi Germany there was some kind of social order, while what is going on in Ukraine today is chaos. German Nazism was based on the idea of social justice and thus the Nazis tried to restrict large companies and the most influential businessmen. On the contrary, in Ukraine such tycoons are celebrating their triumph and dividing the country. Such local Nazism is no less dangerous than German Nazism.”
