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Press for Conversion! Issue # 70 Spring 2021 48 Yaroslav Stetsko T he Edmonton-based Encyclopedia of Ukraine states that the AntiBol- shevik Bloc of Nations (ABN): attributes its existence and its ideologi- cal foundations to an underground con- ference of representatives of non-Russian peoples ... on 21-22 Nov. 1943 near Zhy- tomyr [Ukraine] on the initiative of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists [OUN] and at which a platform of joint revolutionary struggle against Russian communism was formulated.... The goal of the ABN was the dismemberment of the Soviet Union into national states.... 1 This 1943 meeting, facilitated by Stepan Bandera’s OUN(B), was instigated by the Nazis to create an “Anti-Bolshevik Front.” Its 39 delegates from twelve “enslaved” So- viet ethnic groups formed a network of “un- derground” armies. Calling themselves the Committee of Subjugated Nations (CSN), this alliance of fascist armies “was the di- rect precursor” of the ABN, “though nation- alists continue to deny its Nazi origins.” 2 The Red Army defeated the Nazis in huge 1943 battles in Kursk and Stalingrad. Nazi military intelligence (Abwehr) and the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (led by fascist ideologue Alfred Rosenberg) turned to their strongest eastern allies: the OUN-B and its Ukrainian Insur- gent Army (UPA). In 1943, they were joined by deserters from the Red Army and from non-German SS units, including Belo- russians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turke- stanians, Cossacks, Armenians, Uzbeks, Tartars and even Russians. 3 Besides the UPA, the CSN includ- ed Romania’s Iron Guard, Hungary’s Arrow Cross, Slovakia’s Hlinka Guard and other fascist legions from the Baltics, Bulgaria and Belorussia. 4 Sharing the Nazi’s rabid hatred of Russians, Jews and communists, the CSN sought to obliterate the USSR by dividing it into ethnically-cleansed, Christian states. Stormtrooper wolfsangel AZOV Now banned in Germany, Wolfsangels are still widely used by white-power and extremist Christian Identity groups, Ukraine’s fascist Svoboda party and Azov, a neoNazi militia that aided the proNATO “Euromaidan” coup (2014) and is part of Ukraine’s national guard. “Prime Minister of Ukraine” (Jun. 30 ~ Jul. 5, 1941) OUN-B leader: Deputy (1940-68), Chairman (1960-68) and President (1968-86) Chairman, ABN (1946-86) Exec. Board, WACL (1966-86) The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and World AntiCommunist League Postwar service to empire After WWII, the CSN replaced its Nazi sponsors. With funding from the US, UK and West German gov- ernments in 1946, 5 the CSN became the ABN. Its “most active group” remained the OUN(B). 6 In 1951, US army intelligence said the OUN(B) was “composed of rough, tough younger men of strong convictions without the slightest aversion to vio- lent murder or otherwise ruth- lessly dispos- ing of any and all opposition.” 7 ABN leadership was a who’s who of fascists. Its president from 1946 until his death in 1986, was Bandera’s deputy, Yaro- slav Stetsko. During a 1981 US visit to cel- ebrate 40 years since the OUN-B declara- tion of a proNazi Ukraine, Stetsko summed up the ABN’s goal and its violent strategy: The complete destruction of the Russian empire through a Ukrainian national revolution and armed uprisings of all subjugated nations is the only means for achieving an independent Ukrainian state and the liberation of all nations subju- gated by Moscow. 8 (Emphasis added) Other ABN leaders included fascist Hungar- ian general Ferenc Farkas, Croatian general Hinko Alabanda (whose Ustaša death camps killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Roma), and CIA advisor Ferdinand Dur- canský, former foreign minister of the Na- zi’s clerico-fascist, puppet state in Slovakia. As a Cold War asset promoting CIA interests, the ABN was central to its propa- ganda vehicles, such as Radio Liberation from Bolshevism. As Jonathan Levy notes: The ABN became the darling of the cold warriors ... and its questionable person- alities given full access to Radio Liberty and other propaganda venues. Radio Lib- erty itself was sharply criticized as a mouthpiece for antisemitism and glorifi- cation of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. 9 Throughout the Cold War, the ABN held some of its largest events in Toronto. Its 1986 congress there received “warm greet- ings” from president Reagan and prime min- ister Mulroney. Toronto was fertile ground for the ABN because many of the far-right immigrants given safe haven by Canada, set- tled in Toronto after the war. There they formed groups representing the antiSoviet diaspora from Europe’s “captive nations.” In 1996, after achieving the Nazi- cum-CIA dream of destroying their common Soviet enemy, the ABN ceased operations. Svoboda The ABN logo used a medi- eval German wolfsangel symbol. It was an early em- blem of the Nazi Party and was used by many Waffen SS divisions. Dutch Nazi Neofascist Italian World AntiCommunist League (WACL) Through the 1950s and 1960s, Stetsko attended meetings of the Asian People’s AntiCommunist League. Created in 1954 by US-backed regimes in South Korea, South Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines, it joined with Stetsko’s ABN and oth- er fascist entities from six continents to form the World AntiCommunist League (WACL) in 1966. The WACL united Nazi politicians, Japa- nese war criminals, Italian terrorists, Salvadoran and Guatemalan death-squad leaders, US-allied dictators (Argentina’s Jorge Videla, South Korea’s Park Chunghee and Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroess- ner), former CIA officials, Moonie cult leaders, Saudi sheikhs, Nicaraguan contras, Afghan mu- jahideen and retired US Gen. John K. Singlaub. 10 WACL events had Senators, Congress- men, MPs and archbishops. Its 1984 con- fab had greetings from Reagan. It was “an instrument for the practice of un- conventional warfare—assassina- tions, death squads, sabotage— throughout the world.” 11 References and notes 1. Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, En- cyclopedia of Ukraine. bit.ly/2qxw1TV 2. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Cov- ert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, 2000, p.229. bit.ly/MI6oun 3. Ibid. 4. Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, New Right & Republican Party, 1991, pp.72-73. 5. Scott Anderson and Jon Anderson, Inside the League, 1986, p.35. 6. AntiBolshevik Bloc of Nations, op.cit. 7. In Jonathan Levy, The Intermarium, 2006, p.319. (PhD thesis, Poli. Sci.) bit.ly/Levy-ABN 8. ABN Correspondence, Mar/Apr 1982, p.39. bit.ly/ABN-82 9. Levy, p.321 10. Singlaub helped found the CIA, ran its ops in postwar Manchuria and covert wars in Laos and Vietnam (including the Phoenix assassination program). He supplied Nicaraguan and Afghan terrorists, led US troops in Korea, created WACL’s US chapter in 1981 and led the WACL globally (1984-86). 11. Anderson and Anderson, op. cit., p.11. White Resist- A ryan ance
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YaroslavStetsko
The Edmonton-based Encyclopediaof Ukraine states that the AntiBol-shevik Bloc of Nations (ABN):
attributes its existence and its ideologi-cal foundations to an underground con-ference of representatives of non-Russianpeoples ... on 21-22 Nov. 1943 near Zhy-tomyr [Ukraine] on the initiative of theOrganization of Ukrainian Nationalists[OUN] and at which a platform of jointrevolutionary struggle against Russiancommunism was formulated.... The goalof the ABN was the dismemberment ofthe Soviet Union into national states....1
This 1943 meeting, facilitated by StepanBandera’s OUN(B), was instigated by theNazis to create an “Anti-Bolshevik Front.”Its 39 delegates from twelve “enslaved” So-viet ethnic groups formed a network of “un-derground” armies. Calling themselves theCommittee of Subjugated Nations (CSN),this alliance of fascist armies “was the di-rect precursor” of the ABN, “though nation-alists continue to deny its Nazi origins.”2
The Red Army defeated the Nazis inhuge 1943 battles in Kursk and Stalingrad.Nazi military intelligence (Abwehr) and theReich Ministry for the Occupied EasternTerritories (led by fascist ideologue AlfredRosenberg) turned to their strongest easternallies: the OUN-B and its Ukrainian Insur-gent Army (UPA). In 1943, they were joined
by deserters from the Red Army and fromnon-German SS units, including Belo-russians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turke-stanians, Cossacks, Armenians, Uzbeks,Tartars and even Russians.3
Besides the UPA, the CSN includ-ed Romania’s Iron Guard, Hungary’s ArrowCross, Slovakia’s Hlinka Guard and otherfascist legions from the Baltics, Bulgaria andBelorussia.4 Sharing the Nazi’s rabid hatredof Russians, Jews and communists, the CSNsought to obliterate the USSR by dividing itinto ethnically-cleansed, Christian states.
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Now banned in Germany, Wolfsangelsare still widely used by white-power andextremist Christian Identity groups,Ukraine’s fascist Svoboda party andAzov, a neoNazi militia that aided theproNATO “Euromaidan” coup (2014)and is part of Ukraine’s national guard.
“Prime Minister of Ukraine” (Jun. 30 ~ Jul. 5, 1941)
OUN-B leader: Deputy (1940-68), Chairman (1960-68) and President (1968-86)
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The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and World AntiCommunist LeaguePostwar service to empireAfter WWII, the CSN replaced itsNazi sponsors. With funding fromthe US, UK and West German gov-ernments in 1946,5 the CSN becamethe ABN. Its “most active group”remained the OUN(B).6 In 1951,US army intelligence said theOUN(B) was “composed of rough, toughyounger men of strong convictions without
the slightestaversion to vio-lent murder orotherwise ruth-lessly dispos-
ing of any andall opposition.”7
ABN leadership was a who’s whoof fascists. Its president from 1946 until hisdeath in 1986, was Bandera’s deputy, Yaro-slav Stetsko. During a 1981 US visit to cel-ebrate 40 years since the OUN-B declara-tion of a proNazi Ukraine, Stetsko summedup the ABN’s goal and its violent strategy:
The complete destruction of the Russianempire through a Ukrainian nationalrevolution and armed uprisings of allsubjugated nations is the only means forachieving an independent Ukrainian stateand the liberation of all nations subju-gated by Moscow.8 (Emphasis added)
Other ABN leaders included fascist Hungar-ian general Ferenc Farkas, Croatian generalHinko Alabanda (whose Ustaša death campskilled hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jewsand Roma), and CIA advisor Ferdinand Dur-canský, former foreign minister of the Na-zi’s clerico-fascist, puppet state in Slovakia.
As a Cold War asset promoting CIAinterests, the ABN was central to its propa-ganda vehicles, such as Radio Liberationfrom Bolshevism. As Jonathan Levy notes:
The ABN became the darling of the coldwarriors ... and its questionable person-alities given full access to Radio Libertyand other propaganda venues. Radio Lib-erty itself was sharply criticized as amouthpiece for antisemitism and glorifi-cation of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators.9
Throughout the Cold War, the ABN heldsome of its largest events in Toronto. Its1986 congress there received “warm greet-ings” from president Reagan and prime min-ister Mulroney. Toronto was fertile groundfor the ABN because many of the far-rightimmigrants given safe haven by Canada, set-tled in Toronto after the war. There theyformed groups representing the antiSovietdiaspora from Europe’s “captive nations.”
In 1996, after achieving the Nazi-cum-CIA dream of destroying their commonSoviet enemy, the ABN ceased operations.
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World AntiCommunist League (WACL)Through the 1950s and 1960s, Stetsko attendedmeetings of the Asian People’s AntiCommunistLeague. Created in 1954 by US-backed regimesin South Korea, South Vietnam, Taiwan and thePhilippines, it joined with Stetsko’s ABN and oth-er fascist entities from six continents to form theWorld AntiCommunist League (WACL) in 1966.
The WACL united Nazi politicians, Japa-nese war criminals, Italian terrorists, Salvadoranand Guatemalan death-squad leaders, US-allieddictators (Argentina’s Jorge Videla, South Korea’sPark Chunghee and Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroess-ner), former CIA officials, Moonie cult leaders,Saudi sheikhs, Nicaraguan contras, Afghan mu-jahideen and retired US Gen. John K. Singlaub.10
WACL events had Senators, Congress-men, MPs and archbishops. Its 1984 con-fab had greetings from Reagan. It was“an instrument for the practice of un-conventional warfare—assassina-tions, death squads, sabotage—throughout the world.”11
References and notes1. Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, En- cyclopedia of Ukraine. bit.ly/2qxw1TV2. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Cov-
ert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, 2000, p.229. bit.ly/MI6oun3. Ibid.4. Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, New Right
& Republican Party, 1991, pp.72-73.5. Scott Anderson and Jon Anderson,
Inside the League, 1986, p.35.6. AntiBolshevik Bloc of Nations, op.cit.7. In Jonathan Levy, The Intermarium,
2006, p.319. (PhD thesis, Poli. Sci.)bit.ly/Levy-ABN
8. ABN Correspondence, Mar/Apr1982, p.39. bit.ly/ABN-82
9. Levy, p.32110. Singlaub helped found the
CIA, ran its ops in postwarManchuria and covert wars in Laos and Vietnam(including the Phoenix assassination program). Hesupplied Nicaraguan and Afghan terrorists, led UStroops in Korea, created WACL’s US chapter in1981 and led the WACL globally (1984-86).
11. Anderson and Anderson, op. cit., p.11.
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