[news] Shadow of Anti-Semitism over Ukraine's Disputed Election

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by British Helsinki Human Rights Group | 24 November 2004 Western television viewers and newspaper readers are being fed on a diet of propaganda about the current crisis in Ukraine... "People power" and Western-orientated democrats are on the march against evil ex-communist oligarchs. Good is battling against evil for the soul of Ukraine. Sadly it is not so simple. Western media and governments may have edited out the manifestations of extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism which disfigure the Ukrainian opposition's rabble-rousing but history will record that in the run up to the disputed presidential elections, key opposition leaders, including Viktor Yushchenko, Julia Timoshenko and Alexander Moroz, defended anti-Semitic publications and accepted the backing of neo-Nazi groups as well as US and EU and so-called "civic society" NGOs.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/13130/397