'Victims of Communism Memorial' Is Organized by Fascists

Ground for a "Victims of Communism Memorial" has been broken on a site near Capitol Hill.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a offshoot of the National Captive Nations Committee. I find this very appropriate.

The National Captive Nations Committee is a front for former Nazi collaborators and extreme rightwing totalitarians, and mainly for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderist), or OUN/B, large-scale Nazi collaborators in the murder of 60,000-100,000 Polish civilians in the so-called "Volhynian Massacres" of 1942-44;   probably a million Soviet Jews; and tens of thousands, at least, of Soviet POWs, Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Poles.

There's a lot written about these "captive nation" fascist killers. Here are a few books:

• John A. Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism. NY: Columbia University Press, 1963;
• Sol Littman, Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion. The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division. Black Rose Books, Montreal - New York - London, 2003.
• Howard Blum, Wanted! The Search for Nazis in America. New York: Quadrangle - New York Times Books, 1977.
• John Loftus, The Belarus Secret. New York: Knopf, 1982.

For further details on interlocking relationships between the NCNC, the OUN/B, the Nazis, and the Republican Party, see _inter alia_ the following:

• Joe Conason, "Reagan and the War Crimes Lobby," Village Voice May 14, 1985.
• Joe Conason, "To Catch A Nazi", Village Voice February 11, 1986.

For broader context, see

• Jeff Coplon, "In Search of a Soviet Holocaust," Village Voice January 12, 1988.

The long article by Russ Bellant, "Old Nazi Networks in the US", details the ties of these and others to the Republican Party. See especially part 3, but all are relevant, as these groups overlap in complicated ways.

This is part of the book by Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. Boston: South End Press, 1991, available on-line at

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/essays/bellantnazis&republicans91.pdf

Anybody should be proud to be attacked by such people. Naturally, communists everywhere should feel especially honored.