Neo-Nazi Given Hero's Welcome in Canada Assassinated in Ukraine
On August 30, one of the key figures of the 2014 coup in Ukraine which overthrew the democratically-elected government at that time, Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy was killed in broad daylight by a nameless gunman in the western Ukrainian city of Lvov. According to reports and videos, he was shot in the back eight times before the culprit sped away on an electric bicycle. A suspect, who like Parubiy was from Lvov, was detained on September 1. This person later admitted to committing the crime, calling it an act of "personal revenge on the Ukrainian authorities."
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Parubiy
commemorating the Ukrainian WWII Nazi leader Stepan
Bandera. Parubiy was the co-founder of the neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991 and was the former leader of the fascist paramilitary group Patriot of Ukraine, both of which supported the historical crimes of the Ukrainian fascist collaborators, led by Stepan Bandera, and advocated for a nationalist Ukraine in the present, including through the fascist Right Sector party, and later through the neo-Nazi Azov and Aidar battalions.
In his institutional role, Parubiy served as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine immediately after the Maidan coup, and was allegedly involved in organizing the infamous massacre of dozens at the Odessa trade union house in May 2014. After the coup, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, from 2014 to 2016, and as its Chairman from 2016 to 2019. He served as a deputy in the same institution until his death. His influence in Ukrainian institutions post-Maidan was also accompanied by the far-right Svoboda party leader and then-Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Oleg Tyagnibok.
In 2018, as head of parliament, Parubiy stated on Ukrainian TV that Adolf Hitler was history's "greatest democrat," warning in this speech "not to forget the contributions of the Führer to the development of democracy." "The greatest man who practiced direct democracy was Adolf Hitler in the 1930s," he stated, adding that it was "necessary to introduce direct democracy to Ukraine, with Hitler as its torchbearer."[1] A 2014 article from CNN also reveals that Parubiy appointed a member of the far-right Right Sector to the post of deputy chairman of the Maidan Self-Defence forces, and that thus racist attacks against Jews in western Ukraine had increased.[2]
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Parubiy with Trudeau
In February 2015, the Harper government gave Parubiy a hero's welcome on his arrival to Canada. And in July 2016, the Trudeau government similarly welcomed him to Canada, along with many other hero's welcomes by countries across the West. Parubiy was known as being a good friend to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland.
It remains unclear for what motives Andre Parubiy was assassinated and it is not useful to speculate. However, it should be noted that this is a symptom of the general anarchy and chaos which reigns in Ukraine at the present time, when men young and old are dragged off the street and transported to the front, when state intimidation is used as the sole force of compulsion, when the Constitution of the country is overridden and all legal limits on the state have been thrown away, and the population is being drained to the last dollar and human life to continue the war effort against the Russian Federation.
Such a situation is tragic for the Ukrainian people first of all, who have to deal with the fact that this deliberate destruction of their country is their sad fate. One must question the motives of Western politicians who, instead of seeking a peace for the benefit of all, continue to push for war. In light of the present deal between the U.S., European Union and Ukraine for the first to produce weaponry, the second to pay for them and the third to give up the lives of their population, some suffer but only the Ukrainians pay the greatest price. The West, for its part, is ready to fight "to the last Ukrainian," as its politicians have stated on numerous occasions.
This apparently includes those previously useful for their own aims. It is the only conclusion possible when such masterminds as Andrey Parubiy, those behind the root causes of the present war, are gunned down in the street in gangster style. When one dies in such a way, they take with them to the grave not only their crimes but information about all their activities and the present Ukrainian state. It is a system that is devouring its own at the behest of foreign masters. It is a system that has no future -- only self-destruction.
Vasily Prozorov, a former officer in Ukraine's Security Service, only commented on Parubiy's death stating that Parubiy had "the blood of thousands of innocent Ukrainians" on his hands, sent neo-Nazi militias to Odessa and the Donbass, armed them, and was responsible for the killing of the anti-Maidan activists at the Odessa trade union house.
Notes
1. "Ukrainian speaker Andriy Parubiy slammed for praising Hitler as history's 'greatest democrat,'" Morning Star, September 5, 2018
2. "Rein in Ukraine's neo-fascists," David Speedle, CNN, March 6, 2014
This article was published in
Volume 55 Number 10 - October 2025
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