{"id":90623,"date":"2022-08-19T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=90623"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:36:38","slug":"responses-to-ukraines-nazi-hit-list-from-around-the-world-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2022\/08\/19\/responses-to-ukraines-nazi-hit-list-from-around-the-world-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Responses to Ukraine\u2019s Nazi Hit List from Around the World \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is EIR\u2019<\/em>s second collection of responses to the release of a blacklist on July 14 (mistakenly dated July 25 in Part 1) by the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, which listed prominent individuals from around the world as \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d assets, while the Center\u2019s acting director on the same day declared them to be \u201cinformation terrorists,\u201d and \u201cwar criminals.\u201d The mobilization by EIR<\/em> and others to denounce this Nazi-like attack by a Ukrainian government institution\u2014which is funded by the U.S. and other NATO countries\u2014has forced the Center to take down the list from its website. Nonetheless, the threat to those targeted is not thereby abated, and the call for investigations of the governments that are financing such threats to their own citizens from a foreign nation is expanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part One<\/a>\u00a0of this compilation is in the August 12, 2022 issue of\u00a0Executive Intelligence Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GREECE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos

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Former Greek<\/strong> Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos<\/strong>, a member of the Schiller Institute, in an interview on RT television<\/a> regarding the Amnesty International report on the Ukraine military using civilians as human shields, added that Ukraine had invented a new term, \u201cinformation terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to the CCD hit list, he said that the list targeted \u201cmainly the Schiller Institute as \u2018information terrorists\u2019 and [said] that they should be accused as \u2018war criminals.\u2019 This is an invention. If it is taken up in the West, anybody having a different opinion about this war could be considered as a terrorist and be punished according to the laws regarding terrorism. This is very dangerous, because it is leading the West and the European Union toward fascism.\u201d (It was actually the director of the CCD who had said that those on the list should be tried as war criminals.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amb. Chrysanthopoulos noted that he and two other former Greek ambassadors had issued a call for negotiations to begin between the West and Russia, adding, \u201cPresumably we will also be considered information terrorists\u2014the next generation of information terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DENMARK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jens J\u00f8rgen Nielsen

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Jens J\u00f8rgen Nielsen<\/strong>, <\/em>a former Moscow correspondent for the major Danish daily Politiken<\/em>, and author of several books about Russia and Ukraine, spoke at the Danish-Swedish Schiller Institute Conference on May 25, 2022, and subsequently appeared on the CCD hit list. He was interviewed Aug. 3 on Radio 24\/seven<\/a>, the leading Danish national private radio channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nielsen said that he is not spreading Russian propaganda, but he is critical of sending weapons to Ukraine, and critical of the narrative that Ukraine is a flowering democracy. \u201cThat the leader of the disinformation office called the people on the list \u2018information terrorists,\u2019 who should be tried before a military court, is absurd. Zelensky has banned 11 parties, and put people under house arrest without a court decision. It is not, as the narrative goes, a battle between democracy and dictatorship.\u201d Nielson asked: \u201cWill agents come to my house to bring me before a war criminal tribunal? The fact that Ukraine is threatening Western citizens with being brought before a war criminal tribunal is crossing all red lines. Putting us in connection with war criminals from Yugoslavia and Rwanda, mass murderers, is absurd\u2026. I was accused of saying that Ukraine had sent 30 times the previous amount of bombs into the Donbass in the week before Feb. 24. But I have this figure from the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]. Are they saying that the OSCE is on Putin\u2019s disinformation pay list?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat are the consequences of being on the list? I want to go to Ukraine at some point. Will they let me in? Will I be arrested? Will I be attacked by Ukrainians who live here [in Denmark]? Sometimes I translate for Ukrainian refugees. I can\u2019t imagine that they will come to my house and attack me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jyllands-Posten<\/em><\/strong>, one of Denmark\u2019s three leading national newspapers, posted an editorial on Aug. 11 denouncing the Ukraine hit list. Although the editorial began with full support for arming and funding Ukraine against \u201cRussia\u2019s brutal attack,\u201d it then switched tone, noting that if Ukraine is to become a member of the EU, \u201cthere are conditions to be met. Among them is the fundamental acceptance of free speech\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Centre for Countering Disinformation sounds like something out of George Orwell\u2019s \u20181984,\u2019 but it is a center under Ukraine\u2019s National Security Council. The center presumably has a central function during the war, but it has also recently been used to blacklist 72 international politicians, thinkers and researchers, including four Danes\u2026. What the four Danes have in common is that they took part in a seminar at the end of May on alternatives to the current security policy structure in the world in order to reduce tensions and the division of countries into, for example, members and non-members of NATO\u2026. [T]he theme of the seminar and the questioning of Western sanctions policy are of course perfectly legitimate in a free and open society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is therefore worrying when Ukraine blacklists researchers and others who have a different view of the conflict. For it can hardly be seen as anything other than an attempt to silence them and label any angle other than the pro-Ukrainian one as pro-Russian, and thus on the wrong side of history\u2026. [I]n rejecting free speech, free research and free debate, it is precisely Ukraine and its President who are in danger of moving to the wrong side, far from the ideals that they will hopefully pursue on the other side of the war, to emphasize that they are part of us, as we now see their struggle as ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GERMANY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Andrej Hunko<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On August 2, Andrej Hunko<\/strong>, a German member of the Bundestag in Die Linke Party, posted the text<\/a> of an official question to the German government concerning the Ukrainian hit list. Hunko is a long-standing federal parliamentarian; a member of PACE (the Permanent Assembly of the Council of Europe), and an election observer for the OSCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His official question reads: \u201cHas the federal government so far reacted to the listing of German citizens, including public figures such as Alice Schwarzer [a journalist] or Dr. Rolf M\u00fctzenich [chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag], as disseminators of Russian propaganda\u2026 (if yes, how?), and was this listing put on the agenda for the Ukrainian government by Federal Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) as well as the Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD) during their Ukraine visit? (if yes, please specify the circumstances such as date and level of contact).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another post, Hunko points to the fact that he had been placed on the \u201cinfamous Myrotvorets List,\u201d a list issued two years ago by the Ukraine government of \u201cenemies of the State.\u201d Hunko says that \u201cat least two of those on the list were murdered in the meantime. The [German] federal government condemned the list, but never became seriously active to eliminate the list.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wolfgang Bittner

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Following the article in the widely read German newspaper NachDenkSeiten <\/em>by esteemed jurist and author Dr. Wolfgang Bittner<\/strong> (see the first compilation of responses in the Aug. 12 issue of EIR<\/em><\/a>), who spoke at a Schiller Institute conference and was placed on the Ukrainian hit list, the newspaper received many letters of support for Dr. Bittner, mostly from members of the SPD, the government party. The editor, Albrecht M\u00fcller<\/strong>, posted this note and several of the letters on Aug. 12:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfgang Bittner refers in this post<\/a> to a process in which, \u201cif the Foreign Minister is unlikely to be relied on, the Chancellor\u201d should intervene and stop the \u201cdiscrimination against German nationals\u201d by the Ukrainian government. \u201cThe Ukrainian Center for Combatting Disinformation (CCD) has published a blacklist containing 72 \u2018public figures\u2019 who take a critical position on the Ukraine conflict. These would be persecuted, \u2018threatened with violence\u2019 and would have to fear for their lives. \u201cThe persecution of critics and members of the opposition by Ukrainian government organizations\u201d assumes \u201cforms of unbridled fascism,\u201d which one must assume is taking place \u201cwith the support of U.S. authorities.\u201d This \u201cstate terrorism\u201d and support for the Ukrainian government must be stopped immediately. Thank you for the interesting letters to the editor, which also contain new, enlightening information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Albrecht M\u00fcller

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A selection from the letters:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Mr. M\u00fcller, With the publication of the blacklist of the Ukrainian Center for Combating Disinformation, you and Wolfgang B\u00fcttner [sic] have succeeded in stabbing another hornet\u2019s nest. One only wonders what actually still has to happen for the public to finally open their eyes and recognize the kind of fuse that was laid in Ukraine. There wafts an explosive mixture of understandable fears, wounded pride, helplessness and arrogance, driven by political interest. The pressure has to go! This applies to all sides, including the Russian one.De-escalation and negotiations are the order of the day. It is frightening when, of all people, the advocates of such a path of understanding find themselves on blacklists along with their likenesses\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With solidarity greetings from Thuringia, Bernd A. Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Mr. Bittner, In case the Chancellor does nothing: I offer you shelter at any time and give NachDenkSeiten<\/em> permission to give you my contact details. Thank you very much for your effort!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer by Wolfgang Bittner:<\/em><\/strong> Dear Ms. Mund,<\/em> Thank you for your generous offer. I hope I don\u2019t have to take advantage of it, and I\u2019m glad that there are still good people like you with perspective.<\/em> Cordially, Wolfgang Bittner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Albrecht, dear enlighteners,
I sent this email to the SPD leadership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear party leadership,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have learned that in Ukraine there is a \u201cblack list\u201d of enemies of Ukraine, including the leader of the ruling SPD party in the German Bundestag, Rolf M\u00fctzenich, a party that you lead\u2026. I haven\u2019t heard a word from you about this monstrosity. Are these the Western values that Ukraine is so valiantly defending against the \u201conrushing subhumans\u201d? I haven\u2019t heard from you yet that Zelensky has banned all opposition parties in Ukraine and that some of their leaders are imprisoned. Which sister party in Ukraine, in the sense of a socialist international, do you feel connected to?… [W]hom do you support when you deliver heavy weapons? I firmly believe that you will support our opponents, even if they act like Banderites [the current followers of Stepan Bandera, Hitler\u2019s Nazi ally in Ukraine] and keep our sworn enemies in power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solidarity, Herbert Krueger, OVV Winkelhaid<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear NachDenkSeiten<\/em> team, Dear Mr. Bittner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for discussing this topic (finally!). The \u201cblack lists\u201d do not even seem to be the climax, but perhaps only the beginning of systematic fascist state terror. As can be read today in Die<\/em> Junge Welt<\/em>, the public threats continue to escalate, apparently in particular against those people who are in favor of armistice negotiations instead of brutal war\u2026. In a supposedly democratic republic, shouldn\u2019t it be publicly stated that, as a citizen and as a human being, we wish and demand that at least our government seriously advocates peace, instead of constantly pouring fuel on the fire with arms deliveries, etc.\u2014without being personally seriously threatened? Where is the state, where is the care for its citizens? Beautiful democracy … it\u2019s all just unbelievable, we run into all catastrophes faster and faster with our eyes wide open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kind regards, Peter Langhammer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter to the editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Nachdenkseiten<\/em> team, dear Wolfgang Bittner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That I have to witness state black lists with the names of international, also German, critical intellectuals shamelessly published on government websites, this time from Ukraine, without an immediate sharp reaction from German politicians and\/or journalists (there are few exceptions) is a slap in the face to all peaceful and democratically committed people. I see this as nothing less than an invitation to manhunt. I understand it all the less, since as a child I had to experience the horrors of World War II up close. I have therefore written a letter to some public institutions and persons [the letter and the names of officials addressed followed].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uwe Strohmeyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNITED STATES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald<\/strong>, the American journalist and lawyer, issued a statement in late July in response to his inclusion on the Ukraine hit list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore Russia\u2019s invasion and since, Zelensky has abolished basic liberties: shuttered opposition media, outlawed parties, imprisoned dissidents. As Ukraine demands money and arms from the West, they now want to export this repression to our countries with McCarthyite blacklists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWar proponents in the West and other functionaries of Western security state agencies have used the same tactics for decades to demonise anyone questioning the foreign policy of the U.S. and NATO. Chief among them, going back to the start of the Cold War, is accusing every dissident of spreading \u2018Russian propaganda\u2019 or otherwise serving the Kremlin. That\u2019s all this is from the Ukrainians: just standard McCarthyite idiocy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Ukrainians have the absolute right to pursue whatever war policies they want. But when they start demanding that my country and my government use its resources to fuel their war effort, then I, along with all other Americans, have the absolute right to question that policy or to point out its dangers and risks\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObserving the grave danger of a proxy war involving the two nations with the largest nuclear stockpiles, ones with a history of coming very close to annihilating the planet, does not require Kremlin messaging; it only requires the most basic common sense and moral compass.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tulsi Gabbard

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Tulsi Gabbard<\/strong>, a former four-term Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and an Army Reserve officer, responded to her appearance on the list on July 26 on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox TV:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is the peak of hypocrisy. The Biden-Harris Administration and the Washington elite, both parties, are impoverishing the American people and people around the world, while pushing us closer and closer to nuclear war and holocaust, all to \u2018protect democracy and defeat autocracy\u2019 in Ukraine. All this is happening as the Ukraine President is exposing that there is no democracy in Ukraine. He is silencing all dissenting voices, imprisoning political opponents, banning all political activity from the opposition parties, taking control of all national media under his \u2018unified information\u2019 policy, and now he is turning his sights on Americans. Not only myself, but a sitting U.S. Senator. The danger of this goes to the cost that our leaders are willing to exact as they continue this fa\u00e7ade of a push for so-called democracy and defeat[ing] autocracy. The whole thing is so hypocritical, and we need to hold our leaders to account for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Magliano<\/strong>, an internationally syndicated Catholic columnist who spoke at a conference of the Schiller Institute and was included on the Ukrainian hit list, posted an article<\/a> on The Southern Cross, The Catholic Magazine for Southern Africa <\/em>on Aug. 12, asking: \u201cWhy is an internationally syndicated Catholic social justice and peace columnist on such a list?\u201d Since he was among thirty people at the top of the list who had spoken at a Schiller Institute conference, the answer was unavoidable: \u201cJust a few days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I participated in an international Zoom conference hosted by the Schiller Institute\u2014which sought to warn against possible imminent nuclear war, and to inspire a fresh non-violent, just, egalitarian approach to the never-ending wars and economic injustices experienced by the world\u2019s poor and disenfranchised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy small contribution was a concise presentation<\/a> entitled, \u2018War is not inevitable! We have a moral obligation to save Afghans from starving! The need to create a new, human-centred paradigm.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn my presentation, I highlighted the moral necessity of the U.S.\u2014considering its 20-year history of waging war in Afghanistan\u2014to significantly increase emergency and ongoing developmental aid to Afghanistan ensuring that all Afghans, especially the children, do not starve to death\u2014a tragedy still unfolding. Additionally, I attempted to highlight the obvious catastrophe of the imminent war between Russia and Ukraine, hoping to help avoid that preventable armed conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, he concludes, was enough for Ukraine to decide that \u201cI am a promoter of Russian propaganda. But truth be told, I am a promoter of the nonviolent Gospel of Jesus Christ!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLAND<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u0141ukasz Marcin Jastrz\u0119bski

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\u0141ukasz Marcin Jastrz\u0119bski,<\/strong> editor of Mysl Polska<\/em> (Polish Fatherland) in Poland, published an article<\/a> in their Aug. 14-21 edition titled \u201cSchiller on the Ukrainian List,\u201d with a picture of Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Jastrz\u0119bski reports that a Pole who writes for his journal, Tomasz Jankowski, also appears on the Ukraine hit list, adding: \u201cA significant number of those mentioned on the aforementioned list are associates of the Schiller Institute, headed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche (pictured).\u201d He notes that Lyndon LaRouche, the deceased leader of the movement, had been subjected to similar attacks \u201cby supporters of global liberalism\u2026 when he strengthened his actions both in the USA and Europe for peace in Ukraine. The allegations against the Schiller Institute come back like a boomerang every now and then. It doesn\u2019t really matter that there is no logic in them. For many years I have been reading materials published by the Schiller Institute\u2026. We also published interviews with\u2026 Lyndon H. LaRouche (1922-2019) and the legendary warrior for Negro rights in the USA, the collaborator of Martin Luther King, Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911-2015), in the Mysl Polska<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jastrz\u0119bski describes at length the impact of the LaRouches\u2019 meetings with himself and several hundred other Poles in the 1990s, and concludes: \u201cThere are no great secrets, huge amounts of money, training centers, conspiracies or other products of Styrofoam minds associated with the Schiller Institute. I recommend everyone to visit the Schiller Institute\u2019s Facebook pages. Today we respect the calls of the Schiller Institute for a peaceful solution to the Russian-Ukrainian issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is EIR\u2019s second collection of responses to the release of a blacklist on July 14 (mistakenly dated July 25 in Part 1) by the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, which listed prominent individuals from around the world as \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d assets, while the Center\u2019s acting director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":90567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-90623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90715,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90623\/revisions\/90715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}