“The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes,” the formerly top secret document dated July 13, 1953 says of the project.
“Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized,” the document continued.
The CIA documents show that under the AERODYNAMIC program the CIA operated an affiliate project codenamed CAPACHO where the CIA setting up a propaganda company in Manhattan that “catered to printing and publishing anti-Soviet ZPUHVR literature that would be smuggled into Ukraine.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Tried-to-Impose-Nazi-Leader-on-Ukraine-in-WWII-CIA-Leak--20160523-0003.html
Fun fact the telesur page is from 2016, not 2023
Also fun fact this was dated 5 months after the death of :stalin-pipe: .
What are we supposed to do with this information other than put another entry in the Book of Grudges, to be recalled at some future date when justice is achieved? Who outside our bubble would even listen to this?
This isn't me saying it's hopeless, this is me genuinely asking how. From within the box of empire I cannot see outside by myself.
Attempts to pull this info out of the Book of Grudges in an argument with a liberal Them: "You can't be critical of the CIA for disseminating propaganda and disinformation while also using them as a source for your argument. Checkmate, tankie."
Me: Oh really? Well you can't convict someone of a crime and be upset about them committing that crime (and seek punishment for it) if they admitted to it openly and that's why you're charging them with it in a court of law. Oh wait you can. It strengthens your case when the accused literally confesses to the crime that other evidence also points to them committing.
tbh I'm starting to think it's hopeless
for as hopeless as it is, most libs' interaction with the conflict is largely ineffectual. it's fully confined within the spectacle, effectively sports for them.
since it's impossible to get them to think three layers deep, probably best to just sidestep it like most culture war / politicized topics and engage with their direct material experiences. That's where I've had the most success at least.
yea like that homeless guy did to the SF fire commisioner with a pipe
:michael-laugh:
If it was hopeless, why would anticommunists try so hard to repress us?
People's political opinions are derived from their material conditions, not from ideas
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same here.