PATRIOTS PREVENTED A RUSSIAN BACKED LEFT PROVOCATION IN LVIV

On September 16, anti-Ukrainian forces were planned to hold a presentation of the propagandist book "Left Europe" in Lviv's Libraria cafe within the Publishers Forum.

Nationalists also attended the leftist event in order to hold a peaceful discussion with the organizers on the topic of preventing anti-Ukrainian activities and propaganda. Unfortunately, the Publishers Forum representatives decided to complicate the situation - they were provoking nationalists and eventually called the police. However, all the attempts to get rid of activists haven't finised with success. In final result the presentation was failed,  instead the patriots held an open discussion on the problem of strengthening the role of Kremlin backed leftist parties all over Europe, which poses a direct threat to Ukraine's national security and sovereignty.

Why this presentation attracted the patriots's attention? In the co-organizers list we can find the extreme-leftist magazine Spilno and the associated Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - one of the most powerful tools of Moscow's "soft power" in Ukraine. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (German - Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) is a project of the German Die Linke political party, cnown by its sympathies to USSR and modern Russia. This party, which is the third largest political force in Germany, consistently advocates espablishing of closer EU-Russia relations, abolishing anti-Russian sanctions, and condemns de-communisation process in Ukraine. In addition, the Linke party members were among "observers" during the so-called referendum in the occupied Crimea.

In 2015, a large-scale conference under the title "Human Rights in Ukraine: the Current Situation" was held in Moscow on the foundation's initiative, during wich the theme of "rising Ukrainian fascism" had been promoted widelly. The conference was attended, in particular, by deputies of the German Bundestag from the Linke party, former Ukrainian MPs from the notorious Party of Regions (in particular, Volodymyr Oliynyk), members of Viktor Medvedchuk's Ukrainisky Vibir anti-Ukrainian organisation and other "activists" of that sort. Also, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has been involved to anti-Ukrainian campaigning, launched by Russia all-over the Netherlands before the Ukraine-EU association referendum.

In Ukraine, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation promotes various leftist organisations by financing their initiatives and events. Among other, the foundation was related to a loud provocative "anti-war" action in Kyiv under a loud name "Money for education, not a war!", during which left activists threw a cake at the Deputy Minister of Finance. Then, under the pretext of discussing the size of the scholarship, the left demanded for a reduction in funding of Ukraine's Defence Forces. 

The "Left Europe" editor - Olena Lyasheva - is no less interesting person. In 2014  Lyasheva published a number of articles, in which she developed another "conspiracy theory" around the Maidan events by claiming that the Heavenly Hundred was killed by activists themselves, non shot by Berkut. Stas Sergienko - her ideological comrade and ex-colleague by the Spilno magazine - is an open supporter of Russian-terrorist groups of Donbass (DNR/LNR).

What's more outrageous is that such a controversial organisation had been allowed to hold its event Lviv under within the framework of the Publishers Forum - I bet they didn't even bothered to check who the presentation organisers are. After all, this the way how "soft power" is usually working. It always appears in  neutral, diverse forums, book presentations and round tables.

By the same scheme the Russian fundations had worked for years in South-East Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, and now we see the consequences. Currently, Russian prapagandists have changed their tactics in Ukraine and operate through all sorts of European leftist foundations.

Ukrainia nationalist envornment in deeply concerned about the fact that such an important event for the cultural life of Lviv as the Forum Publishers, with the efforts of some organizers, becomes a platform for Russian propaganda mashine.

by Pravy Sector, Natsionalny Corpus