“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: .

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Every day I think my opinion of this country cannot get any lower and every day I am surprised to find that yes, it somehow can. Death to America doesn’t even begin to describe it

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You can throw a dart on the world map blindfolded and hit the site of a US atrocity

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By far the most evil empire in the history of the world at this point

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“ACKSHUALLY, this is just for Anti Communist purposes, it says nothing about being pro fascist”

-Some dweeb that also goes on to make a post titled “We need to crack down on the Nazis here on r/enough_commie_spam” which gets 350 comments and 20 upvotes

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:mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:

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CAPACHO

I believe this project funded the publishing houses that popularized the Holodomor nazi propaganda to most of the anglosphere. They were specifically trying to make the famine into a worse genocide than the Holocaust for pretty explicitly anti-communist purposes. There’s an article from the late 80s in the Village Voice (iirc) that details a lot of that.

found it, orig published date of January 12, 1988: https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

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no no no they’re not nazis, it’s just that the swastika is a symbol of anti-soviet resistance, yes I know the soviet union dissolved and these guys are also throwing up the black sun but you have to believe me they’re not nazis.

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The SS deaths head is actually an ancient Ukrainian symbol for peace.

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“Totenkopf” translates to “life head” in Ukraine! - :reddit-logo:

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