Victor Svyatski, Jed Sunden and Jewish Influence behind Femen
Following my article on the infamous feminist campaign group Femen: (1) where I pointed out that Femen is principally funded by a jewish businessman named Jed Sunden and has inexplicably not protested against anything in regard to jews, Judaism and Israel as of this writing (but yet frequently holds protests in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa primarily targeting Christians and Muslims with offensive attacks on their religious beliefs, symbols and places of worship).
I wanted to write a separate article on the issue that I deliberately didn't address in my article on Femen: Victor Svyatski.
Now Svyatski first came to light late in 2013 exclusively due to the airing of a documentary on the history of Femen called 'Ukraine is not a Brothel' by Australian film-maker Kitty Green. In Green's documentary Svyatski is shown prancing around, insulting Femen's membership, trying to be Machiavellian (so much so he seems more poseur than psychopath) and so forth.
This led to claims made by Svyatski that he was the 'creator'/'mastermind'/'leader' of Femen in contrast to the woman we must associate with it: Inna Shevchenko. (2)
This contrasts with the widespread belief up till that point that the founder of the group was Anna Hutsol. (3)
Yet I am not convinced of Syvatski's claims having watched 'Ukraine is not a Brothel' and reading around the different articles available on the subject.
The reasons for this are really quite simple:
Firstly we know that Femen had been in existence before Svyatski joined it from interviews with original members that he forced out [since if Svyatski was as important as he says and a member from the beginning then the group wouldn't have acted the way it did at first (i.e., his statements are mutually contradictory)] (4) and while Svyatski claims to have known 'the three founders' in his home town (5) that is no reason to believe (or evidence other than his claims) that he was the founder or important in the group in its early stages.
Secondly Shevchenko herself has pointed out (and I am inclined to believe her as her response is straightforward and makes sense) that Svyatski has autonomously proclaimed himself the 'leader of Femen' and wasn't involved in its founding or in developing its infamous shock tactics. (6)
Thirdly while Shevchenko does say that Svyatski 'led' the group for a time: it is unclean when that was or how long it was for. This lack of specificity is important precisely because neither Shevchenko or Svyatski are specific on this score, which suggests that Svyatski's role was always rather anomalous within the group (hence the original belief that he was merely a kind of 'consultant') and thus his period as a 'leader' cannot actually be easily defined.
Fourthly the footage that Green's 'Ukraine is not a Brothel' relies on to 'prove' that Svyatski is the 'mastermind'/'leader' of Femen doesn't suggest anything of the kind: all it shows is that Svyatski liked to meddle in Shevchenko's decision-making and she - for reasons unknown - had tended to indulge him. (7)
There is no indication that Svyatski was a key decision-maker merely that he liked (and still likes) to think he is important, while Shevchenko disagrees.
This fits far better with Svyatski having an anomalous role within Femen with nobody sure if he is a 'leader' or not (hence his ability to get away with abuse), because Shevchenko - due to her own self-admitted weakness - (8) had allowed him to 'take control'. That doesn't equate Svyatski being the leader of Femen however.
What it does suggest however is that Svyatski thought himself the leader, while Shevchenko (and possibly others) retained the actual leadership positions and allowed Svyatski to run some elements of Femen (giving him an air of authority that he probably didn't formally have). After all we have to remember that according to 'Ukraine is not a Brothel' Svyatski is merely one of several rather slimy men who hang around Femen and 'help out'. (9)
Svyatski is merely the most vocal and egotistical (hence his self-appointment as a 'political scientist') with access to the 'inner circle' because of his being acquainted with the founders. (10)
Fifthly we have no known connection between Svyatski and the key financiers of the Femen movement - notably Jed Sunden - where-as we have a known link between Anna Hutsol (the erstwhile founder of Femen according to the group itself), Inna Shevchenko (who succeeded Hutsol), Helmut Geier and Jed Sunden (the two principle financial backers of Femen).
If Svyatski had no link to the financiers of the movement then how did he fund everything?
Since as the 'mastermind' as I rather doubt that successful businessmen like Geier and Sunden would plough their own wealth into a movement unless they knew the leaders well enough to trust them and we have no evidence that they knew and trusted Svyatski.
So then how can Svyatski have been the 'founder'/'creator'/'mastermind' of Femen?
No: I think for the true mastermind - if we want to use that term - we have to look at a man with proven form in business and marketing with the right connections to give Femen the oxygen of publicity they needed (i.e., his KP media group).
That man is Jed Sunden.
The mastermind being Sunden also makes a lot of sense of why Femen has been so obviously allergic to criticism of jews and Judaism as well as having next to no activity in Israel in spite of there being huge scope for this plus a large militant feminist movement in that country.
After all if Svyatski (who we have no evidence is jewish or has any connections to the tribe) was the 'founder'/'creator'/'mastermind' then why on earth has Femen held back on jews and Judaism as well as have no Israel or Israel-related protest activity?
Thus we can see that Victor Svyatski is rather unlikely to have been - or be - the 'mastermind' of Femen, but rather he is simply an egotistical publicity-hungry loud mouth (whom the mainstream media has latched onto as he is a good 'shock story') with delusions of grandeur, while the real mastermind (Jed Sunden) sits largely ignored in the background.
References
(1) https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/femen-israel-and-its-jewish-backers
(2) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-man-who-made-femen-new-film-outs-victor-svyatski-as-the-mastermind-behind-the-protest-group-and-its-breastbaring-stunts-8797042.html
(3) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/12/femen-s-abusive-patriarch-victor-svyatski-exposed-in-ukraine-is-not-a-brothel.html
(4) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-man-who-made-femen-new-film-outs-victor-svyatski-as-the-mastermind-behind-the-protest-group-and-its-breastbaring-stunts-8797042.html;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/12/femen-s-abusive-patriarch-victor-svyatski-exposed-in-ukraine-is-not-a-brothel.html
(5) http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-femen-mastermind-victor-svyatski-on-fleeing-ukraine-a-924524.html
(6) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/victory-svyatski-femen-man
(7) For an example transcript see: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/12/femen-s-abusive-patriarch-victor-svyatski-exposed-in-ukraine-is-not-a-brothel.html
(8) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/victory-svyatski-femen-man
(9) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/12/femen-s-abusive-patriarch-victor-svyatski-exposed-in-ukraine-is-not-a-brothel.html
(10) As implied by: http://www.policymic.com/articles/62167/victor-svyatski-man-behind-femen-picks-prettiest-girls-calls-them-bitches