Gorbachev announced that the USSR was abandoning the class struggle that for decades served as the basis for Soviet foreign policy. They will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred.” (Andriy Parubiy was the embodiment of this brand of nationalism). Not everyone at Bush’s State Department was pleased with Bush’s not-terribly-implicit criticism of Ukrainian nationalism—a nationalism, one hardly needs reminding, that reared its head in alliance with a rather rabid brand of German nationalism during the Second World War. There were some in S/P , State’s Policy Planning Council, who agreed. Ukraine’s embrace of nationalism and NATO had begun.