A friend of a comrade has rescued a dog that was thrown out of a car. They weren't the only one, but seem to be the only one that is still alive. Sharing the GFM because another human did this, and I hope we can be better examples of our species.
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@kravietz @8petros Obviously the official AZOV page does not post explicit nazi propaganda anymore, like they did in the early days (though they did keep the nazi wolfsangel logo). They have a new media strategy and orders from the national guard which forbids this.
That does not change the fact that there are still a great deal of neonazi soldiers in Azov.
I didn't claim to be sending you an "official" AZOV account. I sent you links for a number of different social media accounts run by Ukrainian Nazis (there are countless more). Some of the people running these accounts are active members of AZOV.
If you spend some time searching through the content of those accounts you can find many recent photos of AZOV soldiers holding Nazi flags, showing off Nazi tattoos, posting in front of Nazi graffiti, ect.
The text post I shared was written by:
A nazi football hooligan page (some of their admin are Ukrainian), and the post was shared by a number of the other Ukrainian nazi pages. If you scroll through their posts for a couple minutes you will find it.
Though I believe that you have zero interest in actually investigating this. And would prefer to share lies than actually look at what actual Ukrainian nazis in Azov say about this.
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@monkeyflower @lds @kiwi @neurovagrant I am honestly surprised and glad to see that he did condemn a celebration of the Wafen SS. Unfortunately the same can't be said about celebrations of other Ukrainian collaborationist groups like the UPA & OUN that actively participated in the Holocaust.
Zelensky does not condemn these organizations, or their leaders, like Bandera of the OUN-B, whose popularity has soared in recent years. I agree with you that he likely has no sympathy for Nazism, problem is, he is a politician, so he has to say things that people want to hear. And unfortunately, many people in Ukraine don't want to hear any criticism of WW2 collaborators.
The article you shared also confirmed what I stated above about the systematic campaign to rehabilitate Nazi collaborators, of which these marches are a small manifestation of.
All over Ukraine roads, bridges and squares have been renamed after collaborators. Statues have been built honouring them, TV shows and films made celebrating them as heroes. School textbooks rewritten which whitewash the history of these collaborators.
I suppose it is slightly harder to whitewash the Ukrainian branch of the Waffen SS, so they've been allowed to be somewhat sidelined as the "bad collaborators".
@kravietz @8petros This is just complete lies. The AZOV battalion was basically almost exclusively neo-nazi when it was initially founded, though soon grew to include other far-right nationalists and football hooligans who did not necessarily define themselves as national socialist.
The idea that there was a mere 100 - 200 nazis in their ranks is beyond laughable.
They also never "disbanded", they were incorporated into the national guard. And they are still full of neonazis, not completely, but there are still a few thousand neonazis in the ranks of AZOV, and other military formations. Especially the Russian Volunteers Corps, armed by the Ukrainian gov, which is exclusively made up of neonazis.
You only have to spend a few minutes scrolling through many of the social media accounts ran by AZOV members and supporters to find hundreds of recent photos of AZOV fighters with nazi flags, banners, tattoos, patches and graffiti.
Just check out some of these telegram accounts:
@kravietz @8petros What are you talking about?
AZOV never "got rid of the Nazis". They just recruited more more people who were not explicitly Nazi (but still basically all far-right nationalists. Sympathy for Nazi collaborators like Bandera who massacred Poles & Jews is basically universal among Ukrainian patriots/nationalists these days).
AZOV was literally founded by Ukrainian neo-nazis. AZOV never purged the organization of their nazi members, never changed their nazi wolfsangel logo, though somewhat toned down the use of the
Sonnenrad, though it still appears regularly in official AZOV propaganda.
Those social media accounts I shared feature hundreds of recent photos of groups of AZOV members proudly displaying nazi symbols.
Yes there are Nazis in other militaries around the world, but there is honestly not a single one that features as many as Ukraine. You will never find so many soldiers in any other country proudly wearing nazi patches on their uniform. This is a fact.
Armies in most other militaries will reprimand soldiers for posing with Nazi flags/graffiti. Members of AZOV and some other Ukrainian military units do this regularly with zero consequence.
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