• Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Had a hard time seeing the rainbow flag because I had never noticed that the Azov patch also has the black sun in the backdrop.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In before Latvia justifies all those swastikas as 4 Ls which represent "Live Love Laugh Latvia".

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It actually is an I over an N, it's just that the meaning is Incredibly Nazi.

        • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          it's totally just a wolfsangel which was used by nazi units in WW2 and the "idea of a nation" thing is just BS they use to cover it. the ukrainian for "Idea of a Nation" is Ідея Нації, so why would they use two latin letters instead? If they overlayed "І" and "Н" instead which is how it looks in Ukrainian, they'd get something like a trident, which is also important to them, but instead they go for this obviously German-derived wolfsangel thing.

          • MerryChristmas [any]
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            2 years ago

            Ідея

            Idk why but Slavic words that sound like English words always crack me up.. My favorite Russian one is документ. It sounds like a Hollywood version of a Soviet villain speaking broken English.

    • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They did a 'rebrand' a few years ago and supposedly 'retired' that old patch.

      Because that fixes everything.

        • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Oh right, I'm sure I read somewhere it was longer than that. Probably mixed it up with something else equally facile and abhorrent.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Breaking: Azov has controversial new drinking game where loser has to wear rainbow patch for next western photo op, experts fear this may be exploited by Russian propaganda.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    If they win, these nazi facks will be ripping those rainbows off and laughing about how easy it was to fool the libs as soon as western media moves on to the next big story. Then we'll see the full Nazification of Ukraine, similar to the rise of the far-right taliban/isis groups after the US helped them drive out the communists.

    • Fdos [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I thought the whole thing about Islamism was that it was a third axis disconnected from left/right politics.

      Islamists are super into charity and providing for the poor, something that the right doesn't give a shit about.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Think of Taliban/Isis like your conservative evangelicals in America that call themselves Christians but support the GOP cutting funding for the poor. They're more interested in the control aspect of religion than the charity aspect.

  • Mizokon [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    they're really providing the socially reactionary Russian govt the propaganda to paint LGBTQ+ people as Nazis

    • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      They have been doing that for ages really, and things like that don't really matter, even if they're hilarious

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I have another theory regarding the meaning of this flag:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

    I’m pretty sure this guy lost a bet.