KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from their social media feeds: a soldier standing in a group, another resting in a trench and an emergency worker posing in front of a truck. In each photograph, Ukrainians in uniform wore patches featuring symbols that were made notorious by Nazi Germany and have since become part of the iconography of far-

Get out your bingo cards for this one. I stopped after these five gave me an immediate win:

  • Bellingcat

  • "Ukraine is extra anti-nazi because they know what it's like to be occupied by them"

  • "But also they don't know these are nazi symbols"

  • "And pointing them out is Russian propaganda"

  • "And the idea that they're really just nazis like they say they are is nazi propaganda"

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  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    1 year ago

    Ukraine has worked for years through legislation and military restructuring to contain a fringe far-right movement whose members proudly wear symbols steeped in Nazi history and espouse views hostile to leftists, LGBTQ movements and ethnic minorities.

    Oh yeah? And they did that by banning all the left parties while letting the nationalists operate freely, right?

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I think they did it by filling up the department of the interior, department of defense & police leadership with outright Nazis