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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  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Andriy Biletsky, the founder of Azov, isn't Jewish. While searching for info, I did find out that Israel invited some Azov guy to the country and gave him a hero's welcome :surprised-pika:

    Do you mean the oligarch that funded Azov's creation? IIRC he also had connections to Zelenskyy, so wouldn't be surprised if he was Jewish.