• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    28 days ago

    But it's 3 German stick grenades, totally unrelated to 2 German stick grenades on the Dirlewanger brigade's emblem.

    Slobba Ukulele, sweaty. zelensky-pain

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      28 days ago

      i kind of thought they were fasces at first glance, not that that is any better lmao

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        28 days ago

        Right? At first glance I thought it was something like that with arrows until I zoomed in.

  • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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    28 days ago

    look up dirlewanger brigade

    then look up tornado battalion

    Zelensky released Tornado Battalion from jail and deputized them

  • Roonerino [they/them]
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    28 days ago

    I wonder if these nazi fucks do any actual fighting or if they just hang out taking pictures of themselves while 50 year old men with 2 months of training are getting pounded by artillery.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      28 days ago

      legit i think that's how it mostly goes. they either get to be poster children for recruiting efforts or get the cushy jobs of going around rounding up 45 year old dads trying to hide from MPs so they can feed their sick child

      • newacctidk [none/use name]
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        28 days ago

        idk Azov proved to be disturbingly motivated fighters. Sure some of them are like this, but let's not underestimate committed fascists as fighters. Their danger goes beyond rhetoric and policy after all

        • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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          27 days ago

          They got cornered in a hole and immediately defeated lmao. Where does this heroic narrative come from even here? They died like rats

          • newacctidk [none/use name]
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            27 days ago

            They are not heroic, but they are dangerous. They held out longer than most Ukrainians, and they are highly motivated. A troop who doesn't want to be there will surrender sooner and be less inclined to massacre more civilians at great risk to themselves. Azov would rather murder random Greek citizens of Mariupol than actually focus on defending. It is not the Russian forces who they are a threat to

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
      hexagon
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      28 days ago

      The US put them in positions of leadership in the 2014 coup, because they were a big part of that effort. They are probably just hanging around and letting everyone else do the fighting. The Nazis are probably still not very popular in Ukraine, even as they are seen as the ultimate anti-Russia guys because Russia = USSR = the people who won WW2 against their hero Hitler.

      • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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        28 days ago

        Since 2014 they also spent a lot of effort indoctrinating the youth with summer camps, where children were taught Ukrainian nationalism.

  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    28 days ago

    There is the SS and then there is the Dirlewanger brigade ...which is even by SS standards the worst of the worst. According to the historian Timothy Snyder, "in all the theaters of the Second World War, few could compete in cruelty with Oskar Dirlewanger. He has also been described as the "most evil man in the SS" and as "perhaps the most sadistic of all commanders of World War II.

    Yeah taking inspiration from this guy tells you all you need to know.

    Considering these fellas are still alive Russia should take its mission of denazification more serious.

    • newacctidk [none/use name]
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      28 days ago

      Didn't the Wehrmacht literally fight the Direlwanger brigade at one point with the Americans towards the end of the war?

    • heggs_bayer [none/use name]
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      28 days ago

      Timothy Snyder

      disgost

      Edit: for those unaware, Timothy Snyder is a big proponent of the double genocide theory - up there with Ann Applebaum and Robert Conquest - equivocates the Nazis and Soviets as being equally bad because of totalitarianism.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        28 days ago

        This time he's correct though, Dirlewanger was one of the worst. You can read some bits even in wiki about him and his brigade, i won't link because of intense CW's in entire article.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    28 days ago

    Didn't some smug asshole show up recently and be a debate pervert about how there's totally no nazis in Ukraine's military? sus-soviet

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    28 days ago

    Are those Stielhandgranate in the emblem? Surely they're just very interested in WW1 weapons and not the other one! Nothing to do with an SS brigade :clueless:

  • Hexamerous [he/him]
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    28 days ago

    Soon they're going to just have a picture of Hitler as their logo and western press will explain that it's complicated and in fact that's not Hitler but his non-evil twin that wasn't that bad ackhually.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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      28 days ago

      No no no its like a direwolf, where its way way bigger than it should be and more violent, just like in gambo throws so-true

  • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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    28 days ago

    Damn, had to look if it's still up, and it most certainly is... That's bullshit tbh