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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [+] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago

    look up dirlewanger brigade

    then look up tornado battalion

    Zelensky released Tornado Battalion from jail and deputized them

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If anyone can find a link I'd love to read the dunks, must have missed this

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    You're the nazi for pointing out these nazis.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years 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:

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    whats a dire wang? sounds like an sti

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  • [+] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    lol they are so enamored with nazi dork shit

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Very smart Slava Ukraini voice

    Um actually we're like the band of marauding, violent pedophiles frothingfash

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