Still can’t get my damn my mind around the “fact” that this shit is disputed
Quick update: the discussion page is even worse, libs try to completely remove the Neo Nazi part of it and label this as “russian propaganda”, it already worked in the German version of the article and you can’t even change it back, to protect the page from “vandalism”
At this point I feel that the entire unit can line up and do the nazi salute on camera and some twitter checkmarks will start explaining how they’re actually just reclaiming the historical roman salute and it’s not in any way related to neo-nazism.
You’re giving me flashbacks to watching some “Russian nationalist” on TV explain how his org’s salute was totally not a sieg heil, you guys! Quote: “The palm goes from the chest and upwards - from the heart to God!”
One judge in Poland actually really said in the sentence that the sieg heiling of archetypical skinhead neonazi was “roman salute” and therefore ok.
Case in point. Thank you
At the same time they’ll claim the use of swastikas and other symbols “aren’t fascist, those symbols were co-opted by the nazis!!11”
They are simply enthusiastic about historical symbols. The fact that all the symbols they are using just happen to have also used by the nazis is merely a crazy coincidence and does not mean that wholesome Azov are nazis.
Or they’ll say that these are actually Russians or paid actors (basically “ruSSian” propaganda)