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Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harboring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.
The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views.
The unit received backing from Ukraine’s interior minister in 2014, as the government had recognised its own military was too weak to fight off the pro-Russian separatists and relied on paramilitary volunteer forces.
These forces were privately funded by oligarchs – the most known being Igor Kolomoisky, an energy magnate billionaire and then-governor of the Dnipropetrovska region.
Individual members have professed to being neo-Nazis, and hardcore far-right ultra-nationalism is pervasive among members.
In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to “restore” order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community.
“Ukraine is the world’s only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces,” a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.
In June 2015, both Canada and the United States announced that their own forces will not support or train the Azov regiment, citing its neo-Nazi connections. The following year, however, the US lifted the ban under pressure from the Pentagon.
This is from Aljizeera, not a Russian propaganda mill, like the US media would like you to believe, and before the war, Azov was reported like this by even the mainstream West.
If you defend NATO actions in Ukraine, you’re disgusting. You support white supremacists that carried out pogroms against the Roma people and the LGBTQ. That’s a fact. I don’t care how bad modern Russia is, it’s not worth teaming up with these people to defeat them. NATO is just helping to create another ISIS for selfish reasons.
If you shit on the left and dishonestly accuse us of defending far-right capitalist Russia because we don’t want to support the whitewashing of literal Nazis then you can fuck right off. You are the bad guys in this far-right VS far-right war. You’re the ones dragging out the bloodshed for the economic interests of the West when what we really should be doing is trying to get peace as fast as possible.
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“Ukraine is the world’s only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces,” a correspondent for the US-based magazine, the Nation, wrote in 2019.
In June 2015, both Canada and the United States announced that their own forces will not support or train the Azov regiment, citing its neo-Nazi connections. The following year, however, the US lifted the ban under pressure from the Pentagon.
we have to give guns to the nazis so they can defeat putler (which is an amalgam of putin and hitler, get it because nazis are bad? i am very idealogically consistent 😎 )
Hitler’s role was supposed to help the Western imperialists destroy the USSR, that’s why they gave him Czechoslovakia.
Hitler’s mistake was turning around and fought the wrong people, otherwise he would have been remembered as the greatest anti-communist hero of our times.
I know Orwell was a lib and a snitch but I’ll be damned if “Eurasia has always been our ally” doesn’t sum this up perfectly
Orwell had an excellent understanding of what living in a modern empire was like; He was a colonial cop in occupied India after all. He saw and participated in the British oppression of India and, like all good liberals, he took the things he saw there and sublimated it onto the Enemy. When he was writing the Enemy was the Soviet Union but he could have just as easily written it about France, Germany, Japan, America, or any other state that the British propaganda apparatus was designating as the Enemy when he was writing his book.
Don’t feel bad about quoting Orwell to describe the sort of state he lived in. That’s what he was taking inspiration from, even if he didn’t realize it. He certainly wasn’t inspired by the Soviet Union, how could he be? He had never even been there, he had only had it described to him.
Do liberals memory hole this or blame this on Russia?
Liberals don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Liberalism isn’t change. It is control. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of NATO warplanes hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in liberalism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
🕳 Right in the hole, every time. They then accuse you of supporting the real Nazis for spreading Russian disinformation.
The one I always hear from Libs: “Azov were Nazis but then the Ukranian Army took them in and got rid of all the Nazis, and besides they’re only a small unit in a larger army, the whole army wasn’t Nazi! In fact, you’re doing Russian disinformatskaya whataboutism by even mentioning it, Russia is the real Nazis!”
They’ll call you a bot for mentioning it and that’s it
Come on, you already know they’re going to do both.
Looks like americans except they have fake guns in the pic.
Am I crazy for being frustrated that focus is always singularly on azov even there were dozens of far right militias there were involved in the Ukrainian civil war. Azov wasn’t the only documented of these groups commiting war crimes. The patient part of me sees azov has English facing media and western journalists cant wrap their head around any thing outside of English. The conspiracy brain part of me thinks it that if they only speak about a single 900(I remember it being division sized unit at some point idk) battalion it’s easier to dismiss.
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Puss in Boots?!
