To celebrate August 24 Vladimir Zelensky took to Instagram to upload a series of portraits of commanders born in post-Soviet Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly one serviceman’s image, alongside his full name and credentials, was pictured wearing a Nazi insignia of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division.

That unit of the SS recruited primarily Ukrainian collaborators, and has been accused of committing several massacres in Poland.

  • JucheBot1988
    29·
    2 years ago

    If I were running propaganda for the Ukrainian government, I’d want to make sure nobody showed up in photos wearing Nazi insignia. Especially nowadays, when it’s so easy to check online.

    But then again, libs and neonazis (did I just write the same word twice?) have never been particularly noted for their intelligence.

    • Munrock ☭
      16·
      2 years ago

      Evidently, they don’t actually need to. They can dog-whistle nazis for support with stuff like this. It doesn’t cause them any harm because anyone actually calling it out gets dismissed as a conspiracy theorist / tankie because Westerners are so severely brainwashed.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind
      151·
      2 years ago

      They did noticed this and explicitly ordered their nazis to fucking just stop, but probably without much effect.

      • JucheBot1988
        13·
        2 years ago

        That’s a ruthlessly efficient indo-aryan state right there.

    • mylifeforaiur
      10·
      2 years ago

      What you’re missing is that the actual head of propaganda is from the “nazis weren’t that bad” camp.

    • Shrike502
      19·
      2 years ago

      “It is only 10% of the armed forces!” as quoted to me from some shitty lib paper

      • Oatsteak
        16·
        2 years ago

        Just 1 in 10, no big deal :) I sure am very glad that the entire western world is supporting them :)) just 1 in 10!!! 🙀🥳 haha I sure am happy

      • GloriousDoubleK
        3·
        2 years ago

        10% of the military was all high ranking generals and high ranking NCOs.

        Hmmm… 🤔

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind
    261·
    2 years ago

    Btw before someone say something about the historicity of symbols - both golden lion and three crowns has been historical symbols of region of Galicia in this or that form, but only once they shown up together - in the CoA of this SS division.

    • JucheBot1988
      11·
      2 years ago

      iron cross

      “Akshually, they’re just fans of Frederick the Great, whom even the GDR considered progressive.” – some faux-Marxist lib

  • REEEEvolution
    21·
    2 years ago

    Another “I can post whatever I want. Western propaganda will supress any information that isn’t favorable to me.”

    • Shrike502
      5·
      2 years ago

      “That Z salute looks like a Sieg Heil!” - actual something a lib acquaintance said to me

  • Mzuark
    11·
    2 years ago

    At this point I’m just running out of things to say. Where do we go from here? Apparently we’re just okay with Nazis now. Ukraine is an openly fascist government but people, who consider themselves to be anti-nazi, are falling over themselves to praise them, protect them and bury any evidence of wrong doing.

    Are we supposed to wait until they go apeshit on a country that we aren’t trained to hate before we can go back to saying Nazis are bad?

    • Neers94
      14·
      2 years ago

      The US has always been okay with Nazis. America is the premier fascist state, a first proto type of it’s kind. Hitler and the various fascists and proto fascists in imperial Germany modelled their ideology and political ambitions off of the United states. We don’t think of the US as a fascist state because 1. The US obviously works overtime in it’s PR to keep people from thinking that way and 2. Fascism here has already succeeded. The mass genocide and brutal forced settlement has already happened and finished. We’re just living in the aftermath of that horrible and disgusting history, just like the Germans would be living in in an alternate world 50 years after they won WW2.

    • DankZedong A
      11·
      2 years ago

      You’ve got to realize that most of their views are created by media and governments. The picture they are presented is one of a sad Ukraine that’s a victim of terror from Russia. I give them the benefit of the doubt and say they are misguided rather than evil.

      I find myself explaining my views more to my surroundings. Yesterday I talked to family about how Zelensky banned opposition parties and undermines labor laws. They had no idea.

      You and I actively seek other sides of this story to expand our views. They don’t. They see their news which has a certain political aim. It’s necessary we keep explaining ourselves otherwise the fascist sides in this war win, because they get the superstar treatment from the media. A lot of people are willing to listen, especially with the high inflation wrecking them.