A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi soldier visited the Auschwitz death camp wearing a shirt quoting Hitler in order to mock the camp’s victims. This is the type of truly fascist scum that billions and billions of US taxpayer dollars are going to fund and arm.

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      Which is also why it lost a lot of its own identity

      It didn’t lose its identity dumbass, it has gain unprecedented power and legitimacy and is now the premier special forces division of the country

      Many people left the unit after the incorporation

      No they did not, stop making shit up, the command structure of the unit is now made up of Azov prisoners who were captured by the Russians early in the war and released in subsequent prisoner trade exchanges

      As I said elsewhere, I also “speak” Russian (can read it decently well) and I generally also read local sources.

      lmao you do not speak Russian

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          Many died

          Many died and then more nazis joined, and the ones who were captured are now leading the unit

          Many new units have been created around the country

          And they’re all commanded by ideological nazis and banderites leading cohorts of other convinced nazis or demoralized conscripts who don’t want to be there regardless

          We are talking of an initial group (2014) that counted 600 members

          And then the years 2015, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 came and went, the concept of time I know it’s wild, now Azov has thousands of fighters and premier government approved status and is simply one of dozens of openly neo-nazi units operating within the Ukrainian military

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              Your entire argument is based on delusional magical thinking, it’s the equivalent of asserting the Wehrmacht of the Third Reich weren’t nazis because the SS was a separate institution and the majority of the German army conscripts weren’t SS or party members, it’s a derivative of the clean Wehrmacht myth except in this case applied to the Ukrainian army whose official policy is to actively celebrate nazis like Bandera and elevated neo-nazi militias in its own institution, also misses the point that these are considered elite bodies with strict recruitment policies, not football clubs any dipshit banderist can join, that’s what the other dozens of brigades and incorporated nazi units are for

              the moment the battalion is part of the army and recruits from elsewhere are sent there, this dynamic changes.

              Just take how delusional this sentence is, any institution that allows nazis to openly organize and preach is by definition a nazi organization, doesn’t matter if the leadership and the hardcore members are outnumbered by conscripts, conscripts who judging by internal Ukrainian polls are open and susceptible to Banderist nazi ideology, which is why the literal fuckin majority of western photography shows a cavalcade of soldiers proudly displaying nazi paraphernalia

              but you can’t reject the fact that there is a difference between a self-formed militia and a battalion that becomes part of the army.

              Yeah the difference is now the nazis are given institutional approval and funding, lmao how the fuck are you missing that obvious development, if the federal government found some random neo-nazi militia and gave them federal approval, funding, and arms, that wouldn’t be a good you delusional nazi apologist

              There wouldn’t be a reduction of their “identity” it’s would instead be elevated and given prestigious institutional status from which they can use to recruit and spread, which surprise is what has been happening, to the point we now got a nazi comfortable enough to go to Auschwitz and mock the victims of the Holocaust without any media backlash IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES, what do you think is going in Ukraine proper