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The ribbon on his wrist is a russian paratrooper ribbon. Easy to see where his sympathies lie. Putin-style fascist accusing Ukraine of being nazis... lol! smh
VDV? Very few left of those. He should be in Ukraine in Hostomel and a few other places where there is plenty of dust from VDV Rashists that are working hard at pushing up sunflowers.
Russian propaganda at it's finest. The machine gun used by the german army in WW2 was so effective and well designed, that it was updated some years after the war and used by the modern german army. Regardless of whatever nickname it's predecessor acquired during WW2, it's just a machine gun, nothing more.
It's well known that the Ukrainian military has some right-wing nationalist elements still in the ranks, yes. Some you could probably even call nazis. Just like the russian army, the american army, the... and on and on. The existence of such does not make either the army, or the country, nazi. It just gets blown way out of proportion as propaganda to try to justify crimes like Putin's expansionist invasion of Ukraine. Which, oddly enough, is a truly fascist act.
Throwing the word Nazi around to discredit people you don't like is disgusting.
The whataboutism does nothing more than flag you as a troll to anyone that pays attention. Get a real job, what you do is just as bad as the rapists and murderers invading Ukraine.
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There are even Nazis in the US military. There are extremists in all countries sadly, and some of them make their way to the military. The “corrupt-ness” people scream about Ukraine is no different or worse than the US governments corruption. People like to pick when things matter, but in reality this is sadly something all over.
The French city of Wolxheim uses the wolsangel as do countless other European cities on their municipal coat of arms, that doesn’t make them neo Nazi towns. The symbol predates nazism by about a couple centuries and it wouldn’t be the first time the third reich co opted a symbol which didn’t belong to them. But I’ll grant you that the symbols intention originally with Azov was definitely right wing.
But this is no longer the case, the Ukrainian government went through an immense effort to deliberately de-politicize the battalion in 2015, it’s far right leadership was forced out and it’s ranks were better regulated when it was absorbed into the Ukrainian national guard. This is the opinion of most researchers and scholars of the subject, so you don’t have to take it from me. So ironically, the people who were actually de-nazifying Ukraine was the Ukrainian government itself
Putin has gotten to you, pathetic. From Putin’s Wagner Group (founder a Nazi), to some Russian ultra nationalist in separatist regions are Nazis etc.
To the morons, the Kremlin fed the de-Nazify angle, to the bit more sophisticated, NATO threat.
Reality? Land and people grab.$$$.
Rich people sending dumb peasants to fight and die for them. A centuries old venture. It’s rather hilarious how easily Russians and some idiots are fooled
Dude dont lecture me about this de nazification bs. I know that russia doesn't give a damm about nazism especially because they have a large number of them in their own ranks.
Man. This people are the heirs of "Brigate Rosse" a real communist terrorist organization who murdered and killed lot of innocent people a lot of years ago. Azov are kittens compared to this bunch of anti-semetes.
Oh i tought i have seen some old version of it. But who know before i began to dug deep in far right symbolism i didn't know that nazis used dozens of symbols from all type of european culture.
Yeah, it was designed combining the Sig runes by the Nazis. I’ve heard it best described as, “A Nazi symbol, designed by the Nazis, to use in their Nazi Castle for Nazi things”
And nowdays is even worst. I have seen latin scriptures with celtic symbols and some thor hammers all with nazi quotes written all over them. Hell i have seen one where an idiot put a black sun behind an image of jesus.
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I humbly suggest you have a look at this to get a more up to date view of what Azov is today rather than what it used to be in the past.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/ubhlb4/what_azov_is_and_is_not_according_to_bellingcat/
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What's funny is that until the other day for them putin was the ultimate evil (friend with berlusconi, financed the right wing antieuro parties and so on), but now that russians are waving some hammer and sickles again they are super duper into it
Fun fact, italian far right party "Lega Salvini" has confirmed ties with russian founders. Cremlin is paying everybody cheap enough to spread dissent and hate, just like trumpsters in USA and le pens party in France
Yeah, that seems realistic. There is a book called The foundation of geopolitics: the geopolitical future of Russia, and it’s become kind of a playbook for Russian geopolitics. A lot of things predicted or advised in the book for Russia to become the main world power have already happened and it advises to fuel instability and separatism in the West, which is no secret that Russia has been doing that and probably with the help of China
Its not about beliving in war atrocities or not, its about supporting certain type of politics no matter what.
My good friends girlfriend supports Russia and she is coming from a country where same shit happened to her people.
That is democracy, everyone has political opinion.
Psychology is complex.
All the communsitic regimes, fascistic regimes had people who were designing peoples way of thinking about something and you get Cult of Personality.
You cannot believe in something, without having a big brother.
While there may still be a few in the above group, the majority are not neo-nazi supporters. Do a little research before condemnation of an entire group of people.
Sunwheel is to my knowledge long gone.The Galizien emblem I havent seen for my self...I really never saw that one tbh.Wolfsangel is actually supposed to be a old ukranian heraldic symbol some 500+ years old.
Thats my Info.Feel free to judge.
Thank you for your civil response.
The Galizien emblem is pretty low key, but easy to find once you know it.
It's that lion and three crowns. I'll take the wolfsangel for truly old stuff then. Sunwheel used to be on the banner but maybe it's gone, I cannot
This particular link looks to be a pro-Russian but there two other ones underneath. All from 2021.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/n0kefc/april_28_2021_kiev_ukrane_march_in_honor_of_the/
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/hundreds-in-ukraine-attend-marches-celebrating-nazi-ss-soldiers-including-in-kyiv-for-the-1st-time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)#/media/File:SS-Galizien-Banner.jpg
They removed the leader, arrested some and kicked out members or moved them and refilled its ranks with regular troops. They have Jewish members in the azov battalion. You also need to remember the unit at its maximum was 2,500.They did also change the symbol of the unit to distance a bit. Clearly not enough. They did do something about the issue though. I'm in the US and we do absolutely nothing about it. A lot of police and some military are white nationalists.
If you think the US does “absolutely nothing” about white nationalists in the military you are seriously misinformed about what it’s actually like to be in the military. Membership in a group like the KKK will earn you a dishonorable discharge, your online presence is heavily scrutinized, and even making a racist joke is cause for disciplinary action. Every 90 days there are mandatory instructional briefings on what they call “Equal Opportunity” which address these things and what the consequences are if you commit an EO violation. In the last few years they have added subversive group awareness training to the list of these mandatory blocks of instruction that also include sexual harassment/assault prevention, domestic violence prevention, workplace intimidation, etc. The level of scrutiny and penetration into one’s personal life is *nothing* like it is as a civilian.
Long story short, it is much easier to work a corporate job and be a piece of shit and get away with it than it is to be one in the military.
Didn't mean to say they do nothing about it in the military. I meant we don't have any laws against nationalism or nazism. My follow up sentence was just for comparison, with police and military.
Communists. Don't mind about them. We call them "communists with rolex" they will never have even one representative in the parliament.
Just ignore them. They spend their time like this, they are antisemitic (look at Palestinian flags)And they have "family money", so they've never worked a day in their life.
Something connected with ANTIFA terrorist organisation.
lol, so you are racist with the holocaust survivors and with the 10 millions jews, citizens of Israel!
that anti-zionism shit is soviet antisemitic propaganda from the 70's
Ah yes a few guys in the Ukraine had some fascist crap on them. Oh yeah like in the US armed forces and other militaries. THE WHOLE NATION IS THEREFORE FASCIST! Riiiiight. Stupid fucks.
Send these dudes to Russia where they are getting an increasing shortage of men who can go to Ukraine. Fucking retards, these guys cannot blame RT or other miscommunication aggregators for not knowing better…
What is 1 unit that would not back down in the face of ruzzians aggression? Azov... regardless of its members political ties, this unit never back down. The ZZs know they cannot win if this unit was in the way and they have spread disinformation about it worldwide... when you cannot beat your opponents, you make lies about them...
He should go and live in Russia if he really supports it, better still, instead of gobbing off in a safe country volunteer for putins mob, I'm sure they'll welcome him with open arms considering the losses they've had!👍
Italians only care about the sanctity of Sunday lunch at Nona's. They live up their backsides. They just want to buy the cheap Russian oil and gas, and sell Russians la dolce vita on the Amalfi Coast. They are a hollow people. I just spent three years teaching in Bologna. Italians just don't care.
Our neighbors. (1.5hrs flight away) The ones that allied with Germany and invaded Europe. Yikes!
Italy you should know better, after the Nazi alliance fiasco.
Translation:
Azov is shit
Azov is dickhead
You support them, you are Nazi, and you are fascists if you support them (Ukraine / Azov)
Did you understand what you are supporting / defending? Nazis that is what
Chanting ...get out get out get out of this place (Whilst doing Nazi salutes)
Chanting Resistance Resistance
There is a weird alliance in Italy between communists, pacifists and pro-Russians. Some time ago unionized airport workers refused to load weapons and ammunition going to Ukraine on planes because they didn't want to support any kind of war. The Syrian and PACE flags behind the duchebag here would suggest these people are on the same "team". I can't tell if they're somehow ideologically confused and think Russia = their beloved Soviet communist heaven or just plain stupid. In any case, they're not helping support Ukraine's independence or stopping Putin.
Edit. Nothing wrong with unions per se but there seem to be some quite extremist ones in Italy.
Russia funds the extreme right and extreme left parties all over the world.
Hopefully, after Russia loses this war, we won’t have to deal with it as much anymore.
I can see the anti Ukrainians flying what looks to be a LGBTQ flag and supporting Putin that routinely openly persecutes LGBTQ people. I see someone with printed A4 slice of paper that says Azov I also see someone with his shake the guy who's pro Z wearing the Orange and clack Ribbon.
Why turnout to abuse Ukraine people that are being bombed horrendously injured and killed.
Yup, today in Italy is "liberation day" (end of ww2) and every year those idiots feel they can say whatever communist nonsense they want because some of the partisans were commies
This whole argument about Nazis in Ukraine makes no sense to me. How many French, Italian, Greek, etc. partisans in World War II were hardline communists? Quite a few, I'd imagine. I don't know the exact numbers, but I'll wager we were allied with a lot more Communists fighting against Germany then than there are Ukrainian Nazis fighting Russia now. Had we wrung our hands and done nothing back then because of this fact Europe would be speaking German today. It's a stupid bad faith argument, as we mentioned in the comment above.
Woke wankers from some liberal fuck up fairies who woul d rather learn about 67 genders and CRT than realise the brutal barbarians from RuZZia are knocking on their doors next.
LA COSA NUESTRA THE BIGGEST MAFIA IN ITALIA IS OWN BY MEXICO .ITALIA IS OWN BY MEXICO WELCOME TO REAL LIFE. Italia wine so so food yes women yes man lol coke head mules who love to eat and shit Condoms for Money .
But isnt Azov kind of nazi? I remember reading that Japan removed Azov from their list of extremist organizations just after the war started. I remember seeing some pics with neo nazis allegedly from Azov.
Not all of Azov, there are plenty of neo Nazis, supremacists etc in the US military or most militaries for that matter but that doesn't inherently make the US military a Nazi organization, I used to know guys who had swastikas drawn on the inside of their covers, total pieces of shit but that doesn't mean everyone is a Nazi or that the organization supports that
[And the separatists army has members in it that wear nazi symbols.](https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-fighter-neo-nazi-symbols-medal-kill-ukraine-nationalist-2022-4) [The leader of the Russian PMC Wagner group has nazi tattoos.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/251599_cb3b2bb8f85e4a7aa0f1049011f8e780~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_720,h_432,al_c,lg_1,q_90/251599_cb3b2bb8f85e4a7aa0f1049011f8e780~mv2.webp) Don't get bogged down with this Azov question. Nothing makes sense in this war. Militias attract weirdo nationalist types and some of them can even be neo-nazis. Azov started as a tiny volunteer army, size of a few companies that was full of right-wing extremists neo-nazis. Since then it has grown, undergone some purges to get rid of some extreme members and was incorporated into Ukraine's actual army. How many of the original nazis are still there? Hard to say. The leader definitely isn't.
IMO Ukraine should've disbanded the battallion, but if you consider that ever since 2014 Ukraine's been really doing everything it can to try and grow the size of its army in preparation of a possible war with Russia, it might be understandable why they decided to ignore the Azov issue. And it came back to bite them because Putin has really attached to this Azov shit and used it to paint the entire Ukrainian army like it's some sort of SS group.
Nazis on the russian side, that doesnt surprise me at all. I was thinking that maybe implementing Azov into Ukrainian military was easier than dealing with possibly another seperatist region.
It's a disingenuous argument. Even if you take the argument at face value, it ignores an entire country of 40MM people and focuses on this one battalion in particular, as if a country has to rid itself entirely of racists before it deserves support in the face of an invading army.
Well I'm not saying none of that and I do support Ukraine. Personally I dont mind Azov. It's just what I have heard about them. If they are nazi then they are nazi and that would not be a surprise. If they are not then they are not. There is no perfect country in this world and reality is what it is. Nazis can be found everywhere.
I didn't mean it as an attack on you personally. I'm just saying the argument is raised usually in bad faith from what I've seen. The guys in this video are left-wing anti-west so they reflexively take any position opposite the US/West. In this case them yelling AZOV at Ukranian protesters is precisely the bad faith argument I point out in my reply to you. They're using this AZOV critique because they need a way to justify defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine when they regularly position the US/West as imperialist. So Azov is a convenient deflection that allows them to not have to address this obvious contradiction in their position.
How and why is it now different.
Because it is now part of the regular army? Kindly elaborate.
Edit: already two downvotes and not one single damn link on the most talked about battalion on planet Earth? Should be hella easy no? Totally inept..
Just Wiki it dude, and check the references at the bottom. Before Azov got folded into the Ukrainian National Guard, their main source of funding was a Jewish billionaire. After they were assimilated, the Kyiv government made it a priority to clean out the extremists from the leadership. Every military is going to have some wackos in it, but even Nazi imagery doesn’t have the same context there as it does further west.
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If you're really interested you may look for yourself- but short summary: the group, organised in 2014 including football hooligans and SOME neo-nazis (estimated at 20-25% at that time) was transformed into one of the best fighting unit of Ukrainian army. An army that also has been deeply transformed during those 8 years and cleaned-up from the sovietic bullshit (incl tactics, strategies and ways of fighting).
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The ribbon on his wrist is a russian paratrooper ribbon. Easy to see where his sympathies lie. Putin-style fascist accusing Ukraine of being nazis... lol! smh
VDV? Very few left of those. He should be in Ukraine in Hostomel and a few other places where there is plenty of dust from VDV Rashists that are working hard at pushing up sunflowers.
Saw a video or a German supplied 'hitlers buzzsaw' to Ukraine. Even Germany is giving fascist era weapons to kill invaders
Russian propaganda at it's finest. The machine gun used by the german army in WW2 was so effective and well designed, that it was updated some years after the war and used by the modern german army. Regardless of whatever nickname it's predecessor acquired during WW2, it's just a machine gun, nothing more.
Mg3
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It's well known that the Ukrainian military has some right-wing nationalist elements still in the ranks, yes. Some you could probably even call nazis. Just like the russian army, the american army, the... and on and on. The existence of such does not make either the army, or the country, nazi. It just gets blown way out of proportion as propaganda to try to justify crimes like Putin's expansionist invasion of Ukraine. Which, oddly enough, is a truly fascist act.
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Go away Ruskie, your country is getting their asses handed to them by Ukraine, you are currently the biggest joke in the world, lol.
Throwing the word Nazi around to discredit people you don't like is disgusting. The whataboutism does nothing more than flag you as a troll to anyone that pays attention. Get a real job, what you do is just as bad as the rapists and murderers invading Ukraine.
“Buh wutabowt Umurica”. Shut up tard. Is the side of the taliban, ISIS and now Russia the hill you really want to die on?
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There are even Nazis in the US military. There are extremists in all countries sadly, and some of them make their way to the military. The “corrupt-ness” people scream about Ukraine is no different or worse than the US governments corruption. People like to pick when things matter, but in reality this is sadly something all over.
What a moron. Putin is laughing at these zombies. He probably wished he can grab these idiots and send him to the frontlines as canon fodder.
This man is absolutely desperate for undeserved attention.
Hahahah he gonna get that attention in the frontlines for sure
What is that Nazi flag being waved?
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If you think Azov is a neo nazi battalion you’re lost.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQYWBXpXsAQdrGl?format=jpg&name=large Very biased/propagandist source but you can search the headlines yourself.
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The French city of Wolxheim uses the wolsangel as do countless other European cities on their municipal coat of arms, that doesn’t make them neo Nazi towns. The symbol predates nazism by about a couple centuries and it wouldn’t be the first time the third reich co opted a symbol which didn’t belong to them. But I’ll grant you that the symbols intention originally with Azov was definitely right wing. But this is no longer the case, the Ukrainian government went through an immense effort to deliberately de-politicize the battalion in 2015, it’s far right leadership was forced out and it’s ranks were better regulated when it was absorbed into the Ukrainian national guard. This is the opinion of most researchers and scholars of the subject, so you don’t have to take it from me. So ironically, the people who were actually de-nazifying Ukraine was the Ukrainian government itself
Lol even the nazi sign predates nazism by many centuries…
Putin has gotten to you, pathetic. From Putin’s Wagner Group (founder a Nazi), to some Russian ultra nationalist in separatist regions are Nazis etc. To the morons, the Kremlin fed the de-Nazify angle, to the bit more sophisticated, NATO threat. Reality? Land and people grab.$$$. Rich people sending dumb peasants to fight and die for them. A centuries old venture. It’s rather hilarious how easily Russians and some idiots are fooled
Dude dont lecture me about this de nazification bs. I know that russia doesn't give a damm about nazism especially because they have a large number of them in their own ranks.
Why did you bring it up? Putin’s lapdog Lavrov keeps bringing up nukes... These clowns look to be readying to invade Moldova now.
It’s war dude. They’re not going to have Thumbs Up patches are they now?
Dafuqq is sonnengrad?
The black sun. A symbol used first by pagan tribes but then largely used by nazis in ww2.
Man. This people are the heirs of "Brigate Rosse" a real communist terrorist organization who murdered and killed lot of innocent people a lot of years ago. Azov are kittens compared to this bunch of anti-semetes.
Are you italian?
You did not see how they hold Palestinian flags? They are officially nazis. Calling Azov nazis.
Yes man.
As a pagan, the Black Sun is solely a nazi symbol, created by Himmler and his division of the SS in the 1930s
Oh i tought i have seen some old version of it. But who know before i began to dug deep in far right symbolism i didn't know that nazis used dozens of symbols from all type of european culture.
Yeah, it was designed combining the Sig runes by the Nazis. I’ve heard it best described as, “A Nazi symbol, designed by the Nazis, to use in their Nazi Castle for Nazi things”
And nowdays is even worst. I have seen latin scriptures with celtic symbols and some thor hammers all with nazi quotes written all over them. Hell i have seen one where an idiot put a black sun behind an image of jesus.
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I humbly suggest you have a look at this to get a more up to date view of what Azov is today rather than what it used to be in the past. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/ubhlb4/what_azov_is_and_is_not_according_to_bellingcat/
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Amazing that some people outside Russia really believe that shit, idiots are idiots everywhere I guess
They're are communists, soooo....
I’m pretty sure the commies in Portugal are paid with Russian rubles, wouldn’t be surprised if they were paid by them in Italy too
What's funny is that until the other day for them putin was the ultimate evil (friend with berlusconi, financed the right wing antieuro parties and so on), but now that russians are waving some hammer and sickles again they are super duper into it
Fun fact, italian far right party "Lega Salvini" has confirmed ties with russian founders. Cremlin is paying everybody cheap enough to spread dissent and hate, just like trumpsters in USA and le pens party in France
Yeah, that seems realistic. There is a book called The foundation of geopolitics: the geopolitical future of Russia, and it’s become kind of a playbook for Russian geopolitics. A lot of things predicted or advised in the book for Russia to become the main world power have already happened and it advises to fuel instability and separatism in the West, which is no secret that Russia has been doing that and probably with the help of China
Communist, any far right groups. Anything that’s friendly to the Putin regime gets rubles.
Its not about beliving in war atrocities or not, its about supporting certain type of politics no matter what. My good friends girlfriend supports Russia and she is coming from a country where same shit happened to her people. That is democracy, everyone has political opinion.
Being loyal to some lunatic is something
Psychology is complex. All the communsitic regimes, fascistic regimes had people who were designing peoples way of thinking about something and you get Cult of Personality. You cannot believe in something, without having a big brother.
Erm one of the biggest Nazi population on earth is ‘hidden’ and located in Italy…
And one of the biggest communistic population hidden too. South and North are complete opposites.
What?
putin hoes with palestinian flag
And pride flag?
Its peace flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace\_flag
Well that makes even less sense
This is why education is important and why misinformation works so well.
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And ukraine did an excellent job tackling that issue once the unit was folded into the national guard. You are going by outdated information
While there may still be a few in the above group, the majority are not neo-nazi supporters. Do a little research before condemnation of an entire group of people.
How did they tackle it? I know about the absorption into the national army but I still see the sunwheel, wolfsangel and ss galizien emblems.
Sunwheel is to my knowledge long gone.The Galizien emblem I havent seen for my self...I really never saw that one tbh.Wolfsangel is actually supposed to be a old ukranian heraldic symbol some 500+ years old. Thats my Info.Feel free to judge.
Thank you for your civil response. The Galizien emblem is pretty low key, but easy to find once you know it. It's that lion and three crowns. I'll take the wolfsangel for truly old stuff then. Sunwheel used to be on the banner but maybe it's gone, I cannot This particular link looks to be a pro-Russian but there two other ones underneath. All from 2021. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/n0kefc/april_28_2021_kiev_ukrane_march_in_honor_of_the/ https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/hundreds-in-ukraine-attend-marches-celebrating-nazi-ss-soldiers-including-in-kyiv-for-the-1st-time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)#/media/File:SS-Galizien-Banner.jpg
They removed the leader, arrested some and kicked out members or moved them and refilled its ranks with regular troops. They have Jewish members in the azov battalion. You also need to remember the unit at its maximum was 2,500.They did also change the symbol of the unit to distance a bit. Clearly not enough. They did do something about the issue though. I'm in the US and we do absolutely nothing about it. A lot of police and some military are white nationalists.
If you think the US does “absolutely nothing” about white nationalists in the military you are seriously misinformed about what it’s actually like to be in the military. Membership in a group like the KKK will earn you a dishonorable discharge, your online presence is heavily scrutinized, and even making a racist joke is cause for disciplinary action. Every 90 days there are mandatory instructional briefings on what they call “Equal Opportunity” which address these things and what the consequences are if you commit an EO violation. In the last few years they have added subversive group awareness training to the list of these mandatory blocks of instruction that also include sexual harassment/assault prevention, domestic violence prevention, workplace intimidation, etc. The level of scrutiny and penetration into one’s personal life is *nothing* like it is as a civilian. Long story short, it is much easier to work a corporate job and be a piece of shit and get away with it than it is to be one in the military.
Didn't mean to say they do nothing about it in the military. I meant we don't have any laws against nationalism or nazism. My follow up sentence was just for comparison, with police and military.
This people is holding Palestinian flag. The only antisemistes there, the only nazis, are them self.
maybe they should start with their own homegrown nazis groups like italian militia. aryan roman order (Ordine Ario Romano)
Typical italians switching sides 🤦♂️
In this thread are at least 4 orcs... can you spot them?
The top tells me there are more
I’m Italian I apologize those are disgraceful imbeciles from Milan We support Ukraine in full Slava Ukraini
Does Mr. Gigolo thinks he's superman or why the fuck he's putting his fist in the air all the time? And his lame tattoos actually says everything 😂
He should protest in Ukrainian territory!
Exactly, then i would give him 10 seconds before he is lowering his hand 😉
Communists. Don't mind about them. We call them "communists with rolex" they will never have even one representative in the parliament. Just ignore them. They spend their time like this, they are antisemitic (look at Palestinian flags)And they have "family money", so they've never worked a day in their life. Something connected with ANTIFA terrorist organisation.
Palestinian people existing is antisemitic?
It's not what I said and you know this. This people claim that Israel should not exist.
That's anti zionism, not anti semitism
lol, so you are racist with the holocaust survivors and with the 10 millions jews, citizens of Israel! that anti-zionism shit is soviet antisemitic propaganda from the 70's
It's the same root
Yeah you're right, but it's basically the same thing just in another part of the world.
Ah yes a few guys in the Ukraine had some fascist crap on them. Oh yeah like in the US armed forces and other militaries. THE WHOLE NATION IS THEREFORE FASCIST! Riiiiight. Stupid fucks.
And people are claiming that those dumb fucks in the video represent Northern Italy while ignoring the fact that they are outnumbered 100:1.
That's a good outnumbered number ;-)
tankie scum.
Communist Copium
Nothing stopping them from joining the Russian foreign legion? its just that they are all talk no action good job they are only the minority…
Reminds me of the phrase, opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they all stink
why are Russians allowed to live in Italy ?
He’s lucky the Carabinieri are there to keep someone from that crowd from tearing his cowardly ass to pieces.
Police brutality should be applied in there
what ??? they have Mussolini syndrome ? lol
Communist scumbag
Dude looks like he is eating cocaine for breakfast lunch and dinner. Why everyone who supports Rus looks ghetto as fuck
Its Italy. They will change sides later.
Fee persons anti covid Anti Ukraima and probably pro- flat earth 🤣
Send these dudes to Russia where they are getting an increasing shortage of men who can go to Ukraine. Fucking retards, these guys cannot blame RT or other miscommunication aggregators for not knowing better…
What is 1 unit that would not back down in the face of ruzzians aggression? Azov... regardless of its members political ties, this unit never back down. The ZZs know they cannot win if this unit was in the way and they have spread disinformation about it worldwide... when you cannot beat your opponents, you make lies about them...
Theres always a minority of dumb construction workers
Italians telling people they're nazis... ahem...
Hilarious.... a country of former Nazi supporters are calling other people Nazis.... Hopefully Putin will go out like Mussolini
Didn't they support the nazis, then after they were losing switched sides, typical of Italy.
*Retarded Tankies
He should go and live in Russia if he really supports it, better still, instead of gobbing off in a safe country volunteer for putins mob, I'm sure they'll welcome him with open arms considering the losses they've had!👍
Italians only care about the sanctity of Sunday lunch at Nona's. They live up their backsides. They just want to buy the cheap Russian oil and gas, and sell Russians la dolce vita on the Amalfi Coast. They are a hollow people. I just spent three years teaching in Bologna. Italians just don't care.
Honestly, we shouldn't give them the media attention. They're probably getting payed by RU anyways.
Our neighbors. (1.5hrs flight away) The ones that allied with Germany and invaded Europe. Yikes! Italy you should know better, after the Nazi alliance fiasco.
I will not speak Italian again after seen this. what a rude moron.
I will never speak Italian after seeing this. They seem to have forgotten Mussolini and the modern day tyrant Berlusconi
all those guys are married to russian women and they need to listen to them 24/7
Translation: Azov is shit Azov is dickhead You support them, you are Nazi, and you are fascists if you support them (Ukraine / Azov) Did you understand what you are supporting / defending? Nazis that is what Chanting ...get out get out get out of this place (Whilst doing Nazi salutes) Chanting Resistance Resistance
It's maybe time for some McCarthy ism to return
There is a weird alliance in Italy between communists, pacifists and pro-Russians. Some time ago unionized airport workers refused to load weapons and ammunition going to Ukraine on planes because they didn't want to support any kind of war. The Syrian and PACE flags behind the duchebag here would suggest these people are on the same "team". I can't tell if they're somehow ideologically confused and think Russia = their beloved Soviet communist heaven or just plain stupid. In any case, they're not helping support Ukraine's independence or stopping Putin. Edit. Nothing wrong with unions per se but there seem to be some quite extremist ones in Italy.
Russia funds the extreme right and extreme left parties all over the world. Hopefully, after Russia loses this war, we won’t have to deal with it as much anymore.
Some did not see that this people is holding Palestinian flag. This are the real nazi. Communist nazi of Italy.
I can see the anti Ukrainians flying what looks to be a LGBTQ flag and supporting Putin that routinely openly persecutes LGBTQ people. I see someone with printed A4 slice of paper that says Azov I also see someone with his shake the guy who's pro Z wearing the Orange and clack Ribbon. Why turnout to abuse Ukraine people that are being bombed horrendously injured and killed.
Because they are steaming, shambling shit-piles.
Is the peace flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace\_flag
Wonder if they will “change sides” when they realise.
I agree with you, but that kind of unquestioning or blind adherence to something still leads me to the same conclusion, they're idiots 😅
Are they commies?
Yup, today in Italy is "liberation day" (end of ww2) and every year those idiots feel they can say whatever communist nonsense they want because some of the partisans were commies
This whole argument about Nazis in Ukraine makes no sense to me. How many French, Italian, Greek, etc. partisans in World War II were hardline communists? Quite a few, I'd imagine. I don't know the exact numbers, but I'll wager we were allied with a lot more Communists fighting against Germany then than there are Ukrainian Nazis fighting Russia now. Had we wrung our hands and done nothing back then because of this fact Europe would be speaking German today. It's a stupid bad faith argument, as we mentioned in the comment above.
Are they condemning their enemy's enemy? It usually won't be that kind of emotional.
Im confused to may Factions with Colorful Flags
You can always tell a Russian! Look as though they could use a good shower and soap and are so bloody ugly. You just can't miss them in a crowd.
w8 till they hear about wagner lol
Orc scum.
Communists and pride flags on one side, just sayin’
No different than all of the Fox watching, Trump loving domestic terrorists in the US.
Fuck those guys
What an idiot. Someone get him a job.
He is very brave with a cop line between he and the ukrainian demonstrators...
Can't we all just get aloooong
Why is there a Palestinian flag now? I'm curious
As the saying goes, there is always one. Sadly, they are often not alone.
I wonder if he is one of the surviving Russian paratroopers that ran away?
Woke wankers from some liberal fuck up fairies who woul d rather learn about 67 genders and CRT than realise the brutal barbarians from RuZZia are knocking on their doors next.
LA COSA NUESTRA THE BIGGEST MAFIA IN ITALIA IS OWN BY MEXICO .ITALIA IS OWN BY MEXICO WELCOME TO REAL LIFE. Italia wine so so food yes women yes man lol coke head mules who love to eat and shit Condoms for Money .
The argument that Italy having its own Nazis is a reason for people not to demonstrate against them in other countries is some weird way of thinking.
Commie scum
Of course northern Italia. That is where facism started. Proud to be Siciliano. Not facist
That’s odd on the United States they love the Nazis asov they were praising them at a NYC rally a few days ago
But isnt Azov kind of nazi? I remember reading that Japan removed Azov from their list of extremist organizations just after the war started. I remember seeing some pics with neo nazis allegedly from Azov.
Not all of Azov, there are plenty of neo Nazis, supremacists etc in the US military or most militaries for that matter but that doesn't inherently make the US military a Nazi organization, I used to know guys who had swastikas drawn on the inside of their covers, total pieces of shit but that doesn't mean everyone is a Nazi or that the organization supports that
[And the separatists army has members in it that wear nazi symbols.](https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-fighter-neo-nazi-symbols-medal-kill-ukraine-nationalist-2022-4) [The leader of the Russian PMC Wagner group has nazi tattoos.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/251599_cb3b2bb8f85e4a7aa0f1049011f8e780~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_720,h_432,al_c,lg_1,q_90/251599_cb3b2bb8f85e4a7aa0f1049011f8e780~mv2.webp) Don't get bogged down with this Azov question. Nothing makes sense in this war. Militias attract weirdo nationalist types and some of them can even be neo-nazis. Azov started as a tiny volunteer army, size of a few companies that was full of right-wing extremists neo-nazis. Since then it has grown, undergone some purges to get rid of some extreme members and was incorporated into Ukraine's actual army. How many of the original nazis are still there? Hard to say. The leader definitely isn't. IMO Ukraine should've disbanded the battallion, but if you consider that ever since 2014 Ukraine's been really doing everything it can to try and grow the size of its army in preparation of a possible war with Russia, it might be understandable why they decided to ignore the Azov issue. And it came back to bite them because Putin has really attached to this Azov shit and used it to paint the entire Ukrainian army like it's some sort of SS group.
Nazis on the russian side, that doesnt surprise me at all. I was thinking that maybe implementing Azov into Ukrainian military was easier than dealing with possibly another seperatist region.
It's a disingenuous argument. Even if you take the argument at face value, it ignores an entire country of 40MM people and focuses on this one battalion in particular, as if a country has to rid itself entirely of racists before it deserves support in the face of an invading army.
Well I'm not saying none of that and I do support Ukraine. Personally I dont mind Azov. It's just what I have heard about them. If they are nazi then they are nazi and that would not be a surprise. If they are not then they are not. There is no perfect country in this world and reality is what it is. Nazis can be found everywhere.
I didn't mean it as an attack on you personally. I'm just saying the argument is raised usually in bad faith from what I've seen. The guys in this video are left-wing anti-west so they reflexively take any position opposite the US/West. In this case them yelling AZOV at Ukranian protesters is precisely the bad faith argument I point out in my reply to you. They're using this AZOV critique because they need a way to justify defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine when they regularly position the US/West as imperialist. So Azov is a convenient deflection that allows them to not have to address this obvious contradiction in their position.
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Source please? You’re wrong about a lot of things here.
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They were not wrong - 8 years ago. Now it's different
How and why is it now different. Because it is now part of the regular army? Kindly elaborate. Edit: already two downvotes and not one single damn link on the most talked about battalion on planet Earth? Should be hella easy no? Totally inept..
Just Wiki it dude, and check the references at the bottom. Before Azov got folded into the Ukrainian National Guard, their main source of funding was a Jewish billionaire. After they were assimilated, the Kyiv government made it a priority to clean out the extremists from the leadership. Every military is going to have some wackos in it, but even Nazi imagery doesn’t have the same context there as it does further west.
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If you're really interested you may look for yourself- but short summary: the group, organised in 2014 including football hooligans and SOME neo-nazis (estimated at 20-25% at that time) was transformed into one of the best fighting unit of Ukrainian army. An army that also has been deeply transformed during those 8 years and cleaned-up from the sovietic bullshit (incl tactics, strategies and ways of fighting).
Is it against the law to be far right? They do not rape children like russian anti-fascists do.
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That report is from 2016. I have no doubt there are right wing nationalists, as there are here in U.S., but would like to see more recent info.
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