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.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      2311 months ago

      Yes, because the weapons are sent directly to these guys so that they can use it to exterminate Jews

      That’s exactly what’s happening.

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          2111 months ago

          Are Jews being exterminated in Ukraine?

          so-far

          Also weapons are not sent directly to battalions (incl. Nazi ones) AFAIK, they are sent to the general command who distributes them.

          It’s been confirmed (by Western news sources) that many of the weapons sent to Ukraine aren’t accounted for at all, so there’s no way to know where exactly they end up.

          I also have to dispute your point that they’re not being sent directly to battalions, since the US recently lifted the ban on supplying the Azov Battalion.

            • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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              1711 months ago

              which I think implies it’s currently happening.

              It really doesn’t. If I say ”I’m going to buy some groceries to make dinner”, there’s no implication that I’m going to start making dinner immediately.

            • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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              1911 months ago

              So you are implying that Nazis might start Jew extermination at some point.

              Do you even look back at what you write before you post it?

                • huf [he/him]
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                  1811 months ago

                  ukrainian nazis were allowed to try to ethnically cleanse eastern ukraine. the state was unable or unwilling to rein them in. the same state passed laws attempting to marginalize the native language of millions of ukrainians.

                  ukrainian nazis were very much in a position to carry out an extermination before the war. i suppose it wasnt going well enough for you to consider it a proper extermination attempt or something.

        • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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          1811 months ago

          Ukrainian Nazis seem more focused on ethnic Russians and Roma than Jews (at the moment) probably because they’re allied with the West and being too blatantly anti-Semitic could cost them NATO bucks. There’s been plenty of reporting on their attacks against Russians and Roma though.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      1811 months ago

      The Azov group has literally been reorganized into one of the major and most well equipped special forces brigades in the Ukrainian army, the same is true for all the premier units with open banderites in charge of the command structure

      The only reason you’re feigning ignorance about this is because Ukrainian state and social media isn’t readily observable in the west, so you dipshits can pretend that neo-nazism isn’t the dominant force in Ukrainian cultural and poltical life

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          1511 months ago

          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

            • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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              1611 months ago

              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

                • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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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

    • carpoftruth [any, any]M
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      1011 months ago

      The locus of nazism is ethnonationalism, racial purity, and eugenics. Killing Jews, communists, socialists, non-chosen peoples and other so called undesirables is downstream of ethnonationalism, not the other way around.

      It is not possible for me to tell if you are doing bad faith nazi apologia or if you are just ignorantly doing nazi apologia because of lifelong exposure to anticommunist brainworms. If you are actually good faith about wanting to understand fascism and nazism in ukraine then I encourage you to spend time reading the news comm and various theory about the origins and definition of nazism and fascism.

      Regardless, I am temp banning you for the time being because nazi apologism has absolutely no place on this board. If you are willing to learn, demonstrate that willingness with whatever you post in a month.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      2211 months ago

      That Nazi minority seems to end up in front of Western news cameras a lot. Weird since those new agencies have an incentive to downplay the presence of far right elements in the Ukrainian military. It’s almost like they’re so embedded in their forces that war corespondents can’t help but pick up a few dudes with SS tattoos thinking-about-it

        • Yllych [any]
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          1411 months ago

          Just wanna say I skimmed it and that essay sucks ass, Jacobin has about a 90 percent miss rate on foreign affairs

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            Interesting, why do you say that? I find it culturally distant, but I think very good points were made.

            • Yllych [any]
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              1211 months ago

              No mention of the discrimination and shelling of civilians in the east by Ukrainian government. No mention of NATO aggression since the 90s against Russia. Serious usage of the word “authoritarian” as if this is a genuine political description. Stating that the west did not want this war (?? Wtf). Dismissing off hand in the first part the very real critiqures of Ukraine and NATO as Russian propaganda. The whole thing stinks of radliberalism.

              He tries to position zelensky as a poor guy just caught between evil Russians and evil Nazis. Total bullshit. The only grain of truth is that yes, Nazis have many weapons and manpower in Ukraine. So why did Zelensky elevate them during those grand tours all around the world begging for international Patreon subscribers? These Nazis need to be liquidated, not appeased, and if Ukraine and the west is not up to the task (and why would they be? These Nazis are the only committed fighters they can throw against Russians) then Russia is going to do it. I say that as someone who does not like Putin, but as someone who can see the way that war is going.

              This guy, even if he is genuine in being a “socialist” whatever he thinks that means, does not have the correct context to understand even his own involvement in this war. He comes off as basically a liberal in all his justifications but then puts a little red fig leaf over these wrong justifications by claiming to be a “leftist”.

              What’s funny is that he mentions a “Ukrainian resistance”. I’m sure this was written in the heady days of all those “Putler is finished!” and sanction flinging. Looking back from 2024, there is no resistance and never was. Ukrainians who could rightfully got the fuck out of the country, why would they stay to die for a government that never gave them shit?

              And this part I have to laugh at, it shows how out of date even two years later this piece is.

              Any Russian success would strengthen Vladimir Putin’s regime and its reactionary tendencies. It would not mean peace, but decades of instability, guerrilla resistance in the occupied territories, and recurrent clashes on the demarcation line. It would be a disaster not only for Ukraine but also for Russia, where a reactionary political drift would intensify and the economy would suffer from sanctions, with severe consequences for ordinary civilians.

              It’s true that there would be a guerilla war if Russia occupied ethnically Ukrainian parts of Ukraine. Especially if these Nazi groups are allowed to exist. And as of July 2024, that’s not what they’re doing. Second, I just have to laugh at the part mentioning sanctions, it just brings back quaint memories. The fact is, the Russian economy has neutered the threat of sanctions and is orienting itself eastward to the detriment of Europe. No more cheap energy for German factories. But don’t worry, uncle Sam is there to help…

              As for the idea of a Ukrainian resistance mentioned there. I live in a place that recieved quite a few Ukrainians and work with a handful. To paraphrase what they’ve all said to me: “the country was fucked before 2022, with all the corruption and attending ills that come with kowtoing to the neoliberal/western order. We’re not gonna die for that, and we’re never going back.” So between the attitudes of the diaspora, and the fact that the only way for the Ukrainian army to replenish it’s manpower is by snatching people with trucks, I have to just laugh at the idea of a Ukrainian resistance that isn’t led by neo Nazis.

              Last, it’s odd that there’s an argument put forward that , because America losing in Vietnam was a good thing, that Russia should lose the Ukraine war to push back their world domination. As if the world hegemon in the 60s-70s is comparable to Russia’s regional role today. I mean if we’re being honest we can skip the mental gymnastics and say that Ukraine should lose the war, because then America will lose by proxy and that’s a good thing according to the author. They’re still the most important node in global capitalism today after all. The point he tries to make isn’t a flattering one for his own argument, and once again shows how he doesn’t understand historical context of these events. Instead he seems to have an essentially liberal lens of “small guy good, big guy bad”.

              No wonder Jacobin published that article . It ticks off all their little boxes of being pathetically aesthetically radical without actually coming to a different conclusion than that reached by the US state department.

    • huf [he/him]
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      2711 months ago

      were they also shooting in the right direction when they were attempting to ethnically cleanse ukraine of uh… ukrainians?

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        No. In fact I don’t have any respect nor any sympathy for them. That said, today I rather have then dying to push back the invasion than Ukrainian civilians forced to join the army.

        In either case, it’s not like weapons are given to them to let them do what they would do if they were completely free (thankfully), so OP argument seems invalid to me. It’s a disgrace that the West is not only not defending Palestine, but aiding Israel, but this doesn’t make it automatically wrong to arm Ukrainians. It’s not like they are not sending weapons to Gaza because they finished to send them to Ukraine.

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          incidentally, since you know so much about this, if the nazis are such a small irrelevant minority in ukraine’s govt (and they’re definitely not in power), why is it so hard to get pictures of ukrainian soldiers without nazi tattoos and nazi patches?

          oh, and why is the government full of people like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Melnyk_(diplomat)

            • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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              1611 months ago

              It’s hard to get pictures of Ukrainian army without Nazi symbols? What…?

              Perhaps they mean things like

              This

              or this

              or this

              or this

              or this

              or maybe this

            • huf [he/him]
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              2211 months ago

              i like your coy avoidance. dude’s an open banderite. that’s a nazi. that’s what i mean when i say people like him.

              so anyway, why did zelensky’s totally not a nazi government pick a blatant nazi to be one of their ambassadors? why was he not fired and buried in a pit when he displayed his naziness to the whole world? why was he just recalled and sent to another country to continue to be a nazi ambassador?

              this doesnt sound like a country that’s on top of it’s supposedly tiny nazi minority. a country that lets them shell the donbass for years, seemingly unable or unwilling to stop them. a country that seems to always picks nazis (tattoos, patches) for its army PR pictures.

              oh, and there’s this also to prove how tiny the nazi minority is in ukraine: 31% of them approve of bandera. 76% percent of those who live in western Ukraine have a positive opinion towards Bandera (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7138).

              • @[email protected]
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                111 months ago

                Firsr, I skimmed the wikipedia article you linked and I couldn’t find anything in particular you were referring to, so it’s not avoidance, I am genuinely asking questions. Second, as you know, Banderism is a phenomenon which is much more complicated than just saying “Nazi”. It is linked with nationalism ans movements to get independent from what (from their perspective) was an occupier. It’s not so clear-cut as you are suggesting, where if you celebrate Bandera you are automatically a Nazi who supports Jew extermination and poles massacres.

                Now, I don’t know if this guy is an actual Nazi or " just" a nationalist, or something else, or what his story is and why he is in the government, but being a Banderist doesn’t automatically translate to being a Nazi in the sense we give it in the west (oppression of minorities, antisemitism etc.).

                So I guess I would challenge the foundation of your argument about the relationship between Bandera support and Nazism support. The more nationalists in Ukraine for sure see Bandera as a sort of “hero”, but mostly due to the impact on Ukraine liberation, not due to the (brief) alliance with Nazis (which was also opportunistic). I am sure you will disagree here, but history is complicated, and trust me, I have to overcome some of my own bias as an Italian, which means I have obviously a completely different perspective of WWII history. I simply can’t splash my own Western morality (based on our own shared history) on top of people and cultures that lived through a completely different history. So what you are saying to me sounds a complete simplification that disregards history and background for the population you are talking about.

                a country that lets them shell the donbass for years

                I definitely do not agree with Ukraine handling the Donbass question. That said, I hardly think that letting them shell donbass has to do with supporting Nazi views and not simply supporting the general goal of taking back control of occupied regions (we can discuss about Russian influence\russian sponsored coup\self determination of the people another time, here I am simply capturing the perspective of the Ukrainian government - right or wrong).

            • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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              2011 months ago

              but Nazi parties are still a super tiny minority (like Right Sector) and so are the Nazi battalions who got incorporated into the army

              lol, peak liberal brain. These heavily-armed Nazi groups are incorporated into the army and people don’t vooooooooooot for them, surely they have no power.

                • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                  1311 months ago

                  If someone claims that Nazism is basically mainstream culture, then it only makes sense to see that reflected into elected parties

                  You do realize the parties “elected” are the one pushing Banderism and approving the incorporation of neo-nazi militias into high ranking positions in the police abd military, the fuckin Azov militias are literally a special forces bridgade now, you think that happens without goverment sanction? A party doesn’t have to call itself the New Nazi Jew Killer party to be a nazi party, Zelensky’s party is a nazi party

                • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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                  1411 months ago

                  They basically already did in 2014 with US backing, see that one video where an Ukronazi is gloating about how even though all the Western media talked about was how Nazis were a minority in Euromaidan, without them it would’ve been ”like a gay parade” (his words).

                  Even if the Nazis are a relatively small portion of the population, they have lots of weapons and have been training (including indoctrinating children as reported by Western media) for years, it’s not exactly far fetched to say they can use the threat of violence get their way.

        • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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          1711 months ago

          The point was that you were too dumb to have a conversation with, not that lemm.ee users can’t come here. There are many lemm.ee users that have intelligent insights and comments and you are not one of them.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            Oh I see. Not sure there is much point in discussing that you don’t want to discuss…

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into unfortunately.

          • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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            1311 months ago

            What’s the logic of attempting to ethically cleanse millions of Russian speaking Ukrainians while arming and incorporating dozens of neo-nazis militias into the state military while giving them special forces status and pay?

        • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2511 months ago

          Now, anything you care to say about the actual discussion, or you’d rather waste some more bytes and corresponding CO2 emissions on personal meaningless attacks, first?

          pigpoop

          • @[email protected]
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            411 months ago

            Nice emoji. Is there some hidden message or it’s literally just a waste of bytes like this comment?

              • @[email protected]
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                111 months ago

                I liked even the other one TBH. That said, I don’t feel you are contributing much to the discussion. It’s not mandatory to do so, despite how much I enjoy the fun emojis.

                • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                  1411 months ago

                  lmao you’re not discussing anything, you’re just engaging in delusional nazi apologetics and whining about emojis, you’re a joke you get that right?