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What Is Ukraine’s Azov Battalion?
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Posted on 03/21/2022 5:47:48 PM PDT by navysealdad

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing military violence and instability have mobilized far-right extremists, playing into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda about “neo-Nazis” running the country as justification for invading Ukraine.

In a speech given just before Russia launched its ongoing attack on Ukraine, Putin justified what he described as a “special military operation.

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To: jacknhoo

My thoughts exactly. No need to read further.


41 posted on 03/21/2022 6:52:34 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: buwaya

Thank you for correcting my spelling of “Mein Kampf”.

My point is that I don’t think the Azov are Anti-Jewish. If you think that that makes them not “Nazis” I tend to agree. I can see, however, how they might adopt the insignia and admire the military strength of the only force their grandparents had seen that sent the Russian Communists running.

I would expect that there are many there with personal family histories of atrocities committed by Stalin’s goons.


42 posted on 03/21/2022 6:53:44 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: navysealdad

Snopes? Come on man. Even Corn Pop stays away from Snopes.


43 posted on 03/21/2022 6:55:05 PM PDT by dforest
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To: navysealdad

So, tweeting a video of a soldier coating bullets in pig fat is beyond the Pale, but Chechens, invading another country, “liberating” a village, raping the women and slaughtering everyone is okay, Snopes?


44 posted on 03/21/2022 6:58:00 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ifinnegan

“ Yes. Pass.

Azov are Nazis.

Their rivals are Communists.”

Prior to Russia’s invasion it is thought the number of Azov Battalion “fighters” might add up to about 700 people.

Nazi’s and Communists are rivals, in the rich traditions of how different variants of Marxism fight each other for supremacy.


45 posted on 03/21/2022 6:58:53 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: jacknhoo

The “Ukraine on Fire” vid has WWI 1939- 1945. Yeah.

Too sloppy.


46 posted on 03/21/2022 7:13:28 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: navysealdad

Mien liben !

Vee vill turn das logo like zo, zen svitch zee colors und zee dumkoffs vill not notice a zing !

Jawhol !!

47 posted on 03/21/2022 7:16:58 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: navysealdad

First, it is a regiment now and who said they weren’t mobilized before Putin?


48 posted on 03/21/2022 7:17:13 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: buwaya

Good grief, are you serious?

1. Zelenskyy has banned the activities of 11 opposition parties.

2. Zelenskyy perpetrated arrest of his predecessor in reckless attempt to silence political opposition in defiance of court order (January).

3. Zelenskyy disbanded all privately owned Ukrainian media outlets and “nationalized” ALL news sources under single governmental control (”United News”.)

There are more examples of not a democratic leader but, rather, an authoritarian dictator.


49 posted on 03/21/2022 7:39:39 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: MAGAthon

more Kolomoyski:

23 April 2019: Youtube 4m49s: Zelenskiy’s Oligarch Connection
posted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy is campaigning as an outsider who will clean up politics, but he’s backed by one of the country’s richest men. (With reporting by AP, AFP, and Reuters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgli7TpINw


50 posted on 03/21/2022 7:39:58 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Jane Long

Think I’ll pass on Lara Logan.

Power of the press is easily abused and a journalist reporter has to be careful how to use it. If you could characterize Logan: she appears to be one that if you could buy her for what she IS worth, & sell her for what she THINKS she is worth, you would be a billionaire!

-Glenn Greenwald, wrote that Logan’s segment was an example of what journalism had “degenerated into”

-On 26 November 2013, Logan was forced to take a leave of absence due to the errors in the Benghazi report. Al Ortiz, Executive Director of Standards and Practices for CBS News, wrote in a memo, “Logan made a speech in which she took a strong public position arguing that the U.S. Government was misrepresenting the threat from Al Qaeda, and urging actions that the U.S. should take in response to the Benghazi attack. From a CBS News Standards perspective, there is a conflict in taking a public position on the government’s handling of Benghazi and Al Qaeda, while continuing to report on the story.”

-She joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right-wing media group. Since then, Logan has tweeted right-wing conspiracy theories, such as “speculating” that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her election to office because of some unspecified plot operated by unknown entities Logan believes control antifa activists.

-On 31 May 2020, Logan tweeted a picture, which she claimed was an antifa riot instruction manual. The picture actually was an updated hoax dating to the 2015 Baltimore riots.

-On 1 June, Logan tweeted a threat by the @ANTIFA_US Twitter account. The account turned out to be fake and linked to Identity Evropa, a white nationalist organization. After being criticized for posting the hoaxes, Logan claimed that there was a campaign to “destroy” her!

-Logan compared NIAID director Anthony Fauci to the Nazi Josef Mengele Several prominent Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Auschwitz Museum, condemned her remarks.

- Soooo, Logan subsequently retweeted criticisms of the Auschwitz Museum!


51 posted on 03/21/2022 7:58:19 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: All
RUSSIAN NAZIS Congress of RNU Alexei Milchakov from a neo-Nazi St. Petersburg organization “Rusich”.
52 posted on 03/21/2022 8:11:20 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: All

ADDENDUM:

Russian National Unity: Members wear black and camouflage uniforms; the group adopted a red and white modified swastika emblem, openly expressed admiration for German national socialism and publicly celebrated the rise of the Nazis.

Among fighters for Russia are Russian nationalists extremists and neo-Nazis activists supported by the Russian government and criminals wanted by Russian police.

During the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Barkashov led RNU fighters in their defense of the Russian White House against Boris Yeltsin‘s forces.

In 2014, when the war in Donbas started, many of RNU members joined pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.

Back then the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense stated a telephone conversation of Barkashov and a local Donetsk activist Boitsov was intercepted. Reportedly Barkashov said to Boitsov that he could call off the referendum on independence of the territory.

Barkashov said that it is not necessary to perform referendum the legit way. He said that in the end no one would care about it. All that Boitsov has to do is to write whatever he finds suitable. If he wants, he can say that 99% of people voted for joining Russia.


53 posted on 03/21/2022 8:11:56 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

“They want to kill Communists/Russians, but I doubt they’re pining for a return of Hitler.”

My take, too.

‘Just watched two hours of Kyiv’s celebrating 30 years of Ukraine independence.

Miles of armored divisions, navy, Marines, national guard, air, female army (happy to be there), security, flag-hoisting ceremony, plus representative squads of NATO military (Poland, Latvia, US, Estonia, Canada, Rumania, Lithuania, others).

No neo-Nazi presence, or snappy uniforms.

Ukraine very big on ceremony, anthem, Orthodox priests lining the streets, and fly-overs—much-dupicated militarism from Brezhnev-era military practice.


54 posted on 03/21/2022 8:21:52 PM PDT by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Think I’ll pass on Lara Logan.


You go right ahead and side with THE LEFT, who are ironically ALSO wanting to ignore Lara Logan.

I think I’ll pass on your being hoodwinked by a globalist war goading, that practically mimicks the way the FRAUDci PlanDEMIc was unleashed. SAME playbook, same players…..who Lara correctly calls out, btw. But, you keep supporting these globalist/WEF/OpenBorders/OpenSociety players and their puppet.

Here are a few more articles you might like….from several of YOUR approved links/sources…

Israel: Knesset members call Zelensky’s invocation of Holocaust ‘outrageous,’ ‘bordering on Holocaust denial’

https://robertspencer.org/2022/03/israel-knesset-members-call-zelenskys-invocation-of-holocaust-outrageous-bordering-on-holocaust-denial

Biden Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “There’s Going to be a New World Order Out There and We’ve Gotta Lead It” (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/biden-says-quiet-part-loud-going-new-world-order-gotta-lead-video/

Biden: ‘There’s Going to Be a New World Order’.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/21/biden-theres-going-to-be-a-new-world-order/

Neocon ‘Bulwark’ Blog Lies About J.D. Vance ‘Cancellation’ After Senate Candidate Dismisses ‘Ukraine First’ Ideology.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/21/neocon-bulwark-blog-lies-about-j-d-vance-cancellation-after-senate-candidate-dismisses-ukraine-first-ideology/

STEW PETERS SHOW
Vaxxed Mind Control? Zombies Advocate For WWIII With Russia to Save Zelensky’s Fake Democracy

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/03/vaxxed-mind-control-zombies-advocate-for-wwiii-with-russia-to-save-zelenskys-fake-democracy/

Again, these are just a few of your own favored sources….obviously not buying what you, the UniParty/NWO pushers are selling.

Have a good evening.


55 posted on 03/21/2022 8:27:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Jane Long

Jane get over to Revolver News and read the article posted today by Darren Beatty, NOTHING explains what is going on better than this article!! GREAT READ!!


56 posted on 03/21/2022 8:30:29 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: traderrob6

1. Ukraine plans to ban 11 political parties with ties to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in a video released via Telegram on Sunday. Driving the news: “Any activity of politicians aimed at splitting or collaborating will not succeed,” Zelensky said.

2. Prosecutors in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government had asked the court to arrest Mr. Poroshenko pending trial on charges of treason and supporting terrorism. He was released on his own recognizance.

3. Ukraine: Zelenskiy has signed decrees banning pro-Russian media outlets. The broadcasters had their licences revoked and are set to stay off the air for the next five years.


57 posted on 03/21/2022 8:35:02 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: navysealdad
For years, the media has exposed the Azov battalion is neo-Nazi. For example, from the UK Guardian in 2014:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis

"I have nothing against Russian nationalists, or a great Russia," said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a machine gunner positioned in the back. "But Putin's not even a Russian. Putin's a Jew."

Dmitry – which he said is not his real name – is a native of east Ukraine and a member of the Azov battalion, a volunteer grouping that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war with pro-Russia separatists. The Azov, one of many volunteer brigades to fight alongside the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, has developed a reputation for fearlessness in battle.

But there is an increasing worry that while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state, when the conflict in the east is over. The Azov causes particular concern due to the far right, even neo-Nazi, leanings of many of its members.

Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a military leader, and believes the Holocaust never happened. Not everyone in the Azov battalion thinks like Dmitry, but after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views

58 posted on 03/21/2022 8:39:20 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Can you post the link?

I saw that Beattie was on War Room, this morning, but...had company and it was on mute, for that segment.

Was it this one?

https://www.revolver.news/2022/03/america-first-sean-hannity-problem/


59 posted on 03/21/2022 8:40:30 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: navysealdad
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/22/facebook-condemned-for-hosting-neo-nazi-network-with-uk-links

Facebook condemned for hosting neo-Nazi network with UK links

A white supremacist network with more than 80,000 followers and links to the UK far right, including a student charged with terrorist offences, is being hosted by Facebook and Instagram, putting the world’s largest social media company under fresh pressure to tackle extremism.

The network, which includes more than 40 neo-Nazi sites, offers merchandise including NaziSS symbols and stickers praising Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager under investigation for shooting dead two Black Lives Matter protesters in Wisconsin in August.

According to the London-based Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), sales of the products fund two neo-Nazi extremist movements operating from Ukraine: Azov Battalion and Misanthropic Division. A number of UK far-right activists are believed to have been recruited by Azov Battalion to fight in the conflict in Ukraine.

60 posted on 03/21/2022 8:42:19 PM PDT by Kazan
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