There’s an excellent write up by Sauropod, https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4055507/posts?page=6#6
which I am excepting below
“There is no “Nazi” AZOV Bde as many on FR are parroting. As a matter of record, for this fight, (right or wrong, and while hated, and with pre-known Putin propaganda value), realizing they were on the precipice of another (historically the 6th RU related invasion) full scale invasion, UA “stood up several new Brigades. UA took roughly 2100 UA Guard and ordered the integration of the infamous 350-400 Azov NAZI BN.
You can argue it was wrong to integrate the “Azov BN” into a new “stood-up” Bde, but you cannot argue this is a neo-Nazi Bde. To borrow a medical term, to do so is not “clinical” (factual), and is an emotionally driven and false mis-characterization of the roughly 2100 hundred UA Army Guard regulars comprising 4/5’s of this Bde.
Additionally, many on Freerepublic continue to regurgitate patently false information as to how Eastern UA was truly orchestrated by Russia, and the available related detail. As well, the same strategies have been utilized by KGB/FSB and GRU in many countries, past and present.
— The false narrative spawns The false narrative as to what is actually well understood as UNKNOWN casualty counts from Eastern Ukraine, which are truly divided, as Russia and Russian backed forces have also killed thousands of actual Ukrainian’s, and there has been a dynamic displacement of well over 1.5 Million Eastern Ukrainian people, often having their small farms and homes stripped away. This has happened both from within Russian controlled areas, and along the slowly Westward pressing “Line of Contact”.
Might as well stop reading right there.
You are in denial. That simple.
To each their own brother, watch who and what you follow, that’s all i am gonna say, you and I are actually on the same side, that’s the way i see it, blessings to you and your loved ones!
“De-Nazification was only mostly if not solely an excuse used by Putin. To think otherwise is to think that he would be willing to attempt to take over and occupy the entire Ukraine, which would be required and at a cost he is not willing to bear.
His more likely objective, which he has largely achieved is to push back against the West’s/NATO encroachment on Russia’s security, which he has perceived has been going on for a while now and can be reasonably argued.
Putin currently controls large swaths of eastern Ukraine which may be his bottom line objective.
Ukrainian Nazism isn’t limited to the AZOV brigade. There’s also the Aider brigade and many others. Soldiers captured during the Mariupol surrenders last week reported that AZOV Nazis were embedded throughout the Ukrainian military at the officer level which is preventing mass surrenders. Those UA soldiers that managed to surrender were only able to after their AZOV elements were fragged. The heritage of the regular Ukrainian army has deep ties to Stepan Bandera, Ukraine’s George Washington-Adolf Hitler “father of the nation.” The point is that Ukraine as a nation is deeply immersed in Nazism and without their treasured Nazism and Russophobia, the cohesion of the nation would collapse. Their anti-Russian xenophobia is a very significant part of their national identity whereas other nations measure themselves by their achievements . The Nazi nature of Ukraine was widely and deeply discussed throughout the western media prior to this war (especially in 2014 to 2021). Once again, Big Tech and Big Media manipulated truth and sent all of this down the memory hole in 2022 in order to manufacture consent for World War III. The sad fact is the west needs World War III because our moral and spiritual corruption and economic end is upon us NOW.
I thought this interview would interest you
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216526.html