Don't know where they got the image, looks like someone's stock WWII photo. They are using it to equate the Georgian military with the SS. It works if your a liberal.
Don't know where they got the image, looks like someone's stock WWII photo. They are using it to equate the Georgian military with the SS. It works if your a liberal.
Well the dude on this photo is a WW2 Waffen-SS Soldier. Looks like a Reenactor to me (guys that dress up in uniforms for wargame events).
Russia destroying military bases in Georgia
Georgia sent Alexander Lomaia, the secretary of the country's National Security Mission, to negotiate with the Russian troops holding Gori...
Mr Lomaia then met a Russian colonel, who, in an apparent drunken rage, railed incoherently at western correspondents.
Mr Lomaia tried to reason with him. "There's no need to shout at the correspondents," he said quietly. "Why don't we go and sit in the car...."
Meanwhile, South Ossetian irregulars continuing to loot and pillage in Gori and nearby Georgian villages, often with the encouragement of Russian troops.
"Take whatever you want," a Russian officer shouted at the Ossetian militiamen in one village.
Fears of Balkans-style reprisals by South Ossetian fighters have grown since they entered Georgian territory after the ceasefire was agreed.
Human Rights Watch accused Russia of inflaming the mood of the irregulars by exaggerating the number of civilian deaths in the secessionist province of South Ossetia since Georgia attempted to win back the region last Friday."
I agree, that looks like a re-enactor photo. Check out the Stg-45 (Sturmgewehr) - though that might actually be a non-functional copy of the granddaddy of all assault rifles.