Posted on 04/02/2022 7:31:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Following increased scrutiny of the Ukranian army after videos surfaced showing torture of Russian soldiers by the notorious Azov battalion {Go Deep}, CNN writes an article saying that not all Nazis are bad Nazis.
The article would normally be embarrassing for the same media outlet that has criticized their political opposition as “right-wing extremists” and “Nazis”; however, given the nature of CNN needing to promote the interests of the U.S. State Department, it is not surprising.
(VIA CNN) – President Vladimir Putin framed the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “special mission” to protect Russian speakers from genocide at the hands of ”neo-Nazis.” […] For the Kremlin, Exhibit A in this special mission is the far-right Azov movement, part of the military and political landscape in Ukraine for nearly a decade.
Azov’s military and political wings formally separated in 2016, when the far-right National Corps party was founded. The Azov battalion had by then been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard.
An effective fighting force that’s very much involved in the current conflict, the battalion has a history of neo-Nazi leanings, which have not been entirely extinguished by its integration into the Ukrainian military.
In its heyday as an autonomous militia, the Azov Battalion was associated with White supremacists and neo-Nazi ideology and insignia. It was especially active in and around Mariupol in 2014 and 2015. CNN teams in the area at the time reported Azov’s embrace of neo-Nazi emblems and paraphernalia.
As long as the west supports the Nazis to advance their political interests, western media support Nazis. As soon as the Ukraine conflict is settled, apparently it will be ok to go back to criticizing Nazis – or something.
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Sure, let me listen to “Sundance”.
Western oligarchs will appropriate nazi ideology the minute they think it serves their plan for the planet. All they need are some new icons & snappy, updated uniforms.
I’m sure your much more comfortable listening to Chuck.
Nazi terrorists will outright murder people, while nazi civilians won’t murder but will secretly cheer the murder.
Back during the Saint Trayvon Martin hoopla, Sundance was about the only one that got the story right.
Just HOW DAMN MANY NAZIS are there in UKRAINE?
I guess you understand that there really are people in the conservative movement who support the Russians like this Sundance character. I for one grew up fearing Russia. I do not want to go back to a renegade Russian bully and thug. I thought we were done with it in the breakup of the Soviet Union. I guess we were wrong. I recently read an article by Richard Nixon where he warned after the breakup and when we thought we were clear of that chapter that we needed to fear a resurgence of Russian nationalism. He was right.
If you want to see Neo-Nazis, walk through an Oklahoma prison.
As many as 2.7 million:
NBC....NOTHING but CRAP, WHY are just now hearing about NAZI’S.
Oh, I don't know ... the original uniforms were very stylish, and basic black is very slimming, you know ...
About as many as there are "White Supremacists" in the U.S.- a couple of dozen.
There are many FReepers who support the Soviets and Putin.
Putin uses the term “Nazis” to incite western revulsion toward Ukraine after watching for 4 years how the term crippled the US Government. Oddly enough, there are folks in here who are triggered by it as well.
Several long articles have been posted in here regarding the Azov Battalion and its Jewish members, as well as the history of the unit.
The Putin fans in here forget that the Soviets invaded Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea in 2014 during the Obama years and turned those areas into Russian Mafia controlled hell zones. Ukraine has been fighting them since to reclaim those parts of their nation.
Amazing how these same people scream about our southern border being overrun by invaders, but when it happens to another country with armed paramilitaries its ok.
Azovs were not torturing the Russian troops; they were crippling them so they couldn’t escape and get back in the fight. Better they should have killed them?
Some Ukrainians here agree.
So you hate "Russians?" or do you hate Communism? FYI - Communism in the Soviet Union ended 30 years ago. Also, by the way, the US Deep state is now far more far more ideological, and far more globalist, far more interventionist than Russia is. WE are the (neo) marxists now.
“There are many FReepers who support the Soviets and Putin.”
Most of us think he sucks. But we know the Biden gang does.
So using your logic; “There are many FReepers who support the communists, the deep state, the sexual deviants, and the destruction of the US by siding with them and their media agents here every day.”
LOL
Really? Please understand, your emotions do not constitute fact.
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