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List of signatories in published article with those 300 international historians.

https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/345515/statement-on-the-war-in-ukraine-by-scholars-of-genocide-nazism-and-world-war-ii/

list of signatories.)

Eugene Finkel, Johns Hopkins University

Izabella Tabarovsky, Washington D.C.

Aliza Luft, University of California-Los Angeles

Teresa Walch, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Jared McBride, University of California-Los Angeles

Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center

Andrea Ruggeri, University of Oxford

Steven Seegel, University of Texas at Austin

Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine

Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anna Hájková, University of Warwick

Omer Bartov, Brown University

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Christoph Dieckmann, Frankfurt am Main

Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Waitman Wade Beorn, Northumbria University

Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland

Timothy Snyder, Yale University

Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan

Hana Kubátová, Charles University

Leslie Waters, University of Texas at El Paso

Norman J.W. Goda, University of Florida

Jazmine Conteras, Goucher College

Laura J. Hilton, Muskingum University

Katarzyna Person, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

Tarik Cyril Amar, Koc University

Sarah Grandke, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial/denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof Hamburg

Jonathan Leader Maynard, King’s College London

Chad Gibbs, College of Charleston

Janine Holc, Loyola University Maryland

Erin Hochman, Southern Methodist University

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University Chicago

David Hirsh, Goldsmiths, University of London

Richard Breitman, American University (Emeritus)

Astrid M. Eckert, Emory University

Anna Holian, Arizona State University

Uma Kumar, University of British Columbia

Frances Tanzer, Clark University

Victoria J. Barnett, US Holocaust Memorial Museum (retired)

David Seymour, City University of London

Jeff Jones, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

András Riedlmayer Harvard University (retired)

Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware

Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University

Anne E. Parsons, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Carole Lemee, Bordeaux University

Scott Denham, Davidson College

Emanuela Grama, Carnegie Mellon University

Christopher R. Browning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (emeritus)

Katrin Paehler, Illinois State University

Raphael Utz, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin

Emre Sencer, Knox College

Stefan Ihrig, University of Haifa

Jeff Rutherford, Xavier University

Jason Hall, The University of Haifa

Christian Ingrao, CNRS École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CESPRA Paris

Hannah Wilson, Nottingham Trent University

Jan Lanicek, University of New South Wales

Edward B. Westermann, Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Maris Rowe-McCulloch, University of Regina

Joanna B. Michlic, University College London

Raul Carstocea, Maynooth University

Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton

Christina Morina, Universität Bielefeld

Abbey Steele, University of Amsterdam

Erika Hughes, University of Portsmouth

Lukasz Krzyzanowski, University of Warsaw

Agnieszka Wierzcholska, German Historical Institute, Paris

Martin Cüppers, University of Stuttgart

Matthew Kupfer, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Martin Kragh, Uppsala University

Umit Kurt, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

Meron Mendel, Frankfurt University of Applied Science, Anne Frank Center Frankfurt

Nazan Maksudyan, FU Berlin / Centre Marc Bloch

Emanuel-Marius Grec, University of Heidelberg

Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia University

Jan Zbigniew Grabowski, University of Ottawa

Dirk Moses, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amber N. Nickell, Fort Hays State University

Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Wuppertal University

Thomas Kühne, Clark University

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Appalachian State University

Amos Morris-Reich, Tel Aviv University

Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Northwestern University

Donatello Aramini, Sapienza University, Rome

Ofer Ashkenazi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Roland Clark, University of Liverpool

Mirjam Zadoff, University of Munich & Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism

John Barruzza, Syracuse University

Cristina A. Bejan, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Isabel Sawkins, University of Exeter

Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania

Norbert Frei, University of Jena

Stéfanie Prezioso, Université de Lausanne

Olindo De Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Eli Nathans, Western University

Eugenia Mihalcea, University of Haifa

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Purdue University

Sergei I. Zhuk, Ball State University

Paola S. Salvatori, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa – Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Antonio Ferrara, Independent Scholar

Verena Meier, Forschungsstelle Antiziganismus, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Frédéric Bonnesoeur, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin

Sara Halpern, St. Olaf College

Irina Nastasa-Matei, University of Bucharest

Michal Aharony, University of Haifa

Michele Sarfatti, Fondazione CDEC Milano

Frank Schumacher, The University of Western Ontario

Thomas Weber, University of Aberdeen

Elizabeth Drummond, Loyola Marymount University

Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

​​Sayantani Jana, University of Southern California

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Fairfield University

Snježana Koren, University of Zagreb

Brunello Mantelli, University of Turin and University of Calabria

Carl Müller-Crepon, University of Oxford

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, Freie Universität Berlin

Amy Sjoquist, Northwest University

Sebastian Vîrtosu, Universitatea Națională de Arte “G. Enescu”

Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University

Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan

Antoinette Saxer, University of York

Alon Confino, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Corry Guttstadt, University of Hamburg

Vadim Altskan, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Evan B. Bukey, University of Arkansas

Elliot Y Neaman, University of San Francisco

Rebecca Wittmann, University of Toronto Mississauga

Benjamin Rifkin, Hofstra University

Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland

Walter Reich, George Washington University

Jay Geller, Case Western Reserve University

Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union

Francesco Zavatti, Södertörn University

Eliyana R. Adler, The Pennsylvania State University

Laura María Niewöhner, Bielefeld University

Elena Amaya, University of California-Berkeley

Markus Roth, Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt

Brandon Bloch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monica Osborne, The Jewish Journal

Benjamin Hett, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Volker Weiß, Independent Scholar

Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Svetlana Suveica, University of Regensburg

Todd Heidt, Knox College

Volha Bartash, University of Regensburg

Jakub Drábik, Slovak Academy of Sciences

David Hamann, Freie Universität Berlin

Matthew Kott, Uppsala University

Piotr H. Kosicki, University of Maryland, College Park

Ole Frahm, Independent Scholar

Carlo Gentile, University of Cologne

Mihaela Serban, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Doina Anca Cretu, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Peter Gross, The University of Tennessee

Anna Ullrich, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich

Benjamin Grilj, Institut für Jüdische Geschichte Österreichs

Harry C. Merritt, Amherst College

Richard Steigmann-Gall, Kent State University

Mats Deland, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall

Judith Vöcker, University of Leicester

Florian Kührer-Wielach, IKGS at LMU München

Hikmet Karcic, University of Sarajevo

Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University

Mikko Ketola University of Helsinki

Gerald J. Steinacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Charlotte Schallié, University of Victoria

Peter Davies, University of Edinburgh

Laurien Vastenhout, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam

Dave Rich, Birkbeck, University of London

Magdalena Marsovszky, Independent Scholar

Susanne Heim, Freie Universität Berlin

Sarah Rembiszewski, Tel Aviv University

Giovanna D’Amico, Università degli Studi di Messina

Susanne Urban, University of Marburg

Anika Walke, Washington University in St. Louis

Martin Clemens Winter, Leipzig University

Alexander Korb, University of Leicester

Tobias Freimüller, Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main

Polina Sparks, Manchester

Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sascha Feuchert, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Henning Borggraefe, Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution

Sarah Jewett, London School of Economics and Political Science

Charlotte Kitzinger, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen

Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College

Miriam F. Elman, Syracuse University

Bill Niven, Nottingham Trent University

Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University (emeritus)

Raisa Ostapenko, Sorbonne University

Don H. Doyle, University of South Carolina

Donna Robinson Divine, Smith College and University of Haifa

Moritz Föllmer, University of Amsterdam

Lidia Zessin-Jurek, Czech Academy of Sciences

Jayne Persian, University of Southern Queensland

Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

Judith Wechsler, Tufts University

Gerald Steinberg, Political Science, Bar Ilan University

Yanina Di Croce, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Jamie L. Wraight, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

Zigmas Vitkus, University of Klaipėda

Alana Holland, American University

Kobi Kabalek, Penn State University

Anika Binsch, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen

Kurt Tweraser, University of Arkansas

Ilan Troen, Ben-Gurion University

Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University

Helen Epstein, Independent Scholar

Nicholas Terry, University of Exeter

Gayle Zachmann, University of Florida

Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron

Andrei S. Markovits, University of Michigan

Wolfgang Freund, Universite du Luxembourg

Jeffrey Blutinger, California State University, Long Beach

Joanna Sliwa, Independent Scholar

John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta

Philippe Blasen, Romanian Academy, Iasi

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Indiana University

Samuel Miner, University of Dayton

Christopher Gilley, The Wiener Holocaust Library

Günther Jikeli, Indiana University

Rena Molho, Independent Scholar

Srdja Pavlovic, Wirth Institute. University of Alberta

Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel, Utrecht University

Goldie Morgentaler, University of Lethbridge

Trevor Erlacher, University of Pittsburgh

Sol Neely, Heritage University

Hans-Rudolf Meier, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Theron Snell, Independent Scholar

Daniel Jonah Wolpert, University of Cambridge

LF Graf Chodkiewicz Chudzikiewicz, International Research Institute, Macon, Georgia

Olga Karasik-Updike, Kazan Federal University and Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Paul Garfinkel, Simon Fraser University

Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University

Claire Aubin, University of Edinburgh

Federica Pannocchia, Un ponte per Anne Frank

Thomas Schad, Humboldt University Berlin

Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University

Martin Jander, Berlin Campus of Stanford University

Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College

Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University

Moshe Zimmermann, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Anna Lipphardt, Universität Freiburg

Sybille Steinbacher, Fritz Bauer Institut

Christopher Smith, Coventry University

James Bjork, King’s College London

Michaela Pohl, Vassar College

David N. Myers, UCLA

Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, University of Oregon

Franziska Exeler, University of Cambridge and Free University Berlin

Mark Harrison, University of Warwick

Magda Teter, Fordham University

Hershy Orenstein, International School of Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem

Charlie Laderman, King’s College, London

Karin Kvist Geverts, The Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden

Alvin Rosenfeld, Weill Cornell Medical College

Harold Marcuse, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sarah Cramsey, Leiden University

Michel Gherman Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Bobbi Zahra, Independent Scholar

Rabbi Jeanette Friedman Sieradski

Paradise Valley, PA

Darcy Buerkle, Smith College

Melissa Kravetz, Longwood University

Gareth Pritchard, University of Adelaide

Gail Erlick Robinson, University of Toronto

Dominic Williams, Northumbria University

Ido de Haan, Utrecht University

Emanuel Plopeanu, Ovidius University, Constanța

Alti Rodal, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Vanni D’Alessio, University of Naples Federico II

Daniel Rickenbacher, University of Basel

Stéphane Bruchfeld, Uppsala University

Joanna Ostrowska, Independent Scholar

Irina Shikhova, Chisinau, Moldova.

Karel Berkhoff, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam

Georgiy Kasianov, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Michael Becker, University of Jena, Germany

Ana Bărbulescu, Institutul Național pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România “Elie Wiesel”

Janine Fubel, Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin

Anton Weiss-Wendt, Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies

Adina Babesh-Fruchter, KU Leuven

Andreas Körber, Universität Hamburg

Joshua Shanes, College of Charleston

Anne Lepper, Free University Berlin

Sebastian Weitkamp, Esterwegen Memorial

Martin Koers, Esterwegen Memorial

Andrej Umansky, Georgetown University

Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane, Independent Scholar

Ray Brandon, Independent Scholar, Berlin

Carol A Bernstein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Silke von der Emde, Vassar College

Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville

Franziska Koch, University of Potsdam

Wendy Lower, Claremont McKenna College

Anette Homlong Storeide, Falstadsenteret/Memorial Falstad Centre

Benjamin Lapp, Montclair State University

Carlos Alberto Haas, Ludwig Maximilian University

Jeanette Friedman Sieradski, Independent Scholar

Antonella Tiburzi, University of Bolzano

Marco Carynnyk, Independent Scholar

Sandra Alfers, Western Washington University

Elena Makarova, Independent Scholar

Shulamit S. Magnus, Oberlin College

Mikhail Edelstein, Moscow State University

Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University

1 posted on 05/06/2022 8:18:38 PM PDT by Kevmo
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To: Zhang Fei

for the Ukraine ping list


2 posted on 05/06/2022 8:19:57 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Kevmo

I can probably find a list of 300 historians who disagree with these guys. Like the 7000 scientists who Clinton and Al Gore claimed Global warming is a creation of man using fossil fuels.

Sorry, but the left has destroyed my trust in any list of so-called experts who want me to believe they are right on what they want me to believe.

Not saying I think what Putin is doing is OK, nor if he is wrong. Until we get the idiot in the WH who created this mess out of office, and replace the Chico goons running things, these lists of so-called historians can literally kiss my gritz!.


5 posted on 05/06/2022 8:30:55 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Kevmo

300!!!! well, shit that settles it.


8 posted on 05/06/2022 8:35:13 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Kevmo
OOPS!

I can probably find a list of 300 historians who disagree with these guys. Like the 7000 scientists who Clinton and Al Gore claimed Global warming is a creation of man using fossil fuels.

Sorry, but the left has destroyed my trust in any list of so-called experts who want me to believe they are right on what they want me to believe.

Not saying I think what Putin is doing is OK, nor if he is wrong. Until we get the idiot in the WH who created this mess out of office, and replace the Chico Chicom goons running things, these lists of so-called historians can literally kiss my gritz!

Fixed

10 posted on 05/06/2022 8:36:24 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Kevmo
Here we go again -- an attempt to whitewash what was even in question in 2018. And, we're supposed to take the word of left-wing professors this time. It's absurd.

In 2018, Congress denied funding to the Azov battalion, who are the frontline fighters in this war for Ukraine. Why? Because of their neo-Nazi ties:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis/

A little-noticed provision in the 2,232-page government spending bill passed last week bans U.S. arms from going to a controversial ultranationalist militia in Ukraine that has openly accepted neo-Nazis into its ranks.

House-passed spending bills for the past three years have included a ban on U.S. aid to Ukraine from going to the Azov Battalion, but the provision was stripped out before final passage each year.

This year, though, the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law last week stipulates that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”

“White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), an outspoken critic of providing lethal aid to Ukraine, said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday. “I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine.”

And, let's not forget the Ukrainians have named streets after and built monuments to Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukrainian-capital-names-streets-nazi-collaborators-66968503

The Ukrainian Jewish Committee's director has harshly criticized a decision by the Ukrainian capital's legislature to name streets after Nazi collaborators.

Eduard Dolinsky said the Kyiv city council ruled Tuesday to name a city street after Ivan Pavlenko, whom he described as a Nazi collaborator and war criminal. Dolinsky said on Facebook Wednesday that Pavlenko led a Ukrainian unit involved in the killing of tens of thousands of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine.

Dolinsky said that the city legislators also named another Kyiv street after Nil Khasevich, an activist of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who drew anti-Semitic cartoons and was involved in mass killings of Poles during World War II.

Dolinsky described the city council's move as an insult to Holocaust victims. The Ukrainian authorities had no immediate reaction.

And, how sick are the Ukrainians -- children are taught to sing songs about Bandera:

https://thenewsglory.com/in-ukraine-first-graders-sang-a-song-about-bandera/

A video began to spread on the Web where Ukrainian first-graders in embroidered shirts sing a song about Stepan Bandera, one of the main initiators of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, banned in Russia). The video with children was published on October 25 by the Vesti.ua Telegram channel.

It is noted that with the help of the video, first-graders from the Ternopil school joined the TikTok challenge and sang the song “Our Father Bandera, Ukraine is Mother”).

Earlier, on October 22, the specified song in the Ukrainian section of TikTok became more popular than the new track of the Russian rapper Morgenstern and Slava Marlow “I don’t know.” This song is actively sung at recess by Ukrainian schoolchildren.

11 posted on 05/06/2022 8:37:40 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kevmo
Here we go again -- an attempt to whitewash what was even in question in 2018. And, we're supposed to take the word of left-wing professors this time. It's absurd.

In 2018, Congress denied funding to the Azov battalion, who are the frontline fighters in this war for Ukraine. Why? Because of their neo-Nazi ties:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis/

A little-noticed provision in the 2,232-page government spending bill passed last week bans U.S. arms from going to a controversial ultranationalist militia in Ukraine that has openly accepted neo-Nazis into its ranks.

House-passed spending bills for the past three years have included a ban on U.S. aid to Ukraine from going to the Azov Battalion, but the provision was stripped out before final passage each year.

This year, though, the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law last week stipulates that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”

“White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), an outspoken critic of providing lethal aid to Ukraine, said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday. “I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine.”

And, let's not forget the Ukrainians have named streets after and built monuments to Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukrainian-capital-names-streets-nazi-collaborators-66968503

The Ukrainian Jewish Committee's director has harshly criticized a decision by the Ukrainian capital's legislature to name streets after Nazi collaborators.

Eduard Dolinsky said the Kyiv city council ruled Tuesday to name a city street after Ivan Pavlenko, whom he described as a Nazi collaborator and war criminal. Dolinsky said on Facebook Wednesday that Pavlenko led a Ukrainian unit involved in the killing of tens of thousands of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine.

Dolinsky said that the city legislators also named another Kyiv street after Nil Khasevich, an activist of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who drew anti-Semitic cartoons and was involved in mass killings of Poles during World War II.

Dolinsky described the city council's move as an insult to Holocaust victims. The Ukrainian authorities had no immediate reaction.

And, how sick are the Ukrainians -- children are taught to sing songs about Bandera:

https://thenewsglory.com/in-ukraine-first-graders-sang-a-song-about-bandera/

A video began to spread on the Web where Ukrainian first-graders in embroidered shirts sing a song about Stepan Bandera, one of the main initiators of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, banned in Russia). The video with children was published on October 25 by the Vesti.ua Telegram channel.

It is noted that with the help of the video, first-graders from the Ternopil school joined the TikTok challenge and sang the song “Our Father Bandera, Ukraine is Mother”).

Earlier, on October 22, the specified song in the Ukrainian section of TikTok became more popular than the new track of the Russian rapper Morgenstern and Slava Marlow “I don’t know.” This song is actively sung at recess by Ukrainian schoolchildren.

12 posted on 05/06/2022 8:37:40 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kevmo

Sorry but that is just wrong. It is not a question of numbers or voting. The Nazi elements control the ukie military and the mimlitary controls the state.


14 posted on 05/06/2022 8:38:42 PM PDT by ganeemead
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To: Kevmo


19 posted on 05/06/2022 8:56:44 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. John 3:16 Z)
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To: Kevmo
The Azovs, you idiot, use swastika as their logo. Who do you think you're fooling?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/neo-nazis-azov-battalion-is-ukraines-controversial-custodian/articleshow/90692826.cms?from=mdr

Azov Battalion is the most controversial of all the Ukrainian forces – espousing right wing ideology, showcasing Nazi symbols and focussing on white supremacist ideology.

Azov began as a military infantry unit made up of civilian volunteers drawn from far-right, neo-Nazi groups that were active in Ukraine, such as the Patriot of Ukraine gang and the Social National Assembly (SNA). Interestingly, The Washington Post in a recent article referred to right wing Nazi tendencies of Azov battalion.

“Of all the Ukrainian forces fighting the invading Russian military, the most controversial is the Azov Battalion. It is among Ukraine’s most adept military units and has battled Russian forces in key sites, including the besieged city of Mariupol and near the capital, Kyiv. With Russian forces withdrawing from areas north of Kyiv last week and possibly repositioning in southern and eastern Ukraine, which Moscow has declared as its primary focus, the Azov forces could grow in significance,” the Post wrote in a recent article titled ‘Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine’

“…the battalion’s far-right nationalist ideology has raised concerns that it is attracting extremists, including white supremacist neo-Nazis, who could pose a future threat. When Putin cast his assault on Ukraine as a quest to “de-Nazify” the country, seeking to delegitimize the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian nationalism as fascist, he was partly referring to the Azov forces.”

The Azov battalion has been outed as having neo-Nazi ties since 2014 in the Western media:

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, and almost all to be intent on "bringing the fight to Kiev" when the war in the east is over.

The battalion's symbol is reminiscent of the Nazi Wolfsangel, though the battalion claims it is in fact meant to be the letters N and I crossed over each other, standing for "national idea". Many of its members have links with neo-Nazi groups, and even those who laughed off the idea that they are neo-Nazis did not give the most convincing denials.

"Of course not, it's all made up, there are just a lot of people who are interested in Nordic mythology," said one fighter when asked if there were neo-Nazis in the battalion. When asked what his own political views were, however, he said "national socialist". As for the swastika tattoos on at least one man seen at the Azov base, "the swastika has nothing to do with the Nazis, it was an ancient sun symbol," he claimed.

21 posted on 05/06/2022 9:03:02 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kevmo

300 or 3,000… who cares; it is a lazy Argumentum ad populum (a.k.a. The Bandwagon Fallacy)

“Why 100? If I were wrong, one would be enough”


23 posted on 05/06/2022 9:11:46 PM PDT by CapandBall
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To: Kevmo

I’m not in support of Russia in all this, but...

Even though I agree with the conclusion of these signatories,
I cannot help but recall the way they have sold Global Warming,
COVID-19, and other things with lists like this.

I don’t trust the Left any farther than I can drop kick them.

I’ll continue to make up my own mind absent the use of
lists like these to convince me one way or the other.


24 posted on 05/06/2022 9:12:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Kevmo
There are NO NAZI's in Ukraine.

Doesn't it kind of remind one of good of ole Bagdad Bob?

"There are not Americans in Bagdad"


25 posted on 05/06/2022 9:20:44 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Kevmo

“50 Former leaders of the IC say the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation.”


27 posted on 05/06/2022 11:33:23 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: Kevmo
Also, in the last parliamentary elections in 2019 right wing parties won just 2% of the vote.

What does that have to do with anything? Wouldn't it make more sense to talk about how well the national socialist party did?
86 posted on 05/07/2022 10:06:46 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Kevmo

Sadly, “historians” as a group are almost as unbelievable as lawyers.


90 posted on 05/08/2022 12:59:08 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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