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Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
https://news.yahoo.com/nazi-symbols-ukraine-front-lines-114825778.html ^
| 6/5/2023
| Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Posted on 06/05/2023 3:22:20 PM PDT by wastedyears
KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from their social media feeds: a soldier standing in a group, another resting in a trench and an emergency worker posing in front of a truck.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: angryneoconsbelow; believeusnotyoureyes; fakenews; letsjustmoveon; naziukes; newyorkslimes; nothingtoseehere; trustpresidentbiden; ukrainecorruption; zelenskyworshippers
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To: wastedyears
Well this is interesting. Why do we come down on the side of the nazis? That should be a complete deal breaker.
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:24:29 PM PDT
by
webheart
To: wastedyears
Have you noticed, that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?
I ... I don't ...
Hans ... are we the baddies?
Let's see. We should be able to hold them at this point here. At least for a few hours.
Why skulls, though?
What?
Why skulls?
Well, maybe they are the skulls of our enemies.
Maybe. But is that how it comes across? It doesn't say next to the skull, you know ... "Yeah we killed him, but trust us, this guy was horrid."
Well no, but ...
I mean what a skull is making you think of? Death, cannibals, beheading ... ehm ... pirates.
Pirates are fun!
I didn't say we weren't fun. But fun or not, pirates are still the baddies.
I just can't think of anything good about a skull.
What about pure Aryan skull shape?
Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still on. Whereas the Allies ...
Oh, you haven't been listening to Allied propaganda. Of course they're gonna say we are the bad guys.
But they didn't get to design our uniforms. Their symbols are all, you know, quite nice. Stars, stripes, lions, sickles.
What's so good about a sickle?
Well, nothing. And obviously, if there's one thing we have learned in the last thousand miles of retreat, it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanization.
Tell me about it.
But you've gotta say, it's better than a skull. I mean, I really can't think of anything worse as a symbol than a skull.
A rat's anus?
Yeah, and if we were fighting an army marching under the banner of a rat's anus, I'd probably a lot less worry, Hans.
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:30:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: wastedyears
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:36:22 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:45:28 PM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: monkeyshine
So weird seeing him in a comedy role after he was in The Winds of War.
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:47:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator; All
Worn at Waterloo.
By the side that won.
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:47:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:49:18 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: wastedyears
Nazi symbols are meaningless.
Their president is a JEW.
is that what nazis do with Jews?
where are the concentration camps?
Did they have elections? Yes.
Did they announce Ukrainians are the master race?
How stupid
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:49:46 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: wastedyears
LOL! In year two of the war, the NYT is finally realizing there are Nazi elements in Ukraine.
So why publish this now? Why not continue to deny it like in year one? NYT may be bracing themselves for defeat: "Just as well that the Nazis in Ukraine went down..."
To: BenLurkin
Well I suppose the lesson is if you’re going to wear skulls on your uniform you’d better win.
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:51:28 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
what do you make of the nazi elements here is the USA?
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posted on
06/05/2023 3:54:43 PM PDT
by
Sunsong
To: Sunsong
what do you make of the nazi elements here is the USA?
Tell me about it. There are a lot of Zeepers on FR.
To: Williams
Did they [Ukrainians]
have elections? Yes. No, they don't. Nuland and her co-conspirators in the U.S. State Department illegally overthrew the legitimately elected government in 2014. They openly brag about it.
To: wastedyears
Why all this concern about supposed Nazi symbols but no one mentions the Soviet symbols that the Russians use openly?
To: Right_Wing_Madman
I think they call themselves neo-nazis
you can look them up
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posted on
06/05/2023 4:20:37 PM PDT
by
Sunsong
To: wastedyears
The worst Nazi symbol in this war is the Russian wolfsangel rune symbol (”Z”) on their vehicles.
You’re whining about that, too, right?
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posted on
06/05/2023 4:45:33 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
To: webheart
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History, webheart wrote: |
Well this is interesting. Why do we come down on the side of the nazis? That should be a complete deal breaker. |
The zeepers fly into a rage when people ask that question. They insist Putin=Hitler and the Ukraine is is Holodomor - both assertions which I find insulting to genuine victims of same.
The MSM can't seem to keep the Ukranians from painting swastikas on tanks - once again they had to be told not to do so when soldiers went to Poland for tank training.
The MSM went from condemming the neo Nazism in the Ukraine to suddenly portraying them as heroes.
FR's Ukrainian zealot contingent went nuts when I posted this Twitter picture of the head of their military wearing a bracelet with a swastika on it. First I was lectured that it was a 'Scandanaivian leaf motif' and then that the bracelet is readily available on Amazon and isn't what it looks like.
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posted on
06/05/2023 4:51:38 PM PDT
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: Williams
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History, Williams wrote: | Nazi symbols are meaningless. Their president is a JEW. is that what nazis do with Jews? where are the concentration camps? Did they have elections? Yes. Did they announce Ukrainians are the master race? How stupid |
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Nazi symbols are not meaningless!
The core of the Ukrainian military continues to soil itself with its embrace of Banderas and Nazis.
The reason the CIA and NATO picked Zelensky as their puppet likely includes the fact that he's a Jew. Sadly, history shows that there were some throughout the history of the concentration camps which betrayed their people for better treatment.
The election they have are as unfair as BIden's was.
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posted on
06/05/2023 4:58:43 PM PDT
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: Williams
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posted on
06/05/2023 4:59:38 PM PDT
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
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