Azov battalion symbols and history

Mark Felton makes very interesting documentaries for youtube. He’s a historian, mainly WW2.

Here’s his latest. It’s about the Azov battalion, who are defending Mariupol (the factory; actually very remniscant, if you ask me, of the fight between Russians and Germans in Stalingrad; even the factory scene from Cross of Iron; one of my favourite WW2 movies).

They use some very interesting symbols. And are pretty much the unit Putin talks about when defending his reasons for going to war.

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David Fishman, professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary said Ukraine’s neo-Nazis aren’t so bad.

https://www.sgtreport.com/2022/03/adl-defends-ukraines-neo-nazis-they-dont-attack-jews-or-jewish-institutions/

Ukraine: Batallion Backed by Jewish Billionaire Sent to Fight Pro-Russian Militias

https://archive.ph/WQS5Y

Nazi loving Jews. Who would have thought?

@shavixmir said
Mark Felton makes very interesting documentaries for youtube. He’s a historian, mainly WW2.

Here’s his latest. It’s about the Azov battalion, who are defending Mariupol (the factory; actually very remniscant, if you ask me, of the fight between Russians and Germans in Stalingrad; even the factory scene from Cross of Iron; one of my favourite WW2 movies).

They use some ...[text shortened]... unit Putin talks about when defending his reasons for going to war.

https://youtu.be/HGdUtUefjCA

@mchill said
Interesting - up to a point, but (at the risk of stating the obvious) symbols don't win battles or wars, soldiers and weapons do. Ukraine is in a war for its survival, and I'm guessing the Ukrainian soldiers are less concerned with the symbols on their tanks and uniforms and far more concerned with beating back a Russian army who seems hellbent on killing them.

@mchill said
Interesting - up to a point, but (at the risk of stating the obvious) symbols don't win battles or wars, soldiers and weapons do. Ukraine is in a war for its survival, and I'm guessing the Ukrainian soldiers are less concerned with the symbols on their tanks and uniforms and far more concerned with beating back a Russian army who seems hellbent on killing them.

@shavixmir said
Mark Felton makes very interesting documentaries for youtube. He’s a historian, mainly WW2.

Here’s his latest. It’s about the Azov battalion, who are defending Mariupol (the factory; actually very remniscant, if you ask me, of the fight between Russians and Germans in Stalingrad; even the factory scene from Cross of Iron; one of my favourite WW2 movies).

They use some ...[text shortened]... unit Putin talks about when defending his reasons for going to war.

https://youtu.be/HGdUtUefjCA

@kevcvs57 said
Interesting, the points that stuck out for me where the original Azov battalion mutinying against the German occupation in France and joining the French resistance.
The fact that original heraldic meaning behind the symbol was one of resistance to power.
It’s open to interpretation but the fact that they use these symbols and their origins in a football ultra fan group sti ...[text shortened]... e British army, I hope that fanatical Antifa liberal Putin doesn’t find out.
Cross of Iron though 👍

NBC’s Richard Engel promotes Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/16/ukra-f16.html

@metal-brain said
The ADL Defends Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis. David Fishman, professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary says they are tolerant of Jews.
Well, he also claims "Ukraine is a flawed democracy, but unquestionably a democracy". They ban political parties from running in Ukraine so I guess Iran is unquestionably a democracy since they do the same thing.

https://w ...[text shortened]... icts-opposition-parties

https://rumble.com/vwuwd9-ukraine-shuts-down-opposition-news-outlets.html

@shavixmir said
Mark Felton makes very interesting documentaries for youtube. He’s a historian, mainly WW2.

Here’s his latest. It’s about the Azov battalion, who are defending Mariupol (the factory; actually very remniscant, if you ask me, of the fight between Russians and Germans in Stalingrad; even the factory scene from Cross of Iron; one of my favourite WW2 movies).

They use some ...[text shortened]... unit Putin talks about when defending his reasons for going to war.

https://youtu.be/HGdUtUefjCA

@kevcvs57 said
Every you mention there is reasonable when your country has been invaded by an arch misinformation state and everything you mention is being done to a far greater degree and for a sustained period in your beloved Russia you idiot

@metal-brain said
Ukraine is a dictatorship.
They are spreading the misinformation.

@kevcvs57 said
No Russia is a dictatorship and your a bare faced liar but hey what’s new