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[–]Dregan 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

These nazi's are (d)ifferent.

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    [–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    You're supposed to pretend to be against Nazism in these threads. Otherwise you ruin the Z-propaganda game

    [–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Here's their statement, below. Which part of it do you take issue with?

    Once again it's so pathetically performative to clutch your pearls about the origins of one national guard battalion.... but ignore the very real fascist threat from a country with a stupid symbol, a one-party system, a political theory of action, a militarised state that governs through fear, an unquestionable leader, a new world order, a war of expansion, an ethnostate, revanchism, a controlled media, alternative facts, and support for the far right in other countries.

    Normies don't really take the anti-azov propaganda seriously because they can see who the real fascist threat is - Marine Le Pen, alternative fur deutschland, la Liga, Austria freedom party, Dmitri rogizin, geert wilders, Aaron banks - all very real fascists threats to European people's communities and all weapons aimed and fired by the ruzzia.

    If the idea is - let's play on the normies' opposition to fascism to trick them into siding against Ukraine - then it's simply not going to work when employed in the ruzzia's favor

    When it was created in 2014, the Azov Brigade was a private military group fighting the then annexation of Crimea...

    During this period, it was a group that had a clear far-right influence. In late 2014, the group was brought in as a part of the Ukrainian National Guard and renamed the Azov Regiment. When this happened, the Ukrainian government investigated the group and claims to have expelled it of these far-right members. It was also during this time that its founder Andriy Biletsky left AZOV and has since worked in the greater Azov movement, including founding a far-right political party, the National Corps. In essence, there was a split between the military unit AZOV and the political goals of its founding members. Of course, this is not to say that they have successfully removed all far-right elements from their ranks, but our Center on Extremism also does not see Azov Regime as the far-right group it once was.