To celebrate August 24 Vladimir Zelensky took to Instagram to upload a series of portraits of commanders born in post-Soviet Ukraine.

Unsurprisingly one serviceman’s image, alongside his full name and credentials, was pictured wearing a Nazi insignia of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division.

That unit of the SS recruited primarily Ukrainian collaborators, and has been accused of committing several massacres in Poland.

    • @uno_yakshi
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      -42 years ago

      Do you want me to provide similar articles about the whole Europe being covered in brown? Then the USA? And Asian countries? And Russia, too? Will it prove those countries are neo-Nazi havens? Nope. There are far-right all over the world. The crisis only makes it worse. What you want to focus, however, is that Ukraine is a Nazi state with people there supporting Nazism. How many friends and relative do you have in Ukraine, BTW? Have they been marching under Nazi insignia since 2013-2014? I don’t think so. Do you want to know what I think? Ukraine has been going towards becoming a national state like Israel for years. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the world to get that. Ukraine has [far-]right paramilitary groups and actual army regiments, they are strong. But what’s more important, they are the vanguard, frontline and in the hearts. Imagine what, in the people’s eyes, those combatants were right about being an enemy to Russia. And looks like the government of Ukraine chose the lesser evil (from their perspective). Again, it’s not some Nazi state. But those warriors were right, and they are defending their country. Well, that’s the narrative for the Ukrainians at least. Again, you don’t see even a 10% of all the combatants. They’ve learned their lesson and stopped sending anti-OpSec information. And, it seems, neither you know plenty of them.

      • @m532
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        62 years ago

        They went closer to being like the murderous occupiers of palestine? Very evil. Very fascist.

        • @uno_yakshi
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          -32 years ago

          I could play this game, too. My reply is “what kind of asinine argument is that”.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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            62 years ago

            If you don’t understand why making false equivalences is asinine what else is there to tell you.

            • @uno_yakshi
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              2 years ago

              If you’d be a good-willed sentient, you’d point out my mistakes, of course. I guess you aren’t.

              Sorry, I’m not going to take any of your precious time writing even more posts w/o really considering others’ opinions. Neither I’m going to waste mine.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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                42 years ago

                Others in this thread already addressed all your points. No reason to keep feeding a troll.