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.

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    In that same photo set is a dude with an iron cross. And then a series of photos honoring Boris Johnson in the “Walk of the Brave” which is something you would think even liberals would be suspect of.

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      iron cross

      “Akshually, they’re just fans of Frederick the Great, whom even the GDR considered progressive.” – some faux-Marxist lib