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hideous-boy t1_iu489fd wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ukrainian soldier with vermontese maple syrup and pancakes by kievit4ukraine

  1. It's just optics. Replacing a symbol that made them look bad doesn't change what the regiment stands for. The wolfsangel will still hold the meaning it does to them and will probably still appear all over the place.

  2. That organization's justification isn't that Azov isn't filled with Nazis, it's that Russian aggression matters more and that they aren't officially a neo-Nazi militia. To the first point I would argue that Russia can be successfully fought without empowering far-right bodies. To the second, who cares if it's official or not? Azov still has the exact same people in it and attracts the same kind of person. It's like arguing that because the Greek police are an arm of a democratic government that they can't have deep ties and allegiances to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

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Human802 t1_iu4as3d wrote

“Russia can be fought with out empowering far right” a statement like this indicates you don’t know what happened when Russia first invaded in 2014, and far right militia were the only forces ready to fight them. Azov was one of these, and it was then integrated into the rebuilt national military. Also should be noted that connections between the far right and the military is true in most countries, certainly true for the US.

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