Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky posted a picture of a soldier wearing the insignia of a notorious Nazi SS division to his official Instagram account on Wednesday. The post, part of a series celebrating Ukraine’s Independence Day, was not the first piece of Nazi iconography shared by Zelensky.
RT
Wed, 24 Aug 2022
Zelensky posted the image on Instagram early on Wednesday. In it, a Ukrainian soldier carrying a rifle displays the standard of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, also known as the 1st Galician division.
Comprising predominantly Ukrainian volunteers from the Galicia region (which spans what is now southwestern Poland and western Ukraine), the division is known for committing war crimes against Polish civilians during the course of World War II.
Bandera is considered a hero by Ukrainian nationalists, and openly celebrated by top Ukrainian officials.
Zelensky’s post also includes a picture of Sergey Volynsky, also known as Volyna, who commanded a marine unit attached to the Azov regiment in Mariupol earlier this summer. The Azov regiment, a neo-Nazi militia folded into the Ukrainian military in 2014, was destroyed after a proctracted siege at the Azovstal steel plant in the coastal city and its members either killed or captured. Volynsky is currently in custody.
Zelensky has posted images of his soldiers wearing Third Reich insignia before. In a post across multiple social media platforms celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Ukrainian president included a picture of one of his troops wearing the ‘death’s head’, or ‘totenkopf’, insignia of the 3rd SS Panzer Division. This division was heavily staffed by former concentration camp guards and was responsible for numerous massacres of French civilians and Polish Jews.
Ukraine is the only country in the world that has integrated openly neo-Nazi militias into its national military, and while these militias were once described by Western media outlets as “neo-Nazi,” they are now referred to as “far-right groups.” Since Russian troops entered Ukraine in February, stashes of Nazi paraphernalia have been found in the houses and bases of these militia members, and social media accounts run by the Ukrainian government have also posted images of soldiers wearing Nazi and far-right symbols.
Martin comments: If you’ve been following Uncensored’s articles on Ukraine none of this will surprise you. Ukraine has been a hotbed of Neo-Nazism for decades. Scroll down for a few truth-bombs:
“It was the first thing I noticed as news of the Christchurch shooting came in — the patch on the back of the shooter’s rucksack, something that was also emblazoned on the cover of the rambling manifesto. It was far from the first time I’d seen it…, here in Ukraine, I’d seen it on the paraphernalia of the far-right Azov movement…I saw it last night as several hundred Azov movement members, many of them teenagers, marched through the Ukrainian capital; I lost count of how many black sun patches and tattoos I saw…On their website, they’ve got the manifesto translated into Russian, and they link to the live-streamed videos of the shooting. They even have a post discussing the shooter, where they describe what he did in Christchurch and praise him openly for it. I won’t quote directly, but suffice to say these Ukraine-based neo-Nazis think the Christchurch tragedy was totally justified — for them, the shooter is a hero…“
The Christchurch shooting, Eastern Europe’s far-right and a ‘cherry-picked reading of history’ – ABC News
The Azov Battalion: Extremists defending Mariupol | Europe | News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 16.03.2022
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Nobody died in Christchurch
Schoosting not Shooting
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I know people who died and I know people who had family who died. I live in East Christchurch and was all too close the events when they happened Cat. I can assure you that 51 human beings are no longer with us because of the actions of Brenton Tarrant.
I had to redact your link as it contained the Tarrant livestream footage which has been made illegal to view in NZ. You are surely aware that it is classed as “objectionable material” and two individuals were arrested only days ago from a NZ based Alt. Media platform for distributing “objectionable material”.
I am not a useful idiot.