WAR AND PERCEPTION
No, this time we are not talking about purely coincidental similarities. We have learned the difference between the patch of the Ukrainian General Staff and the SS Dirlewanger. We pay attention to nuances.
We have learned that one is simply a symbol, the other is the Black Sun in the magnificent hall of Heinrich Himmler's Wewelsburg.
One is Thor's hammer, the other is a key.
One is an I and N, the other is a wolf's angel.
One is 3 swords, the other is 1 sword and an H.
One is just a skull, the other is an alien from the USA.
We know the nuances every time. We know that similarities are purely coincidental, every time.
One is Azov with a new image film...
... the other is the cadre forge Centuria-Azov.
We learned that in the election the neo-Nazis did not even get 3%. So let’s talk about the 97%.
Here is an Ukrainian unit that fought against the Nazis in WWII, the 72nd Guards:
The unit was awarded the "Red Banner" and the honorary name "Kiev" for its courage in WWII. They fought against the Nazis and collaborators like the OUN/UPA.
Post-Maidan they modernized the patch. It now bears the slogan of the Black Zaporizhia "Ukraine od death" and -coincidentally- is reminiscent of the black triangle of the OUN/UPA fascists.
In 2017, a young captain of the unit was hit by a shrapnel in the anti-terror zone. Poroshenko awarded him the Hero of Ukraine postmortem.
He is the young captain who is sitting in the car and smiling in the Wikipedia photo.
The permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN, Vladimir Yelchenko, held up his picture: "Look into his eyes, Mr. Churkin! Your weapons and your soldiers killed him."
Until then, people in Donbass only knew him from social media, for example, how he writes "For the children" on grenades.
They mistakenly believed that he was an Azov fighter.
The Wikipedia page that shows him in a completely different light probably didn't even exist yet.
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The real Azov in the new design, on the other hand, has vowed revenge for all the crimes against Ukrainians since Holomodor 1933.
...and illustrate it by showing a 1921 photo from the Volga region. The source of the other photo seems unknown.
Revenge for Mariupol, where Azov shot down unarmed civilians in 2014.
Revenge for Bucha, where during the Russian occupation, outlawed flechettes rained down on residents (and Russians) while Azov monitored the area with drones (but never released the footage).
Revenge for Kyiv, where the "Russians" fired a rocket into a skyscraper in the first days of the war, from the center of Kyiv, before the Russians even reached Bucha.
Revenge for Kramatorsk, where a Tochka-U apparently from the west hit a train station full of people wanting to leave.
Two weeks later, Azov threatened to shoot a Tochka-U into the crowd in Mariupol if anyone there came up with the idea of celebrating liberation from fascism.
Finally, the new Azov image film quotes Goebbels to tell us that the Russians have wrongly labeled them as neo-Nazis.
In the end, even the surrender has two perceptions depending on the perspective.
The key to peace could be in exchanging different points of view, rather than exchanging shots and grenades.
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