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Mar 31 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1. Die Überschrift dieses Artikel hätte partiell für das semireguläre #AsowBatallion von 2014 gepasst. Es ist jedoch nicht mehr für das heutige reguläre Regiment der ukrainischen Nationalgarde geeignet.
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2. Im #AsowRegiment gibt es offenbar etliche #rechtsextrem eingestellte Soldaten. Sein Bestand und seine Natur kann jedoch nicht insgesamt als "#ultrarechts" klassifiziert werden.
3. Das AsowRegiment ist seit Ende 2014 keine politische, sondern eine militärische Einheit, dessen laute Militanz, martialischen Rituale und demonstrativer Bellizismus eher konkreten Gewalt-, Kampf-, Verlust- und Todeserfahrungen als faschistischen Ideen entspringen.
4. Das Asow-Phänomen ist von heidnischen sowie okkulten Symbolen geprägt und geht ursprünglich auf eine marginale rassistische freie Kameradschaft der Vormaidanperiode, den "Patriot der Ukraine", zurück. Es hat rechtextreme Wurzeln und Aspekte.
5. Das #AsowPhänomen ist jedoch, im Gegensatz zum #Nazismus, ein Produkt, Symptom sowie Begleitumstand eines laufenden Krieges - und nicht, wie im Fall des deutschen #Faschismus, der Bestimmungsfaktor eines Krieges.
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