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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Fact Check the Fact Check
The video of the crucifixion of a separatist by (according to the speech of the perpetrators in the video) Azov has caused a certain storm of indignation and cites several fact checkers, all of whom, however, make the same points.
First, It is true that the video is apparently from 2014 or 2015. In this respect, my statement of March 22 was incorrect.
This 2014/15 video, however, is comparatively "harmless" compared to images of crucifixions that actually took place in 2022.
Another point made by the fact checkers is that the video doesn't show the final death. Well, there are two dead crucified above.
On the other hand, a large nail is driven through the hand of the already bleeding man. That seems to be a pretty high stakes for a fake video.
#HASBARA
This tree definitely wasn't hit by an AK-47. A Hasbara documentary reports that 30 women's corpses were lying around it? A man found them alone and supposedly closed all 30 spread legs and covered all of them so that no one else had to see it.
A ZAKA body collector finds burned bodies in the typical fencing position of burn victims and in his imagination this position means that the victim has defended herself. And he concludes that the burned body was tortured and set on fire.
She hears a woman shouting "no" and "stop" and her only explanation is a rape she didn't see. What would she do if someone pointed a gun at her boyfriend?
BABY IN OVEN
Actually the story is true. The crime scene was a bakery in Deir Yassin 1948. The Irgun demanded from the Palestinian father Haj Hamed, the baker, to throw his son into the oven. When he refused the Irgun did it.
On 31 July 2015, Israeli settlers firebombed a Palestinian family home in the village of Duma, killing three people. 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was burned alive in the fire.
The baby's death in the fire was celebrated at a settler wedding with pictures and Molotov cocktails. Among the party guests were Benzi Gopstein, the head of the far-right "Lahava", and Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
#NasserHospital #KhanYunis
.@GeoConfirmed writes Al Jazeera is spreading disinformation regarding the mass grave at Nasser Hospital. So let's take a closer look.
According to @GeoConfirmed, the same mass grave was dug by Palestinians on January 25th and GeoConfirmed points to a Telegram video by Ahmad Al Louh
However, the video shows individual graves at a cemetery-like distance along the palm trees SW of the road. t.me/Ahaamd1985/187…
@GeoConfirmed claims to have counted around 75 graves, I can only identify 39 and three pits that are still empty.
#OSINT
A video snippet in the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" shows a child's anorak blowing in a tree.
@TomatkaP points out that the same image was shown 8 years ago in a video about the children of Donbass.
The same video snippet was also used by Ukrainian TV. The place Horlivka is mentioned, but this place changed the front line several times. The Ukrainian report apparently appeared in 2019. However, the photo is located in a folder labeled 2014.