Is Russia done pretending?

[BCP]

it wouldn't be shocking.
i'm pretty certain that a significant number of russians suffered under the bolsheviks like the ukrainians did.
it is hard to blame anyone with family that were brutalized or murdered by the communists for embracing the "other side".
somewhat frustrating that many people only identify nazis with killing jewish people. jews were being slaughtered decades before hitler rose to power.
many people claim the west bankrolled the rise of the nazi party as a barrier to bolshevik expansion.

Pro-Russian Fighter With Nazi Patches Gets Medal for Killing 'Nazis'

A pro-Russian soldier can be seen in a video wearing an emblem used by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS and a symbol of interlocking triangles from Norse mythology commonly used by neo-Nazis.

www.newsweek.com

The "We're Fighting Nazis!" stuff is hilarious.

 

[theLBC]

The "We're Fighting Nazis!" stuff is hilarious.

it might seem funny, but that is how they give themselves the moral license to hurt people that don't agree with them.
it can't be wrong to hurt a nazi, can it?

 

[BCP]

it might seem funny, but that is how they give themselves the moral license to hurt people that don't agree with them.
it can't be wrong to hurt a nazi, can it?

Yeah there's a reason Democrats call everyone who disagrees a "Nazi" (or Fascist which is just yelling Nazi without yelling it).

 

[flogxal]

I swear, over the past 5 yrs or so, I have seen more generic put-downs via "nazi" or "fascist" than any other period of my life. Last time I heard "nazi" this often was when Seinfeld was on and he had the "soup nazi" character. And people used "soup nazi" as a slang for a period back then.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Russia was indeed a friend to the colonists during the American Revolution. And right up to the 1910s decade. The bolshevik forces that killed Tsar Alexander & family basically ruined the friendship and look at where it is today.

I would put good money on the idea that RUS would entertain friendship again if only our govt would present itself globally with more self-respect, more decorum and more understanding of its role as compared to the rest of the planet. But that would take an administration unlike any we've seen for the past 75 years or so.

100% agree.
We’ve broken our word and our deals with them at almost every single opportunity. If we treated them with some honesty and respect I think people would be surprised at how well we’d get along with Russia. They wanted to join NATO in the early 2000’s so clearly they’re absolutely open to the idea of partnering with us. But nope, we had to shut em down and keep them as an enemy, while pushing NATO closer and closer to their border.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

I swear, over the past 5 yrs or so, I have seen more generic put-downs via "nazi" or "fascist" than any other period of my life. Last time I heard "nazi" this often was when Seinfeld was on and he had the "soup nazi" character. And people used "soup nazi" as a slang for a period back then.

“Nazi” has literally lost all meaning and impact due to liberal extremists calling everyone right of Lavrenty Beria a nazi.



Fckn love that movie.

 

[JustSendit]

No official source, but that type thing would never be allowed online or admitted to.
But I’ve heard it from multiple unofficial sources. This was like 2+ years ago, let me see what I can dig up.. it was when basically the entirety of Azov batt. got surrounded and destroyed in Mariupol.

I can believe a lot of things, but this just isn’t one of them. There’s no way a general would authorize Green Berets to operate alongside a forward element in Ukraine. It sounds like a rumor to me — I haven’t seen anything credible to support it. Maybe you’ve got friends claiming some kind of insider information, but people with access to that level of intel don’t usually share it so freely.

 

[kthomas]

it wouldn't be shocking.
i'm pretty certain that a significant number of russians suffered under the bolsheviks like the ukrainians did.
it is hard to blame anyone with family that were brutalized or murdered by the communists for embracing the "other side".
somewhat frustrating that many people only identify nazis with killing jewish people. jews were being slaughtered decades before hitler rose to power.
many people claim the west bankrolled the rise of the nazi party as a barrier to bolshevik expansion.

Pro-Russian Fighter With Nazi Patches Gets Medal for Killing 'Nazis'

A pro-Russian soldier can be seen in a video wearing an emblem used by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS and a symbol of interlocking triangles from Norse mythology commonly used by neo-Nazis.

www.newsweek.com

Funny how the media will on one hand write an entire article on a "pro-Russian" fighter wearing Nazi symbols to create a narrative, but on the other hand completely whitewash the world's largest neo-Nazi organization (Azov) to ignore another.