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Germans were confronted with images of their countrys dark past on Monday night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
In a report on the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, Moscow correspondent Bernhard Lichte used pictures of a soldier wearing a combat helmet with the "SS runes" of Hitlers infamous black-uniformed elite corps. A second soldier was seen with a swastika on his gear. Volunteer battalions from nearly every political spectrum are reinforcing the government side, the ZDF correspondent said in his report.
The video was shot last week in Ukraine by a camera team from Norwegian broadcaster TV2. We were filming a report about Ukraines AZOV battalion in the eastern city of Urzuf, when we came across these soldiers, Oysten Bogen, a correspondent for the private television station, told NBC News. Minutes before the images were taped, Bogen said he had asked a spokesperson whether the battalion had fascist tendencies. The reply was: absolutely not, we are just Ukrainian nationalists, Bogen said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/german-tv-shows-nazi-symbols-helmets-ukraine-soldiers-n198961
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,185 posts)There's no government oversight of them. They are a private militia and fairly small.
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Comrade Grumpy
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)They don't exactly have the resources to round these guys up.
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,185 posts)And the truth is, yeah, there are some neo-Nazis in Ukraine. But there's a rush by people in the pro-Russia crowd to ascribe that sentiment to the Ukrainian government itself in order to make them an easy strawman target. And that's just not necessarily an accurate reflection of the situation.
The truth regarding Ukraine has been bent up and down and in and out repeatedly. Words have been stripped of all meaning, and events have been stripped of all context.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Karmadillo
(9,253 posts)what is described in this article?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
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Dmitry which he said is not his real name is a native of east Ukraine and a member of the Azov battalion, a volunteer grouping that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war with pro-Russian separatists.
The Azov, one of many volunteer brigades to fight alongside the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, has developed a reputation for its fearlessness in battle.
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bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)the Middle East, this is the ultimate analogy fail.
pa28
(6,145 posts)They know and they don't seem to care.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I wonder how the Russians feel about Nazis on their border again.