German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers

[guno]

Germans were confronted with images of their country’s 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 Hitler’s infamous black-uniformed elite corps. A second soldier was seen with a swastika on his gear.





German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers - NBC News

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Makes you nervous goono ?

 

[Political Junky]

Makes you nervous goono ?

As it should, for any rational person.

 

[georgephillip]

David Mandel teaches political science in Canada, and he's been involved in labor education in Ukraine for many years. In this ten minute interview with TRNN he lays out the class lines of the current struggle in Ukraine by pointing out how the richest Ukrainians have instigated the hostilities in that country by pitting the east versus the west:

"And I'd say--and so the political elites, which have been basically at the surface of the so-called oligarchs, which is the new capitalist class--it's a small class, but extremely rich, was basically pillaging the country for the last two-plus decades.

"They've been making--instead of trying to calm down these nationalist passions and these different linguistic and ethnic differences, have been actually exacerbating them to get [incompr.] in their inter-elite struggles and to gain elections, etc..."

"And then there's a ruling group, a small ruling group of oligarchs.

"They're called oligarchs.

"This is big capital who basically just pillage the country and grasp for pennies, grab the factories and all the wealth that was inherited from the Soviet Union, and created very little.

"You have this group that keeps the population divided along these ethnic and linguistic lines so they can't get together to fight the corruption.

"The corruption is just horrible in Ukraine.

The Elite s Tug-of-War Since Ukrainian Independence

 

[guno]

Makes you nervous goono ?

No, because in the end all your Ilk will go down in the dust bin of history

 

[georgephillip]

Azov battalion believes it's writing History in Eastern Ukraine today, and some of its members talk of taking the fight to Kiev tomorrow:

"'I have nothing against Russian nationalists, or a great Russia,' said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a machine gunner positioned in the back. 'But Putin's not even a Russian. Putin's a Jew.'

"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-Russia 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 fearlessness in battle.

But there is an increasing worry that while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state, when the conflict in the east is over.

"The Azov causes particular concern due to the far right, even neo-Nazi, leanings of many of its members."

"Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a military leader, and believes the Holocaust never happened.

"Not everyone in the Azov battalion thinks like Dmitry, but after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views, and almost all to be intent on 'bringing the fight to Kiev' when the war in the east is over.

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