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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PPs have posted a lot of old information about Azov battallion and not much about how Azov‘s founder has done with his attempt to leave Azov battalion and start his own political party (hint - terribly) and what Azov was and is now.

Yes, Azov was founded back in 2014 by some people who had Nazi or far right beliefs, but at that time the Ukrainian army was very small and weak and had to rely on ad hoc militias like Azov which fought amazongly well and held off the Russians from taking Mariupol in 2014. As the UA developed tbe strategy was to regularize Azov into official structures so as to be able to diminish any far right influence. The founder of Azov left to start his own party, which has not been succesful at winning seats in parliament.

Ros Atkins of BBC does a great 10 minute piece with the complete 8 year history on Azov and what its influence is today.   It’s an accurate, well-balanced piece.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bx9slf/ros-atkins-on-ros-atkins-on[/quote]

This.[/quote]

Yes absolutely.

Putin’s whole “fighting Ukrainian nazis!” is a laughably false trope.

As others have repeatedly stated: the was a tiny splinter group, they were purged from the military, they tried to form a political party, they have been an utter failure.

Did you know actual fascist parties still exist in both Italy and Spain? (along with communist parties in both countries).

They are a minuscule joke.  Only an idiot would pay any attention to them, let alone start a murderous and illegal war over them.

Do not play into Putin’s absurd and false propaganda here.  The person acting most like a nazi is Putin himself.[/quote]

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