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As a war symbol this is basically simplified wolfsangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel Also it was also clev
by type0 5y ago
As a war symbol this is basically simplified wolfsangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel
Also it was also cleverly promoted by putinists as provocation since if you type letter Z strikethrough you'll get wolfsangel and therefore become a nazi, however we all know who is the real nazi in this war.
- lamp987 5y agoprotip: nazi isnt "when you attack a country"
- type0 5y agoNo, it is when you act like one; annex a territory, fund insurgence, kill innocent civilians, destroy holocaust memorial, do I really need to go on
- lupire 5y ago> annex a territory, fund insurgence, kill innocent civilians Not Nazi. > destroy holocaust memorial, fake news and not Nazi. war of aggression /= Nazi. The Nazis themselves has two major non-Nazi allies doing these same things (but not the genocide, which was kind of the Nazis special talent) at the same time.
- missedthecue 5y agoWas the memorial not bombed? As far as I can tell, it did happen, and there is visual evidence of it.
- dogma1138 5y agoAll of that more likely than not was retconned and mainly by bored westerners on the internet. It was chosen because its easy to paint, recognize and you won’t confuse it with markings normally used by either side. Z is and boxed Z is only used by the forces which invaded eastern Ukraine and from Crimea, airborne, marines and the forces from Belarus use different recognition stripes. If anything the west made a story about it which allowed Russian propaganda to turn it into a thing. If more people would covered the fact that the Russian army is so poor that it needs to rely on recognition stripes instead of modern IFF it might not have become a nationalist symbol in Russia.
- forum_ghost 5y agoZ = Zuid, O = Ost. Maybe?
- lupire 5y agoWho doesn't use recognition stripes? what IFF do you use for every tank and truck?
- HKH2 5y agoThe Azov Battalion has a wolfsangel on their flag.
- type0 5y agoCorrect, they don't tolerate neonazi ideology now, most of them are still nationalist and right wing populists. Regardless of what Putin tries to spew, they don't govern Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion#Current_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion#Current_status