Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "These Guys Are Wild: Russia's Espanola Battalion" video.

That assumes they take prisoners, which they don’t.
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Learned? This was learned in Russia when they were beating down the Golden Horde.
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@Red_Comet_Char_Aznable Go look up how the Golden Horde finished.
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@adminadminson3147 The Golden Horde was stopped in present day Ukraine, but Russia did get rid of them, unless you believe that Russia is still Mongolia.
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@marshalljulie3676 That’s technically true, but only because they pulled out of WW1. They were losing it.
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@JimLadBossMan Then that’s not prisoners.
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@fofal He’s not wrong. There has been a lot of talk about Ukrainian units wearing “Nazi” symbols, but that’s been de-bunked by basic research. Those symbols were traditional symbols in European militaries long before Nazism even existed and yes, Nazis used them, but so did many, many others. We just associate them with Nazis because of popularized history (movies) about WW2.
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@teru797 Azov also wasn’t Nazi. It had some members who were right wing, but it accepted people from all ethnicities, even Jews. Overall, Azov was just pro-Ukrainian.
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@ifv2089 It was ONE PERSON, who was found to have collaborated with the Nazis in WORLD WAR TWO!
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@gunterthekaiser6190 Actually they are currently training.
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There are ZERO Nazis fighting on either side today. Nazis were in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. These people are FASCISTS (ultra-Nationalists) and NEO-NAZIS (Nazi ideology sympathizers). While that may just be semantics to you and many others, the failure to grasp the meaning of these terms is why you don’t understand the reality of the topic.
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@davey64 Resembles one? Are you 12 or just didn’t go to school? What exactly resembles one? The skull and crossbones? See? You’re making assumptions on popular folklore instead of military history and symbolism. You’re an ignorant person using “common sense” and then trying to insinuate that it’s fact. Go do some fucking research instead!
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@Ekdrink There always were, but since the early 2000’s it has become more open. This is because most WW2 survivors have been dying out and the school systems in that area aren’t great. Young people today don’t really have a connection to WW2 anymore, so that symbology and thinking doesn’t bother them much. It’s happening all over the world, to be fair.
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@Ekdrink No. It’s just that, a cultural change. Millennials in Russia and Ukraine grew up without WW2 vets in their adult lives and now they’re adults, making major decisions in their cultures. There isn’t much on TV and the movies about WW2 anymore, so it’s not in their minds. When I was growing up in the USSR in the 80s, no one would dare wear a swastika. I’m a Gen X.
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@Armoredcompany Monarchism is definitely not, by default, fascism, but it can be. Fascism opposed feudalism and monarchy that existed in Europe, but those aren’t the only models of fascism or monarchy. There is a huge case that can be made that Japan was a major fascist state under Shōwa Statism.
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@Armoredcompany You’re WRONG and you’re basing that on European fascism of WW2 because that’s all you know of. Go look it up! Also, the word “moderate” was not used.
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@SuperVistaprint Roots and current reality aren’t the same thing. What we grasp (and you’re too stupid to) is that their ultra-right leaders tried making a play for political posts in 2015 and were humiliated and shot down, and that immediately after, the Ukrainian government took over Azov and made it a military unit, not because they love them, but because they needed to be cleaned up. Azov today has members of all ethnicities, including Jews. How’s that for “Nazis”?
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Preston, Russia actually passed a law, before Prigozhin’s revolt, that all PMCs would be “nationalized” by being centrally controlled by the MOD. It was the primary reason for the revolt as he had no trust in the MOD and saw that he would lose operational control over Wagner.
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