Yeah that’s an IFF symbol. The Russians aren’t doing calligraphy with their Zs either. It’s something that soldiers paint with a brush in the field.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/wolfsangel

Wonder why a Slavic army unit is using SS division tags with German roots

Yawn

I don’t care man you can keep huffing paint if you want you’re still carrying water for fascists

PS: the Aryan Nations use this exact same symbol.

I wonder why… must be unrelated, right?

Haha, have you gone to an optometrist lately?

That’s not a symbol of racism, that’s the confederate battle flag, you blind fool, lol.

ah yes, the wolfsangel… about that…

Weird how they only use symbols that are widely used by neo-Nazi groups.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/wolfsangel

Arguing “well actshually they used a bunch of different symbols” is more Nazi apologia since very few symbols were used as widely by the Nazis as the swastika or the wolfsangel. There’s a reason you don’t see neo-Nazis tattooing antifa flags on their bodies.

Couldn’t find out when it was discontinued

The magazine is produced by Azov’s political wing, the National Corps as of 2016, which has currently suspended activity during the war. It will spin up its political wing again afterwards. Links and references in the other comment I sent here.

the azov.press domain certainly is dysfunctional

This started redirecting to Nackor.org in 2016 when the National Corps was started.

nackor.org is a gambling website now it seems. Certainly not a news outlet, certainly not from the outside.

This is just a landing page that is displayed by the server host when a site can’t be accessed. It’s probably just down, wayback has archives as recently this month.

Anyhow are you seeing those election results. I can’t blame Ukrainians for not being too worried about them getting into power.

This is an american’s childlike view of politics, in particular it is one that has no understanding of political vanguardism and how absolutely tiny quantities of people can have incredibly outsized influences politically. The UK was pushed into leaving the EU by a political party with 0.2% of the seats that year on year received just 3% of the vote.

What you need to do is not view fascists as one political party, they’re several spread out over multiple channels performing vanguardism through multiple methods because it has a far stronger effect. The goal is not to win elections. The goal is to create political forces in motion that move fascists through positions of power in all ways. Liberals think of institutions in the form of “win election and then you get to do your manifesto” but power doesn’t just come from elections. Power comes from all elements of a state. The police. The administrative positions. The civil service. The judiciary. The businesses. Small local electoral positions. The media. The military. Etc etc etc. All of these elements can be hijacked without winning any major elections in any way whatsoever. They allow you to turn a country into whatever you want to turn it into because you are the voice of the country regardless of what you consider to be the intended “power” positions.

In essence, if you control the zeitgeist it doesn’t matter who wins elections, all politicians are stuck following the zeitgeist, they are subservient to it. If they do not serve the zeitgeist then they simply get tossed out… or killed.

Instead of leaning on these metrics I suggest an alternate method for getting a picture of the influence that fascists currently have in Ukraine and that is looking at the opinions of the total population now vs historic on various topics. One in particular I think you’ll find quite alarming is the shift in public opinion of Bandera, who I reckon you’re quite familiar with. See this article from a major Ukrainian polling agency. It finds that in 2012 support for Stepan Bandera was only 22%, this is a very good measure for us for what kind of influence the fascists had in Ukraine pre-2014 when the Maidan revolution occurred. Today, after the changes and promotion of his fascist beliefs, the lionisation of him and the remaking of Ukraine that has been underway since Maidan, that support is now 74%. Quote:

In particular, the attitudes that gradually improved are the ones towards Ivan Mazepa (44% in 2012 and 76% in 2022), Simon Petliura (26% in 2012 and 49% in 2022) and Stepan Bandera (22% in 2012 and 74% in 2022).

For any bystanders interested in why this metric is valuable. Stepan Bandera was leader of the OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists), this organisation collaborated with the nazis in ww2 and killed tens of thousands of jews during the holocaust, it was regarded by the Nazi SS as extreme and particularly brutal even by their standards and I should not need to explain to anyone how evil the SS were.

This is what vanguardism can achieve. You do not need elections to become the dominant ideology of a country. You take over various non-electoral parts of the structure and become the zeitgeist itself and this is all while ignoring the fact that fascists exist within the main parties as well, you see this with your own eyes in America where people at all levels of the structure are having a major influence in the fascist direction, in both electoral and non-electoral positions.

You need to reassess in your head what power actually means. There are many ways to wield it. Liberals often have a misguided perspective that politics = elections when the reality is quite different, elections are a steam valve for society to let off what would be revolutionary energy every few years through a process of giving people “choice”. They’re not what power is though when the choice is created through far greater forces of influence developed across society on multiple fronts. For a more marxist interpretation of them as a whole this is a strong video.

I additionally strongly recommend the (now suppressed and hard to find) documentary Ukraine on Fire (not to be confused with the propaganda film created to drown it out, Winter On Fire) which released before the war so it’s largely free of the fog of war propaganda. It’s not marxist but gives a fairly good overview of Maidan and influences within it.

There’s another documentary I want to re-find too but am struggling with, might edit if I do find it. There’s also another video I wanted to include in this of the far right occupying the rada, locking the doors and refusing to leave until the vote they want is performed. I can’t find this but if I mention it here someone might remember what it’s in, it’s a good example of what power you can have without electoralism.