Concerning the photos: It's not just the Azov battalion or other "volunteer" units of the Right Sector that show very overt neo-Nazi sympathies. Regular UAF formations have likewise been infected by the same disease. The top one sports the symbol of the Wehrmacht's 17th Panzer Division. The word "Schuma" stenciled on the 2S1 122mm self-propelled howitzer refers to the so-called Schutzmannschaft battalions, composed of collaborators recruited by the Germans to perform a variety of tasks. Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft battalions were infamous for the war crimes they perpetrated on the civilian population of the USSR, including the Khatyn Massacre which is but one of many similar massacres, and for assisting the Einsatzkommandos in the extermination of Soviet Jews. There are many similar examples floating around the internet, even though the Western media manages not to notice them.…
…if these people get to pass themselves off as stalwart defenders of European values against Russian aggression, the neo-Nazis in Western Europe will ask the reasonable question as to why they are being punished for sporting the very same symbols?
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This is funny: a moment ago a different text box popped up and sent my comment straight to my own blog.
Anyway, this was (from memory) my previous comment:
In all fairness and for the record, to the best of my knowledge, the Katyn massacre was not committed either by the Nazis or their local puppets, but by the NKVD (the predecessor of the KGB, a partly secret, partly militarised police dependant on the Soviet Ministry of the Interior).
After Stalin, the Soviet Government investigated Katyn and determined their own responsibility.
I'm not sure any criminal charges were ever laid or if that resulted in anything other than their admission.
Khatyn massacre
Thanks for that, Tom. I had never heard of Khatyn.
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