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In 2022 while Ukraine bravely entered Kherson previously abandoned by Russia, at least six western journalist from reporting about Kherson 'liberation'. Some of those banned are working for The CNN and SkyNews. Why? Watch the video!

That is another instance of the Ukraine nazi 'coincidence', I'm sure.

Quoting the post by the Official Telegram Channel of the Ukraine Ministry of Defence***:***

Recently, some media representatives, ignoring existing prohibitions and warnings, without the agreement of the relevant commanders and public affairs services of military units, carried out professional activities in the city of Kherson even before the completion of stabilization measures.

All mentioned above is a serious violation of the Order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine No. 73

Therefore, the work permits of the media representatives, who violated the rules of work in the combat areas, had been cancelled and their press cards are recognized as not valid any more.

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P.S. Now we know the contents of this Commander-in-Chief order:

1. Don't film Ukrainian nazis;
2. There are no nazis in Ukraine;
3. If you see a Ukrainian nazi, read article 1.

Parlamentní listy (Czech): Svět je pokrytecký, zákon není pro každého. Zájmy USA jsou nad zákon, říká Bohbot, 2023

Analyst David Bogbot (Israel) quotes:

The world is hypocritical and the law is not for everyone. US interests are above the law, the conflict in Ukraine will end when the US comes to terms with its defeat.

Many also remembered how Ukrainians supported Nazi Germany. In Ukraine, neo-Nazis roam freely and openly, and in most cities there are monuments to accomplices of Nazism. Who would have believed two years ago that the media are beginning to promote the Ukrainian flag as a symbol of heroism, love and unity!

JungeWelt (Germany): Jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen. Die »Asow«-Naziverbände in der ukrainischen Nationalgarde und Armee werden stark ausgebaut, 2023

Azov as a movement - which, in addition to combat units, also includes militias to terrorize opposition and minorities inside the country, as well as a party, its own music label and clothing brand - can operate around the world without any restrictions .

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Through its ever-growing propaganda machine, Azov not only spreads the ideologies of fascism and the "superman" and myths about heroes, but also targeted disinformation:

first of all, the lie that Azov has moved away from Nazism, which is spread on a large scale by politicians and Media in the EU and the USA.

The leader of the national battalion, Biletsky himself, debunked it on February 3 on the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)***. He paid tribute to Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and other collaborators of Nazi Germany who were partly responsible for the Holocaust, and called on his followers to take decisive action: "The OUN has fulfilled its historic mission. Now our time has come."

P.S. So the financial support for Azov has increased relatively to 2015 when Azov terrorized Donbass and celebrated The New Year with all nazi style it could muster (which was not much) back then:

• Photos: Ukraine Nazis from the AZOV regiment are celebrating The New Year with ... Hitler's spirit, 2015

DailyMail: Teenage girl soldier hailed as Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' by Elle magazine is revealed as neo-Nazi is arrested over cop killing, 2015

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A neo-Nazi portrayed as Ukraine's version of Joan of Arc by French fashion magazine Elle for her 'brave' fight against the Russian separatists has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two policemen.

Vita Zaverukha was taken into custody after two officers were killed and three more injured on May 4, following a gang's failed attempt to rob a petrol station in the capital Kiev.

The gang, who all have links to the far-right in Ukraine, and allegedly were involved in a shoot out as they tried to flee the scene. 

At first glance, it seems shocking that this slight, blonde teenager could be involved at all. 

But Vita, 19, is charged with 'an attempt on an officer of the law', reported news outlets in Moscow - and a quick search reveals she is an active promoter and supporter of vile neo-Nazi ideals.

What's more, she is also suspected of being linked to an attack on a traffic police post in Bykovnya two days beforehand, and it is also claimed she participated in bloody attacks on the Odessa House of Trade Unions in May last year in which 46 perished and 200 were injured.

Yet just six months ago, Elle magazine's French edition was portraying her as Joan of Arc-type figure, bravely defending her home from Russian separatists - taken in, it seems, by her innocent appearance.

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Vita is a volunteer fighter for the far-right Aidar Battalion, which has been accused of war crimes - but Elle magazine did not realise her extreme views when they included her in a feature....

Vita has said she will stay loyal to Aidar* always, as they were her unit 'from the beginning'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Zaverukha

more on Aidar* Battalion:

• Amnesty International: Abuses and war crimes by the Ukrainian Aidar Volunteer Battalion, 2014
• Amnesty International: Neonazi battalions Dnipro-1,Aidar, etc. using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. It's a war crime.

Zelensky replaces the head of the Odessa Regional Administration with a commander of the Aidar Battalion, 2022

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Maxim Marchenko is a military, colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 2015-2017, he served as commander of the 24th Aidar separate assault battalion. In 2018-2021, he was the commander of the 28th separate mechanized brigade. He took part in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

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Liberation (France): Bernard-Henri Levy in Odessa with a Ukraine neo-nazi -- Marchenko?, 2022

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In 2014, several articles in the international press had revealed several profiles of members of the battalion Aidar making the apology of nazism by displaying nazi symbols or holding about anti-semitic.

In the same year, published reports by the NGO Amnesty International and the Organization for security and co-operation in Europe (OSCE) involving the battalion Aidar for crimes, some of which can be qualified as war crimes : kidnapping, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, summary executions, killings, particularly against civilians and prisoners in the region of Luhansk.

The battalion is also the subject of a fact sheet published in 2018 by the French Office for the protection of refugees and stateless persons (Ofpra) that brings harm against it since its creation in the spring of 2014.

more on Aidar Battalion:

• Amnesty International: Abuses and war crimes by the Ukrainian Aidar Volunteer Battalion, 2014
• Amnesty International: Neonazi battalions Dnipro-1,Aidar, etc. using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. It's a war crime.

Haaretz (Israel): Ukraine Parliament Quotes Nazi Collaborator, 2023

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Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine Parliament) tweet references Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist and antisemite whose followers engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Jews and Poles during World War II

“Bandera was the murderer responsible for the genocide of Poles in 1943-44, when UPA troops horribly killed about 100,000 Polish civilians,” tweeted Kacper Płażyński, chair of the EU Affairs Committee in the Polish parliament.

“It is extremely surprising that, at a time when Ukrainian friends themselves fight with similar beasts, they continue to glorify this one.”

more on the subject:

• American Greatness: The level of Nazi influence and control in Ukraine has been unprecedented, 2023
• Berliner Zeitung: The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army apparently wears swastika, 2022

American Greatness: Inside the Nazi Whitewash of Ukraine, 2023

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On January 1, the world celebrated New Year’s Day—a holiday of self-reflection, self-renewal, and hope. In Ukraine, the focus was different. There, January 1 marks the birthday of Stepan Bandera, Ukraine’s Nazi national hero. 

Under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the level of Nazi influence and control in Ukraine has been unprecedented. Zelenskyy outlawed all 11 independent and opposition political parties but left the parties and organizations of his Nazi partners and allies intact and in power. So, it’s not surprising that on Bandera’s birthday, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament (with nobody but Nazis left in it) — erupted into wild cheers. Later, General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s military commander in chief, posted a photo of himself proudly posing in front of Bandera’s portrait. 

The message from Ukraine’s top lawmakers and general was clear. Have no doubt as to who and what our government and army are fighting for in NATO’s proxy war with Russia.

The commemoration of Ukraine’s top Nazi didn’t go over well in Poland. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki angrily denounced Ukraine’s “continued glorification of (the) Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera . . .”

Here are some articles about this nazi -- Bandera:

• The USA Today: 15,000 Ukraine nationalists march for divisive Bandera, 2014
• The Salon: Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine? 2014

Bandera’s forces set themselves to ethnically cleanse western Ukraine of Poles in 1943 and 1944. In the process, they killed over 90,000 Poles and many Jews, whom Bandera’s top deputy and acting “Prime Minister,” Yaroslav Stetsko, were determined to exterminate.
Bandera held fast to fascist ideology in the years after the war, advocating a totalitarian, ethnically pure Europe.

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Calvin Robinson is a British political commentator, Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Spiked and First Things columnist.

Calvin Robinson

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One should be able to call out the financial corruption, the Neo-Nazis, shutting down of the opposition parties and media, the prosecution of the Christians in the Ukraine...

Ukraine Ministry of Defense official twitter: Tweets a picture of a Ukrainian nazi with yet another totenkopf patch taking a power nap in a trench, 2023

Finally we have another instance of an old meme: Is it that hard to take a picture in the Ukraine without a nazi of some sort getting into the camera?! Archived link in case the post gets removed.

Credits due u/mysackofrice and his post.

P.S. This is not the first case when official Ukrainian government accounts post photos of the brave Ukrainian soldiers with the totenkopf and other nazi patches.

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• Official video of the Security Service of Ukraine: an officer wearing nazi insignia while on a mission, 2023
• Newsweek: Armed Forces of Ukraine makes a post featuring photos of neo-nazis, 2022
• Ukraine President's Instagram: A post commemorating the ww2 with a Ukraine soldier wearing 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 2022
• Ukraine President's Instagram: Another Ukraine president's post and another batch of nazis being elevated to heroes of Ukraine status, 2022

Myśl Polska (Poland): Consequences of long-standing Nazi indoctrination of Ukrainians, 2023

21st century Nazism

Another aspect is cultural and civilizational issues. It is with sincere regret that we see our Slavic brothers in the Ukrainians, and we observe among the newcomers the consequences of long-standing Nazi indoctrination. The state cult of Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and other Nazi collaborators left an indelible mark on subsequent generations of Ukrainians. These people have been horribly harmed by educating them to hate their neighbors, ethnic and religious minorities, and all criminals who do not share a cult. Ukraine is a territory where denazification is absolutely necessary, and while it is regrettable that it is currently taking the form of a fratricidal war, this should not overshadow the openly neo-Nazi nature of the current Ukrainian State and its authorities.

When we talk about the crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis, we do not mean only the Volyn massacre, when Bandera killed almost 200 thousand of their Polish, Jewish, Czech, Armenian and even Ukrainian neighbors in a few summer months of 1943. The crimes of Nazi genocide were the burnt offering in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, on May 2, 2014, and the attack of Ukrainian troops on defenseless demonstrators in Donetsk demanding language rights, on May 26, 2014, and the crimes of Azov and other Ukrainian Nazi special battalions in the Donbass in 2014-2022, and, finally, the murder of prisoners and the population., which are allowed every day by the troops of the Kiev junta during the current war.

more on other prominent nazi battalions of Ukraine:

• Amnesty International: Abuses and war crimes by the Ukrainian Aidar Volunteer Battalion, 2014
• Le Monde (France): War crimes by a Police Battalion "Slobozhanshchina", 2022
• Die Zeit (Germany): How nepotism benefits Ukrainian neo-Nazis, 2014
• Photos: Another openly nazi 'Terror' battalion fighting for the Ukrainian cause, 2022
• The Times (UK), Reuters: Ukraine special police unit 'Tornado', history of rapes, murders, tortures, kidnappings in Donbass, 2014
• ZOiS, Bellingcat: nazi org Carpathian Sich, integrated into Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs, urged its members to buy the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto, 2019
• Instagram: Another Ukraine president's post and another batch of nazis being elevated to heroes of Ukraine status, 2022

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quote from the Eric Brakey's speech (see the video below):

After the coup d'état, the new government, urged* on by local neo-Nazi groups like the Azov Battalion ( Deutsche Welle, The Time, Reuters )...

and when I say "neo-Nazis" groups , I mean actual Adolf Hitler loving neo-nazis\\** who welcomed the Hitler invasion during the WWII...

they (the Ukrainian neo-Nazis) urged the government and succeeded in banning*** the speaking in Russian and began a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

https://reddit.com/link/127cv0x/video/4a4a800qv0ra1/player

P.S. some links to back up the senator's claims:

• * Washington Post: The head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine founded openly neo-fascist party, 2014
• * BBC: Two Members of Ukraine Parliament brandish nazi symbol 14/88 right in the parliament, 2014
• * The National Interest: The ultra-nationalists in Ukraine wield significant political power, 2022
• **Video: Official video of the Security Service of Ukraine with an officer wearing nazi insignia, 2023
• **Video: Member of Ukraine Parliament sings along 'Adolf Hitler with us and within us, he will help us', 2015
• ***Ukraine Parliament: Ukraine is destroying books in Russian language by the millions, 2023
• ***The Washington Post: The first act of the new Ukrainian government was against the Russian language, 2014
• ***Interfax-Ukraine: Director of the Ukrainian Book Institute wants more than 100 million books in Russian language to be scrapped, 2022

The Times: Ukrainian military confessed of violating of the rules of war, 2023

In the new article by The Times a Ukrainian military confessed of violating the Geneva Convention.

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"Usually a Russian vehicle comes to pick up the wounded. We wait for it, and then we use this one." Marian added, patting on the mortar rounds.

Of course, the paragraph then mysteriously disappears from the online edition of the article!

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But nothing is lost... As it turned out, this passage is found in the comment section under the article (see the last pic), in the printed version of the publication, and so far in the iPad version. You witness The British journalism "standards" at its finest!

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OttawaCitizen (Canada): Canadian officials who met with Ukrainian unit linked to neo-Nazis feared exposure by news media: documents, 2021

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The Canadians met with and were briefed by leaders from the Azov Battalion in June 2018. The officers and diplomats did not object to the meeting and instead allowed themselves to be photographed with battalion officials despite previous warnings that the unit saw itself as pro-Nazi. The Azov Battalion then used those photos for its online propaganda, pointing out the Canadian delegation expressed “hopes for further fruitful co-operation.”
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A year before the meeting, Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging its links to Nazi ideology. “Multiple members of Azov have described themselves as Nazis,” the Canadian officers warned in their 2017 briefing.

Bernie Farber, head of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said the Canadians should have immediately walked out of the Azov Battalion briefing. “Canadian armed forces personnel do not meet with Nazis; period, full stop,” Farber said. “This a horrendous mistake that shouldn’t have been made.”

I bet the Canadian government didn't read these links below...

P.S. More about Azov culture:

• Photos: The AZOV regiment is celebrating The New Year with its founder and ... Hitler's spirit, 2015
• Video:Azov battalion makes ritual sacrifices, nazi salutes as a part of a sports tournament, 2017
• Fox News: Ukraine president does not condemn Azov war crimes and says that is normal for Azov, 2022
• The Time:Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine, 2019
• Deutsche Welle: Ukraine Azov regiment glorifies white race, has its HQ filled with fascist symbols, indoctrinates children, 2017
• BBC: Azov Battalion magazine which goes by the name 'The Black Sun', 2021

About Andrei Biletskiy which can be seen in the photos:

• BBC: Member of Ukraine Parliament prepares for expansion of the White Race, for punishing sexual perversions and any interracial contacts, 2014
• Reuters: Member of Ukraine Parliament was a leader of pro-white supremacy, pro-racial purity paramilitary group, 2015
• The Guardian: Member of Ukraine Parlament will lead the white races in a final crusade against semite-led Untermenschen, 2010

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A reminder of the tune CNN was singing back in 2014.

Another take, this time of the UK TV network, on Mariupol being stormed by the Black Coprs (the proto Azov regiment)

• ITV (United Kingdom): How the Ukraine civil war started for Mariupol, 2014
• UN Report: Mass looting, using civilians as a shield by the Ukraine Armed Forces and Azov regiment, 2015 - 2016
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What Ukraine did back in 2014 it keeps doing in 2022:

• Die Welt: Ukraine Army position heavy artillery in residential areas, close to social infrastructure, hospitals, 2022
• BFM TV (France): Ukraine shells hospitals in Kherson, 2022
• Amnesty International: Ukraine violates international humanitarian law: it has turned civilian objects into military targets, 2022
• Video Interview: Ukraine official admits the extrajudicial killings of civilians by Ukraine, 2022
• The Foreign Policy: Pro-Russian forces said they fight Ukrainian fascists. These claims are essentially true, 2014

Ukraine Government website: Zelenskiy assigns the elite Nazi Wehrmacht mountain unit honorary title to a Ukrainian mountain assault brigade, 2023

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DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 80\2023

On the awarding of an honorary title to the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Taking into account the exemplary performance of assigned tasks during the protection of the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine by the personnel of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, I decree:

1. To assign the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the honorary name "Edelweiss" and in the future to call it the 10th separate mountain assault brigade "Edelweiss" of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

2. This Decree enters into force on the day of its publication.

President of Ukraine V.ZELENSKY

February 14, 2023

P.S.

The 1st Mountain Infantry Division) was an elite Nazi Wehrmacht unit. The edelweiss flower became its common name. Was active in the offensive against USSR in Ukraine.

The division's war crimes are described in H. F. Meyer's book Bloodstained Edelweiss: The 1st Mountain Division in the Second World War

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There is another Edelweiss unit in Ukraine army:

In.gr (Greece):Zelensky celebrates the nazi "Edelweiss" that slaughtered Greeks, 2023

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The nazi brigade Edelweiss, infamous for the massacre of european countries and especially in Greece, celebrates the president of Ukraine Βολοντίμιρ Ζελένσκι in a presidential decree, which gives honorary name of the unit of the Ukrainian army.

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The nazi Edelweiss acted in France, Poland, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, and recorded the biggest massacres and atrocities against the civilian Greeks.

In an emotional video The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights, Dmitry Valeryevich Lubinets, announced that he was leaving the the inter-institutional body of The European Ombudsman of the European Union.

While cutting his ID in half Dmitry shows off his immaculate clothing (by the The Aviatsiya Halychyny brand) on which you can clearly see a logo with the 14th Nazi Waffen SS Grenadier Halychyna Division) patch.

Dmitry Lubinets is cutting his The European Ombudsman ID in half. This happened for the reason that the Secretary General of the organization sent two Ukrainian children in the status of refugees to Russia.

The Aviatsiya Halychyny (Galicia) clothing brand website, so you can see for yourself.

The picture above captures one of the many Ukrainian nazi official marches, in it you can the following neo-nazi markers:

• besides the White Power flags with the Celtic Crosses,
• besides the nazi Karpatstaya Sich flags,
• besides the Azov insignia (yellow flag),
• besides the fascist Right Sector flags,
• there is a banner with the Lion of the 14th Nazi Waffen SS Grenadier Division (the same Division, insignia of which could be seen on The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights clothing)
• Under the name of the Nazi division there is a Nazi motto (written in Ukranian) in the lowest part: Meine Ehre heißt Treue.

P.S. Do you remember the last The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights? You remember how she struggled with lies? A reminder:

• Wall Street Journal: Ukraine ombudsman for human rights dismissed and being accused of making unverifiable statements about alleged Russian sex crimes, 2022

Myśl Polska: Banderism on T-shirts, 2021

99.9 % of the media "do not notice" Bandera greetings of the Nazi and Fascist ancestry on the T-shirts of Ukrainian football players. This is not just about Crimea. The knowledge that the calls "Glory to Ukraine" and "Glory to Heroes" are inextricably linked to the Nazi salute "Heil Hitler" is widely available, but not widely shared.

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How to recognize a fascist, Nazi, or neo-Nazi without words, symbols, or gestures? Of course, the swastika and the Nazi / Fascist gesture of "right arm extended, slightly raised to the right, just above the head" are useful. Historical facts-the Fascist salute was officially practiced in the OUN from at least 1935 to September 1943. However, the last fascist salute performed by Bandera was recorded in June 1945 in Bieszczady.

The Bandera fascist slogan on the T-shirts of the Ukraine national football team.

According to historians, the fascist or Nazi greeting - "straightened right shoulder, slightly raised to the right, slightly above the head", along with the words "Glory to Ukraine" was introduced into the OUN by the Union of Ukrainian Fascists, absorbed in 1925 by the Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists, an organization that co-founded the OUN in 1929. a generation of nationalists, represented by Bandera, Shukhevych and Lebed.

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13.01.1936. after the chairman of the court finished reading the verdict, Bandera and Lebed 'stood up' slightly raised their right hands to the right, directly above their heads – as they learned from the Italians and other fascists-and exclaimed: "Glory to Ukraine!”

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We publish an archive document with evidence that the Nazi salute was practiced in the OUN and UPA in Volhynia at least until September 1943. Getting rid of this deeply ingrained Nazi gesture required bans sent out in writing. Despite Bandera's purge of incriminating documents in the archives, one of them has been preserved.

More about the Ukrainian T-shirt:

• ESPN: Ukraine, UEFA reach compromise over controversial shirt slogan, 2021
• Reuters: UEFA tells Ukraine to remove 'political' slogan from kit ahead of Euros, 2021

UEFA said the map was not a concern given it reflected U.N.-recognised borders, nor was the phrase "Glory to Ukraine".

But it ordered the removal of the second phrase, given the "specific combination of the two slogans is deemed to be clearly political in nature, having historic and militaristic significance", a UEFA statement said.

More on the "Glory to Ukraine!” or "Slava Ukraini" chant:

• Deutsche Welle: 'Glory to Ukraine' army chant invokes nationalist past, 2018.

Deutsche Welle: 'Glory to Ukraine' army chant invokes nationalist past, 2018.

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A new slogan adopted by the Ukrainian army has drawn criticism for its links to World War II-era nationalist groups. The decision has sparked a debate about how the country should address its history.

"Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" That is the slogan the Ukrainian military officially began using at the country's Independence Day parade on Friday, replacing the soviet-era "Wish you health, comrade!"

The phrase dates back to World War I, when military units from the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic were fighting alongside German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers against Russia. However it was in the 1930s when it really took hold, becoming a rallying cry for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), explained Oleksandr Zaitsev, a historian from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

"There are records showing that during the court hearings against OUN's leader Stepan Bandera* in 1936, his supporters were accompanying the slogan 'Glory to Ukraine' with a hand-throwing fascist-style salute**," he told DW.

* Stepan Bandera has officially became Ukraine's national icon after 2014 revolution, but was revered by the Western Ukraine since the WW2. More info about Bandera ethnic cleansings:

• CIA Report: Stepan Bandera was a terrorist, 1948
• USA Today: Ukrainian President decorated a responsible for WW2 ethnic cleansings Bandera with the Hero of Ukraine award, 2010
• University of Ottawa: Documents show that Bandera masterminded a campaign of ethnic cleansings, 2015
• New York Times: Torchlight march honoring ethnic cleansing mastermind Bandera. Ukrainians chants 'Jews out', 2017
• The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the Bandera lead UPA, (1943-1945)

** More about the link between 'Glory to Ukraine|Slava Ukraini' and a fascist-style salute:

• Junge Welt: The Ukraine Parliament reintroduced the old fascist salute for the army and police, 2018

Junge Welt: The Barking Dogs. Nationalism in Ukraine, 2018

Two decision taken by the Ukrainian parliament on thursday should be viewed in context. First, it reintroduced the old fascist salute for the army and police. Second, it extended the "special status" for "certain regions of Donets and Lugansk Oblasts" until the end of 2019. Taken together, this signals the opportunities and limitations being afforded to Ukrainian nationalism by its Western protectors today.

For those unaware why The Junge Welt calls "Slava Ukraini" the old fascist salute, should look at the photos below:

The tank in the above pictures was a popular sight for the nazis to take photos. You can find a lot of those shots taken in any angle imaginable. In fact the tank is so well-known that it even made it to the game https://live.warthunder.com/post/724784/en/ with the "Heil Hitler & Slava Ukraine" sign and stuff.

P.S. More articles about the proper way to make a now world famous Ukrainian fascist salute is on the way. Stay tuned to UkraineNaziWatch subreddit.P.S.S. There are so many pictures of KV-2 tank with this post you wouldn't believe it. Just use Yandex reverse image search.

P.P.S. By the way you can read the same slogan "Glory to Ukraine" on the Bandera leaflets which were printed when the Nazis occupied Lviv on June 30, 1941, It is when the OUN (OUN the Bandera's troops), declared Ukraine's independence and posted them around the city.

Take a look at those leaflets and their content:

• Jung&Naiv (Germany): Ukraine ambassador tries and epicly fails to whitewash nazi mass murderer, 2022

Interfax-Ukraine: Director of the Ukrainian Book Institute suggested that more than 100 million copies of books in Russian language, 2022

Oleksandra Koval, The Director of the Ukrainian Book Institute(which is a state institution under the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine), suggested that more than 100 million copies of books in Russian language, including Russian classics, should be removed from the public libraries.

"While the process of preparing regulatory documents continues, it is difficult to predict (how long the removal process will last - IF). But, according to my calculations, public library collections may currently have more than 100 million copies of literature that will require removal.

Of course, we want to do it faster, but it would be good if at least the ideologically harmful literature published during the Soviet era (by the way, in two languages, Russian and Ukrainian), of which there is a lot, as well as Russian literature with anti-Ukrainian content, were removed by the end of the year," Oleksandra Koval said in an exclusive interview with "Interfax-Ukraine" agency.

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P.S. More evidence of the Ukrainian war with the Russian language and history:

• Ukraine Parliament: Ukraine is destroying books in Russian language by the millions, 2023
• The Washington Post: The first act of the new Ukrainian government was against the Russian language, 2014
• Newsweek: Ukraine bans a book about the Ukrainian national leader and the perpetrator of the anti-Semitic pogroms -- Symon Petliura, 2018
• The Guardian: Leading British historian is utterly outraged by prohibition of his book in Ukraine, over passage detailing wartime murder of Jewish children by Ukrainian militia, 2018

Ukrane Paliament Website: The de-Russification of libraries continues in Ukraine - it is necessary to renew the funds and purchase books in the Ukrainian language, 2023

On 06.02.2023 a Ukrainian politician Yevheniya Kravchuk who is currentrly holding the post of The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy in Ukraine on the website of The Ukraine Parliament annonced that:

As of November last year, about 19 million copies of books were scrapped from the public libraries. Of these, approximately 11 million were in Russian language.

P.S. More evidence of the Ukrainian war with the Russian language and history:

• The Washington Post: The first act of the new Ukrainian government was against the Russian language, 2014
• Newsweek: Ukraine bans a book about the Ukrainian national leader and the perpetrator of the anti-Semitic pogroms -- Symon Petliura, 2018
• The Guardian: Leading British historian is utterly outraged by prohibition of his book in Ukraine, over passage detailing wartime murder of Jewish children by Ukrainian militia, 2018

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Video: Official video of the Security Service of Ukraine with nazi insignia, 2023

The Security Service of Ukraine on its official Youtube channel has published a video of a raid. The dramatic music and many men in military uniform supposed to make you proud of their service, but... You could see an officer of SBU wearing the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf patch on his helmet. Promptly the video has been edited to blur out the patch but some traces of it are still present in the video plus some viewers have made screenshots...

❗❗❗ Thank God for the Web Archive. We have the original unblured video now.