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The situation in Mariupol takes your breath away. With over 95% of the city having been leveled, a pocket of a few thousand Ukrainian solders are holding out and defiant. Thoughts of the Alamo come to mind.
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Some of the guys defending Mariupol are part of the Above Battalion, which includes neo-Nazis.
The Azov Battalion: Extremists defending Mariupol
The city of Mariupol, which has a population of 500,000, is primarily being defended by the Azov Battalion. ...
Its fighters are well trained, but the unit is composed of nationalists and far-right radicals. ... Some of its fighters came from the small but active far-right group Pravyi sektor (Right Sector),... Some were soccer ultras, others were active in nationalist circles. Such associations would be described as "free comradeships," or organized neo-Nazi groups, in Germany, Andreas Umland from the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, told DW.
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I know Andreas Upland. Born in East Germany (and actually served in the East German Army before that concern went belly up), and has lived in Kyiv for years. He has been urging Ukrainian officials ot distance themselves from guys like the Azov Battalion.
 
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Tidewater said:
Some of the guys defending Mariupol are part of the Above Battalion, which includes neo-Nazis.
The Azov Battalion: Extremists defending Mariupol
The city of Mariupol, which has a population of 500,000, is primarily being defended by the Azov Battalion. ...
Its fighters are well trained, but the unit is composed of nationalists and far-right radicals. ... Some of its fighters came from the small but active far-right group Pravyi sektor (Right Sector),... Some were soccer ultras, others were active in nationalist circles. Such associations would be described as "free comradeships," or organized neo-Nazi groups, in Germany, Andreas Umland from the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, told DW.
I know Andreas Upland. Born in East Germany (and actually served in the East German Army before that concern went belly up), and has lived in Kyiv for years. He has been urging Ukrainian officials ot distance themselves from guys like the Above Battalion.
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Good grief.
I guess mutual enemies make for strange bedfellows.
A case putting neo-Nazis to good use?
 
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Chukker Veteran said:
Good grief.
I guess mutual enemies make for strange bedfellows.
A case putting neo-Nazis to good use?
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This is a photo from Euromaidan in 2013.
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The red-and-black flags are Pravyi Sektor (Right Sector) flags. The same guys joined the Azov Battalion.
The red-and-black is the flag of Stepan Bandera of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who welcomed the Nazis in 1941, then fought the Nazis, then fought the Soviets into the late 1940s.
 
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Go Bama said:
Tough to read. God bless these guys.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1516078953445961739
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1516065341612376070
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Dnipro was until recently Dnipropetrovsk, but the "Pyotr" after whom it was named was Peter the Great of Russia, so the Ukrainians dropped that and went with Dnipro instead.
By the way, this woman speaks English with a Ukrainian accent. The Ukrainians also speak Russian with the same accent.
 
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