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    Hopefully they keep doing this, and then get themselves droned, like those UkraNazis on Reddit a few years ago

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    I want to know why are they hiding their face with masks. They are not face mask for medical purpose. They are likely not in cold winter condition.

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    26 days ago

    This has to be the Ustasa flag? People liking this picture despite knowing what this means, are fascist. Saving democracy my ass. Would the really believe this narrative, they would dislike this picture.

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    Some fun facts…

    This flag is illegal in Croatia, but in practice, people are rarely prosecuted for displaying it. You can identify it by the “U” on top left and the first white field.

    “Za Dom Spremni” is like a Nazi “Sieg Heil” or OUN “Slava Ukraini”. The EU was cracking down on its usage, while Croatian nationalists tried to defend it as “ancient”, generic and preceding the Croatian Nazi use of it. The EU didn’t buy it.

    Given all that, it was infuriating watching various EU politicians proudly screaming “Slava Ukraini” and getting praised for it, while “Slava Ukraini” is explained away as…”ancient” and generic…

    Oh yes, and the most popular Croatian singer, who just sold like half a million tickets to his show, uses “Za Dom Spremni”, in his most popular song.

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      Given all that, it was infuriating watching various EU politicians proudly screaming “Slava Ukraini” and getting praised for it, while “Slava Ukraini” is explained away as…”ancient” and generic…

      Fun part is the full slogan is “Slava Ukraini” and in the response “Heroiam slava”, and the second part is indeed generic old east Slavic slogan, for example Red Army also used it, it’s even on nearly every Soviet war memorial. So of course the nazis largely stopped using it and left only the explicitly nazi part of it.

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      You just know that if it was Croatia that was at war with Russia then the EU would be A-okay with people proclaiming “Za Dom Spremni.”

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        Oh one more fun fact.

        During Croatian “War of Independence” against the Serb rebels, initially the West put an arms embargo on Croatia, but Yeltsin’s Russia smuggled a lot of weapons for Croatia nationalists in, which is one of the big reasons Croatian chuds like Russia even today.

        The Serbs are super pro-Russian regardless.

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      Georgian Legion mention probably, mercenary formation funded partially by NAFO and known for their multiple war crimes, of cours they were one of the first mercenaries to fight in Ukraine.

      Or maybe reminder that Georgia was the other country which was send before by USA to war against Russia and that they for some reason like to suicide for US profits idk (though Georgians actually didn’t, their entire army retreated when Russia send first brigade)

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      It might have something to do with the protests and resistance to “Russian influence.” I think their president was fear mongering about it.