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Meet one of the frontline soldiers defending Ukraine. Call sign ‘Adolf Jewslayer,’ this soldier says that he’s not just fighting for Ukraine, but to defend democracy and minorities in the west
It’s pretty wild how they’ve formed a united from against communism despite no actual communists being involved in this clusterfuck.
Communist parties of the former soviet union have been on the vanguard for rescuing the donbass republics since 2014. Plenty communists, both mother parties and youth league members have shed their blood, sweat, and tears in this long war.
Unfortunately many have been purged or left leadership positions in the annexed regions. Hence this emoji
To be fair, there were many communists who volunteered in Wagner just so they can kill fascists.
However, what the Ukrainian Nazis really hated was the Soviet legacy, and continued to blame the Russians for being the ones who brought communism into their “country” (which is even more ironic, as Putin had pointed out, their country was given to them by Lenin).
“Anti-Racist. The race that I’m Anti is the Asiatic Russian.”
how can you expect a liberal to know about the Freikorps if it wasn’t mentioned in any of the Harry Potter books
The freikorps were basically the freaking Death Eaters…
And Azov is totally Slytherin 🐍
Freikorps is just a german word for people fighting without monetary compensation. Frei = free and Korps = corps.
No, it’s not just that, it’s an actual historical group which was used to crush communism in Germany and pave the way for the Nazis (many of them later became the actual Nazi SA themselves) glad I could clear that up for you! Surprised you never heard of them before!
Not trying to be contrairian; I’m hoping someone can enlighten me since I don’t seem to understand the significance of this.
My understanding of freikorps is that it’s a class of soldier, not necessarily tied to any period or event. The term doesn’t refer to any one historical group, but rather many different groups across many different historical periods who fought alongside regular armies. Sure it is true that there were freikorps groups that supported the rise of Hitler, etc., but there were also freikorps groups that opposed it (see the francs-tireurs)
Which one do you think these Ukranians named themselves after? Be honest
Is this a bit?
No.
It’s someone who has the weird liberal trait of not considering origins of things if it aligns with their current political goals.
Worst case it’s on the same tier as ““national SOCIALIST” =“a socialist who likes their nation””
I don’t know what my polital goal is here, but I don’t support Ukraine if that’s what you’re suggesting. I thought maybe someone would explain why freikorps is necessarily connected with Nazism (especially if we are concerned about the “origin of things” as you say). Unfortunately nobody has really been that helpful.
I guess if everyone just associates freicorps with nazis then that’s what it is. It therefore makes it a safe bet that whoever is using it is doing the same. I ended up looking into this group in particular and yeah they are Nazis so checks out.
things like this really make me wonder what non-leftists learn about history. I had someone telling me that they didn’t know which French Revolution I was talking about when I said The French Revolution and I think they might have been serious.
Why use a German term? Why use a German term that is most infamous for its connection to proto-Nazis? Why not just be “Volunteer Corps” in Ukrainian?
You can probably guess why if you ask any of these fuckers what they think of Bandera.
Analogy:
The term Sturmabteilung predates the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919. Originally it was applied to the specialized assault troops of Imperial Germany in World War I who used infiltration tactics based on being organized into small squads of a few soldiers each. The first official German stormtrooper unit was authorized on March 2, 1915 on the Western Front.
“idk guys, I don’t see a connection to the Nazis for this Ukrainian battalion just because it’s called Sturmabteilung”
this is right up there with “bro the wolfsangel is just a pagan slavic symbol bro, so is the sonnerad bro! bro!”
That white circle thingy behind the not-swastika cannot be a black sun, since it’s white
yeah? is it usual for ukrainians to use german words with specific history for no reason in particular?
Yes. They also happen to be Buddhist.
I sure fucking wonder why Ukrainians are using German for the name of their group. Could it have any connection to the historical proto-fascist German paramilitary, given that Ukraine has employed neo-nazi paramilitaries and integrated them into the state before? No, must be a coincidence
Ein Kostenlos Korps mit jedem Aufstand!
Schutzstaffel is just a german word for a protection squadron
“Sieg Heil” is just the German word for “hail victory”.
Which was never used pre third reich and therefore has a huge historical weight.
Ask a german about Freikorps and they most likely will think of Napoleon, not the third reich.
Did you source this right out of your ass? Trust me, most Germans are not thinking of Napoleon. They’re not thinking of the Third Reich either, because the Freikorps were integrated into the Reichswehr in 1920 already and the name wasn’t used after that. If they remember this term from school or media at all, then almost certainly in the context of the Freikorps squashing socialist uprisings under direction of the Ebert government in 1918/19. They might also remember them murdering Luxemburg, Liebknecht and others, and in general being far-right proto-fascists.
Absolutely not lol, germans would know that anyone naming their unit ‘Freikorps’ is a nazi just like all the other stuff, shit if you see someone waving the Reichsfahne people know that you are a nazi.
As a German, when I see any foreigner using German in a military context, I assume they’re a Wehraboo and by extension at least fascist-adjacent
Ask a german about Freikorps and they most likely will think of Napoleon, not the third reich.
I’d wager a good bet 70% of Germans wouldn’t even know that word, it’s a lesser detail in German history totally irrelevant to your average German. Nobody cares about Napoleon or Weimar.
Um, do you guys actually support communism? Don’t you know that evil putler is actually a secret judeo-bolshevik who’s seeking to destroy the white race, defended by brave Zelensky-Potter? Why are we even federated with hexbear?
Don’t you know that evil putler is actually a secret judeo-bolshevik who’s seeking to destroy the white race
Wtf I love Putin now.
From the snarky replies one gets the impression the guy genuinely doesn’t know what the Freikorps are/were. This is apparently a successful journalist.
“it just means free corps in german. freedom is good. i don’t see the problem!”
Check further down the thread for this being said unironically
federation moment
Is this real?
Yes he really is that clueless. Maybe just lying? Not a good look either way.
I can’t find it, would you mind linking it?
Thank you for the help
Works for the Independent and inews.
These western journalists are openly nazi supporters. The racial supporting pretense they put up should never be believed, they serve the western states first and foremost.
Guys he said he’s anti-racist. That means he cannot possibly be racist because no one ever lies.
Anti-racist in the West = I don’t say any mainstream slurs for minorities
I consistently suppress my urge to Kristallnacht my local Mosque and Chinese restaurant. I am very tolerant and anti-racist.
“As Russians advance in Kupiansk” has a different feel to it after reading what comes before.
Freikorp? Damn
s can not take the hint, even when its screamed in their faces by 
This is just an upstanding anti-racist member of Ukraine’s well-known Freikörperkultur
All they know is be nekkid, eat hot chip, and die
Liberals are aggressively erasing the history of Jewish people in 20th century Europe.
Libs are just being centrist on this issue. On one hand the Freikorps killed a lot of Jews, but they also killed a lot more Communists and socialists, so that makes them a moderate centrist group of people!
Nazis said that communists were bad, so now libs can’t acknowledge that lots of jews really were communists, and if you won’t acknowledge that reality then you’ll certainly never wonder why lots of jews were communists. So, the cycle of libs failing to analyze the relationship between capitalism, fascism, ethnic conflict, and communist resistance continues. Anyway, just ignore me. I’m not a professional journalist.
