• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I have a lot of footage archived from the 2014 ukrainian civil war and one of them is a pogrom carried out against Roma. I save this stuff not because I enjoy viewing it or having it on my hard drive, but because I don’t trust western media or even western historians to properly preserve this stuff.

      Also, the Azov battalion is a “territorial defense unit” that mostly attacks Ukrainians in Donbass and Luhansk. It is political parties like Svoboda and their paramilitary wings like C14 that are usually doing those pogroms. Naturally all these reactionary organizations cross-pollinate so there is a tendency to just call them all Azov because it’s a name everyone knows by this point.