Pretty sure that guy on the left has a black sun patch too but it’s slightly too low res to make out for sure. From this WSJ article about the nazis’ valiant fight against rodents: https://archive.is/2svOZ

  • Catradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 个月前

    I do love playing where’s waldo but for finding the ukrainian fascism in every western article about them

    it might be hard to see at times, but its there

    • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 个月前

      It has to be an attempt at normalizing and laundering fascist symbols at this point right? That and creating a reality where anyone who calls out classical symbols of fascism is labeled a Russian propagandist. That can be really the only end point of this kind of obfuscation, denial, and yet clear presentation. Daring anyone to believe their eyes instead of and in defiance of the edicts of the western press. Something, something literally 1984.

      • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 个月前

        Absolutely. The western cultural knowledge on this topic since WWII has been “Nazis bad.” Now that Nazis/fascists are once again necessary within the imperial core, there must be a phase of “rehabilitation” as it were.

      • pigginz@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        8 个月前

        Honestly I’d bet that it’s more often just laziness and lack of journalistic integrity. They probably wrote the article first and then just threw in random photo of Azov from their database (if the same person was even responsible for both) and moved on. Same effect either way though.

        • ImOnADiet🇵🇸 (He/Him)@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 个月前

          It very likely was the same person, many newsrooms make the same journalist do the whole article these days, including the photo selection and even the photography itself sometimes. Journalism is doing real bad these days, it’s a dying field

          • pigginz@lemmygrad.mlOP
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            8 个月前

            How much do you know about the field? Do publications like WSJ still maintain a substantial staff of in-house writers or are they contracting it out/buying individual articles/something else?

            • ImOnADiet🇵🇸 (He/Him)@lemmygrad.ml
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              8 个月前

              Studied to be a journalist for a couple years, this is stuff I read about online plus what my profs told me, that you have to be a complete package as a journalist these days that can take their own pics, edit them, and write the article too (at least, that’s what I was doing for digital/print).

              WSJ is still big enough that they might still have a full staff, and they for sure arent buying articles, but like I said it’s everywhere that the field is dying so there’s also a good chance one person was responsible for basically everything in the article besides the photography (but they were the ones to choose and edit the photo, probably from a database like you said)

    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 个月前

      The symbol is pretty irrelevant, because the flag is already that of the UPA - the military arm of the fascist OUN, which partook in the Holocaust.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 个月前

    Asked why he joined the brigade, Tackleberry said one word: Mariupol.

    “Asked why he joined the Wehrmacht, Dingleberry said one word: Stalingrad.”