Oleksandr “Bear” Kravtsov with an Adolf Hitler tattoo on his arm, and the “Vedmedi SS” posing with their flag in 2021, which has the Nazi SS slogan, “My honor means loyalty.” Circled left to right: a swastika necklace, a totenkopf tattoo on Kravtsov’s left hand, a Nazi-style eagle on the back of his neck, and more Nazi tattoos on his torso (14, 88, Celtic Cross).

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Only Wars appears to have grown out of the Azov Regiment in the Special Operations Forces that formed the basis of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. This Azov brigade in the Ukrainian army, more overtly neo-Nazi than its counterpart in the National Guard, has overlapping leadership with the political wing and “street branch” of the Azov movement.

A prime example is Dmytro Kukharchuk, a battalion commander and leader of the National Corps political party, who wears an Only Wars patch on his combat vest, and has developed close ties to a charity in Chicago.


Events that happened today (August 14):

1890: Bruno Emil Tesch, Axis chemist who co‐invented Zyklon B, arrived to worsen life with his existence.
1934: Adolf Schicklgruber received a signed document containing Hindenburg’s ‘last wish’, which was for the restoration of the Hohenzollern monarchy. Schicklgruber did not have the document published. Hermann Göring was injured in an accident outside Munich when the car he was driving collided with a truck on a narrow road. He sustained injuries to his back and cuts to his face and knees, but left the hospital the next day.
1936: Nationalist forces led by Juan Yagüe captured the walled city of Badajoz. Once inside, a savage repression known as the Massacre of Badajoz began, making headlines around the world. Meanwhile, Portugal accepted a French proposal for neutrality in the Spanish Civil War, an important step in the international nonintervention agreement France was seeking.
1937: The Battle of Santander began. Chinese warplanes attacked Imperial ships in Shanghai harbour, but most of the bombs missed their targets and struck civilian areas instead, killing over 1,000.
1940: Fascist administrator Gustav Simon abrogated the Constitution of Luxembourg, banned all opposition parties and made German the only official language there.
1941: Axis forces captured Krivoy Rog while the Third Reich commissioned the submarine U‐583. Meanwhile, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill jointly issued the Atlantic Charter, stating the Allied goals for the postbellum world as British bombers conducted an overnight raid on the railway yards at Hanover.
1943: Allied bombers flew a record distance, traveling 2,500 miles from Australia to carry out the first bombing raid on the island of Borneo, striking the Axis oil reserves at Balikpapan. Meanwhile, the Axis lost both the Battle of Roosevelt Ridge and the Battle of Belgorod. To make matters even worse for them, Rome was declared an open city by the Italian government a day after its twoth bombing, making the announcement in a radio broadcast by Stetani, the official news agency. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the Italian Prime Minister confirmed the decision later in the day, offering to remove Rome’s defenses, under the supervision of the Allies, in exchange for no further bombing. Finally, the British submarine Saracen was damaged by depth charges from Italian corvettes off Bastia, Corsica and scuttled to prevent capture.
1944: The Osovets Offensive officially ended with the completion of Soviet objectives. Canadian and Polish troops began Operation Tractable, the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy. An Italian prisoner of war was killed during a violent conflict between Yankee soldiers and Italian POWs. Finally, the Axis submarine U-618 was sunk in the Bay of Biscay by British ships and aircraft.
1945: Emperor Hirohito recorded a radio message to the Japanese people saying that the war should end and that they must ‘bear the unbearable.’ That night the Kyūjō incident occurred, an effort by a group of officers to steal the recording and stop the move to surrender. The attempt would fail and the conspirators would commit suicide.
1947: The Western Allies completed the Buchenwald Trial. Of the 31 convicted staff members of the Buchenwald concentration camp, they executed only 11, and gave the rest prison sentences, most of whom they let out early.
1956: Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath, Axis diplomat and war criminal, dropped dead.
1988: Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari, Axis businessman, expired.

  • @SkyezOpen
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    Ah yes, putin wants to keep NATO from expanding so he…checks notes

    Launches a full scale invasion of a soverign country, devastates cities and infrastructure, triggers massive support and involvement from NATO to include the US of motherfucking A, and directly causes two more countries to join NATO. Brilliant. 300 IQ play. Incredible. I could hardly hope to kiss the ground he walks on to hopefully get a taste of his boots, which must be spotless thanks to people like you.

    Oh I almost forgot the 3 day special military operation that was actually a cover for bringing trench warfare back into vogue. Truly a visionary.

    • Anarcho-BolshevikOPM
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      I can see that reading is not your strong suit, so here’s a clue:

      The deal, agreed to by Ukraine, Russia and other European countries, was designed to grant some form of autonomy to the breakaway regions in exchange for reintegrating them into the Ukrainian state. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian government refused to implement the autonomy provision of the accords. Anatol Lieven, a researcher with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote in The Nation (11/15/21):

      The main reason for this refusal, apart from a general commitment to retain centralized power in Kiev, has been the belief that permanent autonomy for the Donbas would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and the European Union, as the region could use its constitutional position within Ukraine to block membership.

      So then, how can NATO include Ukraine—further breaking its promise not to expand—when there are people’s republics within Ukraine preventing membership? And how easily can the Ukrainian government liquidate those republics when the Russian Federation is protecting them? Hmm?

      Now, it would be easy for me to sink myself down to your level, but since this is an educational subcommunity I am going to try something different: did you know that Adolf Heusinger, a former Axis official, served as the Chairman of NATO’s Permanent Military Committee for 1,061 days? Because that is the exact same amount of time that you are going to spend banned here. Have a glass of lemonade and enjoy.