This is all just what I remember from research years ago, but at one point there was a pretty large chunk of nazis/sympathizers in azov specifically. They cracked down on extremism since then, but it's conceivable there's a few left.

Now using that to call every single Ukrainian servicemember and child a nazi to justify actual imperialism? Average braindead tankie take.

Yeah, so here's the thing. The Azov Battalion was a Nazi force up until they were obliterated during the Mariupol massacre. It's since been somewhat denazified but they still continue to fly the modified wolfsangel. This is all the Russians can point to. But remember the Russian Wagner group? They too were full fledged Nazis so it's utterly stupid for Putin to point fingers. But that's not the point, it's just a very flimsy reason for the Russians to justify the invasion.

Actually they posted this

I tried using lemvotes.org to check the votes, but I have had trouble getting that site to work for checking votes on some comments. Not sure why.

Edit: also having trouble checking votes on the post as well. Odd.

dessalines upvoted it

https://kbin.earth/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/1559796/THE-LUGANSK-PEOPLE-S-REPUBLIC-HAS-BEEN-LIBERATED-FROM-THE-NAZI/comment/7556873/favourites

(You have to copy/paste)

How many monis you gib?

I don't remember a time where they attempted to pretend. It's just recently they started getting heavy with the site wide bans though.

Tankies have always regurgitated Putin propaganda.

i’d prefer to borrow crayons without having to dig them out of peoples noses tyvm

It gives them more strenghts. The same happened with /thedonald.

Unfortunately, the "block" isn't really a block on Lemmy, it's barely a mute and that goes for user and instance blocks. Because dessalines refuses to implement a proper system (unsurprisingly). It's been 4 years since "blocks" rolled out

In any case it still allows their toxicity and misinformation to spread, trolling new users who come here unaware of the need to block and such

Really, the best answer is to call for wide defederation like the rest of the Tankie Triad is treated

It's mostly the exact same people as the rest of the triad, they just keep their masks on a little bit better when they're on .ml.