Joe Brunoli
1 min readFeb 25, 2023

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"It is high time to forget all that nonsense about Ukraine being dominated by Nazis. "

Um, no. The Nazis have not gone anywhere. There was a time when everyone knew there were Nazis in Ukraine.

In 2018, Congress actually passed an Amendment to the NDAA forbidding the Government from funding the Azov Battalion:

"None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion."

Here is what John Conyers wrote into the Congressional Record that day:

"This amendment...limits arms, training, and

other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion.

Foreign Policy magazine has characterized the 1,000-man Azov Battalion as "openly neo-Nazi'' and "fascist.'' Numerous other news organizations, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Associated Press have corroborated the dominance of White supremacist and anti-Semitic views within the group; yet Ukraine's Interior Minister recently announced the Azov Battalion will be among the units to receive training and arms from Western allies, including the United States.

Azov's founder, Andriy Biletsky, organized the neo-Nazi group the Social-National Assembly in 2008. Azov men use neo-Nazi symbolism on their banner."

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-161/issue-92/house-section/article/H4117-2

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Joe Brunoli
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