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Jesus. I will always remember some freak on Reddit telling me, "um ackshually Ukrainians only wear that stuff to scare Russians" and like... Yeah Nazis wear Nazi shit to intimidate my dude. Got downvoted for pointing it out...
But why would it be intimidating?
“Hey, remember that army you defeated? Well I’m wearing their symbol, bet you feel right scared now.”
The Nazis expressed a desire to wipe out the Slavs, executing most of them directly and working the remainder to death as slaves. They also acted on that desire and were notorious cruel. Openly wearing Nazi paraphernalia is a threat, even if their loss of WWII makes it a fairly empty one.
Liberals love to use this as an excuse. I don't buy it. Russians are just as upset with their government as any other group of people, including not wanting to fight in wars. But they see Ukrainians decked out in nazi paraphernalia? People will volunteer to fight for free. It has got to be a major boost to their morale getting to kill fascists. No Russian has seen a black sun and shit themselves over it this entire war. They're probably thinking "How nice of them to paint a target on themselves."
Ironically being a nazi is still being a nazi. I think these fuckwads know damn well there's nazis in the Ukrainian military. They just agree with fascism and hate Russians more than they hate Germans (who ~~are proud Aryans~~ hold "western values").
I don't even see how it IS an excuse. As I say, wearing Nazi paraphernalia in the hopes it will intimidate or upset people is literally just what a Nazi would do.
After they find the dead body and see the patches for the first time they get real scared
TBF I didn't say it was effective.