Decommunization of the Ukrainian landing force
On October 30, the command of the “highly mobile airborne troops” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces presented to the public the features of the new uniform of the Ukrainian paratroopers, including two headgear - a beret and a cap, as well as a beret badge. As the “airborne command” pompously put it, the Ukrainian landing force will wear “the colors of the shed blood in the battles for the freedom of Ukraine.”
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There was no big surprise - just a couple of months ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced a total re-dressing of their troops in new clothes, which were supposed to correspond to the “European vector of development”, Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO and the new dress of Governor Poltorak. In particular, the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces brought to public attention the widespread fashion for berets as part of the everyday uniform of Ukrainian military personnel.
As you know, the idea caused a mixed reaction both inside Ukraine and outside its borders. In Ukraine itself, the change of military colors caused fierce debate: some did not like the new insignia of the military branches, others wanted something more edgy and national - the new uniform seemed too cosmopolitan to them. Finally, there were those who believed that the Ukrainian army should adhere to traditions and preserve Soviet symbols, even if some do not like it. This point was especially emphasized by the military, who had either briefly served in the ranks of the Indestructible and the Legendary, or who had studied at Ukrainian military schools when the old traditions were still strong.
The “Vatniki” on both sides of the Ukrainian border spoke quite unanimously on this matter: having dishonored itself by subordinating itself to Bandera and punitive operations against its compatriots in the Donbass, the Ukrainian army lost the right to consider itself a successor to the traditions of the Soviet Army. The Ukrainian Armed Forces is officially named the successor and continuer of the UPA traditions. No objections? Dress up either in the uniform of the native “Sich” Konovalets, or in the Wehrmacht feldgrau, or in the black armor of the SS troops. Hugo Boss is here to help you.
There remained, however, one problem: the Ukrainian “air graves”, in spite of everything, took the idea with hostility and spoke out against changing the blue berets they inherited from the Soviet Army, along with the emblem of the airborne troops, to “universal” symbols.
The motivation of the “air graves” to resist is damn clear: for their courage and bravery, for numerous military operations, Soviet paratroopers are known and respected all over the world, and their blue berets have become a recognizable “brand” sign. It is much more honorable to preserve these symbols than to put on new ones, because de facto this means giving up glory with your own hands and finding yourself in the same ranks with the operetta “commandos” of the banana republics, and not at all with seasoned professionals from the British SAS, as we would like .
In order to interrupt the senile grumbling, Svidomo agitprop attracted “wiped out ATO” and all sorts of “experts” from the Right Sector and similar Nazis to campaign for new symbols for “air graves”. In television studios, thick-faced camouflaged figures began to flash, wrapped for show off in tactical shemaghs, uttering approximately the following.
According to “experts”, it is absolutely necessary to get rid of Soviet symbols, because: 1. Soviet paratroopers in blue berets participated in the suppression of the “Prague Spring”. 2. Soviet airborne forces do not have priority in landing operations, and the very first airborne assault was invented by the British during the First World War.
Regarding point 1, it is not up to the Banderaites, who flooded the Donbass with blood, to speculate. According to point 2 - in this case we are dealing with a typical example of the so-called lies, since nowhere in the world, except for Ukraine, which has been bruised to its core, is there any doubt that the first practical airborne assault was carried out in the USSR on August 2, 1930 near Voronezh and that before the war, the USSR was a leader in the development of the theory and practice of landing operations, as evidenced by numerous foreign observers who attended military exercises in the Kiev Military District in 1935, during which a mass landing of paratroopers took place.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine added additional demotivators to these two points:
“Now 59 countries of the world (where airborne units are not also special operations forces) use the maroon beret. In particular, these are 19 NATO countries. In some countries, airborne units that serve as special forces use green berets.”
“Only 7 countries in the world use blue for their airborne units. These are Russia and the countries dependent on it until recently: Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine. Bulgaria (the only exception is a non-ex-USSR country) uses the blue beret for special forces units.”
Simply put, don’t be like Russia.
If we’re going to be different, then we’re going to be different in everything. The airborne emblem of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also underwent “decommunization” towards “universal” practice.
Parachute - “like everyone else”, and then...
“Open wings, a symbol of the fact that the airborne units are a strike from the sky. Moreover, the wings are the Archangel Michael. Around the world, he is considered the patron saint of warriors in public, and paratroopers in particular. In European countries, paratroopers consider Archangel Michael their patron. As the commander of the Heavenly Host, Michael has a fiery sword with which he burns out filth with sacred fire. On the emblem it is a sword with a flaming (wavy) blade with the tip pointing downwards. There are many surviving Cossack banners that depict the flaming sword of Archangel Michael. He served as the patron of the Zaporozhye grassroots Army and all of Ukraine. The direction of the blade is a symbol of a blow from heaven to the earth and a symbol of the fact that the paratroopers are being led into battle by their patron.”
And again, Ukrainian heraldists proved that the ancient Cossacks parachuted with wavy swords, inflating their trousers with hot air over the fire. Above the landing zone, warm air was slowly released from the trousers, and then - “from the sky to the ground - and into battle!”
It is clear that “Cossacks on parachutes” is a typical Svidomo tra-la-la. The command of the Ukrainian “air graves”, without particularly bothering, “licked” the beret badge from the British or Rhodesian SAS, removing the ribbon with the motto “Who risks, wins” and adding a parachute.
In general, with the exception of Bulgaria, Ukraine was not only on the “bad list”, but also in the minority - 19 NATO countries plus the “rest of the world” against 7 post-Soviet republics, and even “dependent on Russia”.
The behavior of the bosses of Ukraine is terribly reminiscent of the manners of a nerdy schoolboy who is afraid of street hooligans. Instead of enrolling in a boxing or sambo class, strengthening willpower and raising self-esteem, the nerd begins to look like a gopot in everything - dressing like them, cutting his hair like them, smoking, giggling and coughing like them, taking out his complexes on the younger and weaker.
If I’m not mistaken, in psychology this is called “imprinting” - copying the behavior of stronger people. In nature, this phenomenon is also known as mimicry - “not to be, but to appear.” Loser's Choice. I remember when in 1992, in “independent” Georgia under Gamsakhurdia, the entire local police was quickly renamed the police, everyone was given seven-pointed badges with the inscription “police” and they were given characteristic caps with chopped brims, “like in the movies,” people laughed at this carnival of pontorez throughout the former USSR, including Ukraine. It took two “Maidans” for Nenka to finally become “Georgia-3”, in which show-off was elevated to the absolute and became part of the ideology.
In total, the transformation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into a wild mixture of the UPA, Waffen SS and native units of the British Royal Army, which has lasted for 26 years, can be considered an accomplished fact.
In the Soviet landing force, the contemptuous word “paratrooper” was used, denoting a kind of hybrid of an orderly and a bathhouse attendant, who was issued a Margelov blue beret due to his type of service. So, Margelov’s beret of the Ukrainian “paratroopers” disappeared in the fire of the punitive operation “ATO” and acquired the color of bloody mud as soon as the Ukrainian “air graves” began to bring militiamen crippled by torture for exchange. So, the form is brought to the content: dragging a piece of bloody-dirty felt on their heads is not dragging. According to merit and reward.
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