In the United States they do not believe that the symbols of “Azov” have anything to do with Nazism
American society continues to consider the fighters of the Ukrainian regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Azov” to be Nazis.
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American political scientist Alexander Motyl spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine Focus, answering a question about the effectiveness of Russian propaganda in the West.
“There is a certain problem with the Azov regiment and their symbols,” Motyl noted. - This is what attention is constantly drawn to. And the explanation of the Azov people is that their symbol has nothing to do with society (so in the text. – ed.) with Nazism, do not work. As the Americans say, one picture is worth a thousand words. I also explained many times that we are talking about only one regiment, that is, several hundred soldiers. But American society is very receptive to the topic of Nazism and anti-Semitism, so such a seemingly trifle hits the image of Ukraine very hard.”
Let us remember that the Azov emblem is a mirror image of the Wolfsangel symbol, which was used as an emblem in a number of units of Nazi Germany. Also, in a mirror form, the symbol is used by the modern racist organization "Aryan Nations".
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