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If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to this if you can, thank you.

Links

Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1B1PLMhbHmG1aJ2-QNxHY1TksI6HlNhqF&ll=48.60777942568106%2C36.4496511633501&z=7

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

Leftist discussion threads:

https://hexbear.net/post/177324

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/ :kitty-cri-texas:

https://lemmygrad.ml/

Twitter military updaters:

https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast

https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:

https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet

https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike

https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael

https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518

https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos

obvious disclaimers about taking all of them with tonnes of salt etc

Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413

Better war/propaganda analysis:

https://www.understandingwar.org

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

News updates:

https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html

Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html

YT/Video in Ukraine:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe

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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    https://www.reddit.com/gallery/u5429f

    Jesus christ, a white dude with a fucking odal rune tatooed on his forehead? Just... straight up fucking nazi shit, fresh and upvoted on :reddit-logo: .

    There's a very, very, very slim possibility that he's just really fucking stupid, since the odal run doesn't have the little wings on it that the Nazi version uses, but I'm like 95% sure this guy's a nazi.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Runes are still a bit iffy in the nordic area, a tattoo that visible would be read by 99% of people here as nazi affiliated, something more private like shoulder or something would be more ambiguous but you dont do it that blatantly and unavoidable to the eye without wanting to be really clear about what you believe.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, that guy would get clocked as a nazi by any white supremacist faction in the US. If it was something other than the odal rune you could maybe make excuses for him, but no one picks the "blood and family" rune by mistake. There's gotta be thousands and thousands of people :reddit-logo: could pick as a model fighter for Ukraine but somehow the Nazis keep rising to the top.

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          if somebody had a dog named after a norse god or goddess would a dog tag with the runes in that name be pretty safe?

          • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah I'm pretty sure most people would find that relatively safe, increasingly so the further you get away from the two main nazi associated gods of thor and odin, loki would probably just be taken as a marvel fan cause otherwise he's a bit of an odd god to be into.

            I think maybe certain combos like if you have some big fuckoff pitbull named Odin that might get a few glances, but for the most part I doubt people would judge that much for a dogs name, having its name in runes on the tag would probably just be considered cutesy, if a bit impractical.

            • SoyViking [he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              I wouldn't call Thor nazi associated, certainly not to the same extent Odin has become. Nazis might like him but his popularity is too wide to be just a Nazi one and he remains the best known and most popular of the old Norse gods, as he has been since pre-Christian times. Virtually anyone who grew up with Norse mythology has a soft spot for this temperamental but ultimately good-natured brawler.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Depends on which runes. There are specific ones, like odal, that are used pretty much exclusively by Nazis. Odal by itself is like 80-90% chance of Nazi. Tyr and Algiz together - 100% nazi. And, honestly, if you get any runic stuff expect to get stink eyes from leftists, jews, and other people who have to keep an eye out for this stuff. There's a lot of dumb but well meaning neopagans who refuse to engage with the racist history of the revival of norse mythology, but there's also a fuckload of nazis and assorted chuds who use runes these days.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Nábrókarstafur: A stave used when making necropants (nábrók), a pair of trousers made from the skin of a dead man that are capable of producing an endless supply of money.

          Weird but still not as fucked as NFT's

          • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
            ·
            2 years ago

            I got to the word "Necropants" and my brain was like, "That can't possibly be what it sounds like..." and then literally less than a second later I was proven wrong. They are EXACTLY what they sound like.

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        and call themselves storm

        always wanting to be at the front of the fighting

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Actually the name Storm has had some recent popularity in Denmark.

          • RandyLahey [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            :the-more-you-know:

            soy vikings are way cooler than nazi vikings

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      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        "Dumb ruskis will say the Black Sun, invented by the SS, is a Nazi symbol, because ruZZians are so stupid"

        Do these people even believe what they're saying?

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      • SoyViking [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Viking reenactors and asatru believers can be one of two things: Insane nazis or chill hippie types. There is no middle ground.

    • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Thing is norse symbols are a part of the danish peoples history, before we got christianized danish people believed in norse mythology, honestly people on the internet saying scandinavians are nazis or what not for using them, thats pretty offensive.

      — Pussyslayer109

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Ugh. I had to put together a whole pamphlet once for spotting nazi shit in the wild because I used to hang out with a bunch of Larpers who, predictably, thought vikings were cool and would use runes on their stuff. The pamphlet broke down the difference between "Probably just a viking weeb" and "This dude is definitely a fucking nazi watch out". It blew people's minds when they suddenly had context for what the odal rune meant to nazis, or that tod and leben together were 100% a sign of a nazi.

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        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The SD party was founded by literal SS veterans and skinhead football hooligans but sure, today they dress like normal politicians and claim not to be Nevis so that must be true.

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      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They definitely understood that it was Nazi shit when trump did it, but it's different in Ukraine.

    • ShareThatBread [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Every single time they try and claim the person they’re boosting is not a Nazi

      Narrator: They were in fact a Nazi

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      [–]Lifebringer7

      34 points 13 hours ago

      Actual Viking from Scandinavia fights a group of former Vikings, who believe his culture has become decadent and weak, to defend another group of former Vikings - all with the help of former victims of Viking raids.

      I love history. It’s better than any fiction at times

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Jesus Christ these costumes suck. Nazis and dorks.

          If you want to rock the Nordic/prehistoric look do as Heilung instead.