{"id":926,"date":"2024-05-25T01:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T00:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medusian.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2024-05-31T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:05:25","slug":"unconscionable-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medusian.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Unconscionable Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Great Britain lost 450,000 casualties (military – including ‘crown colonies’ – and civilian) during World War Two, a war fought against the Axis powers of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, a variety of ideologically-aligned collaborationist voluntary military units raised across Europe (for example from France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and ‘minor’ Axis-aligned countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that war, our onetime ally, Russia, suffered between 20 and 26 million casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One would assume that no-one in the western world would ever forget those casualties nor the civilisational threat and gross inhumanity motivated and evidenced by Nazi ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One would assume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s worth noting that the 14th SS Waffen Grenadier Division<\/strong>, commonly known as the SS Galicia Division<\/strong>, raised exclusively <\/em>from Ukrainian volunteers, numbered 22,000 (1945) as compared to the more well-known, ‘fanatical’ and ideologically-pure divisions of the 1st Panzer Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler<\/strong> (22,000), 2nd SS Panzer Das Reich<\/strong> (19,000), 3rd SS Panzer Totenkopf<\/strong> (18,754), and the 12th SS Panzer Hitlerjugend<\/strong> (Hitler Youth – 21,482).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is illuminating that none of the SS Divisions raised from the above list of collaborationist volunteers from across subjugated Europe – and few of those raised even from a purely German manpower pool – matched the numbers of the Ukrainian SS Galicia Division<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With regard to May 2024, and alongside the familiar swastika…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… the insignia of the 3rd SS Panzer Totenkopf<\/strong> can be found in widespread use by Ukrainian military personnel, today….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… while the insignia of the Ukrainian SS Galicia Division<\/strong> itself is a common sight across modern Ukraine…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and the insignia of the 2nd SS Panzer Das Reich<\/strong> has been symbolically adapted and adopted by the Ukrainian Azov Brigade<\/strong> itself…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… here proudly held by ex-PM Boris Johnson during a recent (May 24th 2024) visit to the UK Parliament by Azov officers; a visit few UK media outlets are reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Boris was gifted a book…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and it’s not just the ever-bloviating Johnson that welcomed neo-Nazis into the heart of UK government. Here are those Azov personnel receiving applause from a selection of UK Parliamentarians during this visit…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boris himself had some choice words to say before these Azov ‘heroes’ while pushing for escalatory attacks within Russia itself (covered by The Grayzone<\/a>)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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