the handshake meme, on one side liberals talking about Ukraine. on the other, conservatives talking about a mass shooter. the handshake “that swastika tattoo doesn’t necessarily mean he was a Nazi”

  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    since Ukraine was under authoritarian occupation by the USSR, many saw the nazi invasion as liberation. After the USSR took it back over, nazi symbology was outlawed, and taken up as anti-USSR symbols without the ideology.
    Some of that stuck around and to many of the people there with some nazi tattoo, it means, “fuck Russia”.
    i don’t know how many of them are actually nazis, but i’ve heard pretty much none of them… and it’s all hardcore anti-russia. (they were occupied by the USSR for another 50 years… grudges).

    • dogbert@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      i don’t know how many of them are actually nazis, but i’ve heard pretty much none of them

      You are literally the meme that was posted…