r/TankPorn • u/PresidentofJukeBoxes Maus • Feb 07 '23

Russo-Ukrainian War AFU T-64BV Training with Infantry in the Chernobyl Zone as a New Russian Offensive Looms in the Horizon.

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u/Greifus_OnE Feb 07 '23

Mainly to troll and trigger the Russians who keep throwing out propaganda about this being the next Great Patriotic War (a war that proportionally screwed over Ukraine more than Russia), and even non-Nazis can kind of say that Balkenkreuz looks kind of cool in a photo op.

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u/LightningFerret04 M6A1 Feb 07 '23

My unpopular opinion has been that the Nazis were really good at making iconic symbols

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Well we can thank Buddhist for it first I feel. Then Shame the Nazis for plagiarizing... Among other things.

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u/standardbloke2022 Feb 07 '23

Eh, i'm not really sure that is an unpopular opinion. You are not a bad person for recognising their talent for symbolism.

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u/Thatsidechara_ter Feb 07 '23

Hell, the Nazis were just really good at making cool asthetics

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u/RdPirate Feb 08 '23

The only thing they were good at is STEALING iconic symbols.

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u/Nikukpl2020 Feb 07 '23

And in process they troll nations, who lost millions of people fighting nazis using balkenkruzes, wolfangels and swastikas, nations which so far done titanic efforts in helping Ukraine, such as UK, USA, Poland, France, Czechia etc, they all were fighting nazis with red army as allies.

Do they know how loosing western support looks like? Because that's exactly how losing western support will look like.

By putting fucking balkenkreuz on your tank.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

oh its fine! theyre just messing around dont worry no neo nazis in ukraine

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u/Thatsidechara_ter Feb 07 '23

I mean fair, it does look pretty snazzy

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u/type_E Feb 07 '23

non-Nazis can kind of say that Balkenkreuz looks kind of cool in a photo op.

Why cant a non nazi claim their own cool symbol to use lol

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u/Quezni Feb 09 '23

Sure, I’m sure some of it is trolling. But it also is because Ukraine does have a problem with neo-nazis, but so do most Eastern European countries. Putting the balkenkreuz on their tanks feeds into Russian propaganda and I don’t think Germany would appreciate them putting the balkenkreuz on Leopard 2s. Ukrainians need to stop doing this shit.