# Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)

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**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037 "2022-02-24T08:30:03Z")\
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> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> It’s like the Neo-Nazis in the Azov battalion. I admire their dogged defense of Mariupol. But on the other hand, they’re fucking Nazi trash.

This point isn’t 100% clear. They seem to be part of a religion that still uses shamanistic symbolism:

> [@Trees, Nazis, and Ukrainians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trees-nazis-and-ukrainians/964508):
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> I like to research ancient religion and, in my personal classification, the two largely unknown yet massively distributed religions of prehistoric times seem to have been what I call “The Mountain Religion” and “The Tree Religion”. We see the Mountain Religion pop up among the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and the Indians. We have deities who [live](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus#Name_and_mythological_associations) on a [mountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash#Religious_significance), the supreme deity is often [represented](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh#Iron_Age_I_(1200%E2%80%931000_BCE)) as or with [a bull](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi_(Hinduism)), and one of his sons was a storm god. The Tree Religion, on the other hand, was f…

> **[Jewish Ukrainians gear up for fierce Russia fight, alongside the 'neo-Nazis'...](https://www.jta.org/2022/03/04/global/jewish-ukrainians-gear-up-for-fierce-russia-fight-alongside-the-neo-nazis-they-say-putin-is-lying-about)**
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> "Ukrainian Jews are not silent when injustice is going on. This is what being Jewish is all about,” said Daniel Kovzhun, who is preparing to defend Kyiv with a gun he doesn't know how to shoot.

I’m still researching but I think that politically, in terms of what they think of foreigners, they’re more in the realm of Tucker Carlson than Hitler.

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