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The Black Sun and Wolfsangel have been right on their fucking shit rag of a flag until last year, you fascist turd.
JFC the entire first page of your comments is nothing but nazi apologia, fick dich du kranke Faschosau.
Hey rember when they just got those new leopard tanks and some rascal painted a bunch of iron crosses on them, which libs insisted was from obscure world War 1 battalion and not where literally everybody knows the iron cross from, to the point the German government said they weren't gonna keep giving them weapons if that shit didn't stop
Leopards come with iron crosses by default, it's the fucking signet of the fucking Bundeswehr. This is a Bundeswehr tank. These are three Bundeswehr tanks.
Cossack crosses are very similar.
It's not just iron crosses, he's thinking of the balkenkreuzes that are being painted on tanks. The symbol Germany stopped using after WWII.
Yeah that's an IFF symbol. The Russians aren't doing calligraphy with their Zs either. It's something that soldiers paint with a brush in the field.
Zs aren't an old Nazi symbol. The balkenkreuz is.
The Balkenkreuz goes back to the Teutonic Order. The Nazis used it a lot which is why the Bundeswehr didn't, but that doesn't mean that painting a cross in a rush makes you a Nazi.
Seriously, what do you think soldiers in the field trying to not get shot at by their own guys are thinking about. I'll give you a hint: Whether it's more important to be camouflaged to the enemy or identifiable for friendlies, that's it. Ukraine is using a simplified version of the Cossack Cross for that purpose, it's a native part of their symbolism and easily distinguishable from the stuff Russians use. If everything that looks like a cross is now a Balkenkreuz and therefore Nazi you might want to take it up with various Christian Churches.
Oh and just for the record you'll get arrested in Germany for showing the Z in a Russia/Ukraine context, including as a St. George Ribbon.