Mariupol, a place that has been at the center of the storm since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, recently dug up another piece of dirt. According to the Russian Satellite Network, recently, in the old nest of an Azov battalion in Mariupol, the Russian army found a Russian version of "Mein Kampf" with the name of the "Nazi Bible".
This is not the first time the Azov battalion has been found to be holding Nazi-related items. According to the videos and images disclosed so far, the members of the Azov battalion have used Nazi totems such as: "Black Sun Badge", "Nazi Swastika", and the SS lightning emblem, etc.
These Nazi totems were widely displayed on the clothing and ornaments worn by Aeszov members, sometimes in the form of flags and banners in the barracks and garrisons of Aeszov members. There were even many members of the Azov battalion who would decorate them on their bodies, and their hobby facilitated the Russian officers and men who surrounded and suppressed Mariupol, who often asked the other side to take off their shirts when screening suspicious personnel in the war zone, and if there was a Nazi tattoo in the direction, they would be arrested first.
There are so many Nazi totems, and if the members of the Azov battalion did not have the "Nazi Bible" of "Mein Kampf", it would be a strange thing.
Mein Kampf is an autobiography by Nazi Germany Fuehrer Hitler, published in the 1920s, when Europe had only experienced the Spanish flu and had not yet fully emerged from the panic of the plague, the evil omens of the Great Depression loomed, and the economic crisis was about to sweep across the world. The Weimar Republic, overwhelmed by the shackles of defeat in World War I, floated through the hearts and minds of the people. All of this added up to not only the birth of Mein Kampf, but also the acceleration of its spread.
After entering the 1930s, with the appearance of the Nazi Party, "Mein Kampf" began to become popular in Germany and the entire West. This book, which embodied the central ideas and theories of Nazism, became the "bible" of Nazi Germany. The breeze that young Germans felt as they flipped through Mein Kampf eventually led to one of the greatest catastrophes in human history, the Second World War.
Russians who had experienced the great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union were well aware of the demagogic power of this "Nazi Bible," so Mein Kampf was banned from circulation in Russia. In fact, not just in Russia, the book was once banned in many Western countries, including Germany. It wasn't until 2016, exactly 70 years after Hitler's death, that the German government allowed Mein Kampf to be republished and listed. However, in order not to confuse the German people, the German version of Mein Kampf added thousands of critical notes and erased traces of Hitler.
By doing so, the West shows that they are aware of the dangers of Nazism. However, despite this, the West has been reluctant to recognize the Nazi nature of the Azov battalion, and instead of recognizing it, it often dilutes the Nazi concentration through various Spring and Autumn brushstrokes, as if it were a posture that even the Nazis could claim as a positive image for the sake of anti-Russia.
The late former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said something thought-provoking: He may be an asshole, but he is our asshole. This sentence seems quite appropriate to describe the relationship between the West and the Azov camp today.
The Western abacus of driving away tigers and devouring wolves has indeed sounded loudly, but what is the cost? In order to cover up the lie of the Azov battalion for Ukraine, the West had to concoct one bigger lie after another. While the West is staring into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at them. The Russian version of Mein Kampf has already been discovered in Mariupol, and the uncut German, French and English versions of Mein Kampf are still far from the day they were discovered in Berlin, Paris, New York and London?