vacuumflower

You may be right, but Ukraine is still a defending country facing many war crimes by the attacker. Which also hasn’t provoked that attack in any way.

I wouldn’t say there’s a correlation in knowing the actual history. Those guys are just modest about the Nazi part, but well aware of it. They just want to reduce the attack surface.

So calling them Nazis and treating as such is fair.

The color of the shirts on the first photo, eh, does check out.

that often means pure war crimes

It 100% meant pure war crimes. It’s not like they had any competence for actual police work or any discipline for actual garrison duty or anything else valuable.

USSR’s central government was on the Azeri side in the first war and its military did participate in ethnic cleansing, and not as some expulsion, but outright mass murders. After USSR ceased to exist, such entity as CIS military (shortly abolished afterwards) did participate on Azeri side, with large input into their 1992 offensive (very successful, they’ve took about half of NKAO, including all of Martakert).

What I mean is that war started before USSR ceased to exist. With first pogroms against Armenians, then fighting between police and volunteers on the Armenian side and police and some Soviet military on the Azeri side (there’s the notable exception of what Azeris call “the Black September”, when Soviet troops under general Lebed’ entered Baku and stopped the pogroms against Armenians, Azeris consider that a tragedy). Already during the conflict national militaries of Armenia, NK and Azerbaijan were created. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan frankly failed that process (Armenia proper’s little participation in the war involves some catastrophes due to bad organization, similar to Azerbaijan’s, though it did take Karvachar and protect its borders in general), while NK managed to do it sufficiently well, still it wasn’t such a clear Armenian victory, hence the ceasefire.