What I'm asking is whether or not the Azovs are an official branch of any national military force. I have assumed they are a genuine division of the Ukrainian Army, but I'm not sure about their status in the Polish military.
Various Azov Movement formations are part of the Army, the National Guard (which is under interior ministry), police, and the GUR (military intelligence). But their foreign VCs are only less than officially associated with the GUR.
In Poland these guys are civilians. At least a part of them are also way less hardcore than I thought, one publicly organised faction that I checked (Szturmowcy) seemed inspired most by the British Union of Fascists.
While the Russian VC prominently includes guys for whom Hitler is a god (the Wotanjugend and their Esoteric Hitlerism) and they're very public about their power level.
It seems like there's no real ideological unity among all these factions that are under the Polish military umbrella; same for the Russians and Ukrainians. I suppose you could call the concept that the national border should be permanently fixed and inviolable a sort of ideology. A weak sort of nationalism?
Are these people mercenaries or is this "Volunteer Corps" part of the Polish state?
As I said most plainly, they're Polish Nazis from the Azov movement.
Ideological volunteers, just like the Russian VC and the Belarusian VC guys. All Literal Nazis.
Some of them used to be in the Misanthropic Div.
Regular Polish guys serve either in the Foreign Legion (where one is a wanted gangster in commanding position lol) or in various other units.
What I'm asking is whether or not the Azovs are an official branch of any national military force. I have assumed they are a genuine division of the Ukrainian Army, but I'm not sure about their status in the Polish military.
Various Azov Movement formations are part of the Army, the National Guard (which is under interior ministry), police, and the GUR (military intelligence). But their foreign VCs are only less than officially associated with the GUR.
In Poland these guys are civilians. At least a part of them are also way less hardcore than I thought, one publicly organised faction that I checked (Szturmowcy) seemed inspired most by the British Union of Fascists.
While the Russian VC prominently includes guys for whom Hitler is a god (the Wotanjugend and their Esoteric Hitlerism) and they're very public about their power level.
Very informative.
It seems like there's no real ideological unity among all these factions that are under the Polish military umbrella; same for the Russians and Ukrainians. I suppose you could call the concept that the national border should be permanently fixed and inviolable a sort of ideology. A weak sort of nationalism?