« Fascist Battalion »: French neo-Nazis are fighting in Ukraine – Raphael Schmeller, Berliner Zeitung

Featuring SS symbols and swastika tattoos, a unit of French neo-Nazis is reportedly recruiting soldiers to fight alongside the Ukrainian army

« Fascist Battalion »: French neo-Nazis are fighting in Ukraine – Raphael Schmeller, Berliner Zeitung

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Legion Pirates Reconnaissance Group

Commando Pirates is a unit of Revanche International as part of the Revanche Tactical group.

The group was officially formed in 2023 by French volunteers with affiliations to the Centuria movement in Ukraine. The fighters had ideological motivations similar to the movement, and found themselves initially in the ranks of the Revanche Tactical Group.

At some point in late 2023, the members of the group transferred to the ranks of the 3rd Assault Brigade, where they served and fought with the brigade during the fall of Avdiivka in early 2024 to help evacuate Ukrainian forces from the city. It was formerly known as the Brennus Platoon.

In June 2025, the unit officially joined Revanche International as the Reconnaissance Group “Aggressive” as a squad-sized formation.

In late September 2025, the unit was renamed Commando Pirates.

Barack Obama’s Literature List for 2025 —Connecting the Dots

As senior OWI officials saw it, “Books do not have their impact upon the mass mind but upon the minds of those who mould the mass mind—upon leaders of thought and formulators of public opinion. The impact of a book may last six months or several decades. Books are the most enduring propaganda of all.

John B. Hench, Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), 70

Barack Obama’s Literature List for 2025 —Connecting the Dots

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Books differ from all other propaganda media, primarily because one single book can significantly change the reader’s attitude and action to an extent unmatched by the impact of any other single medium… this is, of course, not true of all books at all times and with all readers – but it is true significantly often enough to make books the most important weapon of strategic (long-range) propaganda.

Liberated Texts: The power of books as propaganda

How Good Books Can Change a Person

How Good Books Can Change You

CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Anti-Communism)