For more than 7 months now, the Russian army has invaded the territory of Ukraine, bombing the civilian population, massacres, torturing civilians (the list of war crimes of the occupiers can go on and on). For all normal people, the symbols of modern fascism, under which all these acts were committed, the letters V, O, Z, have become absolutely unacceptable and even banned in some countries. But there are also exceptions. For example, when there are fans of rashism on a popular resource.
At the end of September BTR-82A model appeared on gta5-mods.comand everything would be fine, but the author did not fail to stigmatize her with the stigma of murderers and marauders.
Much more surprising for us was the reaction of the site administration, which not only ignored such replenishment, but also began to justify the propaganda of the symbols of the genocide.
First, we sent an official request from the GCU team via the form on gta5-mods.com, but there was no response.
Good day, dear colleagues!
We are administration unit of Ukrainian GTA forum. We appreciate and love your modding platform. Your website is popular in Ukraine in GTA 5 thematic.
We kindly ask you to pay attention to this mod which includes swastika of russian occupation army (symbols V, O, Z) who started invasion to Ukraine in February 2022 and the biggest war in Europe since WWII. Under these symbolics rashists kill thousands of civilian people and bombs cities more than 7 months.
We believe that modding is not the platform for displaying neonazi interests.
Also these symbols are prohibited in 8 European countries like Germany, Poland and Ukraine.
As it turned out, the silence was not accidental. AT post comments the user asked a reasonable question, how such content can appear on a seemingly civilized portal. To this, a moderator from the Netherlands under the nickname meimeiriver made a fabulous argument that the creation of such a mod is not support for the war, and the author himself called the applied symbols a “historical and real reflection” of reality, citing models of aircraft with Nazi symbols, of course, his own production. In their opinion, users need to evaluate the very quality of the work, and not the signs of belonging to the rashist troops shown on it.
We, Ukrainians, who have been directly affected by what the occupiers are doing in our country, are, to put it mildly, surprised by the mood prevailing on gta5-mods.com. Of course, it is correct to compare the symbolism of the Nazis and the Rashists, but hide behind a “historical” screen? If the events of World War II took place 80 years ago, the destruction of Ukraine is happening today. We really hope that the “respectable” gentlemen will never have to feel the same thing that tens of millions of people are experiencing right now. And we also advise them not to go out in a T-shirt with a Hitler print, assuring everyone around that the main thing is not the picture, but the quality of the cotton.
Finally, we note that it is possible to send a complaint on VOZ video review on YouTube, citing “Terrorist propaganda” as the reason.
Source: gta.com.ua