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Is Ukraine Like Hitler's Brownshirts?
The German Freikorps were volunteer paramilitary German militias that fought as mercenaries in Europe between the 1750s until World War 1. After 1918, "Freikorps" were mostly war veteran paramilitary groups.
Hitler's Brownshirts aka Sturmabteilung (Storm Division) began wearing surplus brown shirts and ties in 1921