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Line 78: + + − Ironically, the Azovstal steel plant was occupied by the Germans during World War II as a key point of operations, and became the last holdout for Azov Nazis during the Battle of Mariupol. − [[File:Azovstal credit Graham Phillips.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Azovstal drone shot, April 30, 2022, by Graham Phillips.]]
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===Azovstal===
===Azovstal===
[[File:Rinat Akhmetov and Leonid Kuchma.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Rinat Akhmetov]], a [[corrupt]] [[oligarch]] who acquired [[Azovstal]] after the collapse of the [[USSR]] in 1991, with former Ukraine president Leonid Kuchma.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/16/the-autumn-of-oligarchs-in-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/Za3iAdRjYQc</ref> Akhmetov [[collude]]d with the [[FBI]] to arrange the 2016 [[Trump Tower meeting]] with [[Donald Trump, Jr.]] in an effort to frame the Trump organization in the [[Russiagate hoax]].]]
Ironically, the Azovstal steel plant was occupied by the Germans during World War II as a key point of operations, and became the last holdout for Azov Nazis during the Battle of Mariupol.
By March 18, 2022, about 6,000 members of the Azov Battalion continued resisting a force of about 12,000 Russians in an 11 square kilometer area in three steel plants, Azovstal, Ilyich [Steel and Iron Works] and Azovmash,<ref>https://rumble.com/v10ffce-ukraine-birds-eye-view-of-avovstal.-the-last-bastion-of-mariupol..html</ref> in an industrial zone of eastern Mariupol.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1429931</ref> Beneath the Azovstal steel plant, a massive, well-fortified underground complex with 6 levels of bunkers extending 90 meters down, was built in Soviet times with 24 kilometers of tunnels. A tunnel running beneath the Kalmius River connects Azovstal to the Ilyich plant.<ref>https://youtu.be/LD2eAMtXTAs?t=627</ref>
By March 18, 2022, about 6,000 members of the Azov Battalion continued resisting a force of about 12,000 Russians in an 11 square kilometer area in three steel plants, Azovstal, Ilyich [Steel and Iron Works] and Azovmash,<ref>https://rumble.com/v10ffce-ukraine-birds-eye-view-of-avovstal.-the-last-bastion-of-mariupol..html</ref> in an industrial zone of eastern Mariupol.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1429931</ref> Beneath the Azovstal steel plant, a massive, well-fortified underground complex with 6 levels of bunkers extending 90 meters down, was built in Soviet times with 24 kilometers of tunnels. A tunnel running beneath the Kalmius River connects Azovstal to the Ilyich plant.<ref>https://youtu.be/LD2eAMtXTAs?t=627</ref>
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<!--[[File:Azovstal sarcophagus.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Like their hero [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Azov Nazis]] final minutes were spent hiding in a bunker, the Azovstal Sarcophagus.]]-->