edit: i should make explicit. this meme is prodding at liberals humanizing the soldier of the 14th Waffen SS (1st Galicia) recently honoured in the canadian house of commons. this meme is showing off a ww2 ukrainian nazi unit in a fashion similarly done with the "brave soldiers of afghanistan" who would later become the taliban.
the joke is, we would eventually glorify and humanize them as well with enough time
Azov is still a thing. As are Aidar, Tornado, Hurricane and many others. And nazis basically control the Ukr. government. Lots of open banderites in the government. And those Red/black flags you always see on pictures from ukraine? OUN flags, a fascist organization that worked with the Nazis and participated in the Holocaust.