They were in charge of vast slave labor working in the most harshest conditions. To keep away from Allied air bombings, they had to build the rockets underground. And the slaves didn’t see daylight for years. If they lived that long.
Call me a cynic, but I think the politics of this hundred man “Azov” group in Ukraine is just farcical exaggeration. Ukrainians from all political sides are coming together to fight an invading army of Russians.