Russia Ukraine war

Originally posted by tangs: ↑

When Russia calls others 'Nazis', it should be taking a hard look at itself
The Kremlin's need to justify the war grew to embrace the most radical voices, including those peddling Nazi creed, as its ideologues became hell-bent on normalising the aggression, Aleksandar Đokić writes.

In some, far-right ideas in Russia are a mixture of Nazism and Stalinism, as witnessed in former Duma member Zakhar Prilepin’s National-Bolsheviks.
Others only thinly veil their extremism in traditional Orthodox Russian imperialism, exemplified by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) leadership and former paramilitary commander Igor Strelkov aka Girkin.
(they just erected a statue to Strellkov)

The now-infamous Konstantin Malofeev and Yegor Kholmogorov from the far-right Tsargrad TV also belong in this niche.
The version of Eurasianism pushed by self-proclaimed political philosopher and strategist Aleksandr Dugin represents a mix and rehashing of concepts from proto-fascist Russian thinkers from the turn of the 20th century.
Finally, there are actual neo-pagan ethnonationalists believing in the “pure Slavic race” who are, in essence, neo-Nazis (like the Rusich battalion waging war for Russia in Ukraine).
Fringe became mainstream, all thanks to Putin
What’s drastically changed since the invasion is that the far-right is rapidly becoming mainstream in Russia.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/13/when-russia-calls-others-nazis-it-should-be-taking-a-hard-look-at-itselfrussia is much more neo nazi and fascist than Ukraine !

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Nazi? LOL.
The Russian government has consistently quashed even grass-roots nationalist movements. Some of which were financed by foreign NGO's.
There are 190 ethnicities in Russia. It's not in Russian government's interest to promote "pure Slavic race" concepts, as that would destabilize Russia internally.

Some far-right groups were used by the Kremlin to fight against the opposition. But once the Russian government figured that those groups were more of a liability, most of them got dismantled, with their leaders jailed.

Sure, there are neo-nazi groups in Russia. Just like in any other country of the world, including Autralia. Do they or did they ever have any weight as far as decision making on internal policies goes? No.

Unlike in Ukraine. The 2014 US-backed coup was spearheaded by Ukrainian far-right organisations, some of which were funded by foreign NGO's.
Ukrainian far-right organisations protested violently against the Steinmeier peace formula, which both Zelensky and Putin were happy with.
Ukrainian government embraced nazi-ollaborators (implicated in the Holocaust) as national heroes.