I stopped being amazed by the idiocy of the WaPo years ago. It was just too exhausting. But I do have a simple question for them - How could the American neo-Nazis be following Russia when it was the self-avowed Communists that started the riot against the Nazis?
In general, if you read to the American neo-Nazi the 1932 political platform of the German Nazi Party....loaded with extreme socialist ‘gifts’ and promises...they’d tell you right away that they aren’t that kind of Nazi. So you’d ask what variation they are, and it just gets more confusing.
The same gimmick if you go to some anti-capitalist protest and they state they are for pure socialism....but they can’t really explain how you’d do away with capitalism and reach pure socialism.
They are all confused, as far as I can grasp it.
Your comment makes me think (if it is any relevant) of how a book apparently written by someone from the Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Rights group compared the 1938 Nazi Germany gun control law with the 1968 US Gun Control Act that the LBJ administration created and passed and found that some passages of the 1968 American law looked to be exactly lifted from the 1938 one. I’ve always wanted to add that book to my personal library.
Russia as currently configured is implementing nationalist policies, not communist ones.