Go look for Nazis and Azov Nazis under your bed. I hope you realize that when Putin spouts off about de-Nazification, that this is for internal consumption. For his stupid Russian people to lap up.
This is how Putin invokes The Great Patriotic War. Back when Russia fought real Nazis. After Stalin purged and killed his top officers on the eve of WW2. No wonder tens of million of Russians died from the German onslaught.
Of course they conveniently leave out that Russia was the leading supplier of the Nazi War Machine, when the Nazis invaded France and bombed Britain.
Russians also had presence in the Isolationist movement, telling the US to stay out of the “Imperialist European War”.
Ohhh, see, I was going more by torchlight parades by people carrying posters of Bandera, parades in Lithuania where veterans of the 14th SS Galician division are feted, nazi salutes, SS tattoos, the 2nd SS Wolfsangel flags and emblems everywhere, etc etc. They even carry the emblem of Oskar Dirlewanger on their uniforms.
That’s more what I was paying attention to rather than what Putin said. But nice try.