Was that from the period before he was against Nazis?
And all the time Putin worked with Prigozhin and his nazi gang?
Russia's long history of neo-Nazis - March 23,2022
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The roots of neo-Nazism in Putin's Russia
[In the late] 1990s, when Russia was shaken by a wave of racist violence committed by neo-Nazi skinhead gangs: After Putin's accession to the presidency in 2000, his regime exploited this development in two ways.
First, it used the neo-Nazi threat to justify the adoption of anti-extremism legislation, a longstanding demand of some Russian liberals. Ultimately, this legislation would be used to prosecute Russian democrats.
Second, the Kremlin launched "managed nationalism", an attempt to co-opt and mobilise radical nationalist militants, including neo-Nazis, as a counterweight to an emerging anti-Putin coalition of democrats and leftist radicals.
Moving Together, a pro-Putin youth organisation notorious for its campaign against postmodernist literature, made the first move by reaching out to OB88, the most powerful skinhead gang in Russia.
In 2008-09, the Kremlin was threatened by Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's efforts to build an anti-Putin coalition of democrats and radical nationalists in Russia.
In response, the Kremlin began to work with Russkii Obraz ("Russian Image", or "RO" for short), a hardcore neo-Nazi group best known for its slick journal and its band, Hook from the Right.
Damn, didn’t know Russia had such a big Nazi problem.
I guess that I need to change my mind and I NO LONGER SUPPORT giving $61 Billion to Russia to fight Ukraine. Russia can pay for that war with their own money, or try to get money from China.
I am THROUGH with supporting them!!!
Was that from the period before he was against Nazis?
And all the time Putin worked with Prigozhin and his nazi gang?