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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Both can be true at the same time, with the caveat that actual Nazis aren't called Nazis in Russia but nationalists, patriots, suchlike.

But in the end Prigozhin might not have been a Nazi -- in the ideological sense -- but simply a crook. You don't really need a racist or such ideology to build a colonial empire in Africa, plain ole criminal mindset suffices.

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nazis are called patriots in Russia

limmy-what

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Gets even better when you realize it's a German writing that

https://hexbear.net/comment/3814795