mustardman [none/use name]

welcome comrade!

Disengage both of you

Critics say the Kremlin is to blame for the rise in neo-nationalist movements, arguing they have been allowed to flourish in recent years.

Unlike many human rights activists and the country’s marginalized gay community, neo-nationalists have been allowed to hold rallies – a right guaranteed by the Russian constitution.

Yet amid this crackdown, President Vladimir Putin’s government has also sought to forge its own state nationalism – and used elements of the ultra-nationalist agenda in its increasingly anti-Western, neo-conservative and isolationist ideology

many ultra-nationalists fled Russia – sometimes preferring to fight in eastern Ukraine on both sides of the conflict.

The largest players in the field of official, Kremlin-sanctioned nationalism are the deeply conservative and immensely powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the resurgent “armies” of Cossacks, czarist-era paramilitary forces, and right-wing parties.

the Kremlin cultivates ties with [far right groups] in the European Union to promote Moscow’s agenda. (…) representatives of Western far-right political parties, including neo-Nazi groups from Germany, Greece, and the UK, met for a Kremlin-funded conference in St Petersburg

Very strong antifascist culture indeed.

They didn’t deny that. Both armies are packed with nationalists

Bad take. Killing prisoners is unacceptable if it isn’t in crisis or revolution.

There’s video evidence of Ukrainian soldiers killing Russian POWs

Fuck cars