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It is a pretty complex situation. You might think that leftists are necessarily anti-nationalistic globalists, because they are in the west.I thought Russia had the most neo nazis on the planet? Is this just another case of the government and the people not seeing eye to eye?
I wonder waht moot had to deal with if Hitler memes are this much trouble. Shocked it was Russia not Germany tbh.
This was not at all the case in post-stalin Russia, and even today's communist states, like China and North Korea. They are extremely nationalistic, and are often convinced of their own ethnic superiority.
The soviet-union used old russian patriotism from the tzarist era in WW2, they compared the German invasion to the napoleonic invasion and used the commanding general of the russian forces of that time, Kutuszov, as a national icon of resistance against invasion.
The russian nationalism was never broken.
The problem was this: Russia didn't become a nation state after the soviet union fell. Some of the peoples like the kazachs, uzbeks or ukrainians split, but many non-russians still remain part of the Russian federation, one of the most known ones are the muslim chechens.
Now, western Russia is way more prosperous than those countries and many of those non-ethnic russians moved to the western cities to find better paying work there, undercutting the native working class, springing a Neo Nazi movement.
Russian Neo-Nazis probably still hate the Germans for invading and slaughtering Russians, but they hate the foreigners of the present way more than the invaders of the past.
One of the main problems the west has in looking at the russian situation, is that we are so globalist that people think Nationalism=National Socialism.
Russian Government hates the third Reich, while still being somewhat nationalist.