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Researcher, international development consultant. Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Africa, bad puns. Not Dmitry Medvedev. Not quite the master of understatement.

Apr 13, 2022, 12 tweets

I am starting a thread with a list of people, organisations and countries Russia compares or equates with Nazi Germany

(including those labeled neo-Nazis etc)

A rolling 🧵

First place, obviously, goes to Ukraine and Ukrainians

Nazis, grandchildren of Nazis, with Nazi friends

/2

Japan doesn't consider Azov Battalion a terrorist organisation.
Japan is neo-Nazi (h/t @SamRamani2) /3

Head of German @CDU @_FriedrichMerz calls Russian Army crimes in Syria "barbaric".

He must be a Nazi, Zakharova says. /4

A surprise entry, I must say.

@OCCRP tracks Russian assets. Definitely Nazis!

(h/t @ichbinilya) /5

Sweden just told the Russian ship to go fuck itself. Nazis.

/6

This one had it coming for a long time.
Latvia wants to commemorate Ukrainian victims of Russia's criminal aggression.

Total neo-Nazis.
/7

(submitted by @Uliana_IN)

Volodymyr Zelensky, who dared to make a reference to Soviet-Nazi cooperation during World War II. Total, brazen neo-Nazi this Zelensky guy. /8

Ukrainian football team dare say "Slava Ukraini!".

Original German Nazis, surely. /9

Estonia, obviously.

Removed a Soviet monument from central Tallinn, and regularly bring back Estonian SS units into public discourse/space/politics.

Needs urgent denazification. /10

Poland has long been a suspect Nazi for Russia

For some reason🤷Poland does not think the September 1939 invasion by the USSR was great, and does not agree it constituted 'liberation' for all in Belarus and Ukraine.

Poland is 'drifting' towards Nazism, says Russia

/11

Canadians

They fund the Ukrainian Army. Do they fund neo-Nazis? It's anybody's guess (until Russian Army digs up some evidence, like they did with weaponised pigeons).

Also, their Deputy PM held a UPA scarf - mis-labeled as 'fascist' but we know what it really means...

/12

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