Russia is rife with Nazis. Putin's propagandists like @Bucleor and @DomLucre can't make a "Nazi" supercut without adding Russian Nazis. 🧵
1. Alexei "Fly" Maximov is from St Petersburg's "Totenkopf" Nazi group. Hired to impersonate Ukrainians, Maximov has a "Made In St Petersburg" tattoo on the back of his head. (Remember his group's T-shirt. This will be important later.)
1a. Alexei Maximov is available for hire via his "sister" Katarina Aistova at the Internet Research Agency. In 2016 Russia sent Maximov to Estonia to appear at a NATO event.
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1b. Another picture of Alexei "Fly" Maximov of St Petersburg, this time with his shirt off. The second photo in the set shows Maximov's "Made In St Petersburg" tattoo.
1c. More Nazis wearing Alexei Maximov's "Totenkopf St Petersburg" club shirt. Confused Ukrainians? More Russian infiltrators? Propagandists don't care. Fun fact: "Totenkopf" released a 2021 Nazi album called "Made In St. Petersburg".
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2. "Misanthropic Division" is a Russian Nazi group. Their leader Mikhail Oreshnikov was arrested in 2008 for stabbing 2 anti-fascists and began cooperating with the FSB.
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2a. More "Misanthropic" Nazis. Russian fighters? Ukrainian fighters? Propagandists don't care.
3. This is a Russian Imperialist rally. The Russian Imperialist Movement has been formally designated as a "terrorist entity".
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3a. Russian Imperialism is a violent ethno-nationalist movement broadly popular among Russian soldiers, civilians, and religious figures in Russia and occupied Ukrainian territory.
4. This Ukrainian woman was disfigured at Mariupol School No.25 shortly before 27 March 2022. The women were branded with swastikas by their Russian captors to humiliate them.
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4a. Russian propagandist Patrick Lancaster posted the video of the mutilated woman on 27 March 2022 while the area was under Russian control. He claimed she was killed by "Azov Nazis" but the bruises are too red and too fresh to be more than a day old.
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