Thread by @sumlenny

THREAD There are many proofs that modern Russia is a fascist state, from a view of political scientist. But let us look today at some visual details which can be found at least tasteless. Russia utilises a lot of Nazi propaganda images today. Look at this anti-Ukrainian poster /1

The modern Russian poster "Our brotherhood is stronger than (their) lie" is copies a Nazi poster from early 1930s, calling to vote for the National-Socialist Workers' Party. Instead of France and Jews, who are opposing the German worker, Ukrainian Jews are "threatening" Donbas /2

Is this usage of a Nazi image an exemption? One can clear see: the designer new what poster he uses, as a lot of details needed to be re-designed. Well, no coincidence here. Russia LOVES Nazi propaganda. Look at this pic of Russian Social Security web-page and a Nazi poster: /3

The usage of a Nazi family poster by a Russian official authority has happened in 2007, years before the Donbas war and even before the invasion to Georgia by Russian army: fontanka.ru/2007/02/27/085/

Russian designers love to be inspired by the Nazis. In 2005, in Petersburg, RU vodka producer 'Kristall" has got a grand-prix for a design of its Vodka 'Civil Defense': "for the highest level of Russian national art style". But they copied a Nazi poster:
sova-center.ru/hate-speech/ne…

Is it only about the posters? No, it is also about the ideas. Russian nuclear submarine "Polyarniye Zori" has chosen as its slogan "My honour is called loyalty" - the official slogan of SS, usage of it is a crime in Germany. A Rosgvardiya special unit Vyatich did the same:

I already explained, how openly Nazi politicians who used swastikas as their symbols are the members of Putin's government. Read this thread to understand that Russians do not see anything bad in Nazism itself, just want to use its "power" as a "trophy":

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1536742373631442944

It does not go all the time very openly, as they love to play at the border, pretending they "didn't mean anything like that". Compare: in 2013, in Yaroslavl Russian police used to print "numbers" on its helmets which resemble SS runes, but continued to say it were "just numbers"

Sure, on the battlefield it goes way more open. Look at Anton Rayevsky, a Russian soldier who was a part of RU terror unit in Odesa on May 2nd 2014, and later fought in Donbas against Ukraine. The slogan on his IFV says "To Kyiv!". He was a deputy candidate of LDPR party later:

Or here: Alexey Milchakov, a Russian soldier who fought in Ukraine in a Nazi unit "Rusich". Look also at "Rusich" emblems, which clearly play with Swastika and "Sieg-Rune" motives:

It should not be a surprise that Russians support Nazism. One of the ideologists of modern Russian confrontation with the West, Maxim Kalashnikov, clearly said, that Russia needs "Russian National Socialism". Kalashnikov was welcomed by president Medvedev:

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1506200157540524032

Well, I think I shall stop here, the topic is still huge and this thread was just a short reminder about modern Russian Nazism. /END

Correction: this was a web page of "Union of large families (i.e. those with more than 3 children)", not a "Social security". (OMS stays for both abbreviations: Obyedineniye mnogodetnikh semey AND Obyazatelnoye medizinskoye strakhovanie): fontanka.ru/2007/02/27/085…

Wow, you cannot invent this. In Russian town of Klin, Moscow region, school teachers are proudly posing with a poster “One People, One Nation, One Ruler”, what is a 100% copy from Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Führer Nazi slogan.

https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1540212702924226561