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Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He is/was despicable as the leader of mercenaries ready to sell their services to any authoritarian regime, but I don't see clear relationship with Nazism, do you have sources? It seems weird to me that a Nazi would accept to work for African juntas for example.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I find it weird that the former liberal consensus was that Wagner was effectively a Nazi PMC group but now I guess it isn't?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you think I follow the ideology a specific movement, I'm afraid to tell you I don't. So I'm not sure what the former liberal consensus was. The Wikipedia article (generally consensual, I guess) does mention that a sub-group in particular is: the Rusich unit. It seems ironic that Putin pretends to fight Nazism by using Nazis, unless the goal is that they self-destruction, but I guess that's a fantasy.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago

    Putin never said he sought to annihilate Nazism in general, at least not that I know of. He said that among his goals is to denazify Ukraine, which I believe is true simply because the Ukrainian Nazis are his most hardliners opponents there. He does also crack down on Russian fascists when they become inconvenient to him (like darling of the west Navalny), but I don't think he ever claimed to be an antifascist.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago*

    copied from above

    Dmitry Utkin (who was also on the plane) is definitely a nazi, and Wagner has a lot of links to far-right elements in Russia. Wagner itself is supposed to reference Richard Wagner, Hitler's favorite composer

    so Prigozhin is definitely in bed with nazis but idk anything about his actual beliefs

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