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Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
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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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