Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
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Guess you could say the plane was denazified.
Why?
Putin's propaganda is that the invasion of Ukraine is to denazify Ukraine. Basically any of his violent action is justified by calling his enemies Nazis and referring to the Soviet war against Nazi Germany (same as when the USA call others terrorists). So if he shot the plane, it's because it had Nazis. Top comment may support this way of thinking.
No, it's because Prigozhin was a Nazi. No more complicated than that
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.
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?
that consensus evaporated as soon as he staged his coup, all the libs lined up behind him immediately
When this is your internal narrative
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.
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.
Both can be true at the same time, with the caveat that actual Nazis aren't called Nazis in Russia but nationalists, patriots, suchlike.
But in the end Prigozhin might not have been a Nazi -- in the ideological sense -- but simply a crook. You don't really need a racist or such ideology to build a colonial empire in Africa, plain ole criminal mindset suffices.
Nazis are called patriots in Russia
Gets even better when you realize it's a German writing that
