I sat and in the last hour watched a Russian college kid do interviews on the street with ordinary Russian people.
The topic? 'Do you think the Ukraine is full of Nazis'?
You can view the discussion over at YouTube....at this 'channel'.
It's an interesting subject, if you think about the Putin narrative, how people grasp this, and goes beyond the Russian and Ukrainian borders.
If you walked around Germany today (2022) and asked the question....are there Nazis in Germany? The majority would say yes, but the numbers are marginal....with most suggesting fewer than five-thousand. If you asked the question....have you personally met a Nazi, the vast majority will say 'no', but they know they exist.
It reminds me of the bogey-man principal (that people believe an evil-spirit character in human form exists). The Russians have a similar 'idea', which is the Babay.
In the German situation of the early 1930s....a lot of people came to be under the Nazi 'umbrella'....some believing in one single element of the political platform....some believing in the 'take-this-away' feature of capitalism....some believing in eugenics....some believing in regaining national dignity from the insult loss of WW I, and finally some believing in anti-communism to such a level that war or destruction is necessary.
The only Nazis that I've come to view while in Germany? Well....there's been news media pieces where various people are accused or far-extremism and the news crew labeled the folks as neo-Nazis. On some occasions, some people interviewed even admitted they were Nazis (being proud of the self-description).
Recruitment or people being drawn to the 'label'? No. It's not like some club exists, and you really want to join up with the group.
The chief problem with the discussion? Well....some people 'want' to believe in Nazis because it'd be a simple explanation, and everyone is charged-up to be anti-Nazi. If you did all the hyped-up chatter....on some really bad chaotic stuff, and there's just no Nazi stuff in existence? Well....it's a serious problem to 'brand' and sell to the public.
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The link says the video is private and doesn't show the channel. Could you tell us the channel name please?
I guess if you listen to Russia now that Antifa was right all along, and there's millions of Nazi's everywhere.
1420 is the channel name. I checked...that 'vid' is gone now, but the others from the past year are still up. Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/1420channel/videos
The guy does ask logical questions and I like his content.
Some Russians don't believe the Nazi-story....some will just say they don't know nothing about politics (to be safe), and some try to use logic to question the Nazi business.
On Antifa...from the 1930s...their message has always been a question-mark. Maybe 20-percent of the time, they get things right....the rest, I would question.
I know that Antifa isn't really that 'on the mark' when it comes to these things. I merely find it ironic that the QAnon style right wing crowd are now cheering on Russia and are suddenly woke and anti-Nazi. Upon a re-read I phrased it pretty poorly. Just a silly joke about how the 'independent' thinkers are easily brainwashed by state sponsored media.
Over the past five years, I think the general public has had lesson after lesson on 'brands' being sold, propaganda, and fake hype. It's not just state sponsored....it goes to some themes by universities, public institutes/think-tanks, charity operations/foundations, religious groups, etc.
A great example is the evil 'brand' put on nuke power for well over forty years, and suddenly some counter-environmental folks have arrived to suggest that there are great reasons to keep nuke power up and running (in some cases slamming wind generators and their placement), and you are left sitting there and shaking your head...wondering which BS was 'right' or if both groups are deceiving you different ways.
On QAnon, I always felt they were a Chinse propaganda device (not Russian).
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