Sometimes the trash takes out the trash. I worry for ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Many things can be true at the same time
Why Russians are fascists? I can't get it
Bit of a problem with an invasion and genocide in a neighboring country that you may have seen on the news lately, plus the brutal anti-democratic autocracy?
Invasion and genocide not definition of fascism 🤷♂️ And our autocracy - democratic 😁 I've been on elections last week 🙈
This… this is so optimistically naive it's almost heartbreaking. Even if Putin could lose the elections, and his political opposition wasn't repeatedly being jailed, poisoned, or assassinated, the centralized power would still qualify as a fascist government.
Ah cool so bad faith arguments.
Your leader is a nazi.
Authoritarian regime that locks up political opponents and actively encourages the persecution of those different from them. Highly corrupt administration intertwined with a highly corrupt military, all of whom believe they have more say in a neighboring countries sovereignty and automamy than that nation.
Cult of tradition, the state enforces "traditional" behaviour, for example suppression of LGBT people, deeply ingrained anti feminist sentiment, and so on
The suppression of any political opponents by the state, disagreement with Putin is treason.
Fear of difference, again symbolised by the persecution of LGBT people and various ethnic discrimination the Russian state perpetrates, can also be seen in some of the state sanctioned rhetoric against Ukrainians.
Appeal to frustration, might be a bit of a stretch but the Putin regime is definitely posturing as slighted or unfairly treated by the world.
Obsession with a plot, rhetoric about Russia being persecuted and nefarious plots being done against Russia are fairly common in state rhetoric afaik
I don't feel like going over the rest of the list, I listed a few of the points I feel like describe russia well according to Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism.
If you disagree with me I don't care very much.
I actually agree with all of it, and it makes me feel so bad about it all.
Yeah it's not great in Russia
