In the aftermath of Prigozhin's media empire collapse, former employees spoke out about the dark tactics employed, including hiring individuals to portray "victims of Ukrainian Armed Forces” in staged reports that underpinned Russia's fake pretext for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- its Big Lie about alleged "genocide in Donbas." Following the unsuccessful mutiny of...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same strategy as Hitler, staged actors faking an attack as a reason to "counterattack". Not surprising. Russians are the real Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Interesting read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hitler's playbook is also being reused in India.
Hitler blamed Jews for Germany's inflation. The chief minister of Assam (one of states) belongs to the Hindu supremacist BJP (PM Modi's political party as well) and he has been blaming Muslims for the sky-high food inflation. Muslims are lynched to death by violent Hindu supremacists almost every day, and they who do not have the power to prevent this are somehow charged with having power to control food prices? The only problem with Hemant Biswa Sarma's lies are that they will be used as another excuse to harm Muslims.

The world would be a better place if we could gather Nazis and wannabe-Nazis and fascists together on an island and leave them there.

ETA: on not in