His family fled Russia when he was young, he was brought up in Germany (Koln, Cologne). He became a neonazi there, am influent one (White Rex was his brand of MMA sportswear). He is not "right wing", he is a straight neonazi. His mother repudiated him for being a neonazi. He just just "hate" Putin more than Zelensky, whom he called "a Jew". There is plenty enough evidence on Wikipedia of him being on the wrong side of morals and ethics to not honor his memory ; he now is dead, but still a nazi.

[+] Jumi@lemmy.world -20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A dead nazi is a good nazi regardless of the flag they're wearing.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

By that logic: A dead american...

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That dude was an actual neonazi. Ukraine was using him because he created an image of "Russians fighting against Russians". Though to be fair Putin has a bunch of neonazis fighting for him too.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Putin has a long track record of killings, persecutions and rights violations over more than two decades of fascist leadership. Neo-Nazism has been state-sanctioned under Putin, with powerful and wealthy allies like Prigozhin not merely espousing the ideas but quite literally torturing and murdering people in Syria and Africa, both to further Putin's political goals and to act on the Wagner members' internal hatred of non-white people. If anything, people like Nikitin, his friend Tesak, and many others of that scene, were also a product of Putin's Russia, where street-level neo-Nazis were financially supported by the government and used for political reasons in the early 2000s, when racially motivated hate killings were on the rise. Nikitin's neo-Nazi ideas or even hate-fueled brawls in Europe were like child's play compared to the actual fascism of Russia under Putin.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

That comment is not the win you think it is