> How prevalent is Nazism in Russia? There were Nazi groups in 1990s and 2010s, then government policies stopped them mostly. It all started with forbidding na

> How prevalent is Nazism in Russia? There were Nazi groups in 1990s and 2010s, then government policies stopped them mostly. It all started with forbidding nazis, then were atheists insulting religious people, now it came to forbidding to insult government. In a short, I wouldn't be surprised if some people made Nazi's tattoos at 1990s. Though not now, especially because after 2014 Russia's propaganda paints Ukraine as a Nazi's lair, and shows a lot of examples how it is bad. Nazi's symbols are associated with Ukrainians in a public unconsciousness, and one might get hurt showing them in a public. Or, more likely, imprisoned because "Nazi's propaganda" is punishable by the law. > It kinda boggles my mind, since they had a very low opinion of Slavs and treated Russian soldiers very badly. Russian Nazis promote superiority not of Aryan race, but of some other. Slavs race, I believe. Or may be they are just promote Russian's superiority. Never bothered to learn their beliefs in detail. I think, that their minds works like "our grandfathers kicked our arses, so they were strong; Nazi kicked arses of our grandfathers hard so they were strong also; so if we copied them, we would be strong also". Grandfather's ideas failed with USSR, they needed some new ideas, so they chose Nazi's.