The Russian understanding of Nazism, like elsewhere, also includes aspects of racial purity, anti-Semitism, and ultra-nationalism, and a focus on "degeneracy" a

The Russian understanding of Nazism, like elsewhere, also includes aspects of racial purity, anti-Semitism, and ultra-nationalism, and a focus on "degeneracy" as the source of a nation's decline ("weak men make hard times"). Of course, the optics of being seen as a Nazi are very bad, so even Nazis are constantly pointing fingers and saying "no, THAT person is the true Nazi." But the facts aren't on their side, so we have no obligation to humor them when they say absurd things like "Zelenskyy is the true Nazi", when the man, aside from being Jewish, also isn't espousing Nazi ideology.