He was a straight-up Neo-Nazi and named the group after Hitler’s favorite composer. So yeah, he would have been infinitely worse than Putin… and that’s saying something.
I thought the link between Wagner Group and Hitler was a stretch, but it turns out the group’s name comes from founder Dmitry Utkin’s callsign, and he chose it specifically because Wagner was Hitler’s favorite composer. Utkin himself has Nazi tattoos.
He was a straight-up Neo-Nazi and named the group after Hitler’s favorite composer. So yeah, he would have been infinitely worse than Putin… and that’s saying something.
I thought the link between Wagner Group and Hitler was a stretch, but it turns out the group’s name comes from founder Dmitry Utkin’s callsign, and he chose it specifically because Wagner was Hitler’s favorite composer. Utkin himself has Nazi tattoos.
Source: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/03/07/what-is-the-wagner-group-russias-mercenary-organisation
Yeah but a guy with a Stalin pfp told me Ukrainians are the real Nazis /s
The picture of Utkin with nazi tatoos is not Utkin, they don’t look the same and it’s unsourced.
No he wasn’t https://rainershea.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-psyop-the-incredibly
LOL.
When Bellingcat says that’s not Dmitry Utkin, I listen.