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[–] FamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

sry I meant neonazi stuff

Also this is from Rainer Shea https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/08/14/pmc-structure-exposed/

In that same report, Bellingcat includes a statement which confirms that the famous Dmitry Utkin who’s been tied to Russian mercenary activity is not the same Utkin whose (supposed) Nazi tattoo photo has been widely shared by pro-NATO propagandists on social media. Bellingcat states about Prigozhin’s catering company Concord, whose CEO’s name was also Dmitry Utkin: “the Dmitry Valeryevich Utkin in fact appointed as CEO was not the Wagner Group commander. In fact, this Dmitry Utkin was created just a month earlier – through a legal name change (permissible in Russia) of a little-known St. Petersburg resident, eighteen years younger than the original Utkin and having only three months of prior management experience running his own startup company: Alexey Karnaukhov.” Karnaukhov is the alleged neo-Nazi who these propagandists claim is a mercenary commander. In reality, he’s nothing more than a business partner of Prigozhin, a business partner whose role is wholly detached from mercenary activities. And because he looks vaguely similar to the shirtless, scowling man with Nazi tattoos on his shoulders who’s appeared in a viral photo, the Ukrainian disinformation agents have falsely claimed he’s the same person as this man.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bellingcat is RFE-tier, especially after the coup attempt when western media 180'd on wagner.

[–] FamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

o shit 2020, ty

[–] eatmyass@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it literally says in that story

thanks to his obsessive fascination with the history of third Reich – [he] had received the nom-de-guerre “Wagner”.

[–] FamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's because he just likes the music of Wagner.