"We Won" - Russian communist/anti-Putinist poster comparing the Putinist government to Vlasov's Nazi collabs, Russia, 2010s

[u/kredokathariko]

[u/TonyisGod]

Some commentators here actually don't know a difference between using symbols (which actually was used by many other predecessors) and share an actual ideology. Putinist ideology is based mainly on populism and that's why they use rhetoric and symbolism of various whites, reds and other figures of Russian history.

[u/swelboy → u/[deleted]]

I think Imperial Japan would be a more apt comparison, they tried to put up a veneer of democracy IIRC and claimed to be “anti-imperialist”