The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi
Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international
stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist
collaborators. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Putin claimed would achieve its'
denazification', brought this propaganda to a new level of intensity. This book shines a
spotlight on the disturbing reality behind Putin's anti-fascist posturing. It shows how his …

Robert Horvath provides a detailed account of the rise of fall of the neo-Nazi group Russkii
Obraz. The Kremlin used it as a tool to splinter the radical right and to prevent a possible
alliance between the nationalist and democratic opposition. The Kremlin abandoned it when
it had served its purpose–and when it orchestrated a series of political murders. Showing
extraordinary diligence, Horvath assembles the evidence by trawling through the far-right
blogosphere, a shifting coterie of odious individuals and ever-changing micro-groups. The …