• dorcas@beehaw.org
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    5 hours ago

    How do you explain that many reuropean right-wing parties are pro-Russia?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      Russia tends to be critically supported by the left, while being admired by the far-right for having hard power. The far-right like Russia for being a capitalist power that cracks down on the LGBTQ community, while the left critically supports it in undermining imperialism and neocolonialism.