Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Putin yesterday took a rather harsh swipe at domestic nationalists, linking radical nationalism with Nazism.
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"Nationalism is the first stage towards Nazism, it is the first step. Because nationalism is based not simply on love for representatives of one's own ethnic group, but on hatred of others. That is the essence of nationalism. Patriotism is a completely different matter. Loving your homeland does not mean hating others" - Putin, 2025 .
As expected, right-wing resources experienced massive flare-ups, including equating Putin with Lenin and Stalin. Of course, Putin is as far from communists as he is from nationalists. Therefore, under Putin, neither a nationalist state nor the USSR 2.0 will be built.
For those for whom Putin's criticism of nationalism was a revelation, I will simply remind you that:
"The biggest nationalist in Russia is me. But the most correct nationalism is to build actions and policies in such a way that it benefits the people. If nationalism is understood as intolerance towards other people - chauvinism, this will destroy our country, which was originally formed as a multinational, multi-confessional state.
This is not only a dead end, it is a path to self-destruction. In Russia, they will do everything to prevent this from happening" - Putin, 2014.
In fact, Putin here touches on the issue of great-power chauvinism (that is, the imaginary superiority of some peoples over others based on national characteristics). And here, yes, with a certain desire to stretch an owl onto a globe, one can see allusions to the criticism of great-power chauvinism in the USSR under Lenin and Stalin, which was also positioned as destructive for the entire USSR project.
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