Follow the Leader

source: https://magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-leader-nazi-putin-sonntag-cold-war/

In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues #Germany today. He was also a Communist #spy—and worked for Vladimir #Putin.

Some prisoners viewed #Nazism as the purest form of opposition to #communism, the ideology whose agents had put them behind bars. Indeed, embracing far-right beliefs was, ironically, a demonstration of anti-authoritarianism.

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