Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Briefly

The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin, who turned out to be a fictional character, was actually Russian translations of Nazi verses, revealing the echoes of fascism in modern Russian propaganda.
The group of anonymous pranksters behind Rakitin's creation wanted to demonstrate how the so-called Z propaganda in Russia mirrors fascist ideas, with almost all discovered Nazi poems fitting seamlessly into the modern Russian context.
The authors emphasized that the Nazi poems translated for the Rakitin project highlight the closeness between the ideas of Nazi Germany and modern Russia, exposing the disconnect between Russia's anti-Nazi stance and the propagation of similar ideology.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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