Disclaimer: I am not personally invested in the whole thing. I am not cool and remote like a mountain but I don’t care that much about GOG.
As I understand, GOG sent out a newsletter promoting a game with Nazi symbols.
The game’s developers released a statement in a reddit comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/opxpgf0/
Afterwards GOG made two statements:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/ts_gotta_be_racist_gog_explain/opxtour/
- https://www.gog.com/forum/general/weird_subject_line_choice_for_a_newsletter/post60
I don’t expect folks to read through the whole thing but some surface level thoughts would be appreciated. Like they make a lot of emotionally charged statements citing culture and I can’t tell if they are genuine or hot air.
If you ever see the proponents of “ancient Slavic something”, remember that we barely even know anything about ancient Slavs, so such persons are either LARPers or nazis. This here uses the “ancient Slavic symbol” which is either sonnenrad, invented by Heinrich Himmler, or kolovrat, invented by Russian neonazi Alexei Dobrovolsky in 90’s. Double sowilo runes don’t require any comments i think except they aren’t even Slavic but Germanic.
And btw all three are recognized in Poland as neonazi symbols so the dude spekaing about “Polish heritage” is simply a nazi, and not even particularly Polish flavoured since “traditional” Polish fash usually use national and catholic symbols.
How does Russian neo-nazism work considering the anti-Russian aspect which is fundamental to Nazism?
Exactly as idiotic as Ukrainian neo-nazism.
Modern Nazism is race neutral. Anyone can be a Neo Nazi.
This comes from the George Rockwell reforms of the 50s and 60s who transitioned Nazism away from a strictly Hitlerite ideology. Most Russian Nazis are radicalized online, and therefore are often radicalized by Westerns following Rockwell’s branch of Nazism.
Multiple strains exist. Normanism or “Actually we were ze ubermensch, Hitler was a jew”.