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.
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”.