In the post-soviet states, there’s been a big push to associate nationalists of the past as the freedom fighters, we have statues built for generals who allied with the reich, they are presented as opportunists who were allying with the lesser evil, to give our countries liberty. The new mission of the new age nationalists, in their eyes, is to “actually” get rid of all the “real” problems, within the established borders. They’re not targeting “victims”, they’re targeting enemies of the state.

So I can understand why they would wear this kind of stuff. I can understand why it’s used to encourage the idea of a strong nation state with it’s own values that doesn’t care about what anyone else has to say about them. They see an opportunity to realize the creation of their glorious independent nation, that their ancestors failed to do. They don’t wanna “oppress” anyone, they just want to make people assimilate or leave. And forcing assimilation, within the country according to the local national values, isn’t viewed as a crime or a bad thing to do.

At least that’s how I see it. But it is convenient to simply say anyone who makes arguments like my own is simply a triggered bot who doesn’t understand they’re just doing a little trolling.