Russia-Ukraine Week 16: Nazis? Like Putin's neo-Nazi starter?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that part of why he launched his "special mission" into Ukraine was to de-Nazify it. Nat-sec 

But, there's a bigger elephant in the room for Putin: Rainer Sonntag, one of the leaders of Germany's modern neo-Nazi movement ... and in reality, Stasi agent with ties to Vladimir Putin, KGB agent, in the last days of East Germany. Read his story, which is also the story of neo-Nazism in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, despite the Communist Party's denials. And, with that in mind, it's likely that neo-Fascist movements existed in other countries that had displayed these ideas during WWII and its run-up, ie, Romania and Hungary, among others.

It's also a story of the KGB-Stasi collaboration in general, and how Putin's skill at this fueled his KGB career rise.

It's also interesting that in modern German, "Aufklärung" refers to "reconnaissance" or "espionage," as that's the traditional German word for "Enlightenment," as in the "Age of Enlightenment."

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Meanwhile, in war news, Russia has effectively gained control of Luhansk.

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Lee Zion of newspaper publishing fame may be a benighted fighter in Ukraine, but as in other wars, this is already attracting the "best" of Amerkkka's soldier of fortune types.