Liberals will look at Russia paying a million dollars for Facebook ads and be like “the evil slavic octopus controlling our thoughts” but then not give a single thought to how much power that means Facebook inherently has

It’s nonsense. For one thing Russia is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious state. If anything it is the other eastern European states that are much closer to being ethnostates and therefore much more inclined to exhibit socially acceptable white supremacy, especially countries like Poland, Hungary and of course (western) Ukraine.

Russia still has a deeply engrained remembrance culture of their victory over Nazism and one of the consequences of this is to associate manifestations of racism with Nazism and therefore historical enemies of Russia.

Of course racism exists in Russia as it exists in every other Western country, but due to historical and demographic reasons the Russian state is more motivated than most to suppress it as it would pose a danger to the social stability of the Russian Federation with its many minorities. If they were to tolerate too much of it, that would result in ethnic strife which would destabilize the state.

Now, if we’re talking about reactionary anti-LGBT views, that’s another story. The Russian state actively supports those. But the other eastern European countries hardly need Russia’s interference to be anti-LGBT, they are already deeply reactionary on these issues themselves.

Blaming this on Russia is just convenient to take advantage of already existing Russophobia and anti-Russia paranoia to deflect from the contradiction between their claimed adherence to “western liberal values” and the reactionary culture their own ruling class has fostered since the fall of socialism in order to combat socialist and progressive tendencies.

Wherever there is pro western/Pro EU/pro yankee propaganda attacking the population, you will always find white supremacism. Russia, like all of Eastern Europe, is also a victim of this. That’s why we get photos like this one which could be the summary of our struggles.

Anyway, white supremacism comes from the West and “Western values”. The West will always attempt to whitewash it or deflect the blame to their enemies.

People in my country have reached such derangement that they really really ACTUALLY believe that every non-pro NATO, EU and “liberal” democracy opinion is conjured up by russian bots.

They are mentally on flat earther level.

The narrative of Putin mind controlling grandpa through facebook memes is copium that appeals to liberals because it allows them to LARP as citizens of a civil democratic society that just happens to have an unfortunate nazi problem caused entirely by nefarious outside influence. In reality, the states in which these narratives are popular have a long tradition of homebrewed genocidal ethnonationalism that culminated in enthusiastic participation in nazi crimes. These reactionary ideologies did not simply phase out of existence after the war, what we see today is simply the continuation of these historical tendencies.

Beyond the copium, white supremacy is the foundation of the imperial core and eastern europeans know exactly what they are doing. Countries like Poland, Romania, the Baltic states, etc are not manipulated into consuming far right propaganda because of a Putinist plot to destroy the west, they are actively and willingly turning up the nazi dial while looking at the core for approval and support. The prevailing worldview is that they are honorary aryans temporarily embarrassed by socialism (which was forced upon them by evil russians) who will claim their rightful place in the world hierarchy through a mountain of mongol blooded orc corpses. The militant ones like Azov will literally film themselves explaining this in detail.

There are white supremasist and far right people, and not only in goverment, even in kprf there’s a guy with last name Matveev who screaming at far right protest stuff like “today immigrants, tomorrow occupants” (in the first few seconds he does here) and bragging about knowing solzhenitsyn personally and glazing him, although he just one guy and more likely that he’s trying to ponder what’s popular at the moment like, just like Navalny was a nationalist at first (in video he’s comparing immigrants to bugs and cocroaches) … Also goverment named one of studyung centers of РГГУ (Russian State University for the Humanities) in the name of Ivan Ilyn, the guy who fled USSR and wrote stuff like “Fascism was right” right after Hitlers defeat, and that on the other hand organized studends to protest it. Saddly, it didn’t helped but organisation still exists with around 1000 people in there as I heard, which is cool. Also goverment occasionaly sponsor “historical” movies, and some school force children to watch them and I wouldn’t be againts them, if it was actually historical movies, but instead it something stupid like at the end of T-34 soviet tank man shakes hands with gestapo soldier, or like in the other movie Zoya Kosmodemyanska portrayed as Jesus who was suffering not for saving her fatherland from nazis, but just for small things in life like tram near house or a freshly baked bun, or other movie where Moscow was protected because some orthodox cristian icon was brought on plane and carried around city and also Stalin consults with little psychic girl, or I can keep going there are quite a few of those… So I would say there ARE some right-wing and white supremacy pandering at the goverment level, but I have to argue there are also some people there to oppose them, for example it’s a really rare occasion for street to be renamed since soviet time, so there are still lots of Lenin and Marx streets all over Russia, I also once was on a Boulevard of Sailor Zheleznyakov, who was an anarchist and did a lot during revolution. So as I see it there are some active goverment people who are far-right, some that are againts it and most of them do not care as long as they are in power and can make money so they’ll say whatever. The most showing example is Lenins mausoleum, which some want to remove, some want to keep and this debate is since the first day of counter-revolution.

But there were not a single time when goverment tried to target specific ethnical minorities. About political minorities - cfgaussian expanded greatly on anti-lgbt laws so I don’t see the reason to repeat it.