Rise of Germany's AfD signals growing support for pro-Russian policies
One of Russia's top narratives is that it invaded Ukraine to "denazify" this multi-ethnic democracy led by a president with Jewish roots and holocaust survivors in his lineage.
In fact, Russia's public obsession with "fighting Nazis" masks how its closest relations among European political parties are with those on the far right. One of these parties is Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has been mired in scandal after recent reports of its affiliations with Neo-Nazis.
Since its founding in 2013, AfD has steadily grown from a fringe opposition party to "the largest pro-Russian far-right party in Europe," as Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert on far-right movements, would describe it.
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