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that's what i though - could have been <1% of the city's population there in support, and even if the other 99% were opposed to Wagner - they're hardly going to come out and protest in this scenario.
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I am thinking of the time, a decade ago, when Putin was booed when he went onstage at an MMA event in Moscow. At the time we so wanted it to be a bunch of liberal hipster kids, and the beginnings of a democracy movement.
It came out a few days later that the hecklers had been a cluster of far right extremists who think Putin is a softie. I am not trying to make the 'Putin as the lesser evil' argument here, it's just that one should be careful to project anything positive into such a thoroughly depressing state of affairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS48UuVXbjQ
starfish&coffee
But I've also seen videos of Rostov residents walking/cycling up to the Wagnerites and having a go at them. Those videos were mostly shot in day time. The videos with a cheering crowd were shot in the evening and the crowd looks more homogeneous, young and male. At a quick glance anyway. Could they represent a smaller core of right wing kids who follow Wagner in various telegram channels? My understanding is that the scum to the right of Putin have been able to stick their neck out from time to time without significant repercussions.