Nazism was always regarded as a left-wing phenomenon until the end of World War II, Loudon said. A lot of communists joined the Nazi Party and communism, and Nazism were considered two different elements of the left, he added. Stalin was the first one who called Nazis the right-wing, after he defeated Germany, “because then he could lay that label to conservatives and anti-communists,” Loudon said. One of the ideological leaders of national Bolshevism is Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher who was an adviser to Vladimir Putin for some time. National Bolsheviks look at Russia as the “savior” of the “white socialist world,” …Some mass shooters are portrayed by the many media as motivated by far-right ideology. “These guys are not American right-wingers. … they explicitly hate America, they want to see a worldwide socialist fascist system.”
