When I lived in Russia, I was warned not to leave my apartment on Hitler’s birthday, which is when gangs of Russian skinheads would rampage through the metro and markets, beating up anyone who looked foreign. Usually market vendors from China, Central Asia, or the Caucuses, but they’d happily maul an American or German if they had the chance.
I never understood their reverence for Hitler. He considered Slavs inferior and wanted to wipe them all out, and yet there they were, “celebrating” with a rampage.
