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Probably concern that he was becoming unhinged enough to put commercial contracts at risk. There are more... fitting... positions right now for a raving nationalist lunatic, I'm sure he'll land on his feet in the DPR or LPR.
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What do you mean specifically?
Here's a recent episode (he was banned from Twitter for that): "Dmitry Rogozin (Director General of Russia’s Roskosmos State Space Agency, former Deputy Prime Minister) – comments on his Twitter feed and Telegram channel (June 13, 2022) “In general, what has grown up in the place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, Russian language and Russian civilization. If we do not put an…
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I'm not the person you're replying to but Rogozin is an actual neo-Nazi: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-racist/russian-ult... Someone else in this thread linked a video of him giving the Nazi salute (is there a name for this?) after his speech at the rally mentioned in the Reuters article. I can't think of any reason someone would attend or speak at such an event, let alone salute like that at such an even…
The Nazi salute is called the “Bellamy salute” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute ), which actually was an American invention.
No its not
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As I mentioned above most sources say he’s actually a huge careerist coming from a nomenclature family and doing everything to get through the ranks. It’s a really easy climb if you share Nazi and homophobic views of Russian elites and being vocal about it. Plays very well with army generals, old Kremlin elite and general population as well.
Could you explain what a "nomenclature family" is? I haven't heard that term before.
Good riddance.
And the long-awaited Soyuz/Crew Dragon seat swap agreement between Roscosmos and NASA was signed an hour or two later. That seems unlikely to be a coincidence.
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As I mentioned above most sources say he’s actually a huge careerist coming from a nomenclature family and doing everything to get through the ranks. It’s a really easy climb if you share Nazi and homophobic views of Russian elites and being vocal about it. Plays very well with army generals, old Kremlin elite and general population as well.
Could you explain what a "nomenclature family" is? I haven't heard that term before.
Nomenclature was a very small class of people with privileged exclusive access.
It’s either families with relatively short ties to Kremlin: people with high positions, spies, diplomats, nuclear scientists, state journalists, pro-government writers.
Or people like heads of grocery chains, import shops who controlled access to goods and clothes.
People like these could put their children at most successful universities without exams, buy them Western cars and spoil with caviar while most people stood at the queues for hours to get sour milk or bones for soup.