• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    They called him “Texas” because even though he was fighting for “our guys,” he still wasn’t a Pure Russian™, something Putin fans from America who emigrate to Russia find is a common sentiment.

    Anyway, good riddance.

  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
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    7 months ago

    On a Telegram channel previously run by him, Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, said he had been “abducted” by Russian soldiers from a tank battalion, and called on them to let him go.

    The self-declared communist joined pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine to fight Kyiv in 2014. He later also worked for the state-owned Russian news agency Sputnik and was given Russian nationality.

    🎻

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      7 months ago

      The self-declared communist joined pro-Moscow separatists

      Horseshoe theory strikes again!