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Somewhere around the start of the year Finland's tiny fringe pro-Russian/Putinist scene was beset by a series of ludicrous scams that weren't connected by other means than mostly targetting Janus Putkonen, probably the loose scene's central figure, by all indications a true believer to Putin and Russia and the SMO and the whole "Z" thing (to such a degree that he actually lives in Donetsk and at least at some point run some sort of a local media operation there, however still also running a Finnish-language media targetted at his former countrymen, and keeping in contact with Finnish operators).
I mean things like an openly flamboyantly homosexual while still apparently fervently Putinist guy running vodka-fuelled tourist trips to Russia and then suddenly just organizing a bunch of trips that ended up not happening while the guy took the money and ran, still mocking his former compatriots for their stupidity. This wasn't the only scam but the one that I remember following the most clearly.
All while this happened, none of this seemed to shake Putkonen's faith to anything beyond the individual actors running the scams being "snakes" and "traitors" and whatsoever. I even asked him on Twitter (without receiving an answer); if you happen to be in a political/social scene where seemingly everyone seems to constantly be trying to rip everyone else (well, him, mainly) off, doesn't that tell that there's something fundamentally wrong with that scene? Might that not indicate an inbuilt flaw within the whole ideology underlying the scene itself? Ye shall know the tree by its fruits, and all that.
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