Putin compared the RDK with the army of the traitor Vlasov and recalled how it ended. “You know, even during the Great Patriotic War there was such a formation that was created by the traitor to the Motherland,” he said.

‘Now there are exactly the same people who are fighting on the side of neo-Nazis, the neo-Nazi regime,’ Putin said, talking to reporters at his campaign headquarters in Gostiny Dvor.