Anyway something I think of occasionally, maybe 5 years ago I used to pay attention to this tumblr “zentropista”, which was affiliated with CasaPound, an italofashish party/movement focused on, uh, housing availability for people under 30?

And it showed off their activities and aesthetics and influences, I think I found it off of d'Annunzio posts. Honestly in the area of but miiiiiles better than anything the American alt-right put out, tattooed throwback-hair muscle-hipsters in tailored shirts.

I suppose italofash are the originals. Italian glamour photography too, probably.

Anyway when Maidan happened in Ukraine they were well-linked with Azov, and to pay back the love some locals hung an overpass banner for them except one of them fell off and died.

And then for the next few weeks zentropista was full of this “Ciao Dimitri” campaign like nothing before, just so many big monumental graffiti pieces and banner hangs and stickers and everything.

And you realized, “wait, they couldn’t have worked this up from boo that fast, they’ve had this contingency plan in waiting all along to make a martyr, and they’ve just been waiting for a death to fill in the name.”