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>>17994405
They can recognize similar problems, which leads to some people to entertain notions of creating a fake unity between communists and traditionalists by trying to force some "compromise" on positions on this or that, but I don't think it really works that way -- if that does happen, I think it tends to develop out of sheer circumstance like Russian leftists and socialists (future Bolsheviks) fighting alongside traditionalist / conservative Russian adventurers on the side of the Boers in the Boer War against the British Empire.

I think it's probably a similar thing in Donbass, where you have these communists from different parts of Europe who have gone there to fight on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic alongside Orthodox Christian conservatives from Russia. And there are neo-Nazis fighting on the side of Ukraine and waving NATO flags -- just bizarre, right? You get some fun combinations:

https://youtu.be/su2OfiqGgRk