Was watching "Rogue Heroes" the other day and one of the ops they did was on Crete. They mentioned that the locals all wear black to commemorate the death of their messiah.
So, while i was in Germany in the 1980s we used to joke about the old ladies who always wore black and it wasn't because their husbands had died in the War it was because mustache man had died.
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These people have always been there but the political norms have kept them down, suppressed. It was not a good thing to ease off those norms. Just as it is not a good thing for Trump and company to **** on the norms regarding bigotry and racialist violence in this country we had only just suppressed.
But, hey they figured out how to build a media blowtorch to funnel Putin-created propaganda as well as their own into the eye sockets of a bunch of people who didn't like being told they couldn't use the N-word.