> Facebook is even promoting straight up hate crimes.

Killing invaders (which is what Facebook is allowing) is not a hate crime, it's a duty of any citizen of a society.

> It’s not a meme that Russia started.

It's not a meme. It's propaganda only Russians believe.

Russia is also the country with the largest number of neo-nazis (about 80-100k).

Putin is the nationalist in this game. Trying to push the Russian nationalist agenda on the previously soviet countries.