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I've been slow to join the "Moscow Mitch" bandwagon, but I'll admit this is an interesting parallel
Considering the quite tasteful displays by his supporters over the past few days.....putting opponents names on gravestones, having teenage boys groping a cardboard cutout of a Congresswoman.....
It does sound somewhat familiar, when one considers Putin's "Nashi" youth movement. Every year, they hold a big camp for youngsters, and one year this is what they decided to do:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/03/20/kremlin-replaces-infamous-seliger-youth-camp-with-event-in-crimea-a44975
The 2010 Seliger event hit the headlines when it emerged that the forum had featured an installation of 13 mounted portraits of Kremlin critics and foreign politicians — including former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in Moscow last month — wearing hats with Nazi symbols. A poster nearby said "You are not welcome here."
Come on, Mitch. Have some originality, why don't you?