A Russian alleged war criminal and avowed Nazi who resembles Elon Musk is begging the tech billionaire for cash on Telegram.
“Dear Elon Musk, I am called your Russian version. I also want to study the stars, but I have to make warfare, because otherwise I will not be able to buy a house (although I am very tired over these 10 years),” internet troll and Nazi Alexey Milchakov said in a post on the Rusich Telegram channel.
Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group, or Rusich, is a paramilitary group that’s been fighting in Ukraine for the past decade. It was founded by Milchakov and has associations with the Wagner group. Milchakov, who has a passing resemblance to Musk, has long been a presence on both the battlefield and the Russian internet.
“Please, help me fulfill my childhood dream: I need a house, 500-600 m2 with a land, and a telescope, so that I can calmly and peacefully study planets and galaxies and grow apple trees and tomatoes,” Milchakov said in the post that was signed with his name. “The price of such a house in Russia is no more than $1 million dollars. For you this is not money, but for me it is decades of warfare. PS I am happy to use your Starlink products and consider it the best Internet in the world.”
Memes involving Musk took off on the Russian internet after he appeared to do a Nazi salute while giving a speech during Trump’s inauguration celebration. On the Rusich channel, someone posted the clip of the Sig Heil moment unedited and added the caption “Alexey Milchakov in Washington, 2025.” Elsewhere people have overlaid Milchakov on top of Musk during that moment so it looks more like the Nazi soldier is the one doing the salute.
The post begging for money is a joke and the Rusich group’s Telegram channel is full of foul memes and other similar content. But there are also a lot of frontline pictures and videos from the war in Ukraine. Rusich is actively engaged in the conflict and the Musk jokes sit alongside soldiers posing with weapons and battlefield photos from the war.
In various interviews over the years, Milchakov has not minced words about his political ideology. “I’m a Nazi. I’m a Nazi. I’m not going to go deep and say, I’m a nationalist, a patriot, an imperialist, and so forth. I’ll say it outright: I’m a Nazi,” he said during an interview in 2020 broadcast on a Russian nationalist YouTube channel.
Milchakov got famous online in Russia in the early 2010s after he posted photos of himself decapitating a dog on VK, a Russian social media site similar to Facebook. He was 20 years old. When Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, Michakov went to war and began to blog about his experiences on social media, posting pictures of himself with mutilated bodies online.
In 2020, Michakov surfaced in Syria where he posed with a severed head. European authorities have accused him of involvement in atrocities committed against Ukrainians during the war including the decapitation of a Ukrainian prisoner of war, something of a running theme for him. He’s been sanctioned by much of Europe as well as the United States.
Michakov, whose current whereabouts are unknown though audio of him surfaced earlier this year, is a memetic figure among the Russian far-right. An avowed Nazi with a penchant for taking heads and a passing resemblance to the world’s richest man is rich meme fodder for trolls and the online Nazis who post in his name.
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