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No, the ussr did not fund paramilitary nazi groups formed from the remnants of former SS troops, or anything similar.
They always funded European left-wing parties at least until the fall of URSS. There were even cultural exchanges with European politicians going to Moscow. It was never a secret! The same thing is still happening today with some parties openly pro-Putin (at least until the invasion of Ukraine).
Some cultural exchanges and auxiliary funding is not remotely the same as arming and connecting former SS troops to create clandestine paramilitary terror cells, like wtf are we comparing here.
Maybe you missed it, but the ‘70s were wild with terrorism from both sides.
They werent funded, armed or trained by the ussr afaik and did not terrorise civilians.
I recommend to read the full page of whatever you googled next time 👋
I recommend providing sources next time youre making the comperison between nazi terror cells doing pogroms and some revolutionary groups doing targeted assasinations of fascist politicians. Provide a source that the assassination of Aldo moro was financed or otherwise materially supported by the ussr or shut up. Because I found nothing of the sort.
Either way still not remotely comparable to what the wannabe-dirlewangers did and still do: