Politics
The Nazi pug, 10 years on
Ten years ago this week, Mark Meechan – aka Count Dankula – posted a joke video to his little-watched YouTube channel. It showed his girlfriend’s pet pug, Buddha, performing Nazi salutes and responding to the phrase, ‘Gas the Jews’. The skit went viral – and also caught the attention of the Scottish authorities, who had Dankula arrested, thrown in a police cell and eventually convicted for his ‘grossly offensive’ video. spiked’s Fraser Myers caught up with the now notorious ‘speech criminal’ to find out whether Count Dankula may have had the last laugh.
Plus: watch spiked’s classic documentary, The Curious Case of the Nazi Pug, presented by Andrew Doyle, to get the full story here.
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