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| Nugget From Pravda: "New Russian Movement to Smash Up Skinheads" |
| 2005-03-06 |
| The organization is Going to Conduct Numerous Massive Actions in Russia Nationwide. After some serious thought, I decided that it probably wasn't a good idea to bury this item with half a dozen other items from Pravda (along with the tales of alien invasions and Within several past years, it was generally believed that Russian youth was not concerned about politics and cared just about their own problems. But today it turns out this is not quite so. The Nashi (Ours) youth movement suggests forming an anti-Fascist political movement. Ideologist of the Going Together movement, Vasily Yakemenko, told reporters: "The movement and me support the natural reaction to the increasing popularity of depraver Eduard Limonov and his crazy Nazis that is now outlining among pseudo intellectuals. National Bolsheviks are waving Hitler"s national socialist flags; Khakamada"s Committee 2008, the Yabloko youth subdivision, Berezovsky, Makashov and other immoral people have gathered under the flags." Eduard Limonov is supposedly the head of the National Bolshevik party. He's been jailed for illegal weapons possession, and when his sentence was cut short for good behavior, "The court also took into account positive references and petitions for his release from State Duma members including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Alexei Mitrofanov and Vasily Shandybin." - Why do you insist the movement is anti-Fascist? We see the ugly flowers of the smashed ideology are emerging here and there in the society that beat Fascism 60 years ago. Liberals join hands with national Bolsheviks and skinheads; the democratic processes so much resemble the Fascist ideology. This is particularly dangerous. Second, there are some other lines of the movement in addition to its anti-Fascist line. Notice how everything gets lumped together; "liberals," "national Bolsheviks," and skinheads... "democratic processes" and fascist ideology. - Mass media do believe that Nashi is the Kremlin's response to establishing the Going Without Putin movement. Is this so? This is not true. Going Without Putin is a soap bubble widely advertised by mass media. The organization has just three people in St.Petersburg and the same number of members in Moscow; nobody knows about it in other Russian cities. Compare this with Going Together that conducted large-scale actions, the population knows this movement. - What about Moscow's Pora movement? Is it a phantom like Going Without Putin? Sure. This is just another creation of Boris Berezovsky and George Soros who is rather active in Georgia and Ukraine now. In Ukraine, the Pora movement actually exists, while it is a phantom in Russia. We will understand it as soon as we ask the movement to reveal themselves. I suspect he's trying to say that noone is dissatisfied with Putin except for half a dozen people paid by George Soros to be dissatisfied. - What are your plans for the future? The movement is going to severely fight skinheads and anti-Semite organizations. We feel deeply injured with the public appearance and impunity of those who spread Fascism, the plaque that killed twenty millions of people last century. We are going to put an end to the unnatural union of oligarchs and anti-Semites, Nazis and liberals. The organization is going to conduct numerous massive actions in Russia nationwide and in Baltic republics as well. Another couple interesting links can be found here and ESPECIALLY here. There's a quote attributed in several forms to Huey P. Long, to the effect of when fascism finally comes to the United States it'll be called antifascism. |
| Posted by:Phil Fraering |
| #2 You know, if this wasn't an episode of The Young Ones, it should have been. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-03-06 11:48:19 PM |
| #1 So some COMMUNIST Fascists wanna beat up some Fascist COMMUNISTS - well, I 'm convinced of theirs and the Clintons' sincerity, isn't everybody??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-03-06 11:03:40 PM |