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News / Politics
Thursday, February 28, 2002
New Political Party Campaigns Against Jews
By Nabi Abdullaev
Staff Writer
A group of nationalist politicians, military officials and Cossack leaders have formed
a new party that calls for a better deal for ethnic Russians and explicitly blames Jews
for stealing the country's wealth.
General Igor Rodionov, who served as defense minister under former President
Boris Yeltsin, was elected to head the new party.
The People's Patriotic Party of Russia was created at a meeting of 187 delegates
from 70 regions held Saturday in the Moscow region town of Moskovsky.
Delegates included 12 Duma deputies, World War II veterans, army officers and
representatives of the Cossack communities in southern Russia.
Leaders of the new party, which plans to contest seats at the State Duma elections in
2003, said they will fight for "an independent Russia" free of the "foreign experience
thrust upon us by the West."
Rodionov, a State Duma deputy from the Communist faction, told the gathering that
the People's Patriotic Party "considers the liberal democrats who are in power now
our enemies," Interfax reported.
"Liberalism has been and remains the most destructive force in Russia," he was
quoted by the Gazeta newspaper as saying.
Rodionov singled out Jews for criticism, saying that they occupy key positions and
control the majority of industrial enterprises and media. "They must return what they
have looted in Russia and publicly repent to the Russian people for the crimes that
Jewish terrorists and extremists have committed," Gazeta quoted him as saying.
Rodionov could not be reached, but one of his aides referred calls about the new
party to Vladimir Miloserdov, the head of its executive committee.
Miloserdov, who is the head of an ultra-nationalist organization called the Russian
Party, was equally blunt. He named several former Communist and Soviet leaders
such as Lev Trotsky and Yakov Sverdlov as Jews "who committed grave crimes
against humanity in the 20th century."
"And add Yegor Gaidar to these criminals," he said in a telephone interview
Wednesday, referring to the head of the team of liberal economists who
spearheaded economic reforms in Russia in the early 1990s. "He stole the savings of
our older people and doomed them to the life of beggars.
"Look on the list of Russia's richest people and you will see no ethnic Russians
among them," Miloserdov said.
Under federal law, inciting ethnic hatred constitutes grounds for denying a party's
registration and can lead to the authors of the party's political program being
prosecuted. But Miloserdov said he was not worried that his party would be denied
registration by the Justice Ministry.
"We don't blame Jews, we blame Zionists. Zionism is a sorrow of the Jewish people,"
he said.
He said the party expects to be registered with the Justice Ministry in May.
Miloserdov said that eight leftist Duma deputies were elected to the party's presidium
Saturday along with an envoy of former Krasnodar Governor Nikolai Kondratenko.
Kondratenko, who set up a nationalist movement in southern Russia called
Fatherland, is notorious for his anti-Semitic remarks.
The leaders of the People's Patriotic Party see the country's future in a proportional
redistribution of power and social benefits among the ethnic groups living in Russia.
"In a bid to secure peace, social accord and justice in Russia, we propose to form
state structures on a proportional basis from representatives of Russia's indigenous
ethnic groups," Miloserdov said. "The same must apply to higher education: Today
we have some ethnic groups where everybody has higher education, while other
nationalities have only 20 educated people out of 1,000."
Although the party calls for the restoration of socialism and the renationalization of
property, it has distanced itself from the Communist Party.
"We don't intend to take on the role or electorate of the Communist Party," Rodionov
told the Rosbalt news agency earlier this week. "Although we are much more radical
than the Communist Party, we plan to fight for power by parliamentary ways."
Miloserdov said that the main difference between the two parties is that "the ideology
of Communists is internationalism, and ours is patriotism with ethnic orientation."
Communist Party leaders were skeptical about the future of the new party.
"Their political prospects are miserable," Sergei Reshulsky, one of the most
outspoken Communists in the Duma, said Wednesday. "They [the party's activists]
don't understand the universal principles of creating parties.
"Well, they want to try, let them try," he said. "People will laugh at them after all."
Reshulsky could not say whether Rodionov, as a Communist Party member, would
be punished for violating party discipline.
Political analysts also believe that the new nationalist party will quickly become
marginal.
"Nationalism proliferates when the state apparatus is very weak and when society
goes through disturbances -- and this is not the case in [President Vladimir] Putin's
Russia today," said Yury Korgunyuk, a political expert from the INDEM Foundation.
"And if the state authorities decide to employ nationalists for their own interests,
they
would choose more charismatic people than Rodionov and Miloserdov."
Vladimir Pribylovsky, a political expert from the Moscow-based Panorama think tank,
said that any new opposition party in Russia is doomed because the country's
political ground is almost totally dominated by Putin.
"Today, the whole patriotic electorate flocks after Putin, and he will have to sink
four
Kursk submarines and five Mir space stations to have his rating among the patriots
reduced," Pribylovsky said. "And even if Putin spares some room for nationalists,
there are many who are more popular than Rodionov to occupy it."
Pribylovsky also downplayed the significance of the party's anti-Semitic line.
"Very few people in Russia follow anti-Semitism, making their decisions in favor of
certain politicians," he said. "Thus, Russian politicians understand that anti-Semitism
is a good hobby but a bad policy -- in this sense, anti-Caucasian fever is a more
profitable brand of xenophobia.
"Rodionov has not understood it, and it clearly indicates that he will never become a
politician on a federal scale."
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