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Russia's New Fascists
— Kirill Buketov
ON THE STREETS of Russian cities, it is not hard to find stalls trading
in fascist literature and insignia. Here one can buy Hitler's Mein
Kampf, tape cassettes of Nazi marches, swastika flags, and publications
of the present-day fascist press.
The best-known fascist newspaper, Russkiy Poryadok (“Russian Order”), is
distributed free of charge in the very center of Moscow -- free,
however, only to “people of non-Jewish appearance.” Members of the group
Russian National Unity, well-built young men with bulging torsos, hand
out the paper as reverently as if distributing keys to the kingdom of
heaven. Lamp-posts are pasted over with leaflets calling for Russia to
be cleansed of Jews, of members of Caucasus nationalities, and of
non-Russians in general.
Involuntarily, you find yourself asking how this could be in a country
where almost every family lost relatives or friends in the war against
German fascism.
Unfortunately, the matter is not limited to nazis distributing printed
tracts and other goods. Young fascists regularly set out to intimidate
opponents, invading newspaper officers and sending threatening letters.
Press reports speak again and again of acts of thuggery committed by
young men with swastika armbands.
full: http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/2833
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