Nazi Soviets

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NEO-NAZIS STAB TWO TAJIKS. Neo-Nazis stabbed two Tajiks in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia according to a November 22 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. On November 15, the victims were found stabbed and beaten, and were subsequently hospitalized. Three suspects were detained and admitted their membership in a neo-Nazi group. Nevertheless, they are being charged with an ordinary assault charge, not a hate crime. 
 
 
NEO-NAZIS ATTACK AFRICAN-RUSSIAN. An African-Russian man was hospitalized following an attack by a group of suspected neo-Nazis on November 11, near his home on in St. Petersburg, The St. Petersburg Times reported. Maira Mkama, 24, a second-year PhD student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Economics and Administration, was stabbed six times in the chest and stomach, badly damaging one kidney and his liver. A detective confirmed that criminal charges had been filed. Although he did not rule out a hate crime, he said it was "too early to talk about the exact nature of the crime on the basis of circumstantial evidence." 
 
 
According to Mkama, who managed to drag himself back home after the attack, "two of the assailants were in masks, one had his head shaven, but I could not make out the others," his mother said he told her before he fell into a coma. 
 
POLICE WATCHED AS NIGERIAN STUDENTS CAME UNDER ATTACK. A group of youths attacked two Nigerian students outside a store in Vladimir, Russia, while police allegedly stood by and watched, according to a November 14 report by the local newspaper "Khronometer." On November 3, the two Vladimir State University students went to a store to buy candy when they encountered a group of seven or eight youths who started to yell at them. The two students went into the store, and when they came out, they were attacked with bottles and fists and kicked multiple times. Police responding to their cries for help allegedly stood by and watched, not detaining anybody, and only offering a suggestion to "Disperse, there's no need to fight." Police are in the process of deciding whether to open a formal investigation into the attack, the article quoted a police official as saying. 
 
 
NEO-NAZIS KNOCK YOUTH UNCONSCIOUS. A student at Volgograd State University was knocked unconscious by a group of neo-Nazis who beat him for accidentally bumping into one of them, according to a November 16 article in the local newspaper "Volgogradskaya Pravda." The youth, identified only by his first name Anton, was walking to class when he bumped into a young man whom he described as a skinhead. Then seven or eight neo-Nazis attacked Anton, knocking him to the ground and kicking him until he lost consciousness. When he came to, Anton noticed that among several other injuries, someone had carved a swastika on his chest. 
 
 
The article made no mention of Anton's ethnicity or membership in any anti-fascist organization, thus making it likely that he is an ethnic Russian who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The article quoted a local police official as saying that neo-Nazis do exist in the city, but that police actions alone are not sufficient to address the problem. 
 
AFRICAN PLAYER QUITS SOCCER FIELD AFTER TAUNTS. A Cameroonian player in the Russian soccer league stormed out of the field after racist fans taunted him, according to a November 15 report in the Samara newspaper "Budni." Serzha Branko and his Samara-based team the Wings were playing in the Moscow suburb of Khimki on November 11 when fans began to call him "son of a monkey." With his team far behind and only seven minutes left to play, Branko walked out. "It's the 21st century, but look what happens here," Branko was quoted as saying. "I'm not a monkey, but that's how they treat me, and nobody does anything about it. I love Russia, but I don't have any patience for this." The article speculated that Branko may leave Russia because of this and other "scandalous" incidents. 
 
 
Over the past few years, teams in European soccer competitions have been punished for the racist behavior of their fans. According to the Sova Information-Analytical Center, the Russian soccer federation issued a warning to the Khimki soccer club for the racism exhibited by its fans. 
 
 
NEO-NAZIS GET SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR KILLING HOMELESS MAN. Three high school students in the Moscow suburb of Mytishchi were found guilty of murdering a homeless man, according to a November 27 report in the national daily "Moskovsky Komsomolets." Their prison sentences range between two and a half and four years. The youths, aged from 15 to 16, gathered in their apartment building to get drunk. One of them began to brag that his older brother was in jail for a racially-motivated killing, and the group decided to find a non-Russian to attack to prove themselves. They encountered a 45 year old man (whose ethnicity was not identified in the article) sleeping in the building corridor. The man originally came from the Volgograd region looking for work, but then fell on hard times after someone robbed him. The youths beat him to death, jumping on his head multiple times. One youth reportedly used the victim's blood to complete a crosswords puzzle. 
 
 
STIFF SENTENCE FOR MURDERING ANTI-FASCIST YOUTH. Two youths in Izhevsk, Russia (Republic of Udmurtiya) were sentenced to 13 years in prison for murdering an anti-fascist youth, according to a November 15 report in the local newspaper "Den." The republic's highest court found the defendants guilty of murdering Stanislav Korepanov on March 27, 2007. As many as 20 youths, described by witnesses as neo-Nazis, attacked Korepanov and his friends as they were skateboarding near an apartment building. Witnesses reported that the attackers yelled "White power!" in English as they beat their victim with chains and bottles and jumped on his head. 
 
 
However, the prosecutor repeatedly denied that extremism motivated the killing and insisted that it was an ordinary case of hooliganism. (A conviction on an additional count of extremist activity would probably have added to the defendants' prison time.) The "Den" article accused local officials of deliberately ignoring eyewitness testimony about the attackers' neo-Nazi links in an effort to cover up the existence of neo-Nazi gangs in the city. "It's easier just to say that 'skins' don't exist, and then to decide that the problem doesn't need to be addressed," the article concluded. 
 
 
JAILED FOR A YEAR FOR POSTING MURDER VIDEO. On November 21, Viktor Milkov, a student in Maykop, the capital of the southern republic of Adygeya, was convicted and sentenced to one year in prison for posting a video showing the execution of two dark-skinned men on the Internet, The St. Petersburg Times reported. It is unclear whether authorities have made any progress in determining who made the video and, if it was authentic, who carried out the killings. 
 
 
Milkov was convicted for inciting ethnic hatred by posting the three-minute video on his Livejournal blog in August. The video appeared on ultranationalist web sites under the title "The Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani" and showed two men kneeling, bound and gagged in front of a Nazi flag. The two men said, "Russian national-socialists have arrested us," before masked men appeared to cut off one victim's head and to shoot the other at point-blank range. 
 
 
Arrested on August 15, Milkov admitted to posting the video, authorities said. He maintained that he received it as an email attachment from a stranger. 
 
 
ANTI-FASCISTS SENTENCED FOR BEATING YOUTH THEY TOOK FOR NEO-NAZI. On November 15 in Saratov, Russia, four anti-fascist activists were sentenced to fines and in one case prison for attacking a young man they thought was a neo-Nazi, according to a November 16 report in the Saratov regional supplement to the national daily "Komsomolskaya Pravda." The youths were found guilty of attacking Oleg Yakovlev on June 24 while screaming anti-fascist slogans. The three defendants who were sentenced to fines were convicted of beating Yakovlev with fists and kicking him; a fourth defendant got three and a half years in prison for hitting their victim with a metal object. 
 
 
Yakovlev denied that he was a neo-Nazi and produced pictures of him with normal-length hair as proof. His attackers countered that the photos had been altered and that at the time of the beating he looked like a neo-Nazi, wearing a typical uniform and having a shaven head. Danil Vapilov, one of the defendants, was quoted in the article saying that they went hunting for neo-Nazis to attack after attending an anti-fascist rally. "In the battle against fascism, all measures are good," he reportedly said. "I was right to think that he was a skinhead and I would do it again." 
 
 
 
 
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070117020047915
Thursday, December 06 2007
From knives to explosives. The new wave of Nazi terror in Russia
Wednesday, January 17 2007 
 
Last Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2006, the murder case of 20 year old antifascist Alexander Ryuchin was taken to court. On the 16th of April, 2006, (just nine days before his twentieth birthday in fact) he was slaughtered in the suburbs of Moscow, on his way to a concert of punk-hardrock music, popular among young Moscow antifascists. A few skinheads armed with knives attacked Sasha and his friend Egor. Actually there was no fight  there was a murder.
 
Three attackers have been detained, Nazi paraphernalia and literature have been found it their apartments. Another three of them have gone into hiding. It may seem that everything is clear. But dont hurry to make your judgements. The case has been brought to court not under the murder clause. The detainees, two members of Slavonic Union  Vasily Reutov and Andrey Anziferov, as well as Alexander Shitov, a member of the group Format 18, are to be charged with hooliganism conducted by a group of individuals through a deliberate collusion or organized group (Art. 213. 2 CC RF), Wilfull infliction of light injury (Art. 115 CC RF) and for beatings (Ñò. 116 ÓÊ ÐÔ). And the actual murder case has been sidetracked to a separate procedure, with the accused being Alexander Parinov and Nikita Tikhonov, who are in hiding, and one unidentified person.
 
"Nazis made us antifascists,  a former member of antifa.ru contitnues.  We all belong to some subcultures, to some groups, whose representatives were clashing with fascist violence, and thus becoming a target for their attacks. In one particular moment you stop respecting yourself if youre not answering blow for blow. Especially if the police and the state as a whole dont do anything in general, in order to stop the street fascist danger.
 
"We, young antifascists, are sometimes being accused, Tigran continues, that, if we were not present, Nazis would already calm down. Saying that we are acting as a teasing red flag to them. If there would be no antifascists, say those who accuse us, the street Nazi violence would come to naught. Everything is completely opposite. Antifa was not present and obvious long enough and finally they appeared, owing to the fact that Nazi violence was not stopping, but rather getting larger and larger. And everybody knows that at first Nazis were attacking people of non-Slavonic appearance and normal representatives of youth subcultures, that were weaker. Atifa appeared later  as a reaction, as a response of informal antifascist youth ".
 
"Look,  Tigran says,  fascists, when attacking, often pursue an objective of mutilating or killing their victim, they use knives and even guns. Antifas, when fighting with fascists, do not pursue an objective of physical elimination or disabling. Fascists should just understand, that they are also not eternal, they are not immortal, they have to understand the value of human life, the value of every individual. Maybe, small, underage Nazis, teens, who shaved their heads because its cool, because now everybody will be afraid of them, after getting it several times in the neck from normal guys, will understand that there is nothing cool in being a fascist,  no. Maybe at least some of them would stop."
 
Tigran thinks, however, that Nazis in general  as a violent street movement  cant be stopped by just fights. This is just containment, the defence of youth subcultures against Nazis. "If they arent put in jail, Nazi idiots following their sense of impunity will begin doing much worse things. In their closed forums on the internet they are already discussing the preparation of terrorist acts on markets and even against state agencies, but havent decided yet whether to make the newcomers carry it out or whether to take the responsibility themselves". "How do you know?" I ask Tigran. "Our antifa hackers have broken such forums several times," he answers. According to him, on the same forums there are reference books on preparing and using home-made explosives, same as the one that exploded in the entrance of his apartment house. 
 
"How do you feel after that event?" I asked him. "Its ok. Friends helped me to repair the door, they gathered some money. Now we need money for a good attorney, we got to search for them. Now we have something to be busy with. But somehow it seems that my door is just about to be blown up."
 
Isnt he afraid that the unexpected guests will come again? "They were already here  the night after the explosion, when the door was not closing. At four oclock a ring on the remote entrance phone  a young cheeky voice, saying a telegram. Later on, walking in the entrance. Some of them were hiding their faces under a scarf or hood, poking by the door, up along the staircase and down. The cat in my flat pricked up its ears, I looked into the peephole, and I saw  "guests". I asked my sister to call the police again, and rushed to the staircase to chase them. But in home slippers you cant run fast, I couldnt catch them up. And the police too, they came with automatic-guns quite quickly, apparently they were stationed somewhere close."
 
All this phantasmagoria is really taking place now in Moscow before New Year. And blocking it from my mind, by blaming it on youthful rage, a desire to kick up a row and a gang fight, is getting harder for me personally. Knives were already in use. Now explosives are in use.
 
http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/9903c.html
 
Television has focused on two personalities -- Alexander Barkashov, leader of the ultra-nationalist Russian National Unity (RNE), and anti-Jewish Communist deputy Albert Makashov. 
 
The RNE, whose national membership has been put at anywhere between 20,000 and 100,000, uses Nazi-style salutes and a modified Nazi swastika symbol and calls for a dictatorship based on the dominance of ethnic Russians. 
 
The two Dimas were dismissive of Barkashov, a former electrician who sports a moustache and pony-tail.
 
Political analysts said the RNE had certainly gained from media scare tactics, which they said amounted to free publicity. 
 
``We should not give publicity to these people. A political crackdown would also backfire because Russians generally sympathise with the underdog, with the persecuted,'' said Andrei Ryabov of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 
 
``Extreme right-wing groups appeal to disaffected youths in many countries looking for some meaning to life,'' he said. 
 
Communists such as Makashov are a much more difficult problem for the authorities to deal with because they are an integral part of the political system, the analysts said. 
Makashov caused a huge row last year when he called for Jews to be rounded up and jailed for what he called their responsibility for Russia's economic ruin. He has made numerous anti-Jewish speeches in public since then. 
 
``The problem is that the Communist Party is infected with anti-Semitism from top to bottom, just as the old Soviet Union was,'' said Mikhail Krasnov of the liberal Indem think-tank. 
 
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov cannot afford to slap down Makashov because he knows such views are supported by a large swathe of his electorate, Krasnov said. 
 
For such people the wealth of Jewish businessmen such as Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, two so-called oligarchs, is proof of a Zionist plot to destroy Russia. 
 
Underlining Krasnov's remarks, Russia's Communist-dominated lower house of parliament this month rejected a censure motion against Makashov over his anti-Semitic remarks and accused the media of playing up the dangers of fascism in Russia. 
 
``Political extremism in this form...is an invented problem artificially created to manipulate public opinion, create a distorted idea of Russia in the international community and hamper the efforts of the government to restructure our debts,'' said a resolution overwhelmingly approved by the State Duma. 
 
``The State Duma of the Russian Federation declares that the best way of preventing political extremism is to change the socio-economic course of the country in the interests of the whole population,'' it said. 
 
While broadly supporting Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov's government, the Communists are also pushing for more state help for the poor and domestic industry. 
  
Another self-proclaimed anti-Semite is Aleksandr Barkashov, the leader of the  neo-Fascist group, Russian National Unity, whose emblem resembles a swastika. He  recently told a rally in Yekaterinburg that he was changing the name of his political  groups to "Movement Against the Jews." 
 
Viktor Ilyukhkin, chairman of the Parliament's defense committee and a Communist,  has charged that Yeltsin and Jewish members of his "inner circle" are committing  "genocide" against the Russian people. 
 
Public opinion polls indicate that these extremists do not speak for most Russians.  And many Russians Jews say that their situation is not as bad as that of other groups. 
 
"The average Russian is more upset about the presence of Caucasians in Moscow than  about Jews," said Rashid Kaplanov, the president of Sefer, a Moscow-based center of  Jewish studies, referring to the people from the southern Caucasus mountains region.  "Still, one does feel vulnerable." 
 
The main worry for Russia's Jewish leaders is that the barrage of from the extremists  will begin to stir up ordinary Russians, particularly in the provinces. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Barkashov
 
During the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Barkashov led RNU fighters in their defense of the Russian White House against Boris Yeltsin's forces. Escaping arrest by fleeing Moscow, Barkashov took refuge in a nearby dacha. Shot in the hip during an argument, Barkashov was brought to a hospital were a nurse recognized him. Barkashov was imprisoned on charges of organizing and inciting mass disorder and illegally bearing arms. In early 1994, the newly elected Duma granted amnesty to Barkashov.
 
At the end of February 1999, one opinion poll ranked Barkashov as one of Russia's 10 most recognizable politicians. Barkashov ran in the 2000 Russian presidential election. Barkashov remains the leader of the RNU (which, after numerous splits is often defined as the "RNU of A.P.Barkashov").
 
On 2 December 2005 Barkashov together with three of his followers was detained and arrested for "attacking a police-officer". According to the press-release of the RNU, Barkashov himself was attacked and injured by the police officer who penetrated into Barkashov's residence.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_National_Unity
 
Russian National Unity (RNU) or All-Russian civic patriotic movement "Russkoye Natsionalnoye Edinstvo" (Russian: A5@>AA89A:>5 >1I5AB25==>5 ?0B@8>B8G5A:>5 42865=85 " CAA:>5 0F8>=0;L=>5 48=AB2>"), better translated as "Russian Ethnic Unity" as "natsionalnost" means "ethnicity" in Russian, is an outlawed far-right, ultra-nationalist political party and paramilitary organization based in Russia and operating in states with Russian-speaking populations. It was founded by ultra-nationalist Alexander Barkashov, who is now officially banned from Russia. During its active years the movement openly advocated the expulsion of non-Russians and an increased role for traditional Russian institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church.
 
Promoting the notion of "Russia for the Russians and compatriots", members of the party (sometimes called "Barkashovites") endorse policies including the expulsion of minorities that "have their homeland outside Russia", especially Jews and migrants from the Caucasus, such as Azeri, Georgians and Armenians, as well as other countries. Their vision of Russia is divided into privileged ethnic Russians and "compatriots" - non-Russians that live in Russia and have their national homeland there, including indigenous populations of Far East, North, Turkic, and some other minorities. While they consider these "compatriots" to be entitled to live in Russia, the RNU nonetheless condemns any inter-ethnic and inter-racial marriages, claiming that "they create psychological troubles of self-identification for children from such marriages".
 
RNU leaders have been convicted for inciting hatred towards Jews and other minority groups. During the second Chechen war, the RNU supported Russian officers accused of crimes in Chechnya.
 
He created his own RNU-like organization "Barkasov's Guards", but still some members continue to call themselves "RNU members". While the RNU still functions in many areas of Russia it is not as strong as before. The organization is now ruled by the Council of Regional Divisions.
 
http://www.etext.org/Politics/Arm.The.Spirit/Antifa/russia.fascism.overview
 
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 centre of Moscow. It is
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 they were
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 possible 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
office and sending threatening letters. Press reports speak again
and again of acts of thuggery committed by young men with
swastika arm-bands.
 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/nazi_russia_3511.jsp
 
There are only 525,000 Jews in the post-Soviet states today, about half of whom reside in Moscow and St Petersburg. But there is no lack of anti-semitic attacks. In one incident on 28 August 2005, ten skinheads armed with bottles, sticks and knives, attacked two Jewish yeshiva students in Kyiv, critically wounding one. On 14 January 2005, the fundamentalist newspaper Rus' Pravoslavnaia published an appeal entitled "Jewish happiness, Russian tears", which called for an investigation into Jewish religious and national organisations in Russia on the grounds that they incite ethnic conflict,
The appeal further revived the blood-libel myth (use of the blood of Christian children to make matzoh) and was signed by 500 people, including newspaper editors, intellectuals and nineteen Duma deputies from the bloc of anti-semitic nationalist parties. On the same day, two rabbis walking with two children were physically attacked in Moscow while the perpetrators shouted anti-semitic insults. Physical assaults on Jews have become increasingly frequent.
 
The huge and growing population of Muslims is perceived as a portentous threat in the context of international "Islamic terrorism" and in a country that has been historically Slavic and Orthodox Christian. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and after decades of Soviet atheism, Islam has grown increasingly visible in response to declining living standards, threatening many Slavic Russians who fear that Russia could someday become a majority Muslim state. There are now an estimated 14 million to 23 million Muslims in Russia, as much as 16% of the population, predominantly in the north Caucasus region, which has played an important role in the intermittent war for independence in Chechnya
 
Islamophobia and xenophobia are on the rise particularly with nationalist groups such as the National-Bolshevik Party, which also calls for the elimination of gays and lesbians. An unlikely mixture of Nazi and Stalinist rhetoric with anarchist notions thrown in, the National-Bolshevik Party seeks to recreate a Russian empire along czarist lines; it is hostile to ethnic minorities and foreigners, critical of Vladimir Putin, and calls for direct action, usually pranks and stunts, to protest political and social issues. Its most notorious action was on 2 August 2004, when it occupied the ministry of health in Moscow 
 
The National-Bolshevik Party sided with the Putin administration, however, against the Chechens, and ominously called for a Hitlerite "final solution" as a way to resolve the war for secession in Chechnya. Although the conflict has now become a Russian nationalist war against an Islamic state, it only took on a religious character after the first few years of warfare, with Chechnya finally declaring itself an Islamic state 
 
The resurgence of nationalist, anti-semitic ideology that harks back to the reactionary era of the empire-building czars and the organised slaughters of pogroms against Jews is troubling indeed. Today it threatens to extend to all ethnic, sexual and Islamic minorities, demonstrating that the fall of the federated Soviet republics has engendered the rise of a vicious form of greater-Russian chauvinism and rightwing reaction.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-Bolshevik_Party
 
The National Bolshevik Party (Russian: 0F8>=0;-1>;LH528ABA:0O ?0@B8O) (also known as Nazbol) is a political party which is dedicated to the ideology of National Bolshevism. Although the Party was liquidated by a lower court in June 2005, the Russian Supreme Court overturned the ban in August, just two months later.
 
The party believes in the creation of a grand empire that will include the whole of Europe and Russia to be governed under Russian dominance. The party sees Vladimir Putin as Russia's main enemy 
17-year-old girl had a swastika carved into her hip by a gang of neo-Nazis after she tried to stop them bullying a six-year-old foreign girl. A pregnant Iraqi woman needed hospital treatment last weekend after being punched on a bus 
 
The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity". It is a Department of Justice project. At state and local levels the TIPS program will be co-ordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
 
Ritt Goldstein is an investigative journalist and a former leader in the movement for US law enforcement accountability. He has lived in Sweden since 1997, seeking political asylum there, saying he was the victim of life-threatening assaults in retaliation for his accountability efforts. His application has been supported by the European Parliament, five of Sweden's seven big political parties, clergy, and Amnesty and other rights groups. 
 
http://www.mhg.ru/english/1FF906E
 
RNE members pursue aggressive anti-liberalism, anti-communism and anti-Semitism, cherish ideals of a pure Russian nation (the initial version of RNE program contained provisions on criminal prosecution for mixed marriages and the introduction of eugenics) (6) and Russian spiritual values (the Orthodox religion, but in its true, initial form). Stylistic imitation of German nazis by A. Barkashovs people is obvious. Unambiguous associations are created by RNE symbols, which include a swastika, their way of greeting each other by a raised right hand, black uniforms etc. A. Barkashov did not hesitate to call himself a nazi and spoke with admiration about Hitler. 
 
RNE functioned as a paramilitary organization. Its members wore uniforms, practiced sports that developed physical strength, and learned how to shoot. The organizations leaders repeatedly stated that the organizations members were preparing themselves for a civil war