Putin Praises Unity as Nationalists Rally ("like 1930's Germany")

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//The Moscow Times, Russia Monday, November 7, 2005.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2005/11/07/001.html


PUTIN PRAISES UNITY AS NATIONALISTS RALLY

By Kevin O' Flynn
Staff Writer



President Vladimir Putin celebrated the new national holiday, People's Unity Day, by speaking about the unity of all Russian people on Red Square, yet disunity was visible just a few hundred meters away as scores of young people denounced ethnic non-Russians at an officially approved march.


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"I came because we are patriotic fighters for the survival of the nation," said Eduard, 18. "Sixty percent of crime is from illegal immigrants. They spread drugs, and they turn cities into a dirty garbage dump."



Asked if his grandfather knew he was making Nazi salutes, Eduard said that lots of World War II veterans supported him and that the salute was an old Aryan tradition.


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"It's like the 1930s in Germany," said businessman Mikhail, 46, after police stopped him from confronting the marchers.



"They're fascists," said a bystander, who identified himself as an undercover policeman, as he watched the rally on Kitai-Gorod's Slavyanskaya Ploshchad with an ethnic Georgian colleague. "They're the imbeciles who attack natives of the Caucasus every other week here."



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And although most of those taking part in the march were marginal groups, the event also showed that large political parties were positioning themselves even further to the right.



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:puke:

Zjuganov and Zhirinovskij strike again. Pamjat'. Blech.

Not Putin's parties, though. They'd approve of Putin more than they did of El'tsyn, to be sure, but let's not push that too far.

MN lumps them together, though, and is perfectly content with guilt by (verbal) association.

It means "memory", right? But is it a memory of a certain time or event?

what else was the "freedom march" or whatever the fuck that flop was?

all i can say is, thank godlessness ours was a flop. it's probably more because our innumberable american fascists are fat and lazy, or because they held it in washington dc, but i'll hold onto my shred of hope all the same.