From Russia With Hate

This from Time Magazine, and pretty gripping.

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Blurb: Inspired by the example of al-Qaeda, Russian neo-Nazis say they are organizing themselves into a network of autonomous terror cells — and that the time of their jihad has come

Excerpts:
A squat, powerfully built man bristling with barely contained aggression, Alexei is part of a new wave of nationalism that's sweeping through Russian society. As democratic reforms have foundered and living standards plummeted since the collapse of communism in 1991, the country's latent xenophobia has morphed into a more radical, virulent form — and more and more young people like Alexei are coming under the sway of neo-Nazi ideology as a way to reassert lost national pride.

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"(We are) a white man's al-Qaeda," he says. "We don't care how many (ethnic minorities) end up dead. The more, the better. The time of our jihad has come."

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Since 2001, Alexei says, Schultz88 and other neo-Nazi groups have organized themselves into cells, modeled on al-Qaeda, which come together for an attack and then disperse.

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Casting a glance at a bronze statue of Alexander Pushkin, Alexei twists his mouth scornfully and tosses off some vile talk about the father of modern Russian literature, who was descended from an Abyssinian slave. "How could he be the Russian national poet?" Not that Alexei cares much for culture. After what he considers to be a lifetime of oppression, he says he's ready for war. A lathe operator by trade, his role models include Timothy McVeigh...

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continued: http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901040809-674718,00.html

Don't they remember what Nazis did to the Russians?

Stupid stupid people...

Poverty and ignorance are dangerous when mixed:(

While the worl;d leaders sit around discussing how they can get ALL the money for themselves, they are ignoring the angry festering masses, just out of sight...waiting for just the right moment to unleash that madness on everyone:(

There were always a type of Russians, even back in the USSR time, who thought they were better than the rest of the country, especially the dark-skinned citizens (Armenians, Georgians, Azeri), and the Asians. Well, being Armenian myself, I have a darker complexion than your average Russian, and on my last few trips there, once in a while you encounter one of these wackos. Now I have been lucky where it's just verbal abuse. But I've read of cases where people were physically abused.

This is a growing trend, and it's very, very disturbing. These so-called Russians, are same as our own Americans who just can't accept that there are all kinds of people in the world, and there's no such thing as 'my land', where only 'my type of people' can live. You know, racist.

Sad story.

So, we can expect it here as well. And I think the * regime will be bringing them out of the woodwork if he gets back in illegally!

I've read this stuff before and it isn't funny. It's horribly serious. IMO it's here, but more underground still. All they need is an excuse to come out into the light.

Even the Iraqi prison tortures mirror what this regime is allowing and promoting. Pre-emption and anything goes against anyone who doesn't tow the line!

The "terrorists" of the world today are the stepchildren of the cold war. They are the sons and daughters of the peoples the Soviet Union and the US used as pawns in their global chess game without giving consideration to the effects of fighting for empire on smaller population. No one had a plan for what happened when checkmate was achieved and the resulting vacuum sucked back all the debris. Neither side wanted to acknowledge the evergrowing piles of debris until Emporer George III, who only wants to bulldoze instead of building houses.

don't explain your organizational structure to the press. These guys are an embarrassment to crypto-fascists.

Thank you, we need to know what is going on in the rest of the world.