The Russian Reich

Several thousand protesters surrounded by hundreds of armed police were chanting nationalist slogans. The ancient European tradition of raised arms was a salute of peaceful intent. Media, as might be expected, claims the gesture to be a ‘Nazi salute’. This impressive demonstration was the 10th annual gathering of Europe First nationalists held in Moscow every November.

Co-organizer Dmitry Demushkin, 36, ex-leader of the Slavic Union says,

Nationalism has a bright future in Russia. We will either win or the Russian people will die.

dmitry
Dmitry Demushkin organizing a demonstration in Moscow

The organisation’s Russian initials mimic SS. The style, fortitude and growing popularity of the Russian nationalists is increasingly self-evident each year in what is known as the Russian March. Russian nationalism isn’t marginalised as it is in the West. In Russia the nationalist movement is a coalition of movements and political parties that represent thousands of related group members. Their sentiment is expressed best in their being the most stridently in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At one time the Kremlin cracked down on what media calls right-wing radicals. Such groups mushroomed after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Their popularity accelerated after the turn of the century. This increase in membership was in response to anti-Russian Islamist terror attacks and an influx of millions of migrants from Central Asia and Russia’s mostly Muslim Caucasus region. Two wars in Chechnya fueled ethnic-European Russian nationalism. Western media claims of ‘racist violence’ are mostly quango-sourced, unsubstantiated, and colourfully imaginative.

As the Kremlin sought to rein in the nationalists it simultaneously incorporated elements of the nationalist agenda as part of its resistance to what the Russian government regards as decadent liberalism. Donning the nationalist rhetoric and mantle there is constant promotion of a unique Russian civilization devoid of Western sub-cultural decadence. Officially tolerated, sentiment such as that expressed in the Russian March, feeds an unprecedented growth in home-grown pride and contempt for the ‘depraved West’. It adds to growing scorn at the failings of the European Union and United States.

Russian nationalist Dmitry Dyomushkin takes part in a protest rally, organized by the National Democratic Party, in Moscow, April 14, 2013. People, mostly Russian nationalists, gathered to protest against a legislative draft to simplify the procedure of receiving the Russian citizenship and to demand of authorities to establish the visa regime with Central Asia and Transcaucasia countries, according to participants. Dyomushkin holds a board which reads "Say yes to visas! Illegal migration". REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
Russian nationalist Dmitry Dyomushkin takes part in a protest rally in Moscow, April 14, 2013. 

Some 54% of Russians support the idea of Russia for ethnic Russians. More than a third of Russians would welcome the expulsion of Caucasus and Central Asian Muslims. The poll and its finding were published after a 2014 survey by the Levada Centre. Sova director Alexander Vekhovsky says,

They carry out military training. It has become very trendy, constant training, musters, and camps. This is very concerning because it’s not going to end well.

VladimirThe conservative and immensely powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the resurgent para-military Cossacks, and right-wing parties represent the largest players in the field of official, Kremlin-sanctioned nationalism. The central figure is said to be Vladimir Zhirinovsky. A veteran politician, he served as a deputy speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. He heads the LDPR party that holds 56 of the 450 Duma seats.

The outspoken 69-year-old ran for president five times. He campaigned on promises to expel non-Russians, install frontiers around mainly Muslim Chechnya and Dagestan provinces, and return Ukraine and Belarus to the Russian empire. His party is widely seen as a pseudo-opposition, a Kremlin tool to sterilize nationalist voices. It is said that the state wants to preserve its monopoly on nationalism and this is one of the important political aims. Such pro-Russian ideology is popular with all Russians and it keeps Putin’s ratings high.

The two sides of Russian nationalism, banned and the co-opted, often converge. Half a dozen pro-Kremlin youth movements emerged after the 2005 pro-West Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Created to counter anti-Nazi street rallies in Russia, they recruited young, primarily ultra-nationalists.

The founder of a National Socialist organisation recently claimed to have cooperated with two such groups. Ilya Goryachev was sentenced to life to prison in Russia in late July 2015 after a jury found him guilty of establishing BORN, an acronym for the Military Organization of Russian Nationalists.

Caption
Ilya Goryachev in custody and BORN demonstrators.

Unlike related organisations, BORN activists focused attention on those whose ethnicity was not European. Their targets were frequently what they regarded as race-traitors or any who opposed nationalist ideology. The aim of BORN was to violently seize power and to turn modern Russia into a Fourth Reich. From 2008 to 2010, BORN militants are claimed to have killed ten people. The victims included a federal judge who had sentenced several nationalists to jail. Another victim was what media calls ‘a human rights lawyer.’ Also included in the hit-list a self-styled journalist and three Bolshevik activists.

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The Russian Reich

Several thousand protesters surrounded by hundreds of armed police were chanting nationalist slogans. The ancient European tradition of raised arms was a salute of peaceful intent. Media, as might be expected, claims the gesture to be a ‘Nazi salute’. This impressive demonstration was the 10th annual gathering of Europe First nationalists held in Moscow every November.

Co-organizer Dmitry Demushkin, 36, ex-leader of the Slavic Union says,

Nationalism has a bright future in Russia. We will either win or the Russian people will die.

dmitry
Dmitry Demushkin organizing a demonstration in Moscow

The organisation’s Russian initials mimic SS. The style, fortitude and growing popularity of the Russian nationalists is increasingly self-evident each year in what is known as the Russian March. Russian nationalism isn’t marginalised as it is in the West. In Russia the nationalist movement is a coalition of movements and political parties that represent thousands of related group members. Their sentiment is expressed best in their being the most stridently in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At one time the Kremlin cracked down on what media calls right-wing radicals. Such groups mushroomed after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Their popularity accelerated after the turn of the century. This increase in membership was in response to anti-Russian Islamist terror attacks and an influx of millions of migrants from Central Asia and Russia’s mostly Muslim Caucasus region. Two wars in Chechnya fueled ethnic-European Russian nationalism. Western media claims of ‘racist violence’ are mostly quango-sourced, unsubstantiated, and colourfully imaginative.

As the Kremlin sought to rein in the nationalists it simultaneously incorporated elements of the nationalist agenda as part of its resistance to what the Russian government regards as decadent liberalism. Donning the nationalist rhetoric and mantle there is constant promotion of a unique Russian civilization devoid of Western sub-cultural decadence. Officially tolerated, sentiment such as that expressed in the Russian March, feeds an unprecedented growth in home-grown pride and contempt for the ‘depraved West’. It adds to growing scorn at the failings of the European Union and United States.

Russian nationalist Dmitry Dyomushkin takes part in a protest rally, organized by the National Democratic Party, in Moscow, April 14, 2013. People, mostly Russian nationalists, gathered to protest against a legislative draft to simplify the procedure of receiving the Russian citizenship and to demand of authorities to establish the visa regime with Central Asia and Transcaucasia countries, according to participants. Dyomushkin holds a board which reads "Say yes to visas! Illegal migration". REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
Russian nationalist Dmitry Dyomushkin takes part in a protest rally in Moscow, April 14, 2013. 

Some 54% of Russians support the idea of Russia for ethnic Russians. More than a third of Russians would welcome the expulsion of Caucasus and Central Asian Muslims. The poll and its finding were published after a 2014 survey by the Levada Centre. Sova director Alexander Vekhovsky says,

They carry out military training. It has become very trendy, constant training, musters, and camps. This is very concerning because it’s not going to end well.

VladimirThe conservative and immensely powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the resurgent para-military Cossacks, and right-wing parties represent the largest players in the field of official, Kremlin-sanctioned nationalism. The central figure is said to be Vladimir Zhirinovsky. A veteran politician, he served as a deputy speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. He heads the LDPR party that holds 56 of the 450 Duma seats.

The outspoken 69-year-old ran for president five times. He campaigned on promises to expel non-Russians, install frontiers around mainly Muslim Chechnya and Dagestan provinces, and return Ukraine and Belarus to the Russian empire. His party is widely seen as a pseudo-opposition, a Kremlin tool to sterilize nationalist voices. It is said that the state wants to preserve its monopoly on nationalism and this is one of the important political aims. Such pro-Russian ideology is popular with all Russians and it keeps Putin’s ratings high.

The two sides of Russian nationalism, banned and the co-opted, often converge. Half a dozen pro-Kremlin youth movements emerged after the 2005 pro-West Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Created to counter anti-Nazi street rallies in Russia, they recruited young, primarily ultra-nationalists.

The founder of a National Socialist organisation recently claimed to have cooperated with two such groups. Ilya Goryachev was sentenced to life to prison in Russia in late July 2015 after a jury found him guilty of establishing BORN, an acronym for the Military Organization of Russian Nationalists.

Caption
Ilya Goryachev in custody and BORN demonstrators.

Unlike related organisations, BORN activists focused attention on those whose ethnicity was not European. Their targets were frequently what they regarded as race-traitors or any who opposed nationalist ideology. The aim of BORN was to violently seize power and to turn modern Russia into a Fourth Reich. From 2008 to 2010, BORN militants are claimed to have killed ten people. The victims included a federal judge who had sentenced several nationalists to jail. Another victim was what media calls ‘a human rights lawyer.’ Also included in the hit-list a self-styled journalist and three Bolshevik activists.

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