Italian fascists from Millennium ally with pro-Russian right-wing extremists

German version of this post can be found here: "Italienische Faschisten von Millennium verbünden sich mit pro-russischen Rechtsextremisten"

Following the visit of Polish fascists to Eastern Ukraine, in support of pro-Russian right-wing extremists of the "Donetsk People's Republic", now Italian fascists from the Millennium organisation pledge allegiance to anti-Ukrainian terrorists.

According to Pavel Gubarev, one of the leaders of pro-Russian extremists and former member of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity, "anti-fascists" from the Italian Millennium organisation have come to Donetsk and will join the "military forces" of the "Donetsk People's Republic" under the leadership of Igor Strelkov.

Orazio Maria Gnerre (far left) and Pavel Gubarev (far right), Donetsk, June 2014

Moscow to become the world's capital of religious fundamentalism (updated)

On 10-12 September 2014, Moscow will turn into the world's capital of religious fundamentalism and obscurantism as it will host World Congress of Families VIII.

Its official theme is "Every Child A Gift: Large Families – The Future of Humanity", but in fact this congress will feature notorious top anti-LGBT activists, some of whom have contributed to the adoption of anti-LGBT laws in Russia (and, consequently, the surge in anti-gay hate crimes) and Uganda where the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act punishes gay people with a life imprisonment.

To stress the significance of religious fundamentalism and ultra-conservatism for contemporary Russia, the venues of the World Congress of Families will include the Congress Hall of the Kremlin, the Christ the Savior Cathedral, and the Russian Parliament (Duma).

Polish fascists are joining with pro-Russian right-wing extremists

German version of this post: "Polnische Faschisten verbünden sich mit pro-russischen rechtsradikalen Extremisten"
French version of this post: "Falanga rejoint l’internationale fasciste de Poutine et Assad"

The pro-Russian right-wing extremist movement in the Donetsk oblast is now supported by a Polish fascist group called "Falanga". It is not the first Polish extreme right organisation that is trying to undermine democracy in Ukraine - in the beginning of February, Hungarian Jobbik and Polish Ruch Narodowy (National Movement) tried to promote pro-Hungarian and pro-Polish separatism in Western parts of Ukraine.

With Falanga, the situation is a little bit different, although there is little doubt that Falanga would support the demise of Ukraine and Galicia consequently joining Poland.

Under the leadership of Bartosz Bekier, Falanga is a part of the broad, partially coordinated pan-European extreme right movement that is, in particular, openly supportive of the Kremlin's anti-Western policies and ideas.

Falanga on the march; Bartosz Bekier is featured on the left. Warsaw, 2011

Bartosz Bekier in Donetsk, May 2014

Extremism in South-Eastern Ukraine

Extremism in South-Eastern Ukraine

Extremists have hijacked the Anti-Maidan protests in South-Eastern Ukraine. and their extremism and ultranationalism is fomenting violence and hatred.

Short film: "Christian Orthodox Fascism in Russia"

Here's a short film on the curious trend within contemporary Russian fascism, namely the (Christian) Orthodox fascism. Unfortunately, the video is only available in Russian language.

 

Nazis and Stalinists thrive on May 1 in Moscow

I share the deep concern expressed by Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the Nazi/Stalinist orgy in Russian cities on the 1st of May:

"The glorification of Hitler along with the glorification of Stalin, slogans of revanchism, xenophobia, intolerance, anti-Semitism and great-power chauvinism - all these dangerous phenomena, which are developing in the Russian Federation against the background of persecution and repression of all manifestations of democracy in the Russian society, are a challenge to civilised humanity."

This is how some Russians celebrated the International Workers' Day on the 1st of May in Moscow:

  

Nazis

The Kremlin’s marriage of convenience with the European far right (in English and Russian)

The Kremlin’s marriage of convenience with the European far right

Putin’s strong-arm tactics in Eastern Ukraine and ‘moral, family-based’ policies have won him ardent support from far-right European groups. But they should not be under any illusions...

Брак по расчёту: Кремль и европейские ультраправые

Тактика применения силы в Восточной Украине и политика, ориентированная на «мораль и семейные ценности» обеспечили Путину ревностную поддержку европейских крайних правых. Но им не стоит обольщаться...

Marine Le Pen, Front National's leader, and Aleksey Pushkov, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Parliament, Moscow, 2013. Pushkov is now under sanctions by the US and Canada

Pro-Russian "National-Bolshevik" alliance in the European Parliament

On 17 April 2014, the European Parliament adopted the resolution "On Russian pressure on Eastern Partnership countries and in particular destabilisation of eastern Ukraine". 437 MEPs voted for, 49 - against, and 85 abstained. The analysis of the vote against the resolution (see below) reveals the formation of the far right/far left alliance in the European Parliament, and this "National Bolshevik" alliance is likely to grow stronger after the European elections in May 2014. The progressive forces of Europe should be worried about the rise of the far left as much as they are worried about the rise of the far right.

Russian and pro-Russian right-wing terrorists spreading fear and hate in Ukraine

Yesterday, I commented on the recent scandal involving the distribution of anti-Semitic flyers in Donetsk. As it often happens with comments to the media, not everything that I said to The Verge's journalist appeared in the final piece - which is fair enough by me - but I would like to briefly discuss one point which I found important but which was missed out in the above-mentioned article.

Amar Toor asked me whether I was surprised at the news about the anti-Semitic flyers in Donetsk. I replied that - although the authenticity of the flyers cannot be either proven or dismissed - I was not surprised, because anti-Semitic and racist incidents involving the (pro-)Russian insurgents and terrorists in South-Eastern Ukraine had happened before.

Laying the blame on the Nazis: the anniversary of the Katyn massacre

71 years ago, on 13 April 1943, Radio Berlin reported that the German military forces had discovered a mass grave in the Katyn forest near Soviet Smolensk. Quoting from David Engel's Facing a Holocaust, the Germans -

uncovered “a ditch... 28 metres long and 16 metres wide, in which the bodies of 3,000 Polish officers were piled up in twelve layers.” The German broadcast charged that these officers had been shot by the Soviets in March 1940 and announced that the German forces expected to find additional pits containing up to 10,000 bodies. Two days later the Soviet government had responded, claiming that the dead were “former Polish prisoners of war, who... fell into the hands of the German-Fascist hangmen in the summer of 1941”.

Poland's sons butchered by the Soviet allies of Nazi Germany

Fascist vultures of the Hungarian Jobbik and the Russian connection

The tolerance of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) towards the extreme right revanchist rhetoric during its sessions is disgusting and totally unacceptable. On 9 April 2014, Jobbik's MP Tamás Gaudi Nagy made a 3-minute speech against European democracy, and even when the hateful nature of his speech became obvious, he was still allowed to continue.

Recent articles, interviews and comments

Українською:

• «Правий сектор»: Між політичними технологіями та (вуличною) політикою

• Чого ще чекати від «Правого сектора»

Розбійні напади Сашка Білого на представників влади, захоплення автомобілів з автопарку Віктора Януковича,  стрілянина активіста «Правого сектора» в представників «Самооборони Майдану» – неповний перелік вчинків, якими для багатьох запам’яталася діяльність «Правого сектора». «Слово і Діло» спробувало з'ясувати, чи слід вбачати в діях організації «руку Кремля» й чого чекати від представників «Правого сектора» далі.

• Шеховцов: У Росії, не в Україні, є ознаки фашизму

Фашисти – клеймо, яке кремлівська пропаганда чіпляла спочатку на учасників протестів проти Віктора Януковича, а тепер – на новий український уряд та мало не на весь український народ. Таким чином росіяни збурюються проти своїх сусідів та підтримують агресивну політику Володимира Путіна. Утім, говорить дослідник європейських праворадикальних партій та рухів Лондонського Університету-коледжу  Антон Шеховцов, в самій Росії ознак фашизму присутньо набагато більше, ніж в Україні.

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По-русски:

• Шеховцов: В России, а не в Украине, есть признаки фашизма

Фашисты – клеймо, которое кремлевская пропаганда цепляла сначала на участников протестов против Виктора Януковича, а теперь – на новое украинское правительство и чуть ли не на весь украинский народ. Таким образом, россияне возмущаются против своих соседей и поддерживают агрессивную политику Владимира Путина. Впрочем, говорит исследователь европейских праворадикальных партий и движений Лондонского Университета-колледжа Антон Шеховцов, в самой России признаков фашизма присутствует гораздо больше, чем в Украине.

• Эксперт: "Правый сектор" распадется

Чего хотят правые радикалы на Украине, в чем секрет "Правого сектора", какова роль России - об этом интервью DW с украинским исследователем праворадикальных партий Шеховцовым.

• Украинские радикалы: реальная угроза или маргинальная сила?

Корреспондент DW Никита Жолквер беседовал в Берлине с экспертами, изучающими проблемы правого радикализма, национализма и ксенофобии на Украине и в других европейских странах.

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Auf Deutsch:

• Experte: Der Rechte Sektor zerfällt

Was wollen die Rechtsradikalen in der Ukraine? Was ist das Geheimnis des Prawyj Sektor (Rechter Sektor)? Welche Rolle spielt Russland? – Der ukrainische Rechtsextremismus-Forscher Schechowzow im Interview mit der Deutschen Welle.

• Jüdische Experten entlarven Putins Propaganda

Nach Ansicht namhafter Forscher aus der Ukraine nimmt die Judenfeindlichkeit in ihrem Land ab – ganz im Gegensatz zu den Behauptungen Moskaus. Ein Problem seien vielmehr russische Provokateure.

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Po polsku:

• Kto tryzubem wojuje, od tryzuba ginie

Ukraińska prawica obwąchiwała się z Frontem Narodowym, z Jobbikiem, z polskimi narodowcami. Przestała, gdy zorientowała się, że europejscy radykałowie są prorosyjscy. Za to dziś nikt nie powie złego słowa o Polakach. Z politologiem Antonem Szechowcowem rozmawia Ludwika Włodek.

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В български:

• Залезът на десните екстремисти в Украйна

Те бяха в първите редици на революцията в Украйна и допринесоха в значителна степен за свалянето на режима. Но влиянието на националистическите партии и на дясноекстремистките групировки постепенно чезне.

Интервью для Deutsche Welle о "Правом секторе"

Мое интервью для Deutsche Welle о "Правом секторе" и немного о "Свободе".

Когда вы впервые услышали о "Правом секторе"?

- В ноябре 2013 года, когда они установили палатку на Майдане в Киеве. Это было место, где они собирались и тренировались для защиты от возможного нападения "Беркута".

- Вы тогда предполагали, что ПС получит такую известность?

- Нет. У меня было больше беспокойства по поводу полувоенных группировок в партии "Свобода". В первые дни Евромайдана они проводили неонацистский марш во Львове. Я в блоге тогда написал, что если это будет продолжаться, у противников Евромайдана будет повод его дискредитировать.

Полная версия интервью.

Moscow's friendship with the European far right testifies to the Kremlin's slave mentality

Why did the Kremlin invited European far right "monitors" to "observe" the Crimean "referendum" via its puppet Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE) led by neo-Nazi Luc Michel?

Obviously, European right-wing extremists are natural allies of Russia's current president Vladimir Putin who is increasingly - and rightfully - perceived as a far right politician. But why did Moscow invite European rather than South American or Asian or African "monitors"? After all, the majority of the countries that voted against the UN resolution, which declared the Crimean "referendum" invalid, - Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe - are coming from the non-European parts of the world. The overwhelming majority of the countries which abstained from or did not take part in the vote are also non-European.

The truth is that the Kremlin needed to legitimise its invasion in the Crimea, but, in Putin's infinitely racist, far right view, South American, Asian or African "observers" cannot provide legitimacy to the Kremlin's actions. Putin needs white, European people to say "Yes" to his criminal, fascistoid gamble. South American, Asian or African pro-Russian voices are fine for the Kremlin in the virtual world of the UN, but Putin despises them in the real world - they mean nothing to him.

Yet this is not only about Putin's racist worldview as such. By hating the "White West" and at the same time relying on it for the justification of its own actions, the Kremlin reveals its slave mentality. Putin is behaving like a slave who loathes his "racial masters", but is unable to do anything without their consent.

Italian fascists love Putin

Italian fascists simply love Russian president Vladimir Putin:

Six Italian far right groups have sponsored the posters saying "Rome is with Putin" and "Obama is an unwelcome guest": Roma Nord, Movimento Sociale Europeo, Contro Tempo, XX Flotta, Comunità Militante Formello, Ostia.

Perhaps with the exception of Roberto Fiore and his Forza Nuova, Italian fascists are strong supporters of Russian imperialism.

Front National's Aymeric Chauprade denies his links to Belgian neo-Nazis

I have been informed that Aymeric Chauprade, one of the top members of the French radical right-wing populist National Front and Marine Le Pen's advisor on international issues, now denies that he was invited to "observe" the illegal Crimean "referendum" by the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE) headed by a Belgian neo-Nazi Luc Michel.

Why would Chauprade deny this? The answer is obvious: the French National Front tries to distance itself from the extreme right and neo-Nazism, while Marine Le Pen has long been trying to present her party as non-extremist. Chauprade's visit to the illegitimate Crimean "referendum" on the invitation from the EODE undermines the National Front's "moderated, respectable image" in the run-up to the elections to the European Parliament.

Неонацистские провокаторы "Правого сектора"

Die deutsche Version dieses Artikels finden sie hier.

Как свидетельствует состав политического руководства партии "Правый сектор", национал-консервативный дискурс Дмитра Яроша и "Тризуба" уступил правому экстремизму УНА-УНСО и "Патриота Украины"/Социал-национальной ассамблеи (ПУ/СНА).

Съезд УНА-УНСО, на котором партия была переименована в "Правый сектор", а лидером партии был избран Дмитро Ярош

Fascism, "borderless as our lands, and red as our blood"

On the 15th of March, Moscow has witnessed - in addition to the anti-war and anti-imperialist march - a march in support of the Russian military occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The latter was organised by the Essence of Time movement founded and headed by Russian National-Bolshevik Sergey Kurginyan. Here are some pictures from the pro-Kremlin march.

The symbolism of the whole event is best understood by noting a quote from one of the articles by Kurginyan's colleague and ideological ally, Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin. In his article "Fascism - borderless and red", he wrote (the original quote in Russian can be found below):

Russian socialism should be built by new people, a new type of people, a new class. A class of heroes and revolutionaries. The remains of the party nomenclature and their ramshackle order should fall victim to the socialist revolution. The Russian national revolution. The Russians are longing for freshness, for modernity, for unfeigned romanticism, for living participation in some great cause. Everything that they are offered today is either archaic (the national patriots) or boring and cynical (the liberals).

The dance and the attack, fashion and aggression, excessiveness and discipline, will and gesture, fanaticism and irony will seethe in the national revolutionaries - young, malicious, merry, fearless, passionate and not knowing limits. They will build and destroy, rule and fulfill orders, conduct purges of the enemies of the nation and tenderly take care of Russian elderly and children. Wrathfully and merrily will they approach the citadel of the ramshackle and rotten System sic. Yes, they deeply thirst for Power. They know how to use it. They will breathe Life in society, they will shove the people into the sweet process of creating History. New people. Finally, intelligent and brave. Such as are needed. Who take the outer world as a strike (in the words of Golovin).

Immediately before his death, the French fascist writer Robert Brasillach voiced a strange prophecy: "I see how in the East, in Russia, fascism is rising – a fascism borderless and red".

Note: Not a faded, brownish-pinkish national capitalism, but the blinding dawn of a new Russian Revolution, fascism - borderless as our lands, and red as our blood.

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Строить такой русский социализм должны новые люди, новый тип людей, новый класс. Класс героев и революционеров. Останки партноменклатуры и их ветхий строй должны пасть жертвой социалистической революции. Русской национальной революции. Русские истосковались по свежести, по современности, по неподдельному романтизму, по живому соучастию в каком-то великом деле. Все то, что им предлагается сегодня, либо архаично (национал-патриоты), либо скучно и цинично (либералы).

Танец и атака, мода и агрессия, чрезмерность и дисциплина, воля и жест, фанатизм и ирония забурлят в национальных революционерах - юных, злых, веселых, бесстрашных, страстных и не знающих границ. Им - строить и разрушать, править и исполнять приказания, осуществлять чистки врагов нации и нежно заботиться о русских стариках и детях. Гневным и веселым шагом приблизятся они к цитадели ветхой, прогнившей Системы. Да, они кровно жаждут Власти. Они знают, как ей распорядиться. Они вдохнут в общество Жизнь, они ввергнут народ в сладостный процесс творения Истории. Новые люди. Наконец-то умные и отважные. Такие, как надо. Воспринимающие внешний мир как удар (по выражению Головина).

Французский фашистский писатель Робер Бразийяк перед самой смертью произнес странное пророчество: "Я вижу, как на Востоке, в России восходит фашизм, фашизм безграничный и красный".

Заметьте: не блеклый, коричневато-розоватый национал-капитализм, а ослепительная заря новой Русской Революции, фашизм безграничный, как наши земли, и красный, как наша кровь.

Pro-Russian extremists observe the illegitimate Crimean "referendum"

As I wrote in this blog many times, Putin's increasingly fascistizing Russia has long been cooperating with the European extreme right that see in Russia an example to follow.

The illegitimate "referendum" in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which was held in this Ukrainian region at the gunpoint of Russian invaders on Sunday, has proven my point again. Supported by the pariah states such as North Korea and Assad's Syria, yet strongly defied by the civilised world that is beginning to understand the terrifying nature of Putin's Russia, the Crimean "referendum" has, however, been hailed as "fair" and "legitimate" by a number of European "election monitors" who have been hired by dubious European structures and who have clear links to the extreme right, extreme left, and pro-Russian organisations/companies.

The main organisation which invited right-wing and left-wing extremists to monitor the Crimean "referendum" is the Eurasian Observatory For Democracy & Elections (EODE). It is headed by Luc Michel (1958) and Jean-Pierre Vandersmissen (???). Both are followers of the major Belgian collaborationist and neo-Nazi Jean-François Thiriart and members of the extreme right Parti Communautaire National-Européen (PCN-NCP).

Growing opposition to Russian Eurasianism even from the European New Right

It is hardly surprising that even some European New Right activists (not to be confused with the party-political far right) slowly start recognising the threat of Eurasianism to Europe.

Markus Willinger:

This interview with Alexander Dugin shows us, that Russia wants, what America has. European vasalls, which follow its interest. But what do we Europeans want? Is all we can do to stand up against Washington to become then vasalls of Moskow? Or will we find the courage to form an independent europe? A Europe of fatherlands.

Troy Southgate:

I support neither FEMEN nor the organised homosexual lobby, both of which have their own agendae, but I do find it rather telling that some Russians accuse their neighbours of being 'fascistic' yet applaud the fact that activists with dissenting opinions are beaten in the streets. Not to mention the fact that Ukrainians in areas containing a high percentage of Russian-speakers are also being viciously attacked. People like Dugin can whine all they like about 'fascism', but it is perfectly clear to see which set of people are really acting like neo-fascist thugs. It is to be hoped that the long-suffering Russian people will rise up and consign this oppressive regime to the dustbin of history.