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).

Растущая изоляция праворадикальной "Свободы" со стороны европейских соратников

1 марта 2014 года французский праворадикальный "Национальный фронт" разместил на своем сайте коммюнике по ситуации в Украине, где в частности, утверждается, что:

В Киеве нет легитимного правительства; что власть находится под влиянием радикальных вооруженных формирований, которые упразднили демократию; что были отменены права языковые права русскоязычного населения; что были ограничены оппозиционные телепрограммы; что укранских православных верующих собираются оторввать от Московского Патриархата; что существует угроза ликвидации законодетально подтвержденной автономии Крыма.
[Мой перевод с французского может содержать ошибки, буду благодарен за коррективы.]

В ответ на это коммюнике праворадикальное Всеукраинское объединение "Свобода" - скорее всего, уже бывший украинский партнер французских крайне правых - отправил "Национальному фронту" официальное письмо, копия которого размещена ниже.

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.

Putin will be using Hamas terrorist tactics in his attack on Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin says that - in case of the full-blown invasion of Ukraine, Russian military forces will be using terrorist tactics. See the video (translation below):

Translation: "We do not intend to fight with Ukrainian people. I want you to understand me clearly. If we make such a decision [to start the invasion], that will only be for the protection of Ukrainian citizens. And let us see if anyone from the [Ukrainian] military shoots at their own people; we will be standing right behind them. Not in front, but behind them. Let them try shooting at women and children".

To remind the readers, Putin invited the Hamas organisation for the talks in Moscow in 2006. Hamas is considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union, USA, Australia, Canada, Israel and Japan. The tactics employed by Hamas include "the deliberate use of civilian homes to hide and/or protect Hamas arms and munition depots and manufacturing sites", and "the unscrupulous use of civilians as human shields against anticipated air-strikes".

Is Putin a new Hitler (in the making)?

His country pompously hosted the Olympic Games and then he decided to annex a part of a neighbouring sovereign country to his own empire on the ground of protecting his compatriots from suffering abroad.

Is his name Adolf Hitler? In October 1939, following the start of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Hitler declared:

For months the Germans in Sudetenland have been suffering under the torture of the Czechoslovak government. [...] The Sudeten German population was and is a German. This German minority living there has been ill-treated in the most distressing manner.

Or is his name Vladimir Putin? In March 2014, 75 years later Hitler’s speech in Reichstag on Sudetenland and shortly after the Ukrainian revolution ousted the criminal authoritarian regime of Viktor Yanukovych, Russian forces invaded the Ukrainian republic of Crimea, while Putin appealed to the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation:

In connection with the extraordinary situation that has developed in Ukraine and the threat to citizens of the Russian Federation, our compatriots, [...] I hereby appeal to the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to use the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.

Apart from these quotes, and the striking similarities between the anthem of the Russian parliament and that of Nazi Germany, there are other reasons to believe that convergences between Hitler’s and Putin’s doctrines are not a coincidence. And here is why.

Russian information war against the Maidan’s far right aimed to discredit protests in Ukraine

This is a guest post by Tetiana Bezruk, one of the best researchers of the contemporary Ukrianian nationalism. Scroll down for the Russian version of this article.

Автором данной статьи является Татьяна Безрук, одна из лучших исследовательниц современного украинского национализма. Смотрите русскую версию статьи после английской.

Today, the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation has filed a criminal case against Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector:

The main investigative administration of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation has filed a criminal case against the leader of the Right Sector Dmitriy Yarosh on the grounds of crimes outlined in Article 205.2 part 2 and Article 280 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for carrying out terrorist and extremist activities with the use of mass media).

On 21 February 2014 at 13:29 (Moscow time GMT+4), LifeNews website published information about the foundation of the Right Sector unit in Kursk. A journalist reporting on Euromaidan protests tells about the nature of far-right groups: "created with NATO support…", "some of them (UNA-UNSO) fought in Abkhazia". Also, according to this journalist, the change of the government in Ukraine may lead to the initiation of withdrawal of the Russian Black Sea fleet and desires of regions that have autonomous status to secede from Ukraine.