A right-wing militia trains Russians to fight the next war with or without Putin

[DonViejo]

ST. PETERSBURG — In a half-lit basement on a side street in St. Petersburg, 18 men holding reproduction Makarov pistols were fumbling through an exercise, racking the slides, taking aim and firing. Click, click, click, click, click. Repeat.

Denis Gariev, the instructor, called out to pause the training.

He was not about to air his political views, an ethnic nationalism so raw that he is far to the right of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He was about to rail against a society that had gone soft.

“Nowadays everyone tells the boys starting in kindergarten, ‘Don’t act so aggressive, be smarter,’?” he said in a mocking baby voice. “And we turn into these unaggressive vegetables.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-right-wing-militia-trains-russians-to-fight-the-next-war--with-or-without-putin/2017/01/02/f06b5ce8-b71e-11e6-939c-91749443c5e5_story.html?utm_term=.f24956caf08e&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

[Initech]

1. And that's how terrorists are created.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. K&R

[ElkeH]

3. Reminds me of American militias

Survivalist training, weapons training, all for some imaginary war in the future.

Maybe the difference is that Russian militias are preparing more for outside aggressors, whereas American militias tend to believe there is a civil war with the federal government ahead of them. I wonder if the American outlook will change, now that those right wingers have elected their own Putin.

[okieinpain]

4. aren't they doing this in the U.S. n/t.