Russian youth group vows to name fascists in schools

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Kremlin backs activists in attempt to harness anger

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Wednesday April 27, 2005
The Guardian

A youth activist group reportedly founded by the Kremlin is to name and shame "fascists and their sympathisers" in schools and workplaces, raising fears of ideological witch-hunts reminiscent of Russia's turbulent past.

Nashi, or "Our Guys", said it would distribute a booklet naming "fascists and their sympathisers" to headteachers and other officials. "We want to show the whole society that fascists are fascists," the Nashi leader, Vasili Yakemenko, said at its recent manifesto launch.

Mr Yakemenko said the booklet would name the leader of an obscure ultra-left party, the National Bolsheviks, Eduard Limonov, and "those who are connected with Limonov, who sympathise with fascists, but are not fascists themselves". He declined to say how many people would be named.

Analysts have said Kremlin strategists created Nashi in response to the youth anger that has fuelled three regime changes, in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, in 17 months. The group's hardline rhetoric, coming days before Russia celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany, has raised fears that the Kremlin has instead conjured the ghost of "fascism" to harness xenophobia and nationalism in support of President Vladimir Putin.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1470909,00.html

MY 17yr old says all teachers are fascists....

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1. Great lets start the show trials up again too.

I bet the embassy staffs will have fun creating betting pools on whose "spies" go on trial every week.

[Toots]

2. Label the people you wish to hate to dehumanize them

Russians fought fascists in WW II so it is a natural enemy. I think the right has tried to make "Liberal" a hated word and invoke enemy when it is heard or said. We need to take the word back. America is a Liberal nation. Democracy is Liberal. We need to be proud of our Liberal heritage and start demanding a little respect for Liberalism. Fascists and Liberals are exact opposites but in the mind of America they are becoming hated....We need to demand them to define Liberal so we learn what they hate about it...All I ever hear them say is Big government and Tax and Spend... Not Safe drinking water, social security, National Highway system, Rural electrification, Clean environment, Child Labor Laws, No Debtors Prison, Medicare, Minimum Wage, Overtime Laws, Right to Organize, hell even The US Constitution. That is a VERY Liberal Document..