600 Youth Vow to Fight 'Orange Pest'

[CHIMO]

Source: Updated Moscow Time

About 600 young people gathered under imperial black banners on Triumfalnaya Ploshchad on Sunday as their leaders pledged support to President Vladimir Putin and vowed to fight an "orange revolution" in Russia.

The Eurasian Youth Union, a nationalist group whose chief ideologist, Alexander Dugin, has close ties to the Kremlin, had planned a march along Tverskaya Ulitsa, but city authorities only sanctioned the two-hour rally near Mayakovskaya metro station.

"We are supporters of the regime. We support Putin because he created the prerequisites for the rebirth of the nation," Dugin told the rally. "We want guarantees that Putin will stay for a third term or secure the continuity of his course."

The Eurasian Youth Union is seen as a Kremlin-backed project to divert youth political activism from the banned, oppositional National Bolsheviks, who demand that Putin resign. When the group was created last year, its leaders pledged to fight Western attempts to influence Russian politics.




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[youngdem]

1. This sent a shiver down my spine

Putin is indeed revving up the nationalism. Putin is itching to spread his wings, and longs for the old Soviet Union. He wants to 'branch out' and show Russia still has force behind her words, I fear.

[rpannier]

2. Eurasin Youth - Hitler Youth

If Iran is supposed to be the new Nazi's, what is Russia?

[Codeine]

3. New Russia

is pretty much the Old Russia; only the names and the flags have changed.

[rpannier]

4. Waiting for the announcement

of the coronation of Tsar Vladimir Putin

or 'whatever the Russian word for Fuhrer is" Vladimir Putin

[PittPoliSci]

5. putin's better than what they've had in the past.

and he's incredibly popular within russia, i see no reason why he shouldn't be elected to a third term should he choose to run.

[Amused Musings]

6. Because he murders brave

journalists who try to expose his regime for what it really is. But it is unfortunately true that Russians love him. Of course, dissent in any form is brutally crushed.

[rpannier]

7. It's not surprising he's popular

When my older brother was at the Harriman Institute a report came out on a survey taken in Russia to name the 5 greatest Russian leaders in history

Stalin (He isn't Russian, but that was unimportant)
Peter the Great
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
Catherine the Great

were the top 4.
Russians like strong leaders, even if they are brutal dictators.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. "Tsar" will do

Probably the same words

Tsar / Czar
Kaiser
Caesar

It's "the Boss"

[SpiralHawk]

8. "We have always been at war with the Eurasian Youth Union." - Whoever

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