Texan white supremacist joins thousands of Russian nationalists for anti-immigrant march in Moscow

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/04/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Nationalist-Holiday.php

MOSCOW: As Preston Wiginton, a white supremacist from Texas, stepped forward to address thousands of Russian nationalists at a rally Sunday in Moscow, he lifted his black cowboy hat high in the air.

"I'm taking my hat off as a sign of respect for your strong identity in ethnicity, nation and race," he said, exposing his close-cropped head to a freezing drizzle.

"Glory to Russia," Wiginton, 43, said in broken Russian, as the crowd of mostly young Russian men raised their right hands in a Nazi salute and chanted "white power!" in English.

About 5,000 nationalists turned out for the Russian March, held for the third straight year on National Unity Day, a public holiday the Kremlin inaugurated in 2005 to replace the traditional Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik rise to power.

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1. What a sad turn of events in a nation that lost 20,000,000 to the awesome scourge of Nazism. n/t