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RUSSIAN AND GERMAN NAZIS ARE BUILDING LINKS
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By MIKHAIL TSOVMA
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On the 27th of October "Inostranets" newspaper (a supplement
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to the biggest Russian business weekly) published an article
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about the growing co-operation between two Nazi
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organizations - the German group "National Offensive" (NO)
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and Russian National Unity (RNE). Representatives of both
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groups met last week in Moscow to discuss possible
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"solidarity actions." German NO was outlawed this summer and
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Russian National Unity faced the same problem after it's
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active participation in the defense of the Russian
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parliament in September-October this year. An agreement was
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made to organize a week of solidarity and hold protests in
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front of Russian offices (including embassies, consulates
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and Aeroflot air company) in Germany and German offices in
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Russia demanding legalization of these ultra-right fascist
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organizations. According to "Inostranets" these
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demonstrations will take place from December 4 to 11 this
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year.
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The press service of the Ministry of Security (the renamed
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KGB) confirmed this information and told Inostranets that
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they were aware the meeting was taking place. Of course,
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they couldn't do anything about it since the meeting looked
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"like an ordinary meeting of friends." These bastards are
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always saying that they act only according to the law when
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it comes to fighting fascists. The KGB spokesman assured the
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correspondent that they will take any steps possible to
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prevent Nazi demonstrations.
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Russian National Unity appears to be the strongest fascist
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group in this country which openly declares its loyalty to
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fascist ideas. Before Yeltsin's coup d'etat (after which it
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was formally outlawed) fascists from the RNE openly trained
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themselves in shooting and fighting. Stories about this
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appeared in the papers with frightening photos but none of
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the authorities seemed to care about that. The only protest
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against RNE of which I am aware took place in Moscow on
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August 7 when several young anarchists and communists
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attacked fascist literature sellers after one of the
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anarchists was beaten by the thugs from RNE. Of course, when
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the police interfered it arrested the leftists not the
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fascists.
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After Yeltsin's decision to disband the parliament at the
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end of September thugs from Russian National Unity appeared
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near the parliament. Since they were one of the most
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organized forces they easily got loads of AK-47s
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(Kalashnikov machine-guns). Trotskyists and anarchists that
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appeared near the parliament in these days were beaten up
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for the mere notion that they are internationalists. After
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the storm of the parliament, RNE was outlawed, but a lot of
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fascists managed to escape arrest. One can be sure that they
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did not leave machine guns on the battlefield. Alexander
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Barkashov, the leader of RNE, was not arrested.
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Reports on the activities of the RNE before the putsch
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described it as a 400 to 500 people strong battle detachment
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which had a number of sympathizers among the police.
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Unfortunately the left in Russia seems to be very
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disorganized and of course it poses no real danger to the
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fascists so far, but anti-fascist actions have to start
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sometime and the sooner it happens, the better. It will be
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very good if we can organize an international counter-
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campaign against RNE in Russia and NO in Germany. This will
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be a good start for building links among anti-fascist
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activists. The time is now because Nazis are already trying
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to build links among themselves.
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I will try to spread the information about the coming Nazi
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actions to activists in Russia so that we can organize
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counteractions. I will be very glad to send information to
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all the anti-fascist activists in Germany who want to do
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something about the coming actions of RNE in December.
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You can send your information, requests and contact
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addresses by e-mail (to: krazchenko@glas.apc.org) or by fax
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(to: 095-9210655).
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Mikhail Tsovma is an activist of an anarcho-syndicalist
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group in Moscow, currently working in the KAS-KOR Labour
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Information Centre. Please, address all messages concerning
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this to him.
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