Moronic Russian Fascists Idolise Hitler

[Plekhanov]

Independent My emphasis

Russia's far right blamed for murder of anti-fascist
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
22 June 2004

One of Russia's leading anti-Nazi campaigners has been assassinated in his home, apparently in revenge after he helped to convict Russian extremists. Nikolai Girenko, 64, was shot on Saturday morning in St Petersburg. His attacker, who authorities believe was almost certainly a professional contract killer, rang the doorbell and asked to speak to him.

Mr Girenko did not open the door but did identify himself. The killer fired at least one round from a sawn-off shotgun through the steel door, striking the academic in the chest.

The anti-fascism expert, trained as an anthropologist, worked for the Public Campaign Against Xenophobia, Racism, Ethnic Discrimination and Anti-Semitism, and collaborated closely with various human rights groups.

In the past two years, Mr Girenko performed two dozen studies on neo-Nazi and skinhead groups for the authorities in Moscow and St Petersburg, and frequently acted as a special adviser to the public prosecutor in St Petersburg in high-profile race-hate cases. His intervention led to the conviction of several skinheads and colleagues say his face was well-known among the country's sinister neo-Nazi gangs.

Colleagues say that he had received several death threats, and the communal entrance hall to his flat had been daubed with fascist and racist graffiti.

Mr Girenko was best known for his work in the trial of three youths accused of the racist murder of an Azerbaijani man in 2002, and for the role he played in the trial of an extremist group called Schultz-88 (eight standing for the eighth letter in the alphabet, H, 88 therefore signifying Heil Hitler).

Moscow's human rights bureau has appealed to Russia's leading prosecutors to take special control of Mr Girenko's case. "We insist that the authorities finally acknowledge the danger of the growth of neo-Nazism and xenophobia in the country," it said. Human rights activists say the authorities are doing little to quell a rising tide of hatred and skinhead violence.

Alexander Sokurov, a prominent film maker, told the daily Izvestia: "This murder shows that the Nazi movement and the so-called 'second column' exists in our country. Anyone posing a threat to this second column is destroyed. The level of hatred towards foreigners in our country is huge and is a poison that gushes from millions. Keeping quiet in this case would be tantamount to complicity."

Mr Sokurov said the government's security council should examine neo-Nazism in Russia. "There is appalling bitterness in the capital and in the provinces. The situation is much harsher than four or five years ago. The restlessness of millions, unemployment and people's terrible moral condition is primed to detonate."

There are an estimated 50,000 skinheads in Russia and a total of 80,000 is expected in the next few years. With names including Blood and Honour, Moscow Hammer Skin and United Brigade 88, they are said to number 5,000 in Moscow and 3,000 in St Petersburg.

They have been implicated in a string of horrific crimes. In February a nine-year old Tajik girl, Hurshida Sultanova, was stabbed to death in front of her father by a gang of 10 "Skins". Authorities dismissed the killers as mere "drunken delinquents".

Activists say that there are 30 to 40 such murders every year. Many Skins look up to Alexander Sukharevsky, the leader of the far-right National People's Party. Members favour the Nazi salute and wear black armbands with a Russian swastika-like cross. Mr Sukharevsky believes the white race is being attacked by a tide of undesirable foreigners.

Yakov Gordin, a prominent writer, told Ekho Moskvy radio: "Mr Girenko was shot in a brazen way, on the threshold of his own flat. This is a threat not only to people who campaign for human rights or against fascism. It is a threat to all society."

We all know fascists have a skewed vision of reality but I’m just astonished that Russian fascists worship Hitler, don’t they know what he thought of the Slavs? Haven’t they heard how many millions of their beloved race died fighting Hitler in WWII?

[Admiral Valdemar]

It's hard to think "adoration" and "reason" at the same time when you have but one brain cell at your disposal.

[Skelron]

And that cell usually on a Time share agreement with all the others in the little Gangs....

[PeZook]

Ahhh...the peculiarities of the human mind.

They aren't even creative. I bet if the movement chose some other idol rather than a man who attacked their country and promised to destroy every single Slav, they'd get a lot more popularity. Everyone can mindlessly idolize Hitler...

It's a good thing those extremists have no idea about public relations management.

[GySgt. Hartman]

Actually, their idea of PR management is killing the opposition - a concept that has been shown to work many times.

[salm]

Schultz-88

that so redicolously funny. Schultz-88, haha, if they weren´t nazis it would almost be cool.

[frigidmagi]

Good God, why won't this ideaology just FUCKING DIE!?!

Over what 25 million Russians were killed by the manic their all but worshipping now? How many Russian cities did Hiliter's solders burn? How many Slavs enslaved?

This makes no fucking sense! How can Russia and the US be breeding the very scum we bleed so much to get rid of in the first place?

[fgalkin]

I've posted an article about the Nazis some time ago. People said it wasn't so bad, and there are skinheands everywhere. However, most skinheads dont actually try to murder prominent opponents (the WCotC not withstanding).

Welcome to the Motherland.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[frigidmagi]

If I had the cash I'd be tempted to come over with a few friends and a few rifles.

And then spend the rest of my life rotting in a Russian jail...

Crap can never win!

[Gandalf]

an extremist group called Schultz-88 (eight standing for the eighth letter in the alphabet, H, 88 therefore signifying Heil Hitler).

I love the idea of a Nazi who gets his ideas from Hogans Heroes.

"I know nothing!"

[Plekhanov]

Schultz-88

that so redicolously funny. Schultz-88, haha, if they weren´t nazis it would almost be cool.

an extremist group called Schultz-88 (eight standing for the eighth letter in the alphabet, H, 88 therefore signifying Heil Hitler).

I love the idea of a Nazi who gets his ideas from Hogans Heroes.

"I know nothing!"

I’m a little confused here why is Schultz-88 funny?

[Stormbringer]

We all know fascists have a skewed vision of reality but I’m just astonished that Russian fascists worship Hitler, don’t they know what he thought of the Slavs?

Probably not. They probably just got to the hate-mongering part of Hitler for Dummies and decided he was an alright guy. After all, Neo-nazi and retard go together like penis and vagina.

Haven’t they heard how many millions of their beloved race died fighting Hitler in WWII?

Again, probably not. Though you never know, American skin-heads sure do but it hasn't stopped them.

[Gandalf]

Schultz-88

that so redicolously funny. Schultz-88, haha, if they weren´t nazis it would almost be cool.

an extremist group called Schultz-88 (eight standing for the eighth letter in the alphabet, H, 88 therefore signifying Heil Hitler).

I love the idea of a Nazi who gets his ideas from Hogans Heroes.

"I know nothing!"

I?m a little confused here why is Schultz-88 funny?

Sargeant Schultz was a bumbling prison guard in the popular TV show Hogans Heroes. A show set in a WW2 German prison camp.

[Plekhanov]

Sargeant Schultz was a bumbling prison guard in the popular TV show Hogans Heroes. A show set in a WW2 German prison camp.

Excellent, maybe we should email them to point out their tragic mistake with something along the lines of:

Dear nazi dumbfucks,
Not only do you idolise a man who believed your Slavic master race to be subhuman, worthy only of being enslaved and who managed to kill over 20 million of you but you have also managed to name your pathetic hatemongering group after a bumbling nazi prison guard in a well known TV series guaranteeing that you will be sniggered at by anybody with a TV. Well done you are a credit to your “master race” and to your cause.