«Boys do not include the back" (full version) With the permission of the author, we are reprinting an article originally published in the journal Spark in original version . (Text deleted Editor Ogonyok highlighted in red)
One unexpected confrontation in the forest, Khimki, of whose existence few people had heard, has become a truly epic sound. Environmentalists set up camp in the woods, demanded one thing: dialogue with the authorities. In response, they were beaten with different people: the employee hired chopov, mysterious thugs in masks, the riot police with batons. Conversation did not, and it upset the most. Few people really have remembered around What wood-bor, it no longer in it. Forest protection has become a matter of principle: the ability of the authorities to make concessions or not. Who's who: are we or the last we of them? In a country where laws do not work, people live on concepts. Power - is no exception. For her to hear people - it means to bend under the suckers. That is not patsanski. Suckers taken bend, and particularly daring - to punish. I remember a story told to me in Georgia. On one of the narrow streets of Batumi, rested his nose to nose two jeeps. Minutes 10 signals to each other, is not budging. Finally, one of the drivers getting out of the car, approaches the other and says: "Listen, do what you want, and I with this places can not move. You understand, I have on a life principle is this: back does not include ". Obviously, the Mayor of Khimki, member of United Russia » Strelchenko for suckers does not sag. In a small suburban town over the past 5 years, recorded a record for the number of attacks on opposition Issues: 4 people beaten, a crippled, 1 killed. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who signed devastating documents on the destruction of forests, also known as "back to life does not include ". "We stupidly ignore" - said the leader of the movement to protect forest ecologist Helen Chirikov. The negotiations come to a standstill, and it began. Forest while continuing to cut down. So usually in this country and things are done: the people pobuhtit-pobuhtit little poperebrasyvaetsya links on the Internet, receive a couple of times with a baton between the eyes and gets going. A real boys continue to resolve issues. That is to cut our wood. And then suddenly something happens, why a seasoned boys droops jaw. Namely: the massacre in broad daylight Khimki administration.
Sudden and organized campaign caught national security agencies by surprise. Young men smashed the building, turned over a couple of police cars, and then, shouting slogans, they returned to the station and went by train to Moscow. All action took about 15 minutes. It is estimated that it was attended by about 300 people. And none have leaked the information. This is serious. Antifa probably first showed itself as the prevailing political force. Not surprisingly, the next day began repression continues to this day.
remember as the chief ideologue of the country's youth Vasily Yakimenko told me in an interview: "You must understand: for every ideology, there are always a lot of money." Indeed, looking for Seliger, you know: for the public money can build any sort of props. As Goebbels wrote : «We are seeking not the truth, and the effect" . What is happening there - it is a profanation of youth activity and simultaneous washing fragile brains. Teens like dogs, pit on liberal opponents of the regime, accustomed to slavish devotion to authority. "Who does not agree, please do not disturb" - declares spokesman motion "Our". Bonzo of "United Russia" talk about the need to modernize the political system by creating a "federal parliamentary reserve ". - Ie smithy young bureaucrats who dream of a warm place in the party in power. They do not need innovators, they need consonants. Limits free-for Seliger - are involved in a project to combat expired products "Death curds. The event is held under the auspices of the Youth Democratic Anti-Fascist Nashi. Have "We" in the fight against the real neo-Nazis, from rampant that in every country year killed hundreds of people? Protected once the rights of ethnic minorities? None. Anti-fascism (and democracy) in understanding the state ideologues - it persecution of dissident Podrabinek or infamous installation in the form of Cola put on a head with the enemies of the regime are pulled down over his Nazi caps. Khodorkovsky, the swastika, the 82-year-old Lyudmila Alekseeva, for some reason, Quentin Tarantino. Generally, all activities are "Nashi" - a desecration of the sacred the concept of "anti-fascism", the famed feats of "Rot Front", "International Brigades" and "Resistance." Reminiscent of black PR technologies when the procrastination of voters opponents of the candidate nominated for election to a full and namesake namesake.
Against this background, the motion antifa, grown out of the anarchist punk culture, is quite inexplicable. Kremlin ideologists and efesbeshnye analysts , accustomed to the fact that everything is for sale and sold, can not be hard to understand one question: who's behind them? What are the orange-red-star-striped power finance these beggars? Soros? CIA? World backstage? Whose will they be? And terror come to the conclusion: yes draws. They even do not have a leader. Their activities began with the defense of their subculture of aggression neo-Nazis. Gradually the movement grew and matured. The right to own a tiny subcultural world - concerts, charity events, etc. - They have won. Space combat began to expand. The tactics of the defense moved to offensive. In the end, picked up the baton from the anti-fascist National Bolshevik , becoming main traffic of direct action. In contrast, Limonov, anti-fascist ideology does not contain the original conflict (the term "National Bolshevism" in itself an oxymoron), being a carbon copy of the same name of the anarchist movement in the West. Pogroms offices Komsomolskaya Pravda and Rumola "became the first stocks when the targets of attack were organizations that have no direct relation to neo-Nazis. However, according to unofficial sources the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and movement "Russia young" really supported the various initiatives xenophobic. In Khimki - the same thing. It is unlikely that anti-fascists would smash city administration and generally fit into the defense of Khimki forest if powerful people to protect the road construction did not attract the ultra- football hooligans. And the slogan "Defend the Russian forest, sounded during a pogrom, one side attached to shares some epic power , the other was postmodern greetings ideological enemies, for which, as is well known, national identity above all else. In general, forest antifa care less total. They were bleak idealism perceive their activities as cosmogonic struggle between good and evil. In an interview with Kommersant anonymous anti-fascist activist, says: "For some absolute evil manifested itself as cutting stupid tree belt, some incurable disease. Someone was supposed to be Sanitation.
rally in Khimki, was the last straw. The very next day with numerous violations of the law arrested those who had never hiding: informal speakers movement, which came after a phone call from Khimki police to testify. Alexey and Maxim Gaskarova Solopova announced by the organizers riots and detained for two months. Continuing searches in the apartments of activists and arrest of journalists covering the rally. It seems that the administrative punishing anti-fascists, this time not get off. If the state decided to teach the presumptuous idealists, as it once was with the National Bolsheviks , it will be show trial and a realistic time frame for organizing the riots. The technology then debugged. We will begin a new period of anti-fascist prison persecution.
Question: whether they are ready for this? It is one thing: let and deadly dangerous, but exciting outdoor guerilla, the other - the nightmare of the Russian penitatsiarnoy system. In a society corrupt public relations techniques and sovereign democracy, long ago came a need for an injection of idealism. So was the case in Russian history. Nicholas reaction First gave rise to the Decembrists awakened Herzen and those started. Then the idealists were Slavophiles and Westerners, but all ended terror "People's Will". Now: anti-fascist and neo-Nazis. Next - a quotation from a famous work of Lenin: "Shire has a circle of fighters, their closer relationship with the people. Young navigators future storms " - Called them Herzen. But it was not even the storm itself. " If history repeats itself, I want to hope that the navigators of the future storms will still anti-fascists, and not their opponents.
Andrei Loshak
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Originally published at Committee on January 19 . You can comment here or there .
