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Jan 20 / 2:11am

Neo-Nazi Terrorism in Russia Today

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Nazi terrorism. This is exactly how we should call the problem facing our society today. For many people, ultra-rightist terrorism is a relatively unfamiliar, new and to a great extent incomprehensible phenomenon. That is why bureaucrats, politicians, the media, the security forces, and the expert community mostly prefer to ignore the real problem, presenting it instead as a series of isolated, unrelated excesses.

For those who monitor the situation attentively, however, it is obvious that, over the past few years, neo-Nazis have made the qualitative shift from street violence to the tactics of terrorist groups supported by a well-developed infrastructure of extreme rightists. It suffices to analyze ultra-rightist internet resources and the statistics of nearly daily crimes to understand the scale and nature of the problem.

Repressive methods are powerless to tackle complex phenomena of this sort: the Nazi milieu, which has been actively growing in recent years, is capable of successfully reproducing itself. In order to really combat the ultra-rightist underground we need to destroy this movement’s well-developed infrastructure, in particular the convergence between Nazi terrorists and state officials.

http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/january-19-committee-neo-nazi-terrorism-in-russia-today/