Dmitry Butrin: "Anti-fascist" fascism

On March 21, 2005, the portal "Gazeta.Ru" published an article by Dmitry Butrin "National Anti-Fascism. Russian Edition", devoted to the analysis of current social and political processes in Russia, giving the right to talk about the Weimar scenario for the "country that defeated fascism."

Reminding readers that “national socialism is a nationalist version of socialism, the characteristic features of which are the state’s desire to manage any processes in society and the economy, not excluding private life, the use of the ideologies of a “total” and “people’s” state with a developed cult of the leader and the ruling people's party, exploitation in the ideological sphere of militarism, the ideas of heroic death and pseudo-religious veneration of fallen heroes, xenophobia, the idea of ​​racial or national exclusivity and defending the “vital interests of the nation” , Dmitry Butrin builds a mosaic of a number of events that allow us to illustrate this definition with Russian examples .

This is the militarization of consciousness (congratulations to female war veterans on March 8, i.e. on a day that is the fundamental antithesis of the militarized holiday of February 23), and clumsy anti-fascist rhetoric in the foreign policy arena (condemnation of the Baltic governments for supporting Nazi veterans after the official approval of the Molotov Pact -Ribbentrop or the secrecy of the “Katyn Affair”), and “fierce accusations of Nazism against the National Bolshevik Party, which has the stupidity to use near-Nazi symbols. “Russian National Unity” and real neo-fascist groups that have succeeded in this game, for some reason no one smokes out of them bunkers - probably because they do not declare themselves enemies of the regime. But these are not fascists - the enemies of the president ."

In parallel with the “anti-fascist” officialdom, the intellectual formation of the Russian version of National Socialism is taking place. In Europe, allegedly , “there is a renaissance of neo-Nazism, which will become the ideological basis for the construction of a new European empire. The most important component of the future of Euro-Nazism will be the integration of Islamic radical ideologies into it, the expansion of influence in the sphere of Russia’s interests in Eastern Europe, primarily in Ukraine, confrontation with the United States, the desire to the destruction of Israel." Europe's position on Chechnya and the "orange revolutions", which can be considered as part of the West's plan to colonize Russia, fit perfectly into this model. *"The answer should be:

unification around a single leader and a single anti-fascist moderate-nationalist political force;

an alliance with the EU's competitors around the world, whoever they may be - from the US to India;

strengthening the vertical of power and military-political power, maintaining military influence throughout the territory of the former USSR;

political struggle with internal agents of Euro-Nazi influence ;

soft isolationism and autarky ;

restoration and strengthening of the army and military-industrial complex as a priority task in the economy;

moral and religious censorship "*.

Accordingly, *"within the framework of the state ideology of anti-fascism it is necessary:

a new democracy, different from “universal” models;

suppression of anarchy in society;

persecution of private capital represented by oligarchs and large entrepreneurs;

a ban on the spread of alien ideology in all forms;

a ban on the entry of foreign capital into the country and the free movement of Russian capital across the border;

placing the largest industries under state control and setting them “national goals”;

reliance on aggressive and inspired youth ;

revival of the national spirit on the basis of anti-fascism and the military heritage of the winners of 1945"*.

According to Dmitry Butrin, such ideological constructions are not new even for recent history, for example, the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. But blindly following such examples may well lead to the most tragic consequences.

At the same time, the degree of such “anti-fascism” in the country is rapidly growing as the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory approaches. At the same time, instead of a real understanding of the problem, which does not disgrace Russia, the political authorities prefer precisely “anti-fascist fascism”: “I would not be surprised if in the spring the “intellectual” component with all the necessary amendments will already be set out in the president’s message, and the “people’s” component will be chanted in student anti-fascist demonstrations in most regions of Russia,” concludes Dmitry Butrin.

Sources

• Butrin Dmitry. National anti-fascism. Russian edition // Gazeta.Ru. 2005. March 21.