"Weimar scenario" for Russia

Recently, more and more publications have appeared in the press, in which the authors consider the possibility of implementing the so-called "Weimar scenario" of the development of events in modern Russia. As a rule, most of these articles are thematically suitable for another section of our site - "Democracy under siege" . However, they often raise the problem of the spread and rooting of ethno-nationalist sentiments in the country, which should become the basis for the future Nazi coup. In this section, we will attempt to make an annotated index of similar articles. These publications will be listed in reverse chronological order.

• Yegor Gaidar: Imperial hysteria can be overcome, but we don't want to

On February 6, 2006, Kommersant published Yegor Gaidar's article "The Weimar Syndrome", in which the director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition argues that the imperial nostalgia now present in the mood of Russians is not a unique phenomenon. Russia is not the first empire to have collapsed. However, her predecessors came out of the crisis in different ways. And it depends only on us whether we will follow the path of France, in which nostalgic hysteria has turned into romantic nostalgia, or the path of Weimar Germany, where, by the way, the author emphasizes, clearly drawing analogies with current trends in Russia: "The role of economic demagogy the Nazis should not be underestimated in their rise to power in 1933. Anti-Semitism, radical nationalism, xenophobia were natural elements in the thinking of the leaders of the National Socialist Party of Germany, but they were careful in using these tools until 1937. An appeal to the feelings of owners who lost their savings in during the hyperinflation of 1923, was a more effective political weapon.The words of those who today promise to restore the deposits that depreciated during the financial catastrophe of the Soviet Union, literally repeat Goebbels' rhetoric of the early 1930s.The Nazis, having come to power, did not restore the deposits.They led the country to war and another monetary disaster" . (Compare, for example, with the demagogy of the Rodina party or DPNI.

• Leonid Radzikhovsky on the "Orange Revolution" as a "Weimar scenario"
  On May 4, 2005, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published an article by Leonid Radzikhovsky "Weimar Russia", in which the author rather unusually talks about the Weimar scenario for Russia, expresses approval for President V. Putin for "realizing the national populist threat" and once again blames the oligarchs in "wrecking".

• The Weimar period in Russia ends
  No. 12 of the magazine "Expert-Siberia" for 2005 published an article by Oleg Noskov "At the end of the "second NEP"". The author compares the 1990s in Russia with the New Economic Policy, finds parallels between these periods, but considers Weimar Germany a more accurate analogy. According to the author, Russia will inevitably face a new period of authoritarianism, but similar not to the "37th year", but to the Hitlerism of the 30s.