Neo-Nazis in the Stavropol region

On September 23, 2005, Stavropolskaya Pravda published Alexander Beluz's article "Führeromania", which provides an overview of neo-Nazi actions and manifestations of radical nationalism in general in the largest cities of the region. Unfortunately, the article does not indicate the dates of the events, but most likely, all the cases described by the author occurred in 2004 or 2005. We managed to restore the dates of some events ourselves.

The author notes that neo-Nazi sentiments as such are very strong in the region. In particular, he talks about a neo-Nazi party organized in honor of his birthday by a major Stavropol businessman: “Entrance is free. The initiator is not a hungry marginal, but a well-fed, even jaded big businessman who decided to arrange a grand sabantui with a swastika on the occasion of his birthday "In the environment of which advanced youth came off to its fullest. That evening, fascism was fashionable. And not dangerous. But they say that this Stavropol new Russian really sympathizes with Adolf Schicklgruber and even gathered around him a certain circle of interests - a local fan- world killer club .

"Approximately half of the Stavropol fight clubs [openly] preach nationalism. Hundreds of guys pump their muscles in order, as they say," to protect Russia from non-Russians "" , - A. Beluza notes. And they are ready (although rarely so far) to demonstrate their strength. For example, on April 18, 2004, during the all-Russian anti-Nazi flash mob action, about a dozen "skinheads" stood aside, watching how the action participants laid flowers and a crossed out swastika at the Memorial of Eternal Glory .

And of course, as in other Russian regions, neo-Nazi graffiti constantly appears in the Stavropol Territory. In Stavropol, these are underground passages, in Nevinnomyssk - Prospekt Mira, in Kavminvody, the railway line Mineralnye Vody - Kislovodsk.

At the same time, according to Konstantin Vishnevsky, chairman of the regional center for public initiatives "Alter Vita", the number of "ideological fighters", convinced neo-Nazis in the region is still not many (these are fascists, Russian national chauvinists, and skinheads). He believes that local neo-Nazis are "skinheads who have smoked marijuana" and skinheads calling "Slavyanka! Russian honor is more valuable than Caucasian money" or "Remember: you are Russian!" , and attacking girls who maintain relationships with the natives of the Caucasus. At the same time, in his opinion, the Stavropol skin movement is actively fueled from outside (for example, literature comes to Stavropol from Rostov-on-Don).

Traditionally deny the existence of organized radical national groups and law enforcement agencies. In particular, the head of the department for ensuring the activities of the Council for Economic and Public Security of the Stavropol Territory, Vasily Belchenko, believes that there are no pro-fascist youth in the Stavropol Territory, and "manifestations of nationalism exist only in the form of domestic conflicts based on drunkenness . "

A. Beluza notes that there are also anti-fascists in the region (as leftists, "who are fond of" rock painting "" and writing "on the same walls where the swastika is painted, they write everything that they think about the "Hitler" artists. Simple and understandable, but in an unprintable language" and more "civilized", who, along with painting over swastikas, are engaged in educational activities). However, in recent years there has been a decline in anti-fascist activity in the region. This happened after the second half of the 1990s. in Stavropol, the RNE almost won a lawsuit against local journalists over an anti-fascist publication (meaning the famous case of the Stavropol RNU against the journalist of Stavropolskaya Pravda Galina Tuz, who published on April 26, 1995 the article "Hatred of fascism is in the blood of Russians?". For details, see: Stavropol case // Glasnost Defense Foundation, 2000).

Comm. It should be noted that, unfortunately, the author of the article, like most semi-official journalists, calls the local branch of the NBP the most active neo-Nazi group in Stavropol, and directly associates "RNE-Poru" with the Ukrainian "orange revolution". The second statement is simply not true. As for the NBP, we have repeatedly emphasized that the organization is extremely heterogeneous in its composition, but specifically the Stavropol branch of the NBP was not noticed in neo-Nazi antics. The Stavropol National Bolsheviks themselves demanded a refutation from the newspaper, sending a corresponding statement to the editorial office.

Sources

• Beluz Alexander. Führermania // Stavropolskaya Pravda. 2005. 23 September.