"Antifa" against "fa"

"Left" and "right" on one stand

The fans of the German "St. Pauli" are the most famous antifa-union of fan Europe

The stadiums were occupied by nationalists, but the action always gives rise to opposition: more and more people of opposite views appear among fans. Can the “right” and “left” get along on the same rostrum?
A few years ago, a video appeared on the Internet: in one of the Moscow parks, a crowd of Antifu was leaving three fans of Spartak. The dialogue came down to the following: either the fans, who had a tricolor “Imperka” with them, “give this fascist hut”, or antifa select it, but with the physical consequences for opponents. Opponents passed the flag voluntarily. There was nothing unusual for Moscow in what happened, if not one “but”: the “attackers” also turned out to be fans of Spartak. At least they positioned themselves so. Such impudent trampling of unwritten fan laws caused a storm of indignation in the “right” environment.
Since then, the “left” fans have become more. True, they are still not enough to create strong groups. One of the fans-antiphashists of CSKA, Ivan, says: “We do not hide our worldview, in the sector we collect up to 20 people. Another thing is, we come to football first of all to cheer for our favorite team, and not declare political views. So there are no special problems. ” Ivan hopes that in three years it will be possible to create a powerful anti -fascist lobby, take a separate sector and influence the club’s policy: “One of the strongest duets of the forward in Europe is playing CSKA - Wagner Love and Dumbia, both dark -skinned. How can you root for them and at the same time chant White Power? ” “I personally do not know any organized anti-fascists, the“ right ”will simply not allow their presence on the fan sector,” objects Michael one of the leaders of the fan movement of the “red-blue”. - And do not make from the "right" cannibals. Yes, we want only Russian players to play the team, but there are no strong homegrown players, we have to buy abroad. They play, benefit the club. But we will not support them as Shennikov or Akinfeev, we will not, this is understandable. ”
“The action always gives rise to opposition,” Ivan explains the appearance of “left” in the stands. - In any subculture are dissatisfied with the majority. In the 80s, Lyuberthi were powerful-the bikers opposing them appeared. The Pankovskaya movement began to develop - they began to drive skinheads. The same thing happens in the intra -club movement. By the way, at one time, one of the “red-blue” combat groups took a black guy to her than caused the wrath of the rest (though, according to one of the “right” fans of CSKA, this guy says about himself: “Dark outside, white inside.”-The New Times). There are also several Caucasian children in Red Blue Warriors. This does not apply to the confrontation between the “left” and “right”, these are examples that disobedience makes no less than the herd instinct. Antifa in the stands will become more and more. ”
The optimism of the “left” is based on European experience, there are not just separate fan antifa groups, but entire clubs around which only they are random. The most famous example is the Hamburg St. Pauli. The fan movement of the club was formed in the early 80s from the “leftists” workers who lived in the port areas. Now several thousand throaty guys are already hung out in the stands of the “cheerful Roger” and openly position themselves as anti -racists. A similar example at the very least exists even in Belarus. Fans of the Minsk MTZ RIPO-all the antifa. They began to root for the club because at the beginning of the zero he did not have fans at all, while the rest of the teams already occupied the “right”. “The idea was given to us by one of the numbers of Avtonoma,” the history says. -An article was published about football antifa hooligans supporting the Mosenergo club. We decided to make my own group. ” In the territory of the former Soviet Union, the MTZ RIPO remains a phenomenon. In Russia, the “right” own tribunes. At one of the last matches of the capital's “Torpedo”, the fans of the “black and white” hung a banner: “The honor of a patriot is more expensive than freedom”-in support of nationalists Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Hasis. In contrast to such shares, “left” fans have not yet acted, but experts are afraid that sooner or later the war between the FA and Antif will spread to the football arenas. “So that this does not happen, it is necessary to generally bring politics outside the stadiums,” said the anti -fascist Ivan. He tells how, on one of the trips, the fans of CSKA had to fight off the attack of the “red-white”: “We found ourselves in the same team with the guys from the“ right ”group, stood for the honor of the club, and fought back. We will not become friends, our views are opposite, but we normally talked and “jump” on each other is now unlikely to become. ”