[Torie]

Russia still has young people around? Who knew?

[proxy_user]

I don't think this will fool many people over 20. Without communism, what exactly are they fighting to defend?

[Calpernia]

?

[Fiddlstix]

Shades of Hitler youth?

[cripplecreek]

My wife an I have a friend in Russia who tells us that there's a lot of natural fear among people her age.(35) She told my wife that it shocks her when I criticize my own government.

[kittymyrib]

Some people are just made to be led around by the nose. The Russians are one of these. If any Russian has an ounce of self-reliance, he's already emigrated to the West.

[A. Pole]

The organisation borrows techniques from groups such as Pora in the Ukraine. Tents and mopeds carry Nashi’s red and white logo and the youngsters are trained in team-building and public relations techniques.

Color coded contr-revolution?

[Just mythoughts]

"The head of Nashi, Vasili Yakemenko, a former Kremlin bureaucrat, says the camp cost “far, far more” than $500,000 (£285,000) and was paid for by donations from big business. “We ask them to support the creation of a new political and managerial elite for the country. If they refuse, it’s considered unpatriotic,” he adds."


Capitalism no doubt.