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Posted on 12/15/2005 7:57:55 PM PST by jb6
A Moscow court on 8 December found 39 members of the banned radical National Bolshevik Party guilty of staging mass unrest by forcing their way into a presidential administration building one year ago. A handful were given prison sentences, but most of them walked free. Defense lawyers and relatives of the defendants have welcomed the verdict as relatively soft, but maintain the young activists were innocent.
The judges were expected to take two days to read the verdict, but the defendants did not have to wait that long. After just two hours, the court sentenced eight defendants to between 18 and 42 months in jail. The other 31 received suspended sentences and were immediately released.
Relatives of the young activists, most of whom are barely in their 20s, broke into applause and tears upon hearing the verdict. Many had feared much tougher sentences after the state prosecutor demanded prison terms of up to five years.
Dmitrii Agranovskii, one of the defense lawyers, has maintained that his clients are innocent and said the defense team will appeal the ruling. He said that his clients had previously announced their visit and peacefully entered the building with the intention of speaking to officials.
But he told RFE/RL's Russian Service that he and his colleagues were, on the whole, happy with the verdict -- although not without a touch of sarcasm.
"We are very happy. Innocent people spent only one year in detention, they could have spent longer -- we know the realities of our government," Agranovskii said. "There was nothing criminal in their actions, this is totally obvious. Besides, one should not forget that eight people, including three young women, are still in detention. I am happy with the fact that my clients were freed, but nonetheless, they spent a whole year in detention without having committed the smallest crime."
The National Bolshevik Party (NBP) is a radical youth movement known for its flamboyant antigovernment protests, which include throwing tomatoes, eggs, juice, and other foods at political foes.
Its most audacious protest, for which the 39 were standing trial, came on 4 December 2004, when activists peacefully seized one of the buildings of the presidential administration in Moscow. They locked themselves inside, waved a banner reading "Putin, Quit Your Job," and threw portraits of officials out the windows of the building.
Eduard Limonov, the ultra-nationalist Russian writer at the helm of the NBP, claims his groups has as many as 35,000 followers -- commonly referred to in Russia as "NatsBols" or "limonovtsi." Others say the numbers are much lower.
The NBP started in 1994 as a neo-fascist organization. Today, however, it calls itself an opposition group that strives for democracy and justice, and it formally rejects violence. But the party's provocative stunts have nonetheless riled the Kremlin and in June the movement was outlawed on extremism charges. This has led many to view yesterday's verdict, however mild, as obvious retribution for the NBP's spectacular political protests.
Vladimir Pribylovskii, the director of the Panorama think tank in Moscow, thinks the verdict is over the top.
"The authorities are afraid of everything," Pribylovskii said. "They are afraid of these few hundred young people with an exacerbated sense of social justice who don't really do anything else other than throw tomatoes and chicken eggs. Hooliganism, yes, but this deserves 15 days, and they sentence them to three years in prison. They see a threat in everything at the Kremlin, including in the tomatoes thrown by National Bolsheviks."
But the most scathing denunciation of the verdict came from Limonov himself. He said the ruling was politically motivated and branded it a "reprisal unworthy of a government."
If the ruling was indeed an effort to scare NBP into submission, the authorities may have missed the mark -- many of the young activists released from jail yesterday have said they plan to continue political activity.
The Russian version of the Brown Shirt storm troopers.
Nazbols--- Another Right wing group. However, they use a hybrid of Nazi and Soviet propaganda.
The KPRF has even kicked them out of all future rallies, because they are so radical.
Let me tell you a story of the Revolutionary Socialists and their leaders: Lenin and Stalin. Both were exiled by the Tsar to Siberia. In Siberia they suffered the agonies of living in an open village from which they couldn't go but a couple of kilometers. They suffered from having their co-conspirators travel far to visit them. Yes they suffered and determined that such a state of affairs just wouldn't do for their foes...no their foes got to all be together in a labor camp, where boredom was never a problem.
They are not right wing, it is the victory of the left that the National Socialist movements of all flavors are labeled as right-wing. They are all off spring of Marx.
How does this pertain to this thread?
We are on a time deadline of about half an hour to support this freeper in this poll! It is about Regime change in Iran and I support this temporary intrusions.
If you look at their "Propaganda" they use a lot of Nazi symbology. Too bad the website is down, because then you could see what they were spewing. (They had pictures of Putin being spanked by Bush, Lots of pictures of Stalin, Mao, and Hitler, Islamic radicals, and other stuff like that)
They are an extremly nationalist group, professing alot of the Nationalist platforms, and mixing in alot of Soviet Symbology into it.
The guy who leads it was never part of any Soviet orgain.
Sorry, but we're trying to network to help out a fellow Freeper. This will likely be the last post on this thread regarding the issue. Take care. D1
damn Bolsheviks...
Here's a sampling of their crap.
Limonov (Time to make Lemonade of him: Limon is Lemon)
That's Putin
Revolution Wants You: National Bolshavik Party (yup, just a bunch of peaceful Woodchuck Scouts)
Putin, step aside.
Victory will be with us
NBP will come for you
This one just oozes none violence: Vote for Revolution:
This is soo right-wing /sarcasm: Beat the Rich
Thanks for posting those. Funny, in a scary sort of way.
Good reminder of how Hitler and Stalin were two sides of the same bad coin.
If only we'd backed the Whites in the Russian Revolution. Tens of millions of lives would have been saved.
BTW, re: your tagline. Not all pagans are amoral leftie moonbats. Conservative pagans just tend to keep a low profile. As I understand it, quite a number of our military personnel are finding spiritual paths more in keeping with a Warrior's life than the true religion of peace (Christianity.)
Remember that Hitler spewed that sort of stuff. And Hitler was a Socialist as well.
Had Limonov tried to spew that stuff when the USSR was in power, he would have been Gulaged.
We should probably keep a close eye on these pukes. Hitler was jailed in 1922(?) and look what happened once the German economy really went south. If Russia's economy goes belly-up (or they suffer some other sort of upheaval, like Muslim incursion, terrorist nukes, etc.) the people could turn to this pro-Slavic group in desperation.
Japanese warrior dressed up in NBP stuff
Tossing Putin's image out the window of the Health Ministry
NBP Supports Chechen Islamic terrorists. Now you see why the KPRF dumped the NPB.
Trust me, the KGB/KPRF/Russian military will bring back the Soviet state long before some little idiots like the NBP could do so.
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