Strelnikov!
Just remember that from Dr. Zhivago.
Strelkov sounds like a very interesting man by all accounts, but I suspect his replacement really had more to do with the rebels needing to gain traction among the Ukrainian populace in the area, and ethnic Russians were not getting it done.
The ‘Orthodox Whites’ bear some resemblance to the 30s Romanian reactionary movement, ‘The Legion of the Archangel Michael’, without the time-specific antisemitic focus that existed back then and led to a series of pogroms.
I would not necessarily associate these ‘monarchist’ individuals with Russian nationalism at large however, as there is also within that a National Socialist element. Strelkov’s word and deed indicate he is a little more than your average Russian nationalist.
~ Newspaper headlines such as “For Strelkov, Against Putin,” and a poll indicating that Strelkov might beat Putin in a vote for the Russian presidency, had turned the rebel commander into a political liability.~
These guys are as far from the Russian government as Illinois Nazis from Congress and White House.
On the other hand they are armed and have a really lot of moderate ‘patriot’ sympathizers who might be radicalized one day and for that reason Putin may not totally distance or crack down on them.
Ironically, a leader of Russian National-bolshevics is a French national who lived through the 1970s in the United States.
And he was jailed at the time for an armed revolt against Putin’s government.
You could see McCain’s shadow all over these natsbols.
They have all crawled back to light like roaches under Occupy Moscow pretext, when senile republicrat was busy writing for Pravda against Putin, was getting around and slammed the Russians for oppressing the opposition. For some reason no Jeffersonsky ever emerged on a wave of McCain’s bullcrap, but Strelkov, Navalny, Eddie Limonov and alikes.
I think the idea that Putin is going to let anyone get strong enough to challenge him laughable. Do you really think this guy is going to be allowed to form a power base after he leaves GRU service in Ukraine?
avoid guys with umbrellas.