Report: 100 Russian skinheads attack concertgoers

[mike r]

Source: Associated Press

Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said. Dozens of people were left bloodied and dazed in the attack, television and news agencies reported, and state news channel Rossiya-24 said a 14-year-old girl was killed at the concert in Miass, 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) east of Moscow...

Russia has an ingrained neo-Nazi skinhead movement. Attacks on dark-skinned foreigners in Moscow and St. Petersburg have been relatively common in recent years. The January 2009 murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova prompted a Kremlin crackdown on ultranationalists, who were blamed for the killings.

In April, a Moscow court banned the far-right Slavic Union, whose Russian acronym SS intentionally mimicked that used by the Nazis' infamous paramilitary. The group was declared extremist and shut down. Then the group's leader, Dmitry Demushkin, told The Associated Press it tried to promote its far-right agenda legally and warned that the ban would enrage and embolden Russia's most radical ultranationalists...

Neo-Nazi and other ultranationalist groups mushroomed in Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse. The influx of immigrant workers and two wars with Chechen separatists triggered xenophobia and a surge in hate crimes. Racially motivated attacks, often targeting people from Caucasus and Central Asia, peaked in 2008, when 110 were killed and 487 wounded, an independent watchdog, Sova, said. The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights estimated that some 70,000 neo-Nazis were active in Russia — compared with a just few thousand in the early 1990s.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_concert_attack

[DailyGrind51]

1. Don't they know that the Nazis murdered Slavic people?

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

3. No kidding...

Russian-Nazi is a total oxymoron in historical terms.

[izquierdista]

4. They don't care

They will gladly have a non-aggression pact with them so they can kill all the Tatars, Jews, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turks, and so on first. Then, when it is the last two of them standing, they will turn their guns on each other. Only being out of bullets by this time, they will have to strangle each other to death.

See what happens when the KGB lets up? I guess there's no happy medium where peaceful people can voice their concerns and disagreements and violent people get it dished back on them double.

[Posteritatis]

6. And the neo-Nazis are carrying on that tradition. (nt)

[nosmokes]

9. But the Nazi insignia is soo cool if you're a tool. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. The Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union is extremely complex

There's no doubt that the Nazis saw the Slavic people as less than human, and massacred them without a second thought, but there were also many, many, many collaborators and nationalist types who threw in with the Wehrmacht and other "special" units (i.e., the Einsatzgruppen) for the purpose of promoting their own political agenda during the occupation. Ukraine was a particular spider web of intrigues, and the German army relied significantly on local Ukraine nationalist anti-communist forces for counter-insurgency operations behind the lines.

History - like people - is never cut and dried. It is always, always extremely complicated.

[movonne]

2. This is going to happen here....and their names are teabaggers...

[SoapBox]

10. Ditto.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Earth = hick planet. nt

[NTXDem]

7. You just know that our own

homegrown Nazis are taking notes and dreaming of doing the same thing here.

Birds of a feather and all that.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Russia is angling HARD to host the World Cup in 2018

I imagine the legal system is going to crack down hard on the assholes, if only for PR's sake...

[MidwestTransplant]

11. 20 Million Russians died fighting the Nazis.

[sulphurdunn]

12. Obviously we don't have a corner on the moron market.

[iamthebandfanman]

13. sickens me to watch my russian brothers and sisters

tolerate these fascist bastards.

fuckin' nationalism.

[ck4829]

15. Don't these skinheads know that the nazis raped their grandmothers?

And murdered many of their grandfathers in cold blood?

How numbingly stupid are these guys anyway?

[Gman]

16. "ultranationalists"

Good name for them. I like that.

[ck4829]

17. They have the polar opposite of Abbie Hoffman's ideas

Abbie Hoffman:
"When our country is right, keep it right; but when it is wrong, right those wrongs."

Ultranationalists:
"When our country is right, keep it right; but when it is wrong, then crucify the guy who says it's wrong (Literally if necessary)."

[alp227]

18. A worldwide weekend of racism.

US: Glenn Beck desecrates MLK's name in Washington
UK: English Defence League, an anti-Muslim organization, starts a fight during a rally.
Russia: This.

[roxiejules]

19. The Belsan Massacre 6th anniversary is Sept. 1

September 1 is celebrated as the Day of Knowledge everywhere in Russia except Beslan. For this town in North Ossetia it marks the start of the anguished countdown to the massacre that ended the school hostage drama 52 hours later when 344 people died, including 186 children. The mastermind and the motivation behind this brutal massacre, Shamil Basayev and Chechen-based Muslim jihadists.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0606BESLAN_140

[entanglement]

20. The ultra-nationalist movement in Russia is utterly inhuman and murderously racist

Anyone with more than a slight tan is a target for these thugs.