Radical nationalists gathered in Slavic Square in a sanctioned rally to commemorate the leader of the Nazi Germany.
Photo: Grigoriy Sobchenko
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Blondes Take to the Streets
Last weekend in Russia was marked by new rallies as Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler’s followers, adversaries of the late Chechen President Akhamat Khadyrov and “politically indifferent” blondes took to the streets.
Far-right groups gathered last Saturday in Pushkinskaya Square in central Moscow, demanding that city authorities rename Kadyrov Street Pskov Commandos Street. The protestors reminded that former Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov died in 2004 while Russian law allows naming streets after acclaimed people no sooner than ten years after their death. “I’ve been living in Moscow since 1963, and I don’t want to live in Akhmat Kadyrov Street,” Dmitry Rogozin, a rightist leader, told his supporters. The rally condemned the late Chechen president for his fickleness as Kadyrov threw his support behind federal troops only after several years of being Chechen militants’ spiritual leader who reportedly called for annihilation of Russians soldiers.
Adherents of both Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler marked birthdays of their idols (April 20 for Lenin and April 22 for Hitler) on Saturday. About two thousand people stood in a line across Red Square, waiting to the Mausoleum to pay tribute to Russia’s first Communist leader. Meanwhile, as much as 350 radical nationalists gathered in Slavic Square in a sanctioned rally to commemorate the leader of the Nazi Germany. The protestors had their nationalist slogans ready and spoke about freedom of choice in Russia under police guard.
Elsewhere, blondes took the streets in the March of the Discontented Blondes. 40 fair-haired ladies gathered in Nizhny Novgorod’s central square in an effort to remove “a stigma from fair-haired women”. An unofficial source in the city hall says that the Ours, a Kremlin-supported youth movement, could be behind this rally.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 23, 2007
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