Special Report on the Russian Antifa

[abbielives!]

Comrades! I bring you this special report on the Russian Antifa movement with a translation from a friend:

+ YouTube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0AycGXFmc

Man: "Some people discuss or even laugh about prejudices but other's still use them for hate and this can have a bad ending."

Woman: "For example in Russia. xenophobia is rising yearly and every year there are up to 600 racist attacks registered. Now there is a countermovement which declared war on the Moscow Neonazis - and both sides are armed.

Then the report starts:"firing practice in a forest close to Moscow. The members of the radical left wing movement Antifa declared war on the nazis."

Interview: "most of the serious nazis wear guns on them and therefore we mustn't be worse equipped. They were the first ones who used knives and then we did as well. Same thing with the guns, it was necessary."

Report: "This video was uploaded by Russian Neonazis. 37 people were killed because of xenophobia and more than 400 have been wounded. "Blacks", that's what they call the people from the Caucasian and Asian region. Their lives aren't safe in the streets of moscow."

Interview: "In the past years some of our friends have been killed by the fascists. It's clear to us that there is no way back and that this can happen to all of us. Formerly you could speak about animosity between adolescents but now it's about surviving."

Report: "And therefore they train every day. They're between 16 and 30 years old - about 1000 young people call themselves Antifa. The journalist Dimitry has been there for 5 years. He thought that only writing wasn't enough when he realized that the police were barely doing anything against the growing Neonazi scene."

Interview: "Now we have a large amount of fascists here and we have them because not too long ago they could organize their shows without any problems. Concerts, seminars, demonstrations - and this is how they attracted new people. Now things have changed because we're here. Nowadays they don't let everybody enter their concerts."

Report: "With attacks like this one the people of the Antifa want to scare other adolescents and prevent them from joining the Nazis. They followed this Neonazi in the city in order to beat him up in the subway."

Interview: "It comes to fights regularly. We often do this in the wagons because these are closed rooms and nobody can escape - often things go on brutaly."

‎"ALTERTA, ALERTA, ANTIFASCISTA" is what the Antifa protesters shout. They try to make headlines with a riot."

Interview: "A big part of our work consists of education. we try to spread our standpoint over the internet, We distribute fliers or organize our own events like festivals, presentations or movies."

Report: "Punk rock is their music. They sing about the fight against the racists."

Interview: "The Nazis immediately tried to inhibit our events. They attacked us. Some of us were killed at those concerts. For example some Nazis came before the beginning of the concert and stabbed the young people."

Report: "The band No One Else is one of the most famous ones in the scene. The musicians don't want to be recognized in the fear of Nazi-attacks."

Interview: "The government hasn't done anything against the Nazis. They turned away. This was then the task of other people who understood that something has to be done, that you cannot keep the things the way they are."

Report: "Loudly they announce their message, the Russians are responsible for the problems in their country, not the foreigners."

[IndependentCitizen]

It's a shame it's had to result in people arming themselves with firearms, but fuck the nazis. I wish Antifa the best, and hope they win this awful and unnecessary battle.

[psgchisolm]

sad and ironic that the russians have the worst problems of neo-nazis.

[Comrade Marxist Bro]

sad and ironic that the russians have the worst problems of neo-nazis.

Sad, certainly. Ironic, given the Soviet victory over Nazism - but this is a phenomenon you see all over Eastern Europe.

The shortcomings of the Eastern Bloc prepared the Eastern Europeans to accept capitalism as a sort of panacea during perestroika, but quickly it became glaringly obvious that all the bedazzling promises of paradise-on-earth to come with capitalist rule were false, and that in certain ways life has even gotten noticeably worse since the collapse.

The outright fascists and the semi-fascist nationalists have been gaining ground as the "next great hope" for the more naive among the many disappointed.

[Sasha]

i emdeded the vid for you

[a rebel]

its good that someone is deciding to stand up against the neo-nazis, and helping spread leftism in Russia

[abbielives!]

embedded?

[Sasha]

Posted the vid directly in your post so that people can see the vid and read the translation at the same time.

[tbasherizer]

These people are heroes. Long Live Russian Antifa!

[progressive_lefty]

How could they skip the part in Mein Kampf about Hitler's thoughts on Eastern Europeans/Slavs?

[Stand Your Ground]

I have been waiting a long time for this, we may see some dead Nazis in the future...

[Anarchist Skinhead]

Nazis are dying there already, just not quickly enough... and hopefully while we see them dead, we will not see more comrades in prison

[Stand Your Ground]

Nazis are dying there already, just not quickly enough... and hopefully while we see them dead, we will not see more comrades in prison

I just don't ever hear of that, if that's true then I say good. Yeah I just hope they don't get caught.

[Anarchist Skinhead]

yeah, there had been some cases of self defence by antifas and/or immigrants that ended up in nazi deaths in last few years.

[abbielives!]

death and prison are they only thing revolutionaries have to look forward to.