Posts Tagged ‘NATO’

Limonov: Each Year I Get Closer to Islam

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

LimonovEdward Limonov is a complex and a contradictory figure. One of the greatest modern Russian writers, today he is more famous as a politician.
In the outgoing year, Limonov has made several steps towards Islam and Muslims. What has driven him to this? What is his message to the Muslims of Russia and the world? What does he think about Islam and actual problems related to it?
These are the questions we tried to clarify from him directly.

- Recently you published the notorious article “The Islam Card”. As far as we know, your positive attitude towards Muslims and their religion was greatly influenced by your prison experience when you were jailed in Lefortovo in a cell with the Chechen Aslanbek Alkhazurov, which was written in one of your books. Were there other factors that prompted you to look at Islam with sympathy?

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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

To understand where we are, it is extremely useful to take a detached view of ourselves. Now many are expressing their opinion about the party. I will cite only the most interesting opinions. Dmitry Olshanski, political analyst, in the article “The Beginning of History”: “Nazbols seized the Health Ministry. The Society has not yet recalled the right word - narodovolets(members of the People’s Will organisation)! But the horrible sentence has already returned the relation of cause and effect to its place: the years of detention increase depending on the number of floors the portrait of the autocrat, thrown out of the window, had the bad luck to fly by. It is indicative that the NBP wasn’t invited to the two pitiful political congresses in December(both democratic and patriots’) - living people, existing in the historical time, are not among the actors’ of the burnt theater favourits. Nevertheless, it is the story with the Health Ministry, but not the theatrical howls of Rogozin and “The Committee 2008″, that we’ll have to remember. Such ridiculous, naive, insolent, irregular national-bolsheviks proved to be the only, though spontaneous, opponents of the monstrous State Building. The subjects of the complicated politics, but not its capricious and breaking objects”.

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Komsomol under mayonnaise

Thursday, June 24th, 2004

NazbolsRussian lefts grow swiftly younger. Rallying students succeed grandmothers. They are struggling against Putin the “dictator”, unmasking Zuganov the “revisionist” and are waiting for the anticapitalist revolution any day. In order to brighten up the process of waiting they bombard elder politicians with ketchup and mayonnaise.

On the 23d of February Russia’s left radicals are going to carry out the action “Russia without Putin”. Evidently they will not manage to organize a mass rally, their most significant actions have gathered only about 2000 participants so far. Under Yeltsin mass left radical open-airs mainly attracted grandmothers with saucepans. Now - students.

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Interview to the “Revolt” French magazine

Sunday, February 15th, 2004

The member of the NBP Central Committee Sergei Fomchenkov is answering at the instance of Edward Limonov.

Nazbol Sergei Fomchenkov1. Could you present us the National-Bolshevik Party, its ideology and aims?

The National-Bolshevik Party now represents an acting political organization with 10 years of history of struggle, counting about 12000 members, having more than 50 regional departments around Russia. The party members are mainly the youth(15-30 years old), people discontent with their social position, marginals, nonordinary personalities with literary and artistic propensity, even “hereditary” revolutionaries. On the whole all the strata of society, different nationalities, religions are represented.

Our ideology is based on the works of such theorists of national-bolshevism as Ustryalov, Agurski, the works of Edward Limonov. We also borrow the ideas of current importance from Lenin, Mussolini, Mao and others.

Our aim is to come to power in Russia by means of National Revolution. We aspire to the establishment of the national and social justice in Russia, to the complete replacement of the ruling class - the power of functionaries and former nomenclature elite removal, redistribution and nationalization of property.

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Limonov Fights ‘The System’ in Court

Friday, December 6th, 2002

Limonov peering out of the defendant's cage in the Saratov court Wednesday. Charges against him include terrorism and calling for the violent overthrow of the government.SARATOV, Volga Region — Writer Eduard Limonov has never been one to keep his thoughts to himself, especially when it comes to “the evil force called The System.”

Under communism, Limonov’s anti-Soviet views got him expelled from the country. When he returned to Russia in the mid-1990s after 20 years abroad, he headed up a fringe ultranationalist movement and railed against the new regime in the Kremlin, preaching extremism and social justice “by any means necessary.” (more…)