Posts Tagged ‘system’

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…)

“There is no left or right. There’s the system and the enemies of the system”

Tuesday, December 30th, 1997

— What’s leftist and what’s rightist in Russia and in the world?

— There’s no longer any left or right. There’s the system and the enemies of the system. The system is the liberal democracy that triumphed everywhere, that noxious, shit-colored weed. The enemies of the system — that’s who we are, extreme Communists, extreme nationalists.

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