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presenting the share of right-wing extremist parties in the elections
in various European countries on May 25 (cf. enclosed picture). One
should perhaps add Russia where, according to opinion polls, 85 per cent
support the Putin regime, whose "Eurasian" ideology goes back to
Alexander Dugin, the guy best known for his publication called "Fascism -
as red as our blood", a manifesto of National Bolshevism, of which he
was a co-founder.
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"The Ukrainians have an
anthem that unites generations, we [the Russians] don't even have an
anthem deserving that name. At the Olympics they performed the Stalin
anthem – an anthem that unites generations of dictators and slaves – for
the whole world." - "Die Ukrainer haben eine Hymne, die Generationen
miteinander verbindet, wir [die Russen] haben nicht einmal eine, die
dieses Namens wert ist. An der Olympiade wurde der ganzen Welt die
Stalinsche Hymne vorgespielt, die Generationen von Diktatoren und
Sklaven miteinander vereint." (Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin in Neue
Zürcher Zeitung, 7 Mar 2014)
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