The Sunday Times May 07, 2006
Russia's Nazis launch wave of racist attacks
Mark Franchetti, Moscow
WEARING camouflage and firing pellets from imitation AK-47 assault rifles, the Russians acting out battle scenes in the woods last week could have been mistaken for weekenders taking part in a game of paintball.
But the secret military training exercise 70 miles southeast of Moscow was far more sinister. The three-day gathering was attended by 50 hardline neo-Nazis who worship Adolf Hitler and believe that dark-skinned immigrants living in Russia should be killed.
The boot camp, which had taken months to organise, was planned to train them in combat skills and extremist ideology. Those taking part either support or have helped carry out a string of vicious racist attacks that have shocked Russia.
The âdelegatesâ stayed in tents beneath the red and black swastika-like flag of the Nationalist Socialist Society. They fired mock firearms and trained with knives and clubs.
At night, flanked by torches, they gathered around a bonfire exchanging Nazi salutes, chanting slogans celebrating Hitler and making speeches about a âsuper-raceâ made up of ethnic Russians.
âWe need to kill all dark-skinned immigrants,â explained a young man renowned as one of Moscowâs most radical skinheads who introduced himself as Tesak, Russian slang for âhatchetâ.
Weighing 17 stone, shaven-headed and wearing a black bomber jacket, Tesak, 21, an unemployed building engineer, is respected by fellow neo- Nazis for his brutal attacks on non-whites.
His hands are covered in deep knife wounds from a recent bloody clash with an armed man from Tajikistan. He walks the streets with a 10in hunting knife strapped to his side and boasts of having beaten immigrants âto a pulpâ.
Tesak recently launched his own neo-Nazi website, named in Hitlerâs honour, on which footage of attacks on immigrants is posted. He claimed his violent message was becoming so popular that he was asked for his autograph on the Moscow metro.
âWe shouldnât just kill adults. We must get rid of their children too,â he said. âWhen you squash cockroaches to death, you donât just kill the big ones. You go for the little ones too.â
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Russia's Nazis launch wave of racist attacks
Mark Franchetti, Moscow
WEARING camouflage and firing pellets from imitation AK-47 assault rifles, the Russians acting out battle scenes in the woods last week could have been mistaken for weekenders taking part in a game of paintball.
But the secret military training exercise 70 miles southeast of Moscow was far more sinister. The three-day gathering was attended by 50 hardline neo-Nazis who worship Adolf Hitler and believe that dark-skinned immigrants living in Russia should be killed.
The boot camp, which had taken months to organise, was planned to train them in combat skills and extremist ideology. Those taking part either support or have helped carry out a string of vicious racist attacks that have shocked Russia.
The âdelegatesâ stayed in tents beneath the red and black swastika-like flag of the Nationalist Socialist Society. They fired mock firearms and trained with knives and clubs.
At night, flanked by torches, they gathered around a bonfire exchanging Nazi salutes, chanting slogans celebrating Hitler and making speeches about a âsuper-raceâ made up of ethnic Russians.
âWe need to kill all dark-skinned immigrants,â explained a young man renowned as one of Moscowâs most radical skinheads who introduced himself as Tesak, Russian slang for âhatchetâ.
Weighing 17 stone, shaven-headed and wearing a black bomber jacket, Tesak, 21, an unemployed building engineer, is respected by fellow neo- Nazis for his brutal attacks on non-whites.
His hands are covered in deep knife wounds from a recent bloody clash with an armed man from Tajikistan. He walks the streets with a 10in hunting knife strapped to his side and boasts of having beaten immigrants âto a pulpâ.
Tesak recently launched his own neo-Nazi website, named in Hitlerâs honour, on which footage of attacks on immigrants is posted. He claimed his violent message was becoming so popular that he was asked for his autograph on the Moscow metro.
âWe shouldnât just kill adults. We must get rid of their children too,â he said. âWhen you squash cockroaches to death, you donât just kill the big ones. You go for the little ones too.â
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