Natsbol Update
Today’s Moscow Times has an article on the Trial of “Decembrists”, the trial of 39 National Bolshevik members for seizing a Presidential office last December. The moniker “Decembrists” shouldn’t slip notice. The Decembrists were nobles and about 3000 soldiers who tried to prevent Nicholas I from being crowned Tsar after the death of Alexander I. It was said that the nobles that headed the revolt sought to install a constitutional monarchy. Always conscious of history, Limonov’s group staged their siege on December 14, the same day the original Decembrists revolted.
The Moscow Times article describes the court’s hard handedness toward the “Decembrists.” This is only going to get the Natsbols support since many Russians will probably sympathize with their and their parents’ claims that their crime doesn’t fit their treatment.
There is something to be said about the Time’s claims that Limonov’s group is “arguably the most popular political movement among urban ..read more
