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National Bolshevik Party (en.wikipedia.org)

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The National Bolshevik Party (Russian: Национал-большевистская партия, НБП, romanized: Natsional-bolshevistskaya partiya, NBP) operated from 1993 to 2007 as a Russian political party with a political program of National Bolshevism. The NBP became a prominent member of The Other Russia coalition of opposition parties. Its members are known as Nazbols (Russian: нацболы). There have been smaller NBP groups in other countries. Its official publication, the newspaper Limonka, derived its name from the party leader's surname and from the idiomatic Russian word for a grenade. The main editor of Limonka was for many years, Aleksey Volynets. Russian courts banned the organization and it never officially registered as a political party. In 2010, its leader Eduard Limonov founded a new political...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wait nazbols actually existed I thought that was a joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it was mostly some early-soviet-nostalgy nerds who would talk to you about taking the power back while you were drinking cheap beer in the backalley.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

The leader who stayed until the end (and one of the three founders, arguably the most important one a bit more important than Dugin, far-right nationalist who later went to Kremlin and got his daughter allegedly carbombed by Ukraine), Limonov, was actually a disillusioned punk who was exiled from the USSR: https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fadamcurtis%2Fentries%2F20c22534-f722-3d7a-b7ba-0506fcc00063

Limonov took the punk vision (best expressed, he said, in Richard Hell's song Blank Generation) and fused it with with Soviet disillusion. Limonov argued that that the West was in many ways just a more sophisticated version of the Soviet Union, with more sophisticated propaganda - plus a similar intolerance of real dissent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

kremlin absorbed the non-liberal half and then banned it