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Pro-Kremlin Party Promotes Anti-Fascist Pact
2006-01-28
A journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step, or so the Chinese tell me. On the other hand, if you're on a treadmill it doesn't matter how fast you walk.
Pro-Kremlin party United Russia has proposed signing an anti-fascist pact with other political parties and public movements. The new document, signed by several parties already, is called the Anti-fascist Pact — Agreement to Oppose Nationalism, Xenophobia and Religious Discord. “Activities aimed at arousing national, racial or religious hatred is forbidden by law in our country,” the agreement quoted on the party’s Web site read. “However, such activities must be also condemned morally. A social and information vacuum must be formed around those who profess and propagate fascism, racism, nationalism and xenophobia. They must become social outcasts.”

United Russia has called for political parties and social organizations not to admit and to expel people with racist positions, who propagate national superiority, not to nominate or support candidates for parliament who propagate such ideas, and to condemn any such statement. The agreement has already been signed by such parties as the liberal Union of the Right Forces and the Russian Party of Liberal Democrats who often make nationalist statements.

The pro-Kremlin youth movement Ours, or Nashi, is planning to hold rallies commemorating the International Holocaust Day. They will be present outside a Moscow synagogue and a plaque there stating that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust years in Europe and Russia. Jan. 27 was proclaimed the International Holocaust Day by the UN General Assembly, marking the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.
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