Here's yet another example of how this smearing of the opposition as fascists works in Russia. Here, Chubais accuses his opponents of being Nazis. I saw Chubais devate Rogozin last night: "Are you a nationalist?" "Yes, I am." "Is Glazyev a socialist?" "He is." "Then you must be National Socialists! Russia is on the adge of an abyss! Vote for the UNIIIIOOOON OF RIIIIIGHT FOOOOORCES!!!!!!::
How does Anatoly "Russia should be an empire" Chubais get off accusing his opponents of expansionism? Lord Almighty.
Dross strives for power
MOSCOW - The dross of society strives for power in Russia and it is nearly impossible to stop, Anatoly Chubais, a co-leader of the pro-reform Union of the Rightist Forces party told a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday. But the nation still has time to take one last attempt to prevent it from taking the helm.
To all appearances, the rightists have been impressed by the results of the latest opinion poll carried out by the Public Opinion Foundation. According to the survey, the Rodina (Motherland) bloc enjoys support of as many as 9 per cent of voters. Such a doubtful increase in popularity of the bloc whose rating only recently stood but at 2-4 per cent prompted SPS co-chairmen to proceed to action. On Wednesday they convened a news conference at the Interfax office and announced that never before had Russia faced such a “colossal”, “unprecedented”, “large-scale” and “horrifying” problem.
“The authorities artificially spread class hatred, provoking vile nationalistic and leftists trends in politics,” Boris Nemtsov began.
“There is nothing more destructive than the slogan “Russia for the Russians”, Anatoly Chubais said. “National Socialism has reared its head in the country, in the ugliest and most dangerous form as far as Russia is concerned. We are talking here about a force backed by a significant part of the law-enforcement system. What's more, the least qualified and the most aggressive one. Just listen to Mr. Kolesnikov [Deputy Prosecutor General]. You will never find such symbiosis of total ignorance, complete absence of any knowledge of the constitution or Russian legislation, and an incredible level of aggression. People should be sacked within 24 hours for making such speeches.” “Doing away with that mould” is the task the rightists are facing today, Chubais concluded. Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous.
Nemtsov augured that the new Duma would cancel deferments of army service for students and post-graduates, increase financing of the secret services, which in the long run would lead to a decrease in wages, and ultimately destroy Russia’s image abroad.
Should the national-socialists come to power, their main foreign policy course will be “territorial expansion”, Chubais said. According to Chubais, the political scandal that flared up around the Tuzla spit had shown “the level of primitive ideas of the Rodina bloc in the sphere of foreign policy”.
On her part, Khakamada cautioned that if national-socialists and fascists come to power, there will be no velvet revolution as in Georgia, everything will end in bloodshed, for it is always the way it is in Russia.
But the scariest result, according to Nemtsov, will be drawn at the presidential elections in 2008 when Russian citizens will have “to choose between the power and national-socialists”. To prevent the political crisis, the votes of 25 per cent of voters, who, as Khakahmada put it, “understand everything but never come to the polls”, are crucial. “Only please do not stay at home, come and cast your ballot,” Nemtsov urged the press.
“And what about the Kremlin, is not it aware of the threat?” the journalists inquired. “The Kremlin understands everything but is no longer able to do something. For, this is the machine, which, once launched, can never be stopped!” Nemtsov said.
SPS leaders tried their best to display high morale, but behind their bravado one could discern poorly disguised panic. The chances of Yabloko and SPS to clear the 5 per cent voting threshold at the forthcoming elections to the State Duma are as low as ever, Anatoly Chubais admitted sadly at the end of the conference.
http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=41655
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