Incidentally, "Black Hundreds" can be roughly translated as "Rednecks." It's a reference to the Black Earth agricultural (peasant) regions, and was originally a derogatory term for pogromshiki that they later appropriated. "Black" in old Russian was also a term for rabble, scum, the bottom level of society, as opposed to "Red" (the color of diamonds, "beautiful," as in Red Square) and "White" ("Pure," as in the White Tsar).
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> WB2D are in my view prob. the best real underground
> hc
> punk going nowadays. This new LP, recorded in Tokyo,
> is a concept album about the failure of the
> experiment
> of the workers' state - "The Graveyard of Utopia."
> Song titles include "Black Hundreds," "Red Locusts,"
> etc. Students of Russian history ought to know what
> these refer to.
>
> -B.
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