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From: LindyBill	4/1/2005 7:55:11 PM
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Red Tide patterico.com Front page of the Wall Street Journal today (sub required) details a resurgent Bolshevik Revolutionary Party in Moscow. As if Russian politics weren’t interesting enough: The National Bolsheviks play to a growing nostalgia in Russia for the nation’s past greatness. Mr. Putin’s own talk of restoring Russia’s might resonates with millions of Russians, and Mr. Limonov’s party takes it to the extreme. The party flag has the same colors and layout of the Nazi one: a white circle on a red background with a black symbol in the middle. The symbol itself is a hammer and sickle instead of a swastika. Their leader, punk author Eduard Limonov, sounds like a real winner: One night at a literary conference in Budapest in 1989, he got into an argument with the British novelist Paul Bailey over capital punishment. Mr. Bailey said he was against it. After an angry exchange, Mr. Limonov ended up knocking Mr. Bailey unconscious with a bottle of Mumm’s Champagne, both men recall. Rather bourgeois choice of tipple for an anarcho-punk-neoBolshevik revolutionary, no? Will Putin give these jokers a place at the table? He might be well advised to remember Churchill’s words to Lloyd George: “You might as well legalize sodomy as recognize the Bolsheviks.”

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