gear up once more to insure economic prospcritw and an anticrimerncrackdown will restore order. Like most vile racists, thernneo-Nazi “national revolutionaries” deify the Russifiedrn”Ar’an” race, attributing special mystical qualities to it, whilernhating true religion, particularlv Christianity, though some celebraternancient Russian paganism and black magic as a sort ofrnNew Age alternative, and others see an emasculated RussianrnOrthodox- (so long as Christ is portrayed as an “Aran,” andrnthe Golden Rule applies onlv to other “Aryans”) as a useful instrumentrnfor a national-revolutionary regime to exploit.rnOne mas be startled by the growth of a blatantly Nazi ideologrnin Russia, which provided the bulk of the Soviet humanrnwaves slaughtered in the struggle with Hitler, but Russian neo-rnNazism is the legitimate child of Stalinism. When the “GreatrnLeader and Teacher” chose “Socialism in One Country” overrnTrotskv’s internationalist “Permanent Revolution,” it was mere-rnIv a matter of time before National Bolshevism became the prevailingrnideology of what was the Soviet Russian Empire. Inrnfact, many hopeful Russians of extreme nationalist persuasionrnthought that Josef Vissarionoich would eventually scrap communistrnideology altogether. After all, he had brought back Russianrnnationalism, albeit in a new form, declared war on the Jewsrn(Trotskvites, “cosmopolitans”), and restored the Empire. Arnyounger generation, freed from the emotional baggage ofrnmemories of the Great Patriotic War and hungering for somethingrnto belice in, something to belong to, is not put off h thernnational-re’olutionarv variant of Stalinist national socialism.rnStill, the appeal of national-revolutionar’ propaganda niavrnnot be its science fiction version of historv, or its preoccupationrnwith conspiracies (one national-rcvolutionarv propagandist interpretedrnthe selling of Herbalife products in Moscow as part ofrnthe “cosmopolitan”-Masonic plot to pollute the precious bodyrnfluids of “Aryan” Russia), but rather its honestv. Rus.sian journalistrnAleksandr Burtin, commenting on the growth of “fascist”rninfluence in Russian trade unions, diagnosed the real dangerrnfor Russia as not so much fascists telling lies, but “fascists tellingrnthe truth.” According to Burtin, the great danger facing thernchaotic mess of postcommunist Russia is that conventionalrnpoliticians, satisfied with their own power and insulated fromrnthe distraught masses, will remain unresponsive to the complaintsrnof workers who haven’t been paid in months, to old peoplernreduced to begging, to ordinar’ Russians appalled bv thernvulgarized Westernization of their country that manifests itselfrnin strip joints, casinos for the “Mafiosi,” and pornography, andrnto patriotic citizens concerned about tlic influence of internationalrnorganizations in formulating Russian policy. Until thernpoliticians address these issues, the field is left open to the onlyrnforce that seems readv, willing, and able to do something. Indeed,rnas national-revolutionary luminary Eduard L,imonov toldrnBurtin, “There is no need to think that this economic reformrnwas foisted on us by Israel or the CIA. It is profitable to thosernwho live here . . . to those same bureaucrats who ruled you [underrnthe Soviet regime]. They know where to steal and what tornsell.” As Burtin so succinctly put it, “True fascism is an alternativernto false democracy.”rnThat such conditions help produce a sense of apathy andrnresignation for some and frustrated impotence amongrnothers, and that violent action, however futile, should appearrnattractive to those so inclined should be no surprise. We, too,rnhave our own extremist groups whose exaggerated conspiratologyrnis a wildly distorted mirror image of similar frustrationsrnexpressed by ordinary people. In fact, it appears that somernmembers of the most extreme fringe organizations in Americarnhave found friends abroad. The New York Times reports thatrnneo-Nazi and skinhead groups in Germany have benefitedrnfrom manuals on building explosive devices obtained fromrntheir American counterparts. In Russia, American authors notrninfrequently share the insights of their racist wisdom with Russianrnneo-Nazis through such publications as the Radical RightrnParty’s journal Ataka (Attack), and the Russian NationalrnUnion’s Shturmovik (Stormtrooper). The People’s NationalistrnMovement publication, Zemshchina (Land of the Boyars), employsrna New “Vbrk-based correspondent, and Russian radicalrnVladimir Marochkin boasts of his personal friendships withrnAmerican and British skinheads and neo-Nazis. If the AmericanrnAryan Nation plans the demise of Z.O.G. (the ZionistrnOccupational Regime), Russian “patriots” rail at V.O.R. (inrnRussian, the Prox’isionai Occupational Regime, whose initialsrnspell the word yor, thief).rnThe end of the Cold War has spawned a host of suchrnmovements, with their curious mixture of conspiratology,rnpseudoreligion, mass movement populism, racial “science,”rnand potential for violence, around the world. In Ukraine, thernLTkrainian National Assembly (UNA) made its first big splashrnon the world stage via a July 1995 clash of its paramilitary “selfdefense”rnunits with police in Kiev. The clash was ostensiblyrnbrought on by the refusal of the authorities to allow the burialrnof the Ukrainian Church’s deceased patriarch at Kiev’s St.rnSofia Cathedral, still ofhcially operated under the auspices ofrnthe Moscow Patriarchate, but UNA leaders made plain theirrntrue intentions in the days following the violence in Kiev. Afterrnuniting all nationalist forces in Ukraine (mission—temporarilyrn—accomplished), the current government, judged arnRussian-sponsored “occupation” regime b the UNA, would berntoppled and a “patriotic” one installed.rnIn the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, American elitesrnwould do well to consider the Russian example and ponder therncost of leaving the truth-telling to extremists. Black racists andrnwhite radicals are right to the extent that they attack the corrosiverneffects of statist and globalist policies. Liberal policiesrnhave contributed to the destruction of the black family. Blacksrnmust tackle the question of constructive self-definition. Globalismrnhas diminished national and state sovereignty. Americarnwas and is more than an ideology. Moreover, beyond ideologyrnand conspiratorial fantasy, the Oklahoma City tragedy mayrnraise some questions long-forgotten by a secularized societyrnspiritually hamstrung by consumerism and self-indulgence:rnJust what is it about human nature that begets cruelty andrnmurder?rnThe Russian national-revolutionaries are right: we don’trnneed conspiracies to explain what is happening to us. Whetherrnthe Oklahoma bombing suspect (and self-styled antigovernmentrnactivist) who has been the willing recipient of generousrnfarm subsidies; black racists who assail their people’s dependencyrnon the state but who nevertheless support “affirmativernaction” programs; Russians who patronize casinos and pornornfilms and complain about the Westernization of their country;rnAmericans who gripe about our economic decline while watchingrntheir Japanese TVs; or lunatics who decide to exterminaterninnocents or blow up their own people to make a politicalrnpoint—whether such people know it or not, the enemy is, andrnalways has been, us.rn^c-rnMARCH 1996/29rnrnrn