Nearly three years ago, I had to make a decision. Either I would spend the next four years of my life studying Russian or German. Someone told me of the movement that was happening in Russia at the time, and now I'm ecstatic that I chose Germany. Does that make me a coward? Watch.
JMH
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Yes, but is this particularly Russian? I remember, very clearly, two encounters with Neo-Nazis on the Berlin trams. Perhaps the scale of the hatred is larger in Russia (i.e. not being allowed to leave campus), but I think that these sort of movements tend to pop up where ever large-scale immigration occurs in the midst of economic impoverishment. What saddens me is that the footage is videotaped, as if hurting someone is a sort of trophy to be viewed.
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