Ultra-Right Gaining Ground in Bulgaria

[demoleft]

Source: Deutsche Welle

Right-wing extremists have been making Bulgaria's streets unsafe for months now. The public prosecutor's office has finally intervened and started an investigation into the so-called "national guard."

Bulgaria's right-wing extremists have had plans to build a self-proclaimed national guard for years. Finally, in March 2006, the former head of the right-wing Bulgarian National Alliance (BGNS) Bojan Rassate founded the so-called "protecting troop" as an extended arm of BGNS.

By its own account, the group wants to promote Bulgarian nationalist interests, as well as increase cooperation with nationalists abroad. The ultra-right movement has proclaimed "socialist nationalism" as its political platform and said it wants to create a united front against globalization, NATO and the European Union.
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According to Rassate, his movement has express support from eight European groups, including Germany's National Democratic Party (NPD), the Vlaams Belang from Belgium and Spain's Falangista.



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An Italian singer sang "All sons of b.....s have the same face..." during the '70,s.
(My translation: "Tutti i figli di p. hanno una faccia sola")
I'll have to play that song again, it's not old-fashioned.

They should wash their mouth before pronouncing the word "socialist".

[YOY]

1. They're a bunch of "kucheski zadnitsi"

I get worried when they start anti-Turkish rhetoric. If they start some real shit in smaller villages with high Turkish populations my Bulgaria inlaws living in one could be in danger.

The world would be so much better without right wingers...

[demoleft]

2. I hope they'll stop and uproot this squads immediately. n/t

[Orrin_73]

9. These anti-Turkish attacks are closely followed in

the Turkish media. It does not look good for bulgaria.

[xchrom]

3. oh great.

here it is 2007 -- and what are we all getting -- but nationalism.

one step backward for man -- one giant leap backwards for mankind.

[YOY]

4. It's partially due to a backlash of our own nationalist policies

The wold is becoming tolerant of such asinine movements.

[xchrom]

5. i think it's rather more a case of russia's flirtation with

nationalist parties which has been going on for a while now.

yes it's true we have our own issues -- but russia is right there.

nationalism is like a fast spreading virus

[LeftishBrit]

8. I doubt that it's got much to do with American policies

Unfortunately, there have been far-rightie nationalist groups in Europe for a long time; and they tend to be more of a problem in bad economic times. The problem tends to be worse in Eastern Europe due to greater poverty, and to the fact that Soviet rule repressed local nationalism but did not cure it, so that once the Soviets were gone, the ultra-nationalists crawled out from under their rocks. But it's also a big problem in Western Europe, where by a sad irony Eastern Europaean immigrants are often themselves among the targets. The worst British offenders are the British Nationalist Party, the slightly more superficially respectable descendents of the old National Front.

[tom_paine]

6. Eurpoean BushPutinists with fascist tendencies

You can get away with more nakedly showing straight-up fascist tendencies in Bulgaria, I suppose, than in another, wealthier, Third World country like Amerika, which was so recently free our BushPutinists have to shield what they are quite a bit more.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Seriously worrying

Ultra-righties are DANGEROUS!

[Gravel2008]

11. Except these are not "ultra-righties", they're socialist nationalists.

Just like Josef Stalin for example.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Well, swap the words in that title they've given themselves

and you'll see where they really come from - as this person notes:

"Paramilitary troops ensue from this ground," said well-known Bulgarian journalist Georgi Papakotschev. He said the Nazi paramilitary organization SA, Hitler's private army founded in 1921, served as their role model.

"It is precisely according to this example that they want to create justice and order in an allegedly non-governable state," Papakotschev said. "The (Roma), the Bulgarian Turks, the Jews, but also the Bulgarians themselves should tremble from this new strong hand. That is their perception."

they're also associating with far-right nationalist groups elsewhere in Europe. They are modelled on Hitler, not Stalin.

[JCMach1]

10. Lesson to be take here: if the left doesn't take on the forces of globalization

the FAR RIGHT will...

That's not a pleasant thought.