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Block FACT (‹See Tfd›Russian: Блок «Фаланга антикоммунистического тарана», lit. ‘Block “Phalanx of Anti-Communist Ram”‘) is part of a Russian far-right group, operating in St. Petersburg and established in the autumn of 2010.

Block FACT
FoundedAutumn 2010
Founding locationSaint Petersburg, Russia
Years active2010–present
TerritoryRussia, Ukraine
EthnicityUkrainians (core), Russians, Jews and Caucasians[1]
ActivitiesAssaults, battery, arsons, vandalism

Publicity

The public statements from Block FACT often represent hard anti-communism. The organization’s criteria for labeling a group as communist are quite broad. For example, the regimes of Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and even the Kingdom of Bahrain were labeled as “communist” by Block FACT.[2]

Activities

Block FACT claimed responsibility for the beating of St. Petersburg Stalinist historian Igor Pykhalov [ru],[3] setting fire to a Communist Party car (September 2011),[4] and assaulting magistrate Alexei Kuznetsov (April 2013).[5] Block FACT claimed responsibility for beating Communist Party secretary Alexey Rusakov (August 2012),[6] burning a Communist Party car (February 2012),[7] desecrating and destroying a series of Soviet memorials (plaques of Lenin, Uritsky, Romanov, Trefolev and Voytik), and attacking several activists of Communist organizations.[1]

Some commentators characterized the actions of Block FACT as a relaxed variant of European neo-fascist terrorism of the 1970s.[8] It is assumed that the activists of Block FACT attacked a former Duma deputy, Viktor Tyulkin. The leader of the St. Petersburg communist organizations, Tyulkin, was beaten on 4 October 2013, after a communist demonstration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the events of October 1993. One of the attackers congratulated Tyulkin with “happy holidays”.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Godovikov, Nikolay (22 April 2013). “Питерские бандеровцы против судьи Кузнецова” [St. Petersburg Banderovtsy against Judge Kuznetsov]. Nasha Versiya na Neve. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  2. ^ Призраку коммунизма опять накостыляли Archived 2013-06-26 at archive.today
  3. ^ “В нападении на историка Игоря Пыхалова призналась организация «Блок Факт»”. Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2010. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  4. ^ Сегодня ночью подожгли автомобиль городского комитета КПРФ, burning down the official St. Petersburg`s branch site of the Russian Federation Communist Party, 11.09.2011
  5. ^ Самосуд над судьей Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Novaya gazeta, 14.04.2013
  6. ^ О нападении на секретаря ленинградского обкома РКРП-КПСС Алексея Русакова, Krasnoye TV, 09.08.2012
  7. ^ Коммунистов не запугать, the official site of St. Petersburg`s branch of the Russian Federation Communist Party, 09.02.2012
  8. ^ Кулак белой ленты Archived 2013-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, Website of the Perm Civic Chamber, июнь 2013
  9. ^ На лидера партии «Рот Фронт» мог напасть «Блок ФАКТ», Без формата.RU, 07.10.2013

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