Antifascist Attitude

Hi guys! I'm glad to present you this film about the antifascist movement in Russia. We were trying to be objective when we were making this film so we interviewed legal and so-called “ illegal ” antifascists but of course we do understand, that “illegal” antifascists do not exist We hope you'll enjoy it! The art group "Children of Bakunin" presents the documentary ANTIFASCIST ATTITUDE (RUSSIA) Timur Kacharava killed by Nazis in Saint-Petersbourg 13 November 2005 Alexander R`uhin killed by Nazis in Moscow 16 April 2006 Ilya "Ugler" Borodaenko killed by Nazis in Angarsk 21 July 2007 Alexey "Kryl" Krylov killed by Nazis in Moscow 16 March 2008 Theodore Theo Filatow killed by Nazis in Moscow 10 October 2008 This film is in memory of our friends who were killed by Nazis Nothing is forgotten, nobody is forgiven... There is no official government statistic. The government does not count the number of crimes, but the number of verdicts only when a person has been sentenced because of a national hate crime this crime will go into the statistic but the full scale of this statistic is not being published We count the number of cases where *** has been committed because of hate no matter whether a case goes to court or not. This year we counted already 60 people who were killed this is a lot because last year we had about 80 and now September has just started It is a pity, but there is an increase. Experts are talking about 60,000 boneheads this number is very inaccurate It is not clear who should be considered to be a fascist because there are people who wear special clothes and there are people who do not wear such clothes, but they are killers they are not caught by anyone and they continue to work in the army in the police department or in the presidential administration. We counted the number of people who are going to rallies of different radical right-wing parties and we counted close to 10,000 people in the entire country The only number we have is the number of people who were harmed or attacked by Neo-Nazis in the streets I think that there are close to 20,000 active Neo-Nazis in Russia but the number of sympathizers can not be counted. These numbers are far away from reality because the majority of victims do not go to the police, the largest part of the crime is unknown Not known to journalists or anybody else. The attacks have become crueller, and weapons are used more often. They use bombs. Very rarely - guns. 5 years ago they were teenagers but now these guys are older, and they are able to do more. Action in memory of Aleksei Krylov. 19 of march 2008. Moscow On the banner: "Fascism will not succeed!" on the wall: "In eternal memory of Aleksei Krylov who was killed here by Nazis. We remember!" In 1996-1997 fascism had overtaken the entire football hooligans scene It was really dangerous, because a lot of young people were into football. And at that time almost 100% of football hooligans were fascists. It was TERRIBLE! I have been taking part in the antifascist movement for more than 10 years I and my friends started to publish an antifascist magazine Our position was clearly against fascism. We are all different, but we are all together against fascism! there were anarchists, just left wing people and different liberals. In 1999 there was a first antifascist crew. they called themselves RASH, later SHARP and then disappeared. There were several bold punks from the eco-anarchist movement Rainbow Keepers and they really bashed the boneheads. But they did not last very long, because in Moscow there were close to 6000 boneheads and they were only 11. We were the first who took part in an antifascist actions in St. Petersburg. This first crew came to an end in 2000 and in 2000 the web-site www.redskins.newmail.ru appeared We made stickers, graffiti, music... The next major step was in 2002 when the number of boneheads went down to about 3000. When the number of our people went up to 15, it was more interesting, because we could actually bash some Nazis. While 50-100 boneheads were after us. From spring of 2003 to spring of 2004 almost nothing happened. And from 2004 anti-fascism became a mass movement. St. Petersburg. 2005 Stencils: "Against Nazis!", "Stop Fascism!", "Unity of races" Band "What We Feel". Moscow Singing: "Together, against fascism!" Yes, I'm an antifascist. Oh yeah! I'm an antifascist. Yes. We are an antifascist band. We are antifascists. We are bashing boneheads, we are singing about how to bash the fascists. I don't use such terminology. I'm an antifascist. I don't care. I'm not an antifascist. I'm a rude man. Yes. I'm an antifascist. In some respect I'm an antifascist. Yes. I think that I'm an antifascist. In fact I am an antifascist. But I never say: "I'm an antifascist!" This is ***. I have more important names for myself. I think, that every normal human being, even without political views must be antifascist by nature. Because this is the position of common people. a flat of antifascists. Anti-fascism makes a lot of sense. It is a very current issue now. I will always support anti-fascism because we need it now in our society. This is a problem and as a man with some brain I'm trying to be helpful. For me anti-fascism is taking some actions against fascism. There can be different actions and everybody can choose which actions are right for them. We can understand anti-fascism in different words. We can understand it as a fight in the streets or wars over the internet. or battles in books. When old people sit down and talk about fascism/anti-fascism. All those things we can call: "anti-fascism". They are different and they all have pros and cons. To say "NO" to fascism. That one nation is better than another. That one group is better than another. Anti-fascism - is an open resistance to this ideology. Not to have a friendship with Nazis. Talk with your friends about it. For me anti-fascism - is a resistance against power and capital. Resistance against boneheads in the streets, who make a lot of ***. Anti-fascism for me - is resistance to all kind of discrimination. Bashing boneheads. Singing about how bad fascism is. Agitate. Put stickers in the metro. Cross "swastikas" in the streets. I think that anti-fascism - is a common, normal idea of humans with brain. Anti-fascism for me is the struggle against all discrimination. Against discrimination of different small groups: national minorities, or old people, or students... homosexuals, lesbians, black people, immigrants, poor people, homeless people... For me personally, anti-fascism is the resistance in the streets at first. Not music, fashion or subculture. It is when you know how to respond to a bashed face. Anti-fascism for me is fighting against xenophobia and racism. I think all people are equal, and we should judge'em from their actions, not from their appearance. Anti-fascism is the thing that unites us all today. Each person understands it differently. For somebody it is one thing, for somebody else it is another thing. It is possible to look at it differently, that is normal. I value that very much. You have your point of view, I have mine but we have one thing which unites us: this is punk rock, hardcore, the ska scene or whatever you call it. Here is a place for skinheads, punks, hardcore kids. Here is a place for everybody, but not for the people with racial and national prejudices. It is PRIDE. Anti-fascism is when fascists know that their faces could be bashed, when they go out. They can lose their life. And they know, that they risk their life. This is anti-fascism. And when it becomes a trend, fashion it is no longer anti-fascism. It is just a fashion thing. I'm an anarchist. I think that anti-fascism is political point of view Every person who is fighting against fascism has its own view on how society should look like without fascism. You understand what can be done, you have the time and abilities for it and you want to do it. And it is worth doing. Action in memory of Alexey Krylov. 25 of March 2008, Saint-Petersbourg Graffiti: "against Nazis" It is clear that both fascist and antifascist movements are rising. The problem of ideology and development of the country is being solved not among authorities. In official politics all political forces went away from reality. They just are distributing money, high posts and privileges among themselves. Now the direction of development of our country is defined in the streets. I think that there are two different problems in Russia The first is boneheands, the second is some kind of common xenofobia. Boneheads appeared because of that xenofobia. The biggest problem is nationalism and racism in everyday life. Children see and imitate it, so it begins from the childhood. There are bad people, both russian and not russian people. But at first Russia is a multinational country. And fascists who say that they are patriots, they are just people who don't value their culture, don't know anything about thier history they are not talented, illeterate, The don't study, just drink beer in the street. A person who prefers a fascist ideology loses his human face and becomes part of a system. He gives his whole personality to the Fuehrer who was chosen or just called himself a Fuehrer. I talked with such people. I know such a person. I told him directly that he is an idiot. Dude, do you use your brains? He really has no brains. These people should be cut. There are lots of such people among boneheads. Sutuation is very bad. There are too mush nationalistic moods. which appear out of ***. People are taught from the childhood to think that if a person is from Caucasus, he`s a ***. I don`t agree with it. Of course there are lots of *** among them. But there are lot of normal people among them. People are just people. There`s no *** difference where you are from, Udmurtia or Canada. Bonehead hold the sitiation when foreigners come to Moscow for attack from Mars and determination of citizens of Earth. That`s why they behave that cruel. They are ready to kill, to blow people up and to go to prison for their actions. I'm really worried because of the growing fascist influence. Because this grow is not coming from common citizens. This trend is actively supported by the government Government chose the slogans of patriotism. Patriotism is now the official state ideology. The word "Empire" is almost an official word now. Consequently, every call for Empire and State from the authorities Finds broad support in the streets through the violent direct actions. We have a fascist political situation in Russia. Quasi-patriotic education is carried on A new generation of boneheads grows up and starts to kill people in the streets. Boneheads don't care if non-russians commit 95% or 3% of all crimes. I think that our law has very faulty formulation We have so amorphous law, that even honest prosecutors and investigators can't use it cause they just don't understand the formulations. There is a very strong tendency to misuse the law. Alexander Ryukhin was an activist of the antifascist movement, but he didn't take part in militant actions. He just openly declared his views. He went to the rock show with his friend Egor. He had antifascist badges on his clothes. Fascist guys noticed these badges and attacked. They beated him badly. Egor was able to run away and Alexander was just ritually killed, stabbed in the heart. It was obviously a ***. But the police took a pro-fascist position. And the *** case was renamed into the case of hooliganism. all ideological sides were removed from the case. Ryukhin's case also shows, that it's a myth that nazis fight only against non-Russians. They attack people who are trying to resist the mainstream wave of efforts to create a patriotic and nationalist society. There are liberal antifascists "Sova", they are public antifascists. They give a lot of interviews, particularly about antifascist activity. They say that they are worried about the radical youth in anti-fascism because young people get the expirience of disrespecting the law. And this is the main thing that person gets from his antifascist activity. I think it is very anarchist and good. It became widespreaded in Moscow and other Russian cities There are hundreds of people. They learn to resist without a leader. A flat of an antifascist In 2003 a big mob of fascists appeared There were 40 people. They met in the centre of the city dressed in bonehead style. They handed out their newspapers they forced people to take the newspaper and told them: "If I don't see you in a moment reading this newspaper i'll catch you and beat your face up". Now, such *** doesn't happen any longer. Some time ago I was a punk with mohawk, I went to a rock show and saw Neo-Nazis hanging out nearby I saw that young punks felt the power of neo-nazis and tried to get closer to them. And slowly they began to accept their ideas. What can I say about Irkutsk? We have a number of nationalist parties that are widespread all over Russia. We have boneheads too, but few. Like everywhere, they are football hooligans. By some moment fascists didn't exist. A lot of music bands ended their existence when they understoond, that they could not change the situation through music. They tried to use direct action instead. Last year we thought that we had defeated fascism in Irkutsk We decided to play gigs and make art projects again. But then a big tragedy happened in Angarsk After this tragedy the governor said that there were no fascists in the Irkutsk region and it was just the attack of local rednecks. But only two days after the governor admitted that there were about 60 fascist in the area and that they were keeping eye on them. But if they were really keeping eye on fascists then they must have known about the attack on the eco camp. It comes out, that the people from government perfectly knew about this attack. It was just profitable for them to keep silence. Chant: "No fascism anywhere! From streets to the governments!" Chant: "Peace to people! War to the authorities!" Fascism exists in St.Petersburg. It exists in the streets and in the government as well. Fascism in everyday life is widespread. But if we talk about boneheads, their number rapidly decreased, compared to the last three years. But a lot of boneheads became football hooligans. The situation with fascism has slighty changed. Can't say it's got better or worse. It's just changed. Now we haven't that many fascists groups, but they became more radical. They use weapons more often. They kill people more often. Besides, some new right-wing political paries appeared, which can have a real future in my opinion. Nazis have a lot of people cause it's in fashion to be a nazi. But there are not that many really dangerous nazis. And these are mostly kids. They become more and more radical And move from actions in the style of football hooligans to the individual terror. They are searching for anti-fascist activists and trying to kill them, to scare all other activists.. The last loud reminder of fascists happened near a year ego. They attacked two Indian men, and one of them later died. Near that time, they attacked an activist of "Food Not Bombs", a pacifist one. They are afraid to attack skinheads or hooligans. They are often afraid to attack punks, too. They usually attack only pacifists. Our organized antifascist movement exists in St.Petersburg for near three years. And we are very young in comparsion to Europe or Moscow. And we are growing. Slow, but growing. Ant this is a positive thing! "BRIGADIR" Band. St.Petersburg We rarely assemble more than 30 persons for militant-antifascist action. After a gig we can get out near 150 people in the streets. But it's not the index of the antifascist movement. If anything, apolitical people will stand for us. They will fight boneheads and not run away. I mean mods, traditional skinheads... They always support us and say that fascism is wrong. Skinheads, SHARPS and antifa hooligans don't take punks to the direct actions. Because they don't trust them. In St.Petersburg activists of antifascist movement are mostly skinheads and football hooligans. We have a lot of antifascist punks, but they are not so militant. Punks support antifascist movement, but they are not ready to fight every moment. It's very hard to get them mobilized. It's hard to be a girl in the antifascist movement. Though lot of people say: "I'm not a sexist!", sexism exists. We have sexism in the antifascist movement and in the fascist movement. It's cool, when bonehead is sexist. Because you can hit him, but he can't fight back. But sexism in the antifascist scene is very unpleasant. When you ready to fight some antifascist tells you: "Take my clothes. After fighting i will take my clothes from you." I don't know a lot of girls in antifascist or fascist movement who really understand the problem and are ready for struggle. "Antifa Hooligans Moscow" present... 11.06.2006 Moscow. Kuz'minki District. Moscow is a city with lots of fascists and boneheads, and the situation is very bad. The audience of fascists are young people, without education, without culture. They just make toubles. They say: "We are fascists, we beat caucasian people". But in reality they kill young russian people, russian students because they people are antifascists. And it`s terrible. If bonehead isn`t a liar, than every bonehead murdered several people. And if a bonehead suddenly becomes clever and says: "That`s enough, I was wrong and I won`t do it any more" "I will give maybe 5000 ruble to the Holocaust foundation." And then it`s not clear for me, could these murders be forgiven or not. A very difficult question. "Change The World Without Taking Power" Band, Moscow We have a lot of football clubs, that`s why we have a lot of football hooligans. Just all football hooligans are right-wing hooligans So, except boneheads there are a lot of right-wing hooligans in Moscow. They call themselves apolitical, but they give names to caucasian or black people They don`t like antifa movement they won't refuse to "sieg heil" on the football match or in the street, and can beat someone`s face up. "What We Feel" Band There are a lot of fascists. Several times we were almost beaten up because we wore antifascist symbols on our clothes. For example, german badge "Antifaschistiche Aktion" attracts attention of boneheads and causes problems. At the end of 90s there were thousands of boneheads in Moscow but only about 5 groups of them were into killing people. And now we have several hundreds of boneheads in Moscow But all of theym want to live on Earth with 1000 of ideal white men and 1000 of ideal white women. Because of the fact they are so brainless, they are very marginalised They are marginals in comparsion to the great numbers of xenophobes in Moscow. I think situation gets better for us. There were more fascists before, boneheads, right-wing football hooligans. And now they slowly give up their positions. There is no such antifa activist in Moscow, whom you can bring to Petrovka street, to Lubyanka and torture there in order to give away all the possible information. if I will be brought there, or someone else, maybe it would be possible to get some information from me, But antifa won`t stop because of it. Nobody from us will tell everything. By the way, if there is such situation, the information will be immediately spread among this net of people which was able to gather a lot of people on the well-known action near Kropotkinskaya metro station. I think that problem of boneheads in Moscow is the problem of several hundreds of people Who need either to get clever very fast, or must lay under the ground or must sit in wheelchairs, or must get in prison with 15 years terms or above Song: "Bash the fascists without compromise!" We gather all the information about attacks, commited on the hate ground committed in situation, when victim is being chosen because he is another ethnic, racial or in reason of religion in biggest part such attacks are committed by neo-nazist groups Every time there must be a percent of people in society who do care, and who do something If this percent exists, it`s possible to live. If it becomes less, society falls down to pogroms Our centre exists from the end of 2002 and deal with difeerent aspects of nationalism and ksenophobia in society very different. It concerns not only crimes and not only actions of radical groups but the way how nationalistic ideas exist in political establishment how ksenofobia shows itself in mass-media. We have different research projects about it. "Youth Human Rights Movment" - it's a big web of youth human rights workers It was created 10 years ego to grow a new generation of human rights workers, because all other human rights people are from Soviet Union system We have a big subject matter about antifascism, it is enlightenmental there are a lot of films, devoted to this theme, to show it to young people it`s memory dates, which we spend every year. Crystal Night in November when we try to remind people about this event and to make actions in different cities, devoted to one date. It`s 8 of May, International Day of Victory We try to make a distance with holiday in Russia because in Russia everything boils down to contemporary army, 9 May, how army is powerful and so on It` s a date, when we try to make enlightenmental actions it`s a support of different parts of antifascist activity: music against fascism, we have a lot of music from different countries, and we spread it among young people There is a new site, where we collect video, audio, stickers and information about actions against fascism For what do we collect this information? To bring it to public To let public hear another point of view, not only things which prosecutor's office says and we give that information to prosecutor's office too, because there are different people there When their conscience wakes up, or when their bosses tell they begin to do something. In this situation they are interested in information, what can they do. It`s a pity, but contact with police is very difficult My profession lets me use it`s possibilities to create front of rights that blocks up the way to fascist influence Firstly to show them, that their actions are not unpunished and fascist agression can be stopped with legal methods And secondly to output fascist crimes as separate crimes not as a kind of hooliganism, like government says now. people really don`t like this idea of tolerance because this is an intrusion of some scheme If we say that all people from Tadjikistan are good, all Armenian people are good we play for ksenophobs, because it question means that Tadjik people can be bad. When one antifascist had a bomb which was put near his flat and door was knocked out by explosion, and police suffered from that bomb too And secret police took his computer away. We helped him to return it, wrote a complaint. Question "what to do?" splits up in two parts. Cause there are people, who stood on the way of crimes and if they already did it, it`s too late to do something Only police can stop them. It`s normal for activist to share information with the police though it's not anarchist at all. So it`s better to do it not in straight way. But you have to understand that cops are our big enemies as well, speaking in broader terms. today they are chasing boneheads, tomorrow they'll be chasing you. The best way is to find a very good lawyer, cause it`s his profession to deal with the police. So you don`t need to contact police, you contact only the lawyer. Or it can be human rights activists, In some situations - some journalists and media. If you give information to the police, you need a mediator between you and police. Otherwise it can be dangerous for you. There was a big campaign in favour of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the WWII Moscow Battle We used this topic to make people think, that not only russians defeated fascism and there very many different nationalities involved in the struggle. And the most important thing is that fascist ideology was defeated. There are social forms of activity It`s important, because common citizen should see another point of view What kind of actions it can be? Every kind. It depends on your imagination. People are going to make a magazine called "Antifascism" Not about anarchy, but about antifascism only. People are obsessed with the idea of making of the antifascist zine, but i think it's just *** To make a zine to struggle against boneheads - and i'll tell you why. because boneheads are not worth the effort, to waste time on zine. And we don`t need a zine to struggle against xenophobia. Here`s a sticker with the hot phone line number for foreign students who come to Russia and face problems because fascism is not only in the streets, it`s in the government, in the police. We consult them how to behave, what police can do to them according to the law because police likes to misuse the fact that the foreign students dont know the russian law and language to get money from them. And here's a poster It`s a historical poster. Samed goes to death to save *** *** sacrifices himself for Samed`s life. Their password is "Motherland", their slogan is "Victory". I act in frames of social movement. I mean actions which took part in last half of year, after Krylov`s *** when a lot of people entered the antifascist movement Action in the memory of Alexey Krylov. 19 of March 2008, Moscow Chanting: "Fascism - NO PASARAN!" I use legal and half-legal methods. It depends on what to consider legal. Even if drawing on the walls is illegal i accept it and did it in the past. What do i do? I've made attempts to write Because I think that we need to fight one ideas with another ideas. It`s an attempt to spread my views by working with children It`s better to explain things to children in the school, than to beat up 30 yeas old boneheads, who won't ever change. There`s no need in social movenent against boneheads though things like that big demonstration after Krylov's *** are very important. I accept all methods of fighting against fascism And I mostly use motivated suggestion, supported by logic and facts. We make leaflets and sometimes we use physical force as well for the most rearded persons, because they don`t hear words. I just beat up people, who's behavior is wrong. and I got myself beaten up too. "Moscow Trojan Skinheads" appeared suddenly. For most people it`s just three letters. But it`s a community of friends, it`s bigger than just a word. "Moscow trojan Skinheads" are for friends. Friends, to whom is important at first - skinhead subculture and it`s antiracist and multicultural roots. This is what we keep in our hearts. And we accept all our friends: punks, crust kids, hardcore kids. We are glad to see them all. No matter what political views they have. The main thing is that we are together. We remember everybody who helped us to manage to get what we have now. When we are alone, we are weak, and we can loose everything we have. Only together, all united, we can keep what we have got. You shouldnt break the law. if a person considers that the situation is desperate, and breaks the law he is free to do it. And there are situations when social antifascist activists, or people who attract attention of fascists, should defend themselves. They should protect the rock concert or rally and so on. It`s a pity, but it`s impossible always to rely on police. So there you must try not to cross the line. I have a very difficult attitude to militant antifascists who try to improve the situation in the streets and use direct action for it. I understand defence, but I don`t accept attack. But I helped people who had legal problems because of their direct actions. I don`t think that militant antifascism is unacceptable. I don`t encourage it, I never call to violence I think that violence is wrong way, because violence breeds violence and leads to deadlock. Because people who use violence isolate themselves from the society because the biggest part of society will never understand and accept violence. And will think, that it`s not important, for what idea is violence being used It`s bad, and it`s enough. And I think in this way too, in general. But I understand, that there are situations, when there is no other way. And we need to fight violence with violence. In frames of the state there is police, who fights against violence But our police.... I don`t know, what they are really fighting... They fight to fill their pockets with money and don`t care about violence. That`s why in society appears such movement which takes functions of police on itself. I can`t judje that people, and I will always encourage them But i won`t call others to do it. I never liked violence. But when I began to take part in it I took it as necessity. Now I don`t take it this way Many people who do it just are into fighting and they don`t care, who to fight. They just like to beat somebody up, and they go to antifascism. Pretty few people do it because of their ideas. And I understood that it`s hard to explain something to person who has settled opinions by beating him up one time or more. We need to explain more with words I`m a girl, I`m weak, I can`t use violence But I think that we must use violence against fascists We need also to create music bands, make the problems public. We need to sing about it, to go to mettings, to actions need to make leaflets, different films, tv programs to show people that fascism has no right to exist . Maybe historical films, that show that not only russians struggled against fascism at war there were chechens, dagestans, ukranians, belorussians - everyone Everyone struggled against fascism. And fascism is bad. I accept all actions against fascism, and I use methods, which are possible on this moment I try to use all kinds of actions. I use propaganda now, I try to explain things to a person with words We accept all kinds of actions: propaganda, leaflets, newspapers To beat fascist up, to cut, and if they knock you down, you may kill All methods, which help in our struggle. This is violence Physical confrontation to boneheads. To stand in their way, when they march in the streets of Irkutsk. And if I see fascist in metro or in bus, I naturally won`t pass by Liberal antifascism won`t lead to anything good. And antifascism can`t be apolitical because of it`s definition I accept all methods of struggle against fascism, every kind of activity. Everyone may help, as he can. By agitation, ideas... But I use method of direct action. Me and my friends don`t accept fascists among us. We are always ready for direct confrontation. Radical methods. To beat their heads up. Force action of antifascists. Moscow. Violence is a classical method. but everyday life antifascism is useful too. Chatting in the kitchen and so on I try to open eyes of common people, that "hach" is not every person from Caucasus "hach" - is low life man from Caucasus. Communication, communication and communication. I search for and put photos of boneheads in the internet. I search for information about them. Sometimes i take part in street antifascist actions. I`m sure that I carry knife in my pocket not just so. We need to cut fascists. To cut them silently, from behind the corner suddenly, and not with the crowd, like they do. Just to come up to fascist and to stick knife in his heart I think that such people must not exist. I took part in mob, sometimes we attacked right-wing people Sometimes we attacked not right-wing people, because we took them for right-wing people it`s impornant, because you must not beat a person up, if you are not sure, is he nazi or not It`s better not to beat up, than to beat up person, who is not guilty. Till some time the method was art, it was good when fascists just walked in their yards and it wasn`t dangerous. We could resist with songs, books, with art We were able to resist wirh art. But when resistance in the streets started Punks began to complain: "Fascists beat us up!" "Guys, you are anarchists, try to do something!" We met all together and realized, that another ways of action are wrong because every beaten face - it`s one fascist less Three beaten faces - it`s one small fascist group less 20 beaten faces, a big attack - is a big defeat for fascists of every city because of such defeats they begin to think, and they don`t put on fascist symbolic, like in Irkutsk now I never had an opportunity to use violence, because of my physical build We use all methods: sticks, reinforcement, knives, guns arms, legs, broken bottles... There are usually 18-20 fascists in their groups Usually not more. But after shows, like beer festival, or big rock-shows you can meet 40 fascists, but such groups consist of children they are 14-16 years old, totally brainwashed we try not to touch such guys, just take their symbolic off and we clip on the back of their heads, and tell them not to play pranks otherwise our next meeting can be worse for them Fight is fast thing. For me. One-two-three... And a person is on the ground. Antifascists catched bonehead in the metro. Will you "sieg heil" for us, baby? It's not acceptable to kill anybody, not just out of pity for them *** is the thing without term of limitation, and police can put you into trial after 5 years or more We can use all kinds of actions, because fascist *** use all ways but there`s no need to kill people. I don`t want myself and my friends to be like these ***, who killed near 500 people in several years Not only antifascists, but in general. We need to mutilate them too, if they mutilate someone If they won`t mutilate, we won`t mutilate them We need to counter-act to their actions, because just sitting and chatting in Internet is *** I call myself anarcho-skinhead, i`m an anarchist and skinhead too and I know, what is my culture. Boneheads call themselves skinheads They are wrong. I will go on protecting my scene I don`t want my scene and music styles to be associated with fascism, racism and xenophobia. It`s our culture, and we won`t give it away. Antifascist banner against the legal nazi demonstration. When we gather information and give it to the people interested and when we publish any juridical explanations about different situations, all of that helps in general. We are, or were an alternative to violence, i think it`s so and it`s good Situation, when dialogue between antifascists and governmemt became substantial when new governmental programs began to appear, and laws began to change not only in the best way, but we can do nothing with it. All of that is the result of activity of such groups like ours. If we write about it, if we inform people about it, maybe there will be more people who will take a leaflet off the wall, who intercede for beaten tadjik in metro who won`t stay silent, when somebody will insult person in front of him because of nationality, and so on. it`s not big results, but it`s important Cases, that reached their end, like Ryukhin`s case, shows us very clearly that there are no nationalist reasons. People just try to spill out their social dissatisfaction on the side of national dischord. That there are no religious reasons. It`s known that Ryukhin was russian and orthodox christian as well and he observed all religious ceremonies. For fascists is especially improratant the situation of war, confrontation. It`s their inhumane principles, in which they try to put us by force. Murders of people, *** of Sasha Ryukhin who was going to the rock-show... We built good juridical support in this case Found lawyers. As a result, fascists who attacked got serious sentences. We were satisfacted with terms of punishment but not with articles of law. *** is not hooliganism. It`s a pity, but some of people who committed that crime, are now on the run People get accustomed to the people presenting other cultures And police began to watch nazis more and the fashion on fascism is faded away and in lots of aspects actions of antifascicsts influenced the situation. They influenced in different ways. They made some people think, that it`s a funny game - to catch boneheads and beat them up. Some time ago you could find a bonehead almost in every yard and now there are only several fascist groups in the whole city. When i started my resistance, it was so, that when you went home you were sure, that you would meet 2-3 boneheads to have a good evening. People start thinking before "sieg heil"-ing. They know they can be beaten up for it Some time before boneheads owned Moscow. They came to every rock show, felt themselves perfect there could "sieg heil", drink, fight and beat everybody up. And now they are afraid to go to hardcore shows, to punk phows to some ska-shows, because almost all ska-scene in Russia is right wing. Boneheads soiled themselves a little. Soiled themselves. Song: "Good night, white pride!" We don`t have influence on big politics. We have influence in the streets our opinion is taken into consideration, and boneheads are not so unpunished, like before. They have to create groups of self-defense against us And even everything remains the way it goes, we still make problems to fascists and they don`t feel themselves owners of Saint-Petersburg anymore. Antifa movenment raised up a lot of young people, who have an experience of confrontation with the state Some of them have a mess in the head, they want to fight some of them will be with antifa a couple of years, and then become common people again. and somebody stays, and goes on to other good subjects. We find fascists groups by our contacts They are afraid to go to the center of Irkutsk Skaters, rappers and just common people call us and say: "A group of boneheads passed us by" "There are 10 people". And we gather our guys and beat boneheads up. This topic spreaded all over different regions of Russia and there are lot of people who do something in many cities. I`d like to think, that all that I do, has a result The number of boneheads in the streets became smaller and if there is a part of our service, i`ll be happy. Chant: "Go to street, resist fascists!" I think that my actions influenced the situation directly fascists stopped to feel themselves in the streets with confidence they can`t wear openly their symbolics they have to make secret or half-secret shows It doesn`t let them to attract new people to their movement Young guys, who could join them understand, that it`s dangerous For example, i have a sister, who communicated with fascists for near 2 years. I washed her brain, I turned on antifascist music to her, i showed her films and programs about antifascism And now she enters our movement, antifascist movement Situation in Irkutsk changed to the better. But this summer we had an attack on ecological camp where our friend was killed. But i think that situation is better, than in the mid 90-s, when fascists attacked markets where chinese people worked. There`s no such events now. Fascists sit in their corners, and don`t appear in the street Only rare graffities, very rough. And they are marginals, they don`t have influence in our city politics Several years ago we were sitting in the internet and said that we were poor and unhappy, and angry fascists beated us up. and now our movement rose so much, and a lot of new people came who fight on the streets. Now fascist *** sit in internet, and got their *** freezed and they are afraid to go in the street. On action in memory of Krylov there were a lot of people whom i saw for the first time. obviously, there were a lot of people, who came to beat somebody up. it was written on their faces Chant: "Fascists kill, government covers" One year ago a show, a walk with friends, an action - all of that could finish very bad Danger was too big, and price was too high. And now we achieved a lot. Nazists are afraid to go to our shows they feel a danger, and we feel ourselves owners of our city. Nazists didn`t disappear, but they feel a border that we are here, and they are there, and if they come, we`ll beat them up. There were a lot of chances before to get unserious traumas now there are few chances, but traumas became more serious. Image of cool bonehead stopped to exist because of Antifa Street fights have a lot of results. Nazis are afraid to go in the streets. Antifa created cool and useful subculture for the libertarian movement antifascists are stronger than boneheads in all aspects and it made bonehead activity and their number smaller. They know, that if they put on their symbolics, they won`t reach the place where they go they will have their face beaten up in this metro They know it very well. I think, it`s small, but it`s VICTORY. it becomes harder and harder to find a fascist and they rarely exist like organized groups or like serious organized groups. They afraid to attack us, and when we can attack them their number is much bigger than ours, for example at "Russian march" and now such actions began to be protected by police. Confrontation is rare now. They began to hide, not to dress in bonehead style. But their number is not smaller Struggle became more intense, they use more cruel methods from both sides people are being cut, and murders happen. Our movement is growing and things become better i hope it won`t be like wave: fascist wave for several years, then our... We are growing up, our scene grows. And just common people know what is "Antifa" 5 years ago they couldn`t answer such question. Boneheads are watching their backs, they realized that there is a force, which resists them. We made a living legend of it. Boneheads are afraid of it and tell different fairy-tales. You, we, all of us, all the family. Moscow antifascist coalition, we did a great thing. We achieved that we are now the owners of our city. Boneheads are just scared. Thank you for watching this film! I hope you liked it and it made you think. Thanks to everybody who took part in making of this film Thanks to all who fights in the streets and cleans our cities from fascists. Thanks to all who provides juridical help. Thanks to all artists and muscicians, who speak up about antifascism in their works. You did well!