Founded | Autumn 2010 |
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Founding location | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Years active | 2010–present |
Territory | Russia, Ukraine |
Ethnicity | Ukrainians (core), Russians, Jews and Caucasians [1] |
Activities | Assaults, battery, arsons, vandalism |
Block FACT ( 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.
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]
Block FACT claimed responsibility for the beating of St. Petersburg Stalinist historian Igor Pykhalov , [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]
Founded | Autumn 2010 |
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Founding location | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Years active | 2010–present |
Territory | Russia, Ukraine |
Ethnicity | Ukrainians (core), Russians, Jews and Caucasians [1] |
Activities | Assaults, battery, arsons, vandalism |
Block FACT ( 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.
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]
Block FACT claimed responsibility for the beating of St. Petersburg Stalinist historian Igor Pykhalov , [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]