Nashi (Russian: Наши, meaning "Ours") was a political movement initiated by well-known Russian journalistAlexander Nevzorov. The movement has been described as "statist-chauvinist".[1] TheNashi youth movement in Russia is not related to Nevzorov's movement.
With Russia experiencing political and economic crisis amid thedissolution of the Soviet Union in November 1991, Nevzorov established the People's Liberation Movement "Nashi", which he defined as "a united front of resistance to the anti-national politics of the current administration of Russia and other Union Republics of the former USSR". Its badge contained the contour of the USSR with the words "НАШИ" (Ours) within.[2] One of the prominent participants in the movement wasViktor Alksnis. The organisation was based inLeningrad (laterSaint Petersburg), where Nevzorov hosted the scandaloustelevision broadcast600 Seconds. Nashi militants maintained a presence on Leningrad's streets. The movement called for a restoration of the Soviet Union and opposed what they saw as Russia's enemies in the West and their collaborators in Russia. Its positions were similar toZhirinovsky'sLiberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union and the more "right-wing" groups of theNational Salvation Front. The members of Nashi were sometimes callednashists, a pun based on similarity with the word "fascists". In 2015, during an interview withEcho of Moscow, Nevzorov acknowledged that he was indeed a fascist during the early 1990s when he founded Nashi but was not since then due to his disillusionment with theFirst Chechen War which he initially supported when it started in 1994, as the war and body count dragged on, he rejected the fascist mentality that led him to promote it. In Nevzorov's own words "I experimented with fascism in the laboratory, soft forms. I don't have to spend my whole life following ideas whose delusion has become obvious to me".[3]
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