Back when Yugoslavia was tearing itself apart, at least a few folks made it past the border guards and maybe escaped death or worse by showing NSK passports. If you ever listened to the band Laibach you'll get the joke, that the supposed state of NSK was basically a hoax/art project by the Neue Slovenische Kunst group.
At first, I couldn't help wondering if the National Bolshevik Party wasn't the same sort of thing. They look like a horrible, bizzare, neo-nazi communist hybrid, but that just seems too over-the-top...like a real-life Legion of Doom. And even more suspicious, they seem to give a lot of attention to art, and not just cheezy socialist realism-type art, but funky, modernist, individualistic art.
A lot of it is really good, believe it or not. I wouldn't be so surprised to say that if it weren't for the fact that they really are a modern totalitarian movement in Russia. Their political philosophy is a bunch of vague craziness, and in any well run country, they'd be ignored into oblivion. But Putin's Russia is stomping on them, and so of course they're earning popular sympathy.
At first, I couldn't help wondering if the National Bolshevik Party wasn't the same sort of thing. They look like a horrible, bizzare, neo-nazi communist hybrid, but that just seems too over-the-top...like a real-life Legion of Doom. And even more suspicious, they seem to give a lot of attention to art, and not just cheezy socialist realism-type art, but funky, modernist, individualistic art.
A lot of it is really good, believe it or not. I wouldn't be so surprised to say that if it weren't for the fact that they really are a modern totalitarian movement in Russia. Their political philosophy is a bunch of vague craziness, and in any well run country, they'd be ignored into oblivion. But Putin's Russia is stomping on them, and so of course they're earning popular sympathy.
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