The succession of events in Ukraine prompted the Moscow leader, Vladimir Putin, to use the word in describing the
new Kyiv regime that was installed after the EuroMaidan Revolution ousted President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 22. Putin annexed Crimea, a peninsula that was in the danger of falling under the influence of
the Kyiv “fascist” regime.
But then why is Moscow closely cooperating with all major extremist
political factions, especially the right-wing ones in Europe?
All European right-wing
extremist leaders were invited to the March 16 Crimea referendum and their political
platforms advocate redefining Europe’s borders, as well as setting up small
states on the old continent.
Most of them unanimously call on NATO’s
dissolution and generally oppose the United States.
Therefore, on March 16, the fascists’ representatives from all over Europe met in the respective peninsula to
learn about organizing such plebiscites.
The Eurasian Observer for Democracy
and Election, a right-wing nongovernmental organiation seated in Moscow, hosted that event.
This NGO
also monitored the recent referendums for many separatist regions, such as
Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria.
Among the European “fascists” there
were members of The Freedom Party of Austria belonging to the deceased
Jorg Haider, The North League of Italy, Vlaams Belang of Belgium, Ataka of
Bulgaria, The National Front of France, leaded by Marie Le Pen, Jobbik of
Hungary, Dveri, the ultraconservative movement of Serbia and Plataforma per
Catalunya of Spain.
They are all right-wing extremist parties in Europe.
A few
left-wing representatives came also to Crimea, the Communist Party of Greece,
Die Linke of Germany or “Self-defense of Poland.”
In conclusion, the European “fascists” participated as invitees of the nongovernmental organizations that share the same political
vision with Kremlin, in order to see the “show” of the illegal annexation of
Crimea and to take notes on future term.
It is at least bizarre why the
Communist Party of Moldova had no representative at the Crimea referendum. In order
to repair the relations with Moscow, the deceitful Vladimir Voronin declared
later on that the annexation of Crimea was a legitimate act and an historical
compensation.
The links between Russia and these
parties of fascism extraction and extremism are long standing; in the last
years, Russia built special relations with them and supported their leaders.
Why? Russia is primarily interested in dealing with a Europe as weaker as
possible, from a political and internal stability point of view.
Taking
advantage of the euro-skepticism trend caused by the European crisis, Kremlin
exploited the favorable moment to play the fascism role to its benefit.
As
never before in the EU history, the euro-skeptic parties, especially the
right-wing extremists, enjoyed substantial chances of winning numerous seats in
the European Parliament and of consolidating a group targeted at militating
against the EU, within the EU.
For this matter, there is a close relation between
Kremlin and Jobbik, a right-wing extremist faction and the third popular party
in Hungary.
Vona Gabor, the Jobbik leader was invited by Alexander Dughin, one
of the new Russia ideologists, to deliver a speech in the lecture hall of the
University of Moscow.
Well-known for his Nazi and anti-Semitic rhetoric, the
Jobbik leader focused on a euro-skeptic and profound anti-USA message. The same
last year, interviewed by the Russian portal “Geopolitics,” Gabor stated
that”euro-Atlantic orientation must be replaced by Eurasian orientation,” an
ideology rooted in early 20th century and promoted by Kremlin through Dughin`s
voice.
The Russian authorities gave equal
treatment for much more charismatic Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National
Front of France.
Since its existence, back in 1972, the party has been a
pro-American and anti-Soviet one. Last year, Marine Le Pen changed the party’s
orientation towards Russia an enhanced its anti-EU and anti-USA rhetoric.
The
National Front’s leaders who paid several visits to Ukrainian peninsula
acknowledged the result of Crimea referendum, stating that Crimea is part of
Russia, from a historical point of view.
Late autumn of 2013, Le Pen had
advanced talks with Geert Wilders, the leader of PVV, the Freedom Party of
Netherlands, a right-wing extremist group, with a view to form a pre-electoral
alliance, in the offing of the European Parliament elections, which are to take
place by end of May, this year and subsequently to form a “group of the
euro-skeptic extremists within” the European Parliament.
Moscow has the same strong relations with
the Balkan extremists of Ataka (Bulgaria) and The Golden Dawns (Greece).
A day
after Crimea referendum, Ataka ask the Sofia Parliament to acknowledge the
result of the referendum. Regarding The Golden Dawns, Nikos Michaloliakos, who
is the imprisoned leader of this parliamentary party in Athens, received a “geopolitical epistle” from Dughin about a sort of “anti-American political
union.”
The Kremlin aims at building a solid base of fascist satellites within
the European political background, while in Kyiv the fascists are still in power,
and so a dilemma tends to be almost rhetorical: Who are “the good fascists” and “the bad fascists” for Putin?
Madalin Necșuțu is an editor in Bucharest, Romania
