Editing Neo-fascism (section)

=== Russia ===
{{See also|Ruscism}}
In 1990, [[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]] founded the [[Liberal Democratic Party of Russia]]. Its leader opposes democratic values, human rights, a multiparty system, and the rule of law. [[Encyclopedia Britannica]] considers Zhirinovsky to be a neo-fascist.<ref name="Fascism">{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Russia#ref742252 |title=Fascism |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref> Zhirinovsky endorsed the forcible re-occupation of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and suggested [[nuclear waste]] should be dumped there.<ref>[http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/18220/ Russia threatens Baltic missile build-up], [[The Baltic Times]], 5 July 2007</ref> During the [[First Chechen War]] in the mid-1990s, he advocated hitting some [[Chechnya|Chechen]] villages with [[tactical nuclear weapon]]s.<ref>[http://www.rferl.org/specials/russianelection/archives/07-171299.asp Russian Parliamentary Election 1999] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214043842/http://www.rferl.org/specials/russianelection/archives/07-171299.asp |date=14 February 2008 }}, [[RFE/RL]], 17 December 1999</ref>

The [[Russian National Unity]] was a paramilitary organization which was founded by [[Alexander Barkashov]] in 1990. It used a left-pointed [[swastika]] and emphasizes the "primary importance" of Russian blood. Concerning [[Adolf Hitler]], the organizations's leader Barkashov declared: "I consider [Hitler] a great hero of the German nation and of all white races. He succeeded in inspiring the entire nation to fight against degradation and the washing away of national values."<ref name="Fascism"/> Before it was banned in 1999, and breakup in late 2000, the group estimated to have had approximately 20,000 to 25,000 members.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Blamires | first1=C. | last2=Jackson | first2=P. | title=World Fascism: A-K | publisher=ABC-CLIO | series=World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-57607-940-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&pg=PA581 | access-date=2022-03-16|quote=the RNE was of substantial organizational strength before its breakup in late 2000 and was estimated to have had, on the eve of its fracture, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 members}}</ref> Alexander Barkashov along with other members of the Russian National Unity have engaged in religious activities and pro-Russian activism in the [[Russian-Ukrainian War]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin's Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats|page=289|quote=RNE volunteer troops were closely linked with the Russian Orthodox army|first1=Miroslav|last1=Mareš|first2=Martin|last2=Laryš|first3=Jan|last3=Holzer|publisher=Routledge|year=2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mitrokhin |first=Nikolay |date=2015 |title=Infiltration, instruction, invasion: Russia's war in the Donbass |url=https://spps-jspps.autorenbetreuung.de/files/07-mitrokhin.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528025541/http://spps-jspps.autorenbetreuung.de/files/07-mitrokhin.pdf |archive-date=2016-05-28 |url-status=live |journal=Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=219–249}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jarzyńska |first=Katarzyna |date=24 December 2014 |title=Russian nationalists on the Kremlin's policy in Ukraine |url=https://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/files/commentary_156.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120070202/https://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/files/commentary_156.pdf |archive-date=2022-01-20 |url-status=live |journal=OSW Commentary, Centre for Eastern Studies |volume=156}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Laruelle | first=M. | title=In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US | series=The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-230-10123-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Apq_AAAAQBAJ | quote=Russian National Unity underwent an internal coup d'etat in 2000. Several regional leaders decided to exclude Alexander Barkashov from his position as leader of the party, splitting up into multiple factions, none of which was able to step in to play a unifying role.... Barkashov, who had legal troubles for "hooliganism" in 2005, created a new party bearing his name in December of the following year but had no real success.}}</ref>