[BNM] [OT] Burma

[Nick Taylor]

> Yes though – no excuse for setting up a neo-nazi group. The Russians hate
> the nazis in general and make as many German/war jokes as the British, but
> for some reason there seems to be quite a few incidents in St. Petersburg.
> Only real animosity I have seen has been to some Muslim groups (under
> conscription, most people here fought in Afghanistan fairly recently) and
> homosexuals (the hard line taken by the Orthodox Church doesn’t help – at
> the last gay march in Moscow old women were attacking them with
> sticks/vegetables). 


Yea well - I was using Nazi as a generic ultra-right-wing-nationalistic 
catch-all rather than anything with any historical import.

To be fair, the Russians I've met in Estonia are (on the whole) as 
friendly as fuck - and the only blatant ethnic hostility I came across 
was from some pissed up Estonians against Russians, which I felt quite 
embarrassed about to be honest, but there you go.


I met this one Russian girl who was going to Uni in Manchester - who 
could speak english and had somehow managed to pack every single british 
accent ever into it... so you'd have a Brummie word followed by Oxbridge 
followed by Cockney followed by Geordie etc - she was brilliant. It was 
like talking to a kaliedoscope.