Truemors
couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can start procreating for the motherland.
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Nashi's annual camp, 200 miles outside Moscow, is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks of lectures and physical fitness.
Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on sale.
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The Kremlin sees no role for a democratic opposition, denouncing its leaders as stooges and traitors. Sadly, most Russians agree: a recent poll showed that a majority believed that opposition parties should not be allowed to take power.
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Every blot on the Soviet record was matched by something, real or imagined, that the West had done.
Hard to believe a little. But the Wikipedia Talk page on the much disputed Nashi organization reveals a few interesting tidbits:
In this "who's the Nazi now?" hullabaloo, it's important to understand that 'fascist' means different things for Russians than it means to people of Western cultural background. Specifically, for a Westerner, fascism is a matter of ideology: a fascist is one that subscribes to an ideology that is fascist. For a Russian, fascism is a matter of allegiance: a fascist is one that adheres to the Nazis. Thus, for a Russian, pointing out that Nashists oppose Nazis is conclusive proof that they're anti-fascists *and* not fascists. Westerners tend to be puzzled over that proposed "proof", because Western treatment of WWII history does not gloss over the issue of various fascist organisations opposing each other; a Westerner does not consider organisation's X opposition to a known fascist organisation a refutation of organisation's X fascist tendencies.
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