Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:54:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Cabral <kcabral-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Fascists unite in Europe (fwd)


This ties in well with our discussion of fascism..

Kevin
Cols, Oh

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 07:33:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Prince <aa078-AT-seorf.ohiou.edu>
To: socnet <socnet-AT-europe.std.com>
Subject: Fascists unite in Europe

> Zhirinovsky, Le Pen Announce Far-Right Union
> 
>    AP Photo MOSB101
>    
>    By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
>    
>    Associated Press Writer
>    
>    MOSCOW (AP) - Two of Europe's most outspoken nationalists announced
>    plans Saturday to form a European union of extreme-right forces,
>    saying only that could prevent wars.
>    
>    French right-wing leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and Russian
>    ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky predicted that nationalism will
>    soon become the dominating political force throughout Europe.
>    
>    "The voters of France and Russia and the majority of European states
>    are all moving towards something new - a third force, and that force
>    is the national patriotic force," Zhirinovsky said at a joint news
>    conference in Moscow.
>    
>    The two politicians said they would meet in Moscow in late April to
>    map out a "Union of Right Forces of Europe." They did not elaborate on
>    how the alliance could prevent war.
>    
>    Le Pen is in Russia to attend Zhirinovsky's church wedding Sunday. The
>    Russian politician and his wife were married 25 years ago in a civil
>    ceremony.
>    
>    Zhirinovsky's "ideas and plans are very close to ours," Le Pen said.
>    "We both must become president for the benefit of Europe."
>    
>    Zhirinovsky, whose misleadingly named Liberal Democratic Party has a
>    significant number of seats in Russia's parliament, is one of the
>    leading candidates in June's presidential elections.
>    
>    He often rails against Jews, Asians, people from the Caucasus
>    Mountains and other non-Slavs, and urges the restoration of the
>    Russian Empire's 19th-century borders.
>    
>    Le Pen leads France's extreme-right National Front Party, which
>    controls four city halls and has the support of about 15 percent of
>    the electorate. The National Front advocates expelling all immigrants
>    from France.
>    
>    Zhirinovsky also warned East European countries against trying to join
>    NATO, saying that would make them the battlefield in another world
>    war.
>    
>    "Our neighbors must know that if they let NATO soldiers approach
>    Russia's borders, Russia would destroy both NATO and the territories
>    that are putting the world on the brink of war," Zhirinovsky said.
>    
>    Many Russian leaders, including President Boris Yeltsin, have spoken
>    out strongly against NATO's proposed eastward expansion, although none
>    has gone as far as firebrand Zhirinovsky.
> 


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