The Nazi Renaissance

A long time ago, in 1992 to be exact, my colleague Black Johnny (a boxer who did time in prison and picked up some radical ideas there) came after me over a T-shirt from the then-popular rock group Soundgarden.

He didn’t like the swastika-like logo. Back then I was young and foolish, so I just shrugged my shoulders.

It was the early Clinton era, the era of liberal optimism when, as Yegor Letov sang, “Death disappeared before our eyes.”

Fascism and other illiberal and nonlibertarian ideas seemed like monstrous anachronisms.

Then came “The Matrix” films, the totalitarian Internet, Monsanto, experiments on human embryos, the promotion of birth control, globalism, the Yugoslav wars, etc.

And after the scandal over Bill & Monica’s Oval Office fellatio while the wife was in Razliv, and the police brutality at the Group of Eight meeting of major industrial nations in Seattle provoked by fake anarchists, I was flipping through a catalog of biotechnology companies and was stunned by the number of swastika-shaped logos.*

Now, having returned from Razliv, Hillary Clinton has brought swastikas into focus in politics –not in the U.S. for the time being, but along dead-end streets. So suddenly, the guys with the swastikas have become “bearers of democracy,” defending “European values” against the dictator from bloody Mordor.

And for many, a question arises here: Why is it the Democrats who have brought the Nazi renaissance to the world? After all, weren’t their Republican opponents primarily the ones accused of Nazism?

Well, let me remind you that it was the Democrats who were the “party of the South” during the Civil War.

It was the Democrats who created the Ku Klux Klan, and it was the Democrats who dragged the descendants of Eastern European collaborators through Harvard and the University of Chicago to the State Department and organized support for al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

And one of the capitals of the KKK is the city of Harrison, Arkansas, the very same Arkansas where Bill Clinton successfully served as governor until he became president.

*Translator’s note: Although the author did not originally capitalize the word “razliv” to indicate that it’s a proper noun (perhaps because it’s being used figuratively), he is most likely referring to the village outside St. Petersburg where Lenin hid to evade arrest in the summer of 1917, just prior to the October Revolution.