Remember the mammoths,say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. hat must not happen to Russia".Obediently,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.With its relentlessly upbeat tone,bizarre ideas and tight control,it sounds like a weird indoctrination session for a phoney religious cult.But this organisation,known as "Nashi",meaning "Ours",is youth movement run by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin that has become a central part of Russian political life.Nashi's annual camp,200 miles outside Moscow,is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks oflectures 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.Bizarrely,young women are encouraged to hand in thongs and other skimpy underwear-supposedly a cause of sterility-and given more wholesome and
substantial undergarments.Twenty-five couples marry at the start of the camp's first week and ten more at the start of the second.These mass weddings,the ultimate expression of devotion to the motherland,are legal and conducted by a civil official.Attempting to raise Russia's dismally low birthrate even by eccentric-seeming means might be understandable.Certainly,the country's demographic outlook is dire.The hard-drinking,hardsmoking and disease-ridden
population is set to plunge by a million a year in the next decade.But the real aim of the youth camp,and the 100,000-strong movement behind it,is not to improve Russia's demographic profile,but to attack democracy.Under Mr Putin,Russia is sliding into fascism,with state control of the economy,media,politics and society becoming increasingly heavy-handed.And Nashi,along with other similar youth movements,such as 'Young Guard',and 'Young Russia',is in theforefront of the charge.At the start,it was all too easy to mock.I attended an early event run by its
predecessor,'Walking together',in the heart of Moscow in 2000.A motley collection of youngsters were collecting 'unpatriotic' works of fiction for destruction.It was sinister in theory,recalling the Nazis' book-burning in the 1930s,but it was laughable in practice.There was no sign of ordinary members of the public handing in books(the copies piled on the pavement had been brought by the organisers).Once the television cameras had left,the event organisers admitted that they were not really volunteers,but being paid by "sponsors".The idea that Russia's anarchic,
apathetic youth would ever be attracted into a disciplined mass movement in support of their president,what critics called a"Putinjugend",recalling the "Hitlerjugend"(German for "Hitler Youth")seemed fanciful.How wrong we were Life for young people in Russia without connections is a mixture of inadequate and corrupt education,and a choice of boring dead-end jobs.Like the Hitler Youth and the Soviet Union's Young Pioneers,Nashi and its allied movements offer not just excitement,friendship and a sense of purpose,but a leg up in life,too.Nashi's senior officials,known,in an eerie echo of the Soviet era,as"Commissars",get free places at top
universities.Thereafter,they can expect good jobs in politics or business-which in Russia nowadays,under the Kremlin's crony capitalism,are increasingly the same thing.Nashi and similar outfits are the Kremlin's first line of defence against its greatest fear:real democracy.Like the sheep chanting"Four legs good,two legs bad"in George Orwell's Animal Farm,they can
intimidate through noise and numbers.Nashi supporters drown out protests by Russia's feeble and divided democratic opposition and use violence to drive them off the streets.The group's leaders insist that the only connection to officialdom is loyalty to the president.If so,they seem remarkably well-informed.
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PS:I don't know if you have noticed but it seems that there is a revival of nazism and fascism all over the world.You can see it most evidently in countries like North Korea,where there is a "Kim Jong Ill's CULT"with a fake trinity and all,in Cuba,we are starting seeing that in Venezuela and Iran and over the Middle East.It's like a chilling deja vu of the Hitler era...That spirit is still alive and kicking in many countries...It makes my heart sink thinking that all these masses may perish without JesusChrist....!
As in the days of Noah...

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