Block FACT
{{Infobox criminal organization
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|founded = Autumn 2010
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|founding_location = Saint Petersburg, Russia
|years_active = 2010–present
|territory = Russia, Ukraine
|ethnicity = Ukrainians (core), Russians, Jews and Caucasians{{cite web|last=Godovikov|first=Nikolay|url=https://neva.versia.ru/piterskie-banderovcy-protiv-sudi-kuznecova|title=Питерские бандеровцы против судьи Кузнецова|trans-title=St. Petersburg Banderovtsy against Judge Kuznetsov|work=Nasha Versiya na Neve|date=22 April 2013|accessdate=4 September 2016}}
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|activities = Assaults, battery, arsons, vandalism
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Block FACT ({{langx|ru|Блок «Фаланга антикоммунистического тарана»|lit=Block "Phalanx of Anti-Communist Ram"}}) is part of a Russian far-right group, operating in St. Petersburg and established in the autumn of 2010.
Publicity
The public statements from Block FACT often represent hard anti-communism. The organization's criteria for labeling a group as communist are quite broad. For example, the regimes of Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, and even the Kingdom of Bahrain were labeled as "communist" by Block FACT.[http://brus.livejournal.com/98450.html Призраку коммунизма опять накостыляли] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130626191351/http://brus.livejournal.com/98450.html |date=2013-06-26 }}
Activities
Block FACT claimed responsibility for the beating of St. Petersburg Stalinist historian {{Interlanguage link multi|Igor Pykhalov|ru|3=Пыхалов, Игорь Васильевич}},{{Cite news|date=2010|title=В нападении на историка Игоря Пыхалова призналась организация «Блок Факт»|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda|url=https://www.spb.kp.ru/online/news/800056/|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325182842/https://www.spb.kp.ru/online/news/800056/|archive-date=2016-03-25}} setting fire to a Communist Party car (September 2011),[http://www.cprfspb.ru/7437.html Сегодня ночью подожгли автомобиль городского комитета КПРФ], burning down the official St. Petersburg`s branch site of the Russian Federation Communist Party, 11.09.2011 and assaulting magistrate Alexei Kuznetsov (April 2013).[http://www.novayagazeta.spb.ru/2013/27/3 Самосуд над судьей] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215535/http://www.novayagazeta.spb.ru/2013/27/3 |date=October 4, 2013 }}, Novaya gazeta, 14.04.2013 Block FACT claimed responsibility for beating Communist Party secretary Alexey Rusakov (August 2012),[http://www.krasnoetv.ru/node/15473 О нападении на секретаря ленинградского обкома РКРП-КПСС Алексея Русакова], Krasnoye TV, 09.08.2012 burning a Communist Party car (February 2012),[http://www.cprfspb.ru/8143.html Коммунистов не запугать], the official site of St. Petersburg`s branch of the Russian Federation Communist Party, 09.02.2012 desecrating and destroying a series of Soviet memorials (plaques of Lenin, Uritsky, Romanov, Trefolev and Voytik), and attacking several activists of Communist organizations.
Some commentators characterized the actions of Block FACT as a relaxed variant of European neo-fascist terrorism of the 1970s.[http://www.pgpalata.ru/reaction/0050 Кулак белой ленты] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002152911/http://www.pgpalata.ru/reaction/0050 |date=2013-10-02 }}, Website of the Perm Civic Chamber, июнь 2013 It is assumed that the activists of Block FACT attacked a former Duma deputy, Viktor Tyulkin. The leader of the St. Petersburg communist organizations, Tyulkin, was beaten on 4 October 2013, after a communist demonstration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the events of October 1993. One of the attackers congratulated Tyulkin with "happy holidays".[http://sanktpeterburg.bezformata.ru/listnews/front-mog-napast-blok/14591870/ На лидера партии «Рот Фронт» мог напасть «Блок ФАКТ»], Без формата.RU, 07.10.2013
See also
References
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Category:2010 establishments in Russia
Category:Anti-communist organizations in Russia
Category:Neo-fascist organizations in Russia
Category:Neo-fascist terrorism
Category:Organizations based in Saint Petersburg
Category:Organizations established in 2010