I was at a National Bolshevik protest today. Naturally, everything was hush-hush. Naturally, we gather at a prearranged place, and no one knows what happens next. Then a young man appears, a representative of the organizers. "So when are we finally going to march on the Kremlin, or at least on the White House (the Russian parliament building)?," I ask. "It’s not far from here, after all!" "We’re not going there. We have other objectives," the young man tells me. To put it mildly, I was surprised. The young man hands out leaflets. They say: "We are beginning, and we call on others, to TAKE FOOD FROM STORES WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. We are not committing a crime; sheer necessity is driving us to this step. AND LET PUTIN’S GOVERNMENT COMPENSATE THE MERCHANTS FOR THEIR LOSSES. OUT OF THE STABILIZATION FUND" (the original Caps Lock usage is preserved — A.K.) From the text of the leaflet, I gather that we are now going to rob a store. ... The action took place in a Seventh Continent supermarket. The National Bolsheviks rolled a cart full of loaves of bread out of it and started handing them out to passersby. from here I don’t understand why not rob a Tiffany store instead. Prices at the Moscow Tiffany are about twice as high as, say, in Milan. There was a film called The Addams Family. In it, the girl Debbie said: "I’m a human being too! Don’t I deserve a little love?! ...and don’t I deserve a few precious gems?".
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