I recently met up with a group calling themselves the Black Hundreds here in Russia.
Historically, the Black Hundred were a pan-slavic nationalist group from the early 20th centuries. The word “black” is better translated to mean “common” and does not necessarily reference the color “black”. Unlike the Black Hundreds of old, these new Black Hundreds are a bit more well-to-do.
I found them to be quite similar to the Alt-Right back at home. The Black Hundreds are middle-class race realists and nationalists first and foremost. They do not have a political party, nor do they have much of a political apparatus at all. They are a youth movement predominantly, and an intellectual one at that. They are concerned with promoting books and spreading their ideas, first and foremost.
In general, I am struck by how ready Russia is for their ideas. There is almost no resistance to the ideas that these people have from the Russian populace. The resistance all comes from the government, the influential oligarchs and even then, from specific factions within the government. There is no White Guilt in Russia, and it makes red-pilling so much easier. The only ones who are pushing crap like anti-racism or feminism are the daughters of oligarchs who have spent the last decade whoring in the West:
Ksenia Sobchak
The Black Hundreds group did not like Putin. They claimed that he does not care about the rights of the White majority in Russia. This is in stark contrast to other nationalist groups in Russia like the nationalists from the Rodina party that I spoke with earlier this year. They called themselves Putin’s shock troops and they agreed on all the same doctrinal points as the Alt-Right. They were also much more in the know about political comings and goings. I think the Rodina approach is far more pragmatic. If you are to push for changes, do it in the name of the Emperor, even if the Emperor doth not approve.
But the Black Hundreds members also had some good points. There are hate speech laws in Russia now, and you cannot publically denounce the Muslims or any other group for that matter on TV or in any political discourse. I remarked that Russia had an older and cruder form of censorship and method for enforcing political correctness. Back in the United States, you can say what you want…in theory. But there are consequences for exercising your free speech rights. Most of the time, it will be your friends and colleagues that censor you. From there, it can go on to your employer, and eventually, the media might lynch you as well. All the while, the government won’t touch you, but you will still lose everything. Systems of coercion are far more subtle and refined in the United States.
In Russia, you can speak freely among your peers, and they will not report you. There’s a consistent “us vs them” attitude that the people still have vis a vis the authorities in Russia that has not changed since Soviet times. In that sense, it feels much freer in Russia.
There were also some divergences in opinion that did not jibe well with ours. While some had read Kevin MacDonald and seemed to know what was what, other, younger members of the movement seemed to be dismissive of the JQ. This struck me as a rather strange omission. The JQ is seen as a sort of capstone to any young goy’s red-pilling process back in the West. But they seemed loath to bring it up. I interpreted this as a bit of counter-signaling against the older generation. Remember, in Russia, you have a very red-pilled population that doesn’t even know its red-pilled. From what I understood, the younger Black Hundreds had a bone to pick with the older Soviet generation, who they view as being inept and incompetent, holding the country back from adopting the free market and making necessary reforms. In that sense, it’s similar to our disdain for Boomer Nationalism here.
But it also must be said that on the Alt-Right, many have already moved past a blind adherence to free-market ideology. There are many critiquing unbridled free-market capitalism on the Alt-Right now, and some even advance the argument that Capitalism ended up being more damaging to the West than Communism.
And just like all the other nationalists I have met so far in Russia, they seem keen on adopting the aesthetic of the Alt-Right. In that sense, Russia remains the same as it always has, looking West for inspiration. And I have to say that the Black Hundreds are the closest I have come to finding an Alt-Right parallel operating in Russia.
In general, Russia has a variety of Far-Right groups to choose from. I feel like a kid at a candy shop, looking at all the different colors and variants of Russian nationalism. You have the more proletarian side of things with the soccer hooligans turned racist MMA fighters (the Ultras) on one end. On the other end, you have political parties like Rodina that came very close to full-fledged legitimacy, even holding seats in the Duma. In between, you have Zhirinovsky and his LDPR party. They are a softer version of nationalism that appeals to Soviet folks more with its deliberate evocation of USSR nostalgia. Even the Russian Communist party is pretty damn nationalistic. Especially if you believe the rumors that they have been infiltrated by “fascists”.
I’ve found that even National Bolsheviks (basically Russian Antifa) are quite racially-conscious. Even the Liberals seem to be flirting with nationalism to win votes. But party politics are largely irrelevant in Russia. The Kremlin calls the shots and there you have very organized and wealthy ethnic lobbies influencing policy.
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Well, to be honest, im sure that this D.E.G.’s works may turn to be very important for the US-guys, bc his enlightment had already helped Russia to pass through serious social dangers and can help you to overcome some other ones.
May be, we could even alll in all, save it all from nuclear breakdown LOL.
Actually, there is another group in VKontakte which claims to be Russian Altright movement https://vk.com/alterright
This is just a small meme public with no persistent agenda or website. Compare to S&P page https://vk.com/sputnikipogrom with 20 times more subscribers.
S&P is a place where a fat man can change his position 3-4 times in a week.
Trump can change his position 3-4 times in a week too. But you’re right. Prosvirnin is kind of unstable.
I would like to give a meaningful reply, but the phrase “racist liberals” confuses me. Could you elaborate, please?
Everyone in Russia is a racist. Being a racist is not a big defining feature of a political ideology in russia. Adoption of liberalism, however, is.
You mean that they are anti-Putin?(at least last time I checked, I actually stopped paying attention a long time ago)
Free-market, pro-European, anti-Soviet (in the sense that they see nothing worth salvaging from that period).
Yes, antisovietism of Prosvirmin and co. is wee too on the nose, but I don’t see what’s the problem with free market. Surely, you wouldn’t advocate for planned economy. That’s one part of Soviet period that does not require salvaging.( and yes I am perfectly aware that “free-market” is not a panacea from all problems)
M8, it doesn’t matter what you privately believe. But you need popular support. Counter-signaling national myths is stupid.
And opposition to free market will get you popular support? Really? And since when it’s a “national myth”?
P.S.: тамбовский волк тебе мейт. No offense.
None taken, seeing as I don’t understand the reference.
Sputnik & Pogrom exploits the Russian Empire and the White Army national myths. This makes sense, as Soviet Union was a terrible anti-russian dictatorship run by ethnic minoritities. It was a worst nightmare of any Russian nationalist.
Soviets crudely repressed Russian nationalists and enforced marxist beliefs in people’s heads for 70 years. It is very difficult to fight those beliefs, especially as they are considered part of soviet national identity, that is still widespread among the people. It is anti-soviet to praise Russian Empire and Russian nationalism, and it is anti-soviet to praise the free market, so that makes Sputnik & Pogrom strictly anti-soviet. And it’s still quite popular.
“Still quite popular”
Yeah right. Putin enjoys 80% support in Russia. The only people you are appealing to with S and P are urban intellectuals who were already anti-Putin and just needed another reason for their disdain.
I may say the same about american and EU political regimes. If it’s approved, it does not mean it’s good for the people.
Common voters don’t see the alternative, as any real opposition is oppressed and pro-western leftist noviop liberals are supported just to be a scarecrow.
pro-european in what way? they are anti-EU but consider that Russia is an integral part of the European civilization
>(in the sense that they see nothing worth salvaging from that period)
not true
Hope you’re right.
Wait, nothing about Sputnik & Pogrom?
I’ve read them. They seem like racist liberals.
Sputnik & Pogrom online magazine is the main think-tank, and Black Hundred is just an affiliated side-project. It is a publisher team founded by Sputnik & Pogrom readers, re-printing pre-revolution and white emigrant books, banned by the Soviet government, and modern Eastern Ukrainian War memoires written by Russian nationalists.
Right. Good explanation.
Eurofag drivel.
Thanks for your comment. I will check him out.
May be my compulsiveness gets out of bonds, but nevertheless i should point at the certain text by Galkovsky, writen the other day, reсently. — The Decay Chronicle
Yep. In geopolitics Americans are primitive and stupid hillbillies compared to old european carnivorous predators.
For the last 1000 years Europe have seen a shitloads of such “Americans”. Where are all of them now?
They will eat you alive without notice: “Something cracked under the feet”. If you don’t understand that it’s your problem.
Сорри фром май харт ин ингриш бат итс но сикрет зет СиП из а плагиэризм стейт.
Ат зис поинт юропиан Дмитри Евгеневитч will sigh and run from the PATHOLOGICAL плэгиэйрист to the other side of the street. Under no circumstances he will never talk to a sick клептоманиак on sufficient topics.
Не, просто в самом деле, зачем бы не указать автора цитаты?
И, раз уж зашли, зачем не апнуть комментарий про альт-райт лидера всей интеллектуального России подветкой ниже (ссылка)
Так себе “открытие”. Период “Галковский своими словами” СиП уже давно прошёл. Так, в общих чертах дискурс соблюдается.
Go away.
Did you give your house and money to BLM, rasist?
Soon you will.
United Cuckolds of America, lol.
Not an American. Keep talking and die kid. I don’t joke around with fucking peoples computers over for fun. Just a friendly warning.
I’m sure we have friends in Russia, but it’s important to follow the old cliché, “keep your eye on the ball.” Our mission as “adherents” to the Alt Right Gospel is to fight for the White State. Even if a group has similar ideas, and we may make efforts to support them, if their ultimate goal is different from our own, then that friendship has noteworthy limitations. A Russian Nationalist like this MP probably falls into that category. No?
How could I forget antisemitism in my list of things that are suppressed?
> The Jews in Washington and New York HATE Putin
Do they? Or they just act like they do?)
Depends which Jews.
Russian oligarchs are a mix of Jews (mostly), Armenians, Georgians and various Middle-Asian muslims, only a few of them are ethnic Russians. Putin is deeply affiliated with them.
He sided with the Eastern Jews over the Western Jews.
There is a rift within the Jewish community.
>doesnt believe in the jewish question
Stopped. Reading. There.
I hope it is just a joke.
LOL.
(Ubogiy noviop here)
Лучший способ разочароваться в американской политике и в альт-райтах в частности – поговорить с местными политическими активистами. Сначала я не верил Галковскому, что США скатывается в Латинскую Америку, но теперь потихоньку проникаюсь этой мыслью.
Хваленые альт-райты оказались обществом “Память”))
Именно 😀 Им только язычников в волчьих шкурах и фолк-хистори не хватает, разоблачать (((judeo-christian values))). Как-то даже грустно стало.
Пост-то от сегодня читали?
Попробуйте ИТТ продвинуть его для уважаемыых собеседников, не? Чисто из человеколюбия. “Бомбанет или нет”.
Я не буду переводить его на английский, много мороки.
Не, ну нафига переводить… причем тут это-то?
Не пойму, разве автор исходного поста мог написать его не зная русского? Мне трудно ээто вообразить. Или что я не понимаю?
А так это конечно неподъемно если переводить.
Но ДЕГ это и есьт наш Альт-райт просто, это же как бы очевидное и важное понимание.
Короче.
Написал коммент про ДЕГа.
Прошу апать и добавлять свое мнение/коррекции к моему фром-май-харт-инглиш.
Как оцените мой перевод цитатки ДЕГа? Критика приветствуется. Давно хотел на английском диванном фронте повоевать, но как-то ссыкотно – засмеют. Ну да и пох. Короче покритикуйте мой перевод. Когда делать нечего будет.
Ну в принципе и в России абсолютно то же самое. Люди говорят про прабабку-татарку потому что у нее дед был татарин и НЕ ПОНИМАЮТ, что это расизм в своей предельной, крайней форме. Боле того – не просто не понимают, а еще и всерьёз считают это “антифашизмом” и даже “дружбой народов”.
То же и с цитатой про американских хилбилли. Для американца история европейских империй находится на периферии, где-то между Войной за Независимость, Отменой Рабства и Холокостом. С таким багажом ему в десятки раз проще начать мыслить категориями великой расовой войны и мирового сионского заговора, чем думать как мы. Чтобы объяснить что-то такой публике, нужно сперва написать для нее краткий учебник европейской истории глазами европейцев.
Its Black Hundred(s)
The name of the organisation is “Black Hundred” (singular).
So the Russian words translate to “Common Hundreds” yet we’re arbitrarily deciding to call this pro-White group “Black?”
Good thing I’m not a master propagandist cause I would say this makes no sense.
I believe it is like how the Egyptians called their land “black land” due to the color and fertility of the soil rather than their skin color. So referencing their soil references the fact that they’re peasants or commoners.
Ah that makes sense now, thanks UL.
It’s actually “Black” as in “Black Flag” as in “the lower classes who rose to the challenge of defending the Motherland from random assholes because elites dropped the ball”.
First happened when Poles invaded Moscow and put a marionette “czar” on the throne (see Smuta, LzheDmitry).
So MEMRI is monitoring the Russians now. Oy vey! The Tsar (Putin) is back!
(((MEMRI)))
Would that interpretation of ‘Black’ also hold up for Gavrilo Princip’s organization?
likely yes.
Excellent article.
I would be more skeptical about the KPRF. It’s not totally bad by commie standards – they are less enthusiastic about Central Asian immigration than the Kremlin elites, and have been consistent in their support of the Russian uprising in the Donbass – but they are unequivocal supporters of Article 282 (Russia’s primate hate speech law).
Our american comrades may be surprised by the fact that “nationalist ” LDPR party is run by half-jew Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, who was raised by his ethnic Russian mother and father-in-law. Now he is a pro-Putin nationalist politician, famous for his bright, but rude and intolerant speeches on TV. You may find some of them on YouTube and have some fun. Don’t take what he says seriously, this guy is just a walking meme, despite his party is third most popular in Russia. Here comes an example: https://youtu.be/ExfLOwmSD88

He’s also an anti-semite.
Yes, a Putin’s puppet anti-semithic populist socialist clown with jewish ancestors. This is the only kind of nationalist politician that is approved on TV by Putin.
He was pre-Putin.
Yes, he was not a puppet back in the Yeltsin times, but he was still anti-semithic populist socialist clown with jewish ancestors with no chance to win any election.
>anti-semetic
>clown
????
Are you American? How can there be White Americans?
The Asiatic parts of Russia are so thinly populated that it really isn’t a problem, Russians can just absorb them. The real problem for the Russians is their huge population of defiant Muslim ethnicities like the Chechens.
Yeah, right. Let’s forget about Khabarovsk, Blagoveshensk, and the Chinese expansion. Chinese peasants have high IQ.
The fact that Russia has nukes prevents China from expanding and retaking the Amur.
Why would that be the case? China has nukes too.
So China’s gonna risk getting Nuked to take some land? Nukes are a deterrent to war.
agree 100%. The whole, “china will expand north!” thing is a meme. Absorbing southeast asia would be far easier for them.
Lots of people want to carve Russia up.
Most of them can be found in Washington, DC.
You should share your ideas with them.
The people who want to carve Russia up all had their grandparents pogrommed at the hands of the original Black Hundred.
… “a multitude of different races/ethnicities and spanning two continents”
This is a myth spread by Russian liberals and sovoks.
The diversity of nationalities hides the fact that Russians are more than 80% of the total (all Slavs – close to 85%).
Greater Russia – the current Russian Federation + Belorussia, Novorossiya, ethnic Russian North Kazakhstan, and perhaps Malorossiya – will be close to 90% Slavic.
Thankfully, Spencer and the author understand Russia’s need for Empire and that a White ethno-state in America or Europe will also need to be an Empire.
It was good to see Spencer attack RamzPaul’s pathetic and weak “Smiling Boomer Nationalism for All Ideas” through a Schmittian critique this morning.
https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/865887077346488321
Let’s make sure we counter-signal against all pro-whites that aren’t “hard core” enough, the last thing we want is a broad pro-white coalition full of normal people.
Have we decided on a uniform yet?
Triggered. Let’s make more lame virtue signalling Youtube videos about the mean, Nazi Alt Right and Russian repression of Ukrainian heroes.
Goes both ways. Ramz, though I like him, loves a good old punch to the right now and again.
That’s the problem with Ramz. He’d be left alone to do his thing if he wasn’t constantly punching right.
Yeah, agreed. Even a guy like Anglin is, from what I can see, always only punches them if they start with the “FBI shill” narrative.
Ramz really can’t help himself. He wants to be seen as non-threatening in the eyes of the media and Alt Lite. He doesn’t get that Spencer’s damn the torpedoes actions since last November have been successful.
Some would say those bashing their 50s and up brothers based on nothing but their age group are the worst example of doing just that. Not directing that at you of course. 🙂
But yeah this intergenerational squabbling that I’m seeing throughout the alt-Right acts the same as a punch to the right, it seems ill thought out at best.
Don’t take it personally. If your reading this site and thats what you take offence to, then your one of the good ones.
I guess that puts me out of the alt-Right altogether then, cause it’s everywhere today. Can’t get away from constant digs against the Boomer generation.
On the Stormer they’re now calling for our complete culling after they win Rahowa lol.
Yeah, I hear you. Not a week goes by that I don’t see an article somewhere about how millenials are loser bums that refuse to grow up. There’s some truth to those criticisms and theres some truth to millenial criticisms of the boomers. Every generation blames the one that came before it for all of the problems in the world. Someday it will be our turn.
Not all Boomers. 🙂
Hope not!
Yeah and milquetoast Civic Nationalist Lauren Southern wrote a whole book blaming the Boomers for everything.
You need to take the Stormer less seriously. It’s National Enquirer type sensationalism that uses trolling and memes to attract teens and early 20somethings to the Alt Right.
The Stormer already has Rahowa won. Just a question of what they’re going to do afterward now.
It was another blond chick. Toni something.
No, Ramz has earned the Boomer Cuck moniker. David Duke never gets called that.
It is self defeating. You need to build up numbers, but you trash older generations of white males. The ones that are established and have at least done their part procreating. With whites being divided as is this inter generational bickering is pointless to say the least!!!!
i have to disagree with Spencer’s conclusion that Ramzpaul is a civic nationalist. I mean he’s deff not all “gas the kikes!!!” but you really can’t say that and expect any sort of main stream platform in which to espouse your views. Need proof Ramzpaul is NOT a civic nationalist? See below:
I suppose its a coincidence the third reich book is in the background…
Ramz openly identifies more now with people like Cernovich and McInnes. He’s also on record disavowing White Nationalism and the Alt Right.
That’s fine. But when he attacks us as he does, he’ll get hit back
I used to watch Ramzpaul. Until I realized he was an Eternal Boomer.
Boomers Gonna Cuck
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/866014260371095555
He’s Gen X
Nope. I think he was born in the early 60s. Late Boomer.
In the video I linked he refers to himself as gen x. Yes I believe he mentions he was born in the early 60s. I’m not gonna split hairs over generational cut off dates but that is how he describes himself
1965 was the earliest date given by the guy who wrote Generation X, so he is close enough. I was born in 1970, a straight up Xer. My one sole criteria for being a true Xer is that you didn’t escape grade school without watching the Brady Bunch.
I watched the Brady Bunch when I was in grade school and I am a Millennial. But yeah, again, I am not going to split hairs over generational cut off dates.
Vincent, your Russian narratives are getting weaker and weaker. The Black Hundred is a pure Russian creature and an arm of the Russian shovinism. They hate Poles, Ukrainians as the hate anyone not Russian. What this bunch has to do with AltRight?
Dude, you really need to check on your Russian skills.
No, they rightly hate Right Sectard CIA Useful Idiots.
“Shovinism”.
You’re not a native english speaker are you?
No, I am not. Just like you seemingly not getting Russian.
Are you from a Butthurt Belt country of origin perchance?
Whatever the f that means. Who the hell told you that Dagis hate Chechens?
Why do you refuse to answer what ethnicity you are on a site that talks about ethnic identity? Just admit you’re a Balt or a Ukrainian, already.
Da, blyat’, xoxol. Listen, the point is that you are misrepresenting the Russian reality in the second article in a row. Chernosotentsi is not even close to Altright, in the sense that Spencer and others lead the movement.
I’m leaning towards Balt now. Am I getting warmer?
So many of the Anti Russian commenters have to be Ukrainian or some such petty nationality aggrieved by Russians. A few months ago one of them was portraying Russia as the Great Satan, so I just asked him point blank if he Was Ukrainian and he refused to answer! He even said ethnic identity doesn’t matter, here on this Identitarian website!
Russian nationalists do not hate Ukrainians. Why should we hate ourselves?
We are for the most part indifferent to Poles.
Russians don’t hate these people. Not to anywhere near the extent that the hatred is returned.
The young Russians must not have read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Two Hundred Years Together”. While it’s no “Culture of Critique”, it certainly offers sufficient objectivity to the JQ in the Russian context to free Russians from the Jewish Moral Zeitgeist. In addition, it is written in their native language and is uncensored. The english translation was, until a recent project to provide the missing chapters, censored of the most critical aspects of the history that led to the horrors of the 20th century.
https://twohundredyearstogether.wordpress.com/
Not experienced dealing with Russians in this regard, but I know Syrian Christians and they are wont to just spill the beans and reveal their true feelings about Jews to someone they just met. Most people are like that and are going to be guarded about what they reveal to strangers.
The Russians, Poles, Czechs, Bulgarians and the like I have met and I have not met them in any political arena but just in normal life at a bar for example, seem to all have a consciousness of the role of the Jews both in their national past as a parasitic people and today.
So I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe you don’t know any young Russians?
Were those telling you the story buying the drinks, or were you buying the drinks?
I would think that you will be reading an expose of the Russian “Black Hundreds” by Yehudah Finkelstein in the next issue of Time Magazine or the Politico.
That’s the way the world works.
The expose on the Black Hundreds will be written by DiStefano Gemignani, the New York Times token Catholick who works in league with the Jews to destroy American Whites.
Next time, you can buy me a drink and I’ll listen to you tell me about the Roman Catholic conspiracy to take over the White world.
Its not just the Catholicks! All the Catholicks work in league with the Jews!