Word: limonov
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...liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front and The Popular Democratic Union, led by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov and Putin's former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov respectively; and of the left radical extremist National Bolshevik Party (NBP), led by a flamboyant writer Eduard Limonov. While the liberal groups call for a return to democratic reform, the violence-prone NBP calls for a revolution. Not unlike the Soviet dissidents of old, they're united by their country's growing unfreedom...
...supporters in the Moscow city government could have pointed to the tiny turnout as proof that the great majority of Russians prefer democratic reform to any brand of authoritarianism, communist or fascist. Instead, the disparate opposition forces won a fresh reason to rail against the government. Wrote Eduard Limonov, in the conservative Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper: "The first beatings are usually followed by the first bullets and the first murders...
Russian emigres have generally denied Limonov's portrayal of their life and feelings for America; no self-respecting Russian, they claim, could lead a life of such decadence, and they point to the material advantages of emigration. But for Eddie the two political systems, capitalist and communist, are the same. "Both states bullshit about the justice of their systems, but where's my money?" And while the dissidents claim there is freedom in the West, Eddie knows otherwise: "They've got no fucking freedom here, just try and say anything bold at work. No fuss, on muss...
...Eddie the child, the streets of New York are a playground. There he cavorts with the lowest of the low, enjoying great sexual satisfaction with bums and bagwomen, while at once mourning the loss of his ideal love, his "Angel Fucker," Elena, whom the rich have spirited away. Thus Limonov hopes to demonstrate the vacuity of American culture; all emigres, not only Eddie, have betrayed their own natures by giving up a homeland where there is at least a little love (though we are never told why this is so) for a place which offers no love, and money...
...character of Eddie, Limonov attempts to demonstrate this socio-political viewpoint carried to the nth degree. With his version of what he calls Russian Maximalism he gives us minimal insight; his social analysis is old and boring, and he leaves the reader with only a shell of bizarre acts and feelings without cohesion...