Word: pamyat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...
...remarkable that he had come to trial at all. Though a videotape made at the January session clearly showed the Pamyat leader shouting his diatribe against Jews through a megaphone, it was not until July -- and after pressure from liberal intellectuals -- that Smirnov-Ostashvili was charged with "inciting ethnic hatred" under a little-used article in the Russian Federation criminal code...
This group should be taken seriously. Pamyat has chapters in cities all over the Soviet Union and held a national congress in Leningrad last month. Many Western observers suspect that the group has received support from high officials in the current Soviet regime...
...late January, a member of Pamyat appeared on a nationally televised program and predicted pogroms for May 5th of this year against the Jews of Russia...
...Already, Pamyat members have singled out Jewish children in schools and recorded their names. Leaflets are widely distributed in mailboxes threatening Jews to leave. A meeting of the Moscow Writers' Union was broken up by 30 Pamyat members, shouting "Today we are here with loudspeakers; tomorrow we will come with guns...