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The Pack of White Wolves
The Pack of White Wolves
Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Greece / 2008 / 63 min.
Even though it seems inconceivable (and not just to veterans of the Second World War), Russia is home to the largest number of neo-Nazis in the world. Thousands of people in this country are members of various fascist organisations like the SS (Slavic Union) and several hundred thousand others are more or less active sympathisers, including many Russian police officers and officials. Consequently, the vast majority of brutal murders carried out by neo-Nazis in Moscow and St. Petersburg have not been investigated at all. In the first four months of 2008 alone, neo-Nazis attacked 211 people in Russia, 53 of whom were stabbed or kicked to death. This alarming documentary by Yorgos Avgeropoulos uses countless amounts of amateur footage of brutal attacks, which Russian neo-Nazis themselves filmed and proudly posted on the internet. Footage of two immigrants being executed under a flag with a swastika leaves a chilling impression, as do interviews with members of Russian fascist organisations, whose increasing activity represents another dark underbelly of contemporary Russia.
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