Pamyat

Pamjat (Russian Память "memory ") was a radical- nationalist and anti -Semitic group that emerged in the period of transition to the post-Soviet Russia from 1987.

Predecessor organizations

The later main initiators of the organization were the Vice-Rector of Novosibirsk University Nikolai Sagoruiko and Orientalistikprofessor Valieri Emelianow. Sagoruiko had previously founded in Novosibirsk volunteers Society for sobriety, which campaigned for a ban on alcohol and this could at least regionally also prevail. The later emanating from Pamjat anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism were also an integral part on the presentations of the volunteers Society for sobriety. Anti-Semitism experienced in the Soviet Union under the guise of anti-Zionism since the late 1960s, government funding. Such programs were indeed set under Gorbachev, the new freedoms under perestroika and glasnost gave now but also non-governmental organizations the opportunity to pursue their extreme right-wing goals.

History

The ever coming into the mid-1980s to the fore tendencies of the predecessor organization to the far right eventually led to the founding of Pamjat. Official concern of Pamjat was the revival of Russian cultural heritage; you fought for the preservation of churches, icons and other antiquities. Intangible cultural values ​​was seen mainly by alleged Jewish conspiracies and Masonic, but also threatened by representatives of modern trends in painting and literature.

The members and followers of Pamjat put an even threats and violence to achieve these goals. So the pianist Anatol Ugorski 1990 after attacks on his family fled to what was then East Berlin. Pamjat the anti-Semitic pamphlet Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia was also responsible for the dissemination of texts and ideas. The influence of Pamjat on Russian society was so great that in early 1990 was to increase significantly promoted by their anti-Semitic sentiment, the emigration of Jews to Germany. Unlike other non-governmental associations Pamjat the movement of the state power remained largely unchallenged and even experienced support. In May 1987, organized Pamjat pendant undeclared demonstration in the center of Moscow, to protest against a construction project. Although it was an illegal event, there was a two-hour conversation with Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, who at that time was first secretary of the city committee of the CPSU in Moscow.

While from Pamjat out emerged a number of other radical groups, the organization dissolved itself due to internal conflicts in the 1990s again.

Known members

• Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov