A Coming Storm

Youth camps at which hundred of uniformed youths pledge alliegance to the president and are encouraged to procreate for the motherland?

Russia slides towards fascism:

The idea that Russia's anarchic, apathetic youth would ever be attracted into a disciplined mass movement in support of their president - what critics called a "Putinjugend", recalling the "Hitlerjugend" (German for "Hitler Youth") - seemed fanciful. How wrong we were.

Worth reading.

Good take-out quote for those who think fascism means life under John Howard:

When the American administration blundered into Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of people protested in the heart of Washington. When eight extraordinarily brave Soviet dissidents tried to demonstrate in Red Square against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, in 1968, they were instantly arrested and spent many years in labour camps.

-- Nick