Founded Autumn 2010 Territory Russia, Ukraine | Years active 2010–present | |
Ethnicity Ukrainians (core), Russians, Jews and Caucasians | ||
Block FACT (Russian: Блок «Фаланга антикоммунистического тарана», 'Block "Phalanx of Anti-Communist Ram"') is part of a Russian far-right group, operating in St. Petersburg and established in the autumn of 2010.
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Publicity
The public statements from Block FACT often represent hard anti-communism. The organization's criteria for labeling a group as communist are quite broad. For example, the regimes of Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and even the Kingdom of Bahrain were labeled as "communist" by Block FACT.
Activities
Block FACT claimed responsibility for the beating of St. Petersburg Marxist-Leninist historian Igor Pykhalov, setting fire to a Communist Party car (September 2011), and assaulting magistrate Alexei Kuznetsov (April 2013). Block FACT claimed responsibility for beating Communist Party secretary Alexey Rusakov (August 2012), burning a Communist Party car (February 2012), desecrating and destroying a series of Soviet memorials (plaques Lenin, Uritsky, Romanov, Trefolev, Voytik), and attacking several activists of Communist organizations.
Some commentators characterized the actions of Block FACT as a relaxed variant of European neo-fascist terrorism of the 1970s. It is assumed that the activists of Block FACT attacked a former Duma deputy, Viktor Tyulkin. The leader of the St. Petersburg communist organizations, Tyulkin, was beaten on 4 October 2013, after a communist demonstration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the events of October 1993. One of the attackers congratulated Tyulkin with "happy holidays".