Nazbol Subversive Eric Striker Supports Imprisonment of White Nationalists in Russia

National Bolshevik subversive Eric Striker fashions himself a free speech activist.

His entire website, National Justice, seems dedicated to complaining about the FBI and tech companies curtailing the free speech and assembly rights of white nationalists in the USA.

But when it comes to Russia, Striker does a baffling 180 reversal, endorsing Putin’s hate speech crackdowns on white nationalists on the basis that they don’t support Putin’s proxy war in Ukraine.

Listen at the 10:00 mark of this recent interview:

Striker is asked about the issue of white nationalists being suppressed in Russia. He immediately declares the questioner a “troll,” (right, so asking him tough questions about his Russian shill act is just “trolling”) and then goes on to defend the policy of putting Russian white nationalists in prison.

His defense centers around the idea that Russian white nationalists, for the most part, didn’t support Putin’s war in Ukraine and therefore the Kremlin has the right to arrest and prosecute anyone not supporting its war.

The truth is that there was a split among nationalists in Russia when Putin launched his anti-fascist crusade against Ukraine. The more National Socialist and racialist Russian factions opposed the war, and rightly so, whereas the more civic nationalist Christians and Nazbol types with a Stalin fetish supported it.

Mariya Petrova explained this:

The events of 2014 in Ukraine caught the ultranationalist groups in Russia by surprise. On one hand, the Kremlin was employing strong nationalist rhetoric claiming Crimeawas “rightfully” Russian and that ethnic Russians living in Ukraine had to be protected; on the other, fellow Ukrainian far-right groups were supporting the Maidan and opposing the annexation.

“In 2014, the Kremlin demanded full loyalty from all Russian nationalists,” says Shekhovtsov. “Some of them declined to become loyal to the Kremlin.”

The result was a “schism” in the nationalist movement with one camp supporting the annexation of Crimea and the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the other opposing both and supporting the Ukrainian central government.

“We right-wing nationalists – we consider [the breakaway regions in Eastern Ukraine] Putin’s machinations. We stood up against this and we suffered fierce repressions,” says Beletsky.

On November 4, 2014, there were two events in Moscow that claimed to be the Russian march – one supporting the annexation of Crimea and the other rejecting it. In the following months, one by one leaders of ultranationalist groups supporting the latter were arrested on various charges.

These Russian white nationalists had suffered suppression long before the Ukraine fiasco, always on hate speech grounds, but the flare up with Ukraine gave Putin added incentive to silence them for not signing up to be cannon fodder in a brother war with a neighboring Slavic state.

Exiled Russian nationalist Dimitriy Savvin explained that the authorities went after him for opposing Putin’s Ukraine war and for criticizing Putin’s immigration polices:

Being a consistent opponent of neo-Bolshevik Putin regime since the first days of the Crimean affair, I was determinately against annexing of Crimea, as well as the war provoked in South-Eastern Ukraine. Because I thought and I still think, that this war is a crime against both, Russian and Ukrainian nations.

Since May 2014 I began to publish the articles in Russian and Russian-speaking Ukrainian informative and analytical site “Pyotr and Mazepa” («Петр и Мазепа»). My publishing were written from consistent anti-war position. Finally, on March 5 of 2015, a search warrant against me was unexpectedly carried out, in which (and this is noteworthy) participated not only police, but also the Federal Security Service (FSB) agents. The formal reason for search warrant was a criminal case of murder of some Central Asian migrant workers (I didn’t even know, that such a crime took place). In addition, all the things, which one way or another were related with Ukraine were taken during the search. For example, the collection of articles, among which there was also my publication, etc. The most interesting question, which they asked me, was: “what do you think of Taras Shevchenko’s creative work?”

When the search was over, one of the FSB agents called me into my kitchen for talk. He offered “to meet some time”, and “discuss, what I know”. Respectively, speaking directly, he kindly offered me to be his informer.

A few days later, on March 9th, I was called to Petrograd District Investigation Committee. It turned out, that the criminal case, according to paragraph 282 (“instigation of national hatred”) was reopened because of the demonstration, which we organized in 2013. However, the demonstration has been authorized by the authorities. The main goal of it was the demand for introduction of visa status with Central Asian and Transcaucasia countries. And now, they had decided to reopen this case.

In addition, in February 2015 the FSB special forces arrested and later sentenced the other Russian nationalist Maksim Kalinichenko from St. Petersburg. The reason was, he created a group “Russian Right sector” (“Русский Правый сектор”) in social network in “In contact” (“ВКонтаке”). Additionally I want to say that in the past the Russian right-winger Daniil Konstantinov spent two years in investigative isolator after being charged with fabricated criminal murder case (he was recognized as a political prisoner and currently living in Lithuania, where he found asylum).

But even supporting Putin’s Ukraine war won’t guarantee that he won’t arrest or harass you for something else, as Russian ethno-nationalist Dmitry Dyomushkin explained:

Fresh evidence for that comes from what may strike many as an unusual source: Dmitry Dyomushkin, a Russian nationalist who heads the “Russians” ethno-political movement, who says that now one can love the powers that be only in the manner that the powers themselves want.

The Kremlin is so obsessed with control, he told two Kavkazskaya Politika interviewers, that it is now persecuting with searches and arrests even those who support it but who are not under its total and complete control, actions which in his view undermine the interests of the state and of Russia as a whole.

At the present time, Dyomushkin says, “the Kremlin simply persecutes nationalists, and the force structures threaten them independent of the position of the nationalist on any particular question [such as Ukraine]. You can even glorify Putin, but this is no guarantee that you won’t be arrested or treated illegally. One must love Putin only with permission.”

The Russian nationalist activist was recently subjected to the eighth search of his residence and person by the security agencies, one that involved 12 officers and lasted seven hours. They found nothing because “what could be found after seven earlier searches had taken place?” It was simply a form of harassment, he says.

So opposing a war is now grounds for being arrested and imprisoned, according to this neo-Bolshevik shill Eric Striker. Yet isn’t Striker always complaining about American wars in the Middle East, and demanding that those wars end? He has postured as a human meat shield for Iran, demanding that white nationalists get themselves killed so that Trump doesn’t hurt the camel jockeys over there.

So why shouldn’t the FBI arrest Striker for his subversive anti-war activities? One could use the same precise logic to justify the imprisonment of Striker. Striker has voiced support for Venezuela’s Maduro regime, a declared enemy of the USA, so why shouldn’t Striker be arrested on these grounds? I must point out that Striker is not even truly anti-war either, since he cheers for Putin’s war in Ukraine against genuine white nationalists like Azov.

But therein lies the grift with Striker… he doesn’t actually have any solid principles, he just does and says whatever he thinks will be disruptive to the American government while shilling opposite positions when that is advantageous to Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela or any other shithole regime he believes is not under Western influence.

Striker is not even a real white nationalist… he’s a class-obsessed communist who puts the issues of wage growth and welfare handout programs above immigration, hence his support of white-hating open borders scumbags like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn.

All of this establishes that Striker is a definitive neo-Bolshevist and not a white nationalist. He’s for Duginist Dinduism, not white nationalism.

Of course, Striker will never debate me on these points, he has explicitly rejected debate offers from me multiple times. That’s because he knows that his feeble positions will fall apart when scrutiny is applied to them, and he can’t afford to get exposed by someone like me who understands his shady angling.