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Happy Birthday, Hitler? Russian police raid Hitler birthday bash

Russian neo-Nazi movement

While officials insist the gathering at a city nightclub was indeed to celebrate Hitler’s April 20 birthday, the Moscow Times reported the leader of the nationalist Russkiye (Russian) movement, one Dmitry Dyomushkin “told Dozhd television on Tuesday that the gathering was held to discuss a planned knife-fighting tournament.”

Police seized four guns, brass knuckles and knives during the raid.

Those arrested allegedly celebrating the 126th anniversary of Hitler’s birth claimed a portrait of Hitler found in the nightclub was put there by a reporter from Russia’s LifeNews television station, and that they did not even have a portrait of Hitler there. The police say it belonged to the celebrants.

Reviled by most in Russia

Hitler died in a German bunker April 30, 1945, just 10 days after his 56th birthday. As Soviet troops were closing in on the bunker, Hitler’s wife, Eva Braun, who he married only the previous day, bit into a cyanide capsule and Hitler shot himself. Their bodies were burnt.

In Russia, he is largely reviled for his attack on the Soviet Union and the deaths of millions of Russians in World War II, in particular during the defense of Stalingrad in which almost 500,000 Soviet troops lost their lives. It is considered by historians to be the turning point of the war and one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare.

Dyomushkin the leader of the Slavic Union Party, a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi party that adopted Hitler’s political philosophy and a stylized swastika as its emblem. The party was banned from Russia in 2010 for being an extremist group but in 2014 Dyomushkin was arrested for continuing the party under another name. He has spent little time in jail.

There are at least three other nationalistic political groups in Russia labeled as neo-Nazi organizations.

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