Russia is the largest country on earth and home to nearly 150 million people. Vladimir Putin is well into his third term as president and with the West imposing tough sanctions, relations are now the frostiest since the Cold War.
Reggie Yates gets up close and personal with three very different communities in contemporary Russia. By living with them for a week, he explores what it's like for young people living here, 24 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the first of three programmes revealing the extreme side of Russia, Reggie travels to Moscow to meet some of the country's most dangerous people - the nationalists. With Putin flexing his muscles and squaring up to the West, Reggie arrives in the Russian capital only days before a march in which thousands of ultra-nationalists take to the streets in a show of strength and unity. Reggie immerses himself into a world where patriotism and loving your country is becoming the norm, one with very dangerous consequences.
He trains with knife-wielding far-right nationalists, talks to the young artists who idolise Putin, and confronts teenage neo-Nazis who believe that if you're not white then you have no place in Russia. Reggie also meets the non-Russians who live in fear of persecution and hears horrific stories of those who have survived vicious racist attacks. And with the rise of the far right not just in Russia but across many other Western countries, including the UK, Reggie asks if this is what can happen when you love your country too much.
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
I think it's okay to love your country, okay to love your culture etc but if this love is taken to an extreme like the individuals demonstrated in the documentary i.e. keep Russia for whites only then this is where we land ourselves in trouble as a nation.
It's disgusting how Muslims are treated in Russia - one man got attacked and even the doctor in the hospital refused to give him treatment because he was an 'immigrant' and the shocking thing about it all is this is accepted as the norm. It's acceptable behaviour in Russia.
Personally, i would want to move out of that country if i felt i was putting myself in harm's way but majority choose to stay (most likely for work) ...
This irrational fear towards Muslims and a hatred for 'people of colour' is so silly. Doesn't make sense to me at all.
Love for humanity should come before love of country!
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
There is something wrong with it, by definition... otherwise it would not be 'too' much.
The problem is not loving your country but the 'too much' is when that mutates into the belief your country is somehow better than others, and that your citizens are superior and more worthy. And we all know where that ends up.
BTW, what 'rise of the far right' in the UK? Since when?
"Russia" is a very big place and most of it is Asia. Is the white nationalism west of the Ural Mountains European Russia which is traditionally white turf? Or are the whites attacking the Asians way out in Siberia?
I've actually been watching this (barring episode two) and so far, I am appalled at the culture of Russia which leaves young girls wanting to become models and often start as young as 5 or 6 - it's total brainwashing.
The first episode was no disturbing than attending a BNP or EDL rally to be honest, episode 3 however was a real eye opener for me. I felt so sorry for the young girls, their poor parents feel helpless in finding them an alternative avenue of income and so, this happens. Some scenes reminded me of shopping in a meat market, so degrading for the girls - may Allah have mercy.
The BBC is a commie pommie propaganda media outfit that serves the English government. They used to be very right wing in the old God king and country British empire days but Britain has been on a long slide towards the left i.e. government controlling everyone's lives, not just keeping the colonies under the boot. In Russia the opposite is happening, their propaganda media Pravda started out commie and has been sliding towards the right and going back to the old God and motherland with a firm leader at the helm days line and saying the West is going commie which is true in a certain way, that is socialism for the poor (the majority) and capitalism for the rich (the minority) in a totalitarian state, more or less the Zionist NWO with it's war machine NATO.
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Nothing wrong with loving your country too much.
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