An article by Aleksey Tsvetkov, anarchist writer and associate director of Limonka who temporarily turned the newspaper to a postmodern art project of sorts.
Post-Soviet
1996
The second object, “An armed paradise” (Vooruzhennyi rai), is an article by anarchist writer Aleksey Tsvetkov, who acted as Limonka’s associate editor between 1996 and 1998, reflects the violent, visionary, and rebellious spirit of the early NBP. In his writing and performances, Tsvetkov pushed Dugin’s and Limonov’s imaginative, provocative, and possibly irresponsible free play with art and radical politics even further. And according to some he in fact ended up turning Limonka, at least for a while, into a postmodern art project of sorts. In this article, Tsvetkov imagines how a young party member would join the radical heroes from the posters in his bedroom (Charles Manson, the German terrorist Andreas Baader, Che Guevara, Malcolm X) to participate in an assassination attempt against the president and eventually enter a totalitarian “armed paradise”—where young National Bolsheviks live side by side with their political models, wear “uniforms made of sun” and “golden handcuffs,” and drink “wine of eternal life” handed to them by a “white-haired goddess.”
Limonov, Eduard and Dugin, Aleksander (Aleksandr)
Russia and former Soviet Union
Aleksey Tsvetkov, “An Armed Paradise.” Limonka. 35: Mar 1996