A brochure put out by the pro-Kremlin youth group "Nashi" exposes the movement's rabidly paranoid worldview. The author of the brochure employs an extremely broad use of the word "fascist" to describe extremist nationalists, far-left opponents of the Kremlin's policies, and pro-Western liberals, characterizing all of them as part of an enormous conspiracy against Russia.

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