An ardent supporter of the skinhead movement in Russia, Bazylev Maxim Alekseevich is also known under the pseudonyms Adolf, Maxim Romanov (Romanov is his mother's surname) and Max-18. He is a member of the political council of the Russian National Socialist Party (NSO), as well as the founder and leader of the organization of the same name. In 2004, he founded the Russkaya Volya magazine and became its chief editor.
Maxim Bazylev: biography
He was born in the capital of the former USSR in October 1980. For the next 10 years following his birthday, the country in which he grew up “gradually went towards self-destruction” (a quote from his speeches), and this naturally affected the younger generation. In a word, he and his peers did not have that rosy childhood that Soviet people of the generation of the 60s and 70s love to talk about. Thus, the boy grew up into a teenager angry with the whole world, who vainly sought justice, and eventually joined the ranks of skinhead participants.movement.
Youth
Despite the fact that Maxim Bazylev did not leave any autobiographical data about the period of his youth, nevertheless, information about this period in the life of a young man can be found in Dmitry Nesterov’s book, which is called “Skins: Russia is Awakening”. The image of Max here is hidden under the name Rommel, and he is the main character of the novel. His youth was turbulent and, as he himself believed, productive. By nature, he was an underground worker, he did not like to demonstrate his political ideas, symbols to his environment, he did not like to stand out from the crowd. However, he always dressed in "lonsdale" (burgundy hoodie) and wore heavy combat boots with inserts.
Features and looks
Was Maxim Bazylev a believer? Of course he was an atheist. How can a person with views like his, believe in the existence of God?! What about Satan? In fact, there were rumors that he belonged to satanic and other occult movements, but people close to him deny this and consider this version nothing more than slander. He was also a teetotaler and had no taste for tobacco. In a word, Maxim Bazylev, whose photo is posted in our article, led a completely he althy lifestyle. He went in for sports, in particular, martial arts. By the way, he did not identify himself with the Straight Edge movement.
Publishing
In early 2000, Maxim Bazylev took over the publication of the Russkaya Volya magazine, whichsubsequently become the most famous NS magazine in Russia. Bazylev himself writes many articles in it, while others are written by his friend Nesterov. The first issue is published in a circulation of 500 copies and is distributed in many cities of Russia and Ukraine. The highest circulation (2000 copies) was reached in 2004. The semantic content of Russkaya Volya contained materials about subcultures, musical "tinsel", various aspects of the National Assembly, the violent nature of the political struggle, etc. The magazine began to spread not only in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, but also in Belarus. With the development of the Internet, in the same 2004, a website of the same name was created, from the pages of which propaganda of the National Socialist theory was carried out and steps were taken to attract new supporters of the movement. After the creation of the Internet resource, the Prosecutor General's Office became interested in the activities of Maxim Bazylev and the print magazine he created. However, no repressive steps were taken, with the exception of several attempts to demolish his resource from the hosting.
Max-18
Under this code name, Bazylev publishes his programmatic works on social networks, which, in the opinion of his like-minded people, are classics of revolutionary theory. Among them are The Prisoner's Book, Theory and Handbook of Terror in a State of Revolution, and a collection of interviews Skinheads. This was how Maxim Bazylev prepared his movement for the White Revolution. Quotes of this person in certain circles became catch phrases. Here are some of them:
- "Better to die standing firm than to live crawling onknees!”.
- "The main and most dangerous opponent of the NS movement in Russia is the government itself, in particular, law enforcement agencies."
- "Hopelessness is the absence of legal ways to fight."
- "Terror arises when there is no opportunity to openly declare one's rights…".
Propaganda
Maxim was a master of mass manipulation techniques and was very careful in his actions. He never forcibly imposed his point of view, his ideas on anyone, he could debate, convince, find like-minded people for several months. He often gave interviews to various underground publications, explaining various aspects of the ideology and right-wing movement of the National Assembly.
“Stays”
There is a point in Adolf's biography about which he did not particularly like to expand. There is information that he spent about two years in prison because of an attack on a certain Turk. However, Maxim himself did not like to remember this period of his life, and only the people closest to him knew where he was serving his term. There were rumors that during this period he cut his wrists twice, and this was later cited as evidence that he had a suicidal tendency. His associates, on the contrary, denied this fact and claimed that Adolf was a rather balanced person and not capable of self-torture.
Openness
Bazilev, knowing that the FSB was hunting him, nevertheless did not hide, did not hide, many knew him by sight. During television reports, including for Westernmedia, he did not require the preservation of "anonymity". In the summer of 2007, he spoke openly at NSO rallies. Friends believe that his openness sometimes went beyond the bounds of reason. Since 2004, Bazylev has been openly engaged in the dissemination of the NN theory in all regions of the Russian Federation. From 2004 to 2007, a huge number of young people joined his movement.
National Bolsheviks
Since 2004, Adolf began to organize training sessions of the NSO, under his patronage, the National Bolsheviks came, who were filmed on videotape. These records were then distributed on the Internet. They say that Bazylev himself was involved in their editing and selection of music.
Private life
Adolf had a girlfriend who was ready to marry him, give birth to his children. They say that they were already thinking about the wedding, they even wanted to order rings with SS symbols. However, in 2007, Maxim - Adolf broke up with his girlfriend, because he could not leave the movement and devote himself to his family. He was sure that a revolution would soon break out, and if he failed, he would end up in prison. Who will take care of his wife and children then?
The collapse of the NSO movement
In August 2008, the official history of the National Socialist movement was completed, and Adolf's magazine was included in the list of extremist publications by the Samara City Court. He meets 2009 in a pre-trial detention center, and on March 27, 2009, he was found dead in one of the cells of Petrovka 38. Numerous cuts were found on his body. In some foreign publications, information appeared that he suffered from schizophrenia, and also suffered from several sexually transmitted diseases.
Was put forward andsuicide version. About a month and a half after his death, Adolf's associates decided to hold an action of revenge, but this event was dispersed by law enforcement officers. Also, almost no one really knows where Maxim Bazylev is buried. Nevertheless, every year on the day of his death, adherents of the NS movement hold actions in memory of Adolf, the leader of the NS movement in Russia.
