NewsFromRussia.Com Nazi Propaganda Is a New Fashion

Russia has caught World War II fever 60 years after the war's end, but the books and DVDs flying off store shelves are far from patriotic. They contain Nazi themes and often offer Nazi ideology. "It's already a fashion," said Sergei Stepanich, an expert on fascist literature at the Center for Human Rights. Nestled among pornographic DVDs at kiosks at Leningradsky Station are numerous discs offering original Nazi propaganda from the 1940s. The DVDs carry the original newsreels that were shown in German cinemas. A DVD on the Nazi SS has a blurb on the back of the box that talks about the troops' "genuine professionalism." "The DVDs are very popular," said one merchant, who refused to give his name. The propaganda is not only on sale at Moscow's railway stations. At a central Moscow outlet of Soyuz Records, one of the capital's biggest music and video chains, a series of DVDs on the actresses of the Third Reich shares a shelf with Audrey Hepburn box sets.