A collection of articles and letters that appeared in 2002 and is freely accessible
on the internet contains a note about Boris Ikhlov,* who passes himself off as a left-
wing activist but feels no shame in writing for Limonka, the periodical of the fascist
National-Bolshevik Party.
Ikhlov still calls himself a leftist and – among other things – tries to maintain
his old contacts with left-wing organizations abroad and also form new contacts. In
order to understand what this entails for left-wing organizations – and, above all, for
activists in the former Soviet Union who work with them and have the misfortune
to encounter Ikhlov – it is worth taking a look at issues 4 and 5 (July 2002, pp. 3-
5; September 2002, pp. 5-6) of the Perm rag Svobodny vybor [Free Choice]. There
you will find a long article by Ikhlov entitled On the Liberalism of Trotskyists and
Stalinists, or the Stalinist-Trotskyist Essence of Liberalism.
