European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Arlt to to Europe the Quot right proposals of Liberal democratic party Leader Vladimir a Mirinovsky worry some of Russia s neighbors who fear the ideas May inspire fascist groups throughout Europe. Russian vote Barth Frauen the associated press g Ermany still burdened by the evil of Adolf Hitler and beset More recently by Neo nazi viciousness is worried that the surprising electoral Success of a right vying extremist in nearby Russia will encourage the German fringe groups. Attacks by Neo nazi skinheads on foreigners Are Down in Germany this year from last because of tougher police intervention and far right politicians have faltered at the polls. But hate groups Are bound across Europe by networks says Germany s Justice minister and their messages Are finding Fertile ground in Corners of a continent stricken by economic and political uncertainty. In neighbouring Austria six people at least two of them Neo nazis have been arrested in connection with a series of letter bombs sent to politicians and advocates of ethnic minorities. Over the last month right Wing extremists have gone mainstream in elections in Italy and now Russia and they be scored. Gains in France and Britain. Germans who gave the word Quot angst Quot to the English language and Are worriers by nature indicated in a snap poll last week that 77 percent of them were Quot uneasy Quot about the russian election in which Ultra nationalists won nearly one Quarter of parliament s seat. Vladimir a Mirinovsky Leader of the angst Liberal democratic party has said variously in the past that he would Arm the serbs Spray nuclear waste at the Baltic and bomb his enemies a including Germany a All to restore Russia to its former glory. Such remarks Are especially worrisome to Germany where resurgent Neo nazis have tarnished the difficult reunion of West and East Germany and where any stutter step in russian democracy would have financial repercussions. Germany has sunk $48 billion in Aid into Russia since 1989. Chancellor Helmut Kohl published a reassuring article in wednesday s mass circulation Bild newspaper. The russian vote was no cause for alarm Kohl said although events would be Quot watched  but members of Kohl s weak three party coalition disagree Quot this result will motivate right Wing radicals Quot said Sabine Leutheusser Schnar Renberger the Justice minister. Quot we Haye to recognize that there s a pretty extensive International network among these  from Russia a Mirinovsky has been in Contact for several years with the German people s Union a Small Bavaria based party that advocates expelling All foreigners and annexing parts of Poland and the Baltic states. In an interview published last week in the party s newspaper the National Zeitung a Mirinovsky suggested that Germany and Russia form a military Alliance and perhaps carve up Poland the Baltic and Ukraine Between them. Quot the Oder Neisse treaty in t the last word Quot a Mirinovsky declared referring to the treaty that set the Post world War ii boundaries of Germany and Poland. The russian vote is unlikely to Lead germans to vote right maintains Andrei Markovits a Cerman specialist at the University of California at Santa Cruz but there is a parallel to the Germany of the 1920s. Quot this Guy is an absolute fascist and these sentiments reach deep into the army and russian society Quot Markovits said. Quot it s the Stab in the Back legend All Over  Hitler capitalized on the humiliation of Defeated germans in the 1920s by claiming jewish Bankers and politicians had sabotaged the army in world War i. For All the sounds of woe in Germany where unemployment could soar to 4 million next year near the level of the 1930s Weimar Republic far right leaders Haven t had much electoral Success of late. But the climate of uncertainty makes Many germans anxious said Andrew Baker an american rabbi who was gauging German attitudes during a visit by a delegation of the american jewish committee to Bonn last week. Quot what you saw in Italy and Russia is How easy the dissatisfaction with mainstream parties can Lead to support for extremists Quot Baker said. Quot the Only people who seem to be Able to articulate opposition Are these extremists. That s very  look driven to politics by Lack of Friendship an unhappy childhood and painful shyness about sex led Vladimir a Mirinovsky into politics the Leader of Russia s extreme nationalist party says in his autobiography. Quot i grew up in an atmosphere in which there was no warmth a not from anyone. Not from my parents not from friends or teachers. I was always somehow unwanted Quot he wrote. The autobiography published in september reveals a deeply resentful lonely Man. With uncommon Candor it says that politics became his substitute for Friendship and love. During his student years a Mirinovsky recalls he tried to go out with girls but was too timid to have a Normal sex life. Instead his Energy went into politics. Quot maybe just As an artist or a composer needs some kind of unhappiness in order to create in order to have inspiration so it was with me. So that i could understand the political processes in society better and More deeply i was cheated out of something in All other relationships Quot he wrote. The title of the autobiography the final March South refers to a Mirinovsky s dream that Russia will grow Strong again and expand across much of Europe and Asia. A the final March South a russian Access to the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean sea a that is the real task of saving the russian nation Quot he wrote. Two russian soldiers cast their votes. The 143-Page paperback volume which had a first edition of 75,000, contains Many musings on russian history strategy and geopolitics. But the 47-year-old a Mirinovsky now married with one son devotes nearly half the Book to his troubled childhood in Alma Ata the capital of Kazakhstan and his student years in Moscow. His father a lawyer died in a car crash. The family was left poor and his Mother went to work in a cafeteria. Both at school and at Home he Felt unloved. Quot i was practically never praised often scolded. I had no successes i was not a very Strong boy. There were no achievements in sports,.he recalled. A Mirinovsky moved to Moscow in 1964, at the age of 18, to study at the nations top University Moscow state. Quot Moscow boys at that time had already started sexual life. But i a boy from a provincial City had Only had my first kisses. My first attempts to engage in the sexual act were unsuccessful. At the age of 17-18,1 was very timid shy Quot he wrote. Gradually politics came to fill the Gap in his personal life. Quot As it happened willingly or not i gradually became occupied with social questions Quot he wrote. Quot i thought about society and its problems about social issues about relations Between people a constant feeling of dissatisfaction was the  a the associated press monday december 20, 1993 Thi stars and stripes