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According to the Ministry of Interior’s biannual report on extremism, the anti-establishment, anti-government movement in Czechia has been gaining strength and is now overshadowing the traditional xenophobic extremist groups. Where did this movement originate and how serious a threat does it pose? I discussed these questions with extremism expert Miroslav Mareš from Brno’s Masaryk University.
“It is quite a terminological challenge, because the governmental reports on extremism traditionally focused on hard-line extremist groups. If we look back to the mid-1990s, there were some racist skinhead gangs and neo-Nazis on the far right spectrum and the dogmatic communists or anarchists on the left side of the extremist spectrum.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková