The behavior of some Russian football fans — using that last word in the loosest sense — makes one pine for the days of the Cold War, when these thugs would not have been able to travel abroad. Say what you will about the Iron Curtain: at least it kept the lumpen Russian at home. He is now uncaged and in our midst.
Much condemnation has been directed at the comportment of English hooligans in Marseille, and rightly so. But the worst thuggery, in the end, came from the Russian hordes in the stadium: trained, violent hooligans with extreme nationalist (even …read more
Source: European Voice
