"FUCKING COOL SATANISTS"
 

 
(taken from Nastoyaschee / Moskva-Zapad, p.14, an article by Irina Lobanovskaya)

"On the night of 7th of October 1998, a chapel at Rublev's cemetery was savagely pillaged and burnt down. <..> Even before the actual chapel was built, local cemetery workers discovered a horrible inscription nearby, stating "SATANS", and below, "there will be no chapel, never". <..> It's quite difficult to state that Vladimir Simonov (born in 1981) and Pavel Lysov (born in 1978) are exactly those who violated the cemetery in Summer 1998, although it's obvious that both young men are not christians (and probably never were). One of them has an inverted cross scarred right up on his chest. During a search in his apartments, local policemen found out a lot of satanic symbols, stickers saying "Fucking cool satanists" and Russian anti-christian magazine. This horrible edition's starting off a "Die you, bastard!" wish; one page's whole filled with Hitler, Stalin and Mao's statements. Then again, - inverted crosses, headless Christ, photos depicting grim musicians playing black metal, who, lyrically, deal mostly with witches, vampires, satanism and wars. Publishers maintain their propaganda through music, telling about hard rock which arose in Europe, particularly in Norway. Musicians began to set churches on fire exactly in this country, having goal to make youth in all States worldwide do the same. <..> These young men were obviously brainwashed. There was no one to stop them, keep away from the cutting edge. Pavel's father is a heavy alcoholic, his mother married a foreigner and currently lives outside Russia. Vladimir's family situation is also far from being successful. <..>
Both Lysov and Simonov were sentenced to three years in prison, but how many those overfilled with satanic ideas and watchwords left amongst us!"