Maxim Kalashnikov

Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko () (born December 21, 1966), better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Макси́м Кала́шников), is a Russian patriotic writer, publicist, and political activist.

His writings focus on praising the Soviet Union and its political and economic system from a Russian nationalist perspective, criticizing the Russian government, and discussing the perceived NATO (particularly American) threat to Russia and the likelihood that this antagonism will result in a nuclear war between Russia and NATO.

Kucherenko was born in Ashgabat on December 21, 1966, but spent much of his childhood in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). He served in the Red Army from 1985 to 1987, and graduated from Moscow State University in 1991 with degree in history. Kucherenko is the father of three daughters, and published his first book in 1993.Maxim Kalashnikov - "The broken sword of the Empire" ISBN 5-89747-027-8

Ideology and criticism

Maxim Kalashnikov is predominately a Russian nationalistic agitator. Being an expert in Russian history, economics and military, he criticizes modern Russia and praise the Soviet system, or more precisely what it had been under Joseph Stalin and what it could have become without Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. He is an advocate of "a federated Russian Empire" consisting of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, parts of Belarus, Moldova's breakaway Transdniester and Georgia's......
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