Beness Aijo
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Beness Aijo (Russian: Бенес Христофорович Айо), also known as the "Black Lenin", is a National Bolshevik revolutionary who has been involved in the Palestinian struggle and the War in Donbass.[1] He was a member of the National Bolshevik Party from 1998 until its disestablishment in 2007 and is associated with the CPGB-ML and CPRF. He participated in the Annexation of Crimea and Donbass.
Life
He was born in the Latvian SSR June 8, 1979 to a Ugandan father and a Russian mother. He attended University of Latvia to study biology. In 2005 Айо have gotten arrested by the Latvian authorities for setting off smoke bombs in protest of George W. Bushes visitation of Latvia under the charge of "calling for overthrow of the political system". He was put on police surveillance in which he then fled Latvia to London. He then attended University of London for Microbiology. He also worked at building the Heathrow Terminal 2. This was when he was in contact with CPGB-ML and became involved in political actions. In Summer of 2013 he traveled to Palestine to protest the Zionist Occupied Government of Israel and gained experience as a paramedic.[2] In the Autumn of that year he traveled to Moscow and participated in Eduard Liminov's party The Other Russia in a congressional meeting. He participated in political actions and protests November of that year against the detainment and death of Aleksandr Dolmatov in The Hague, He was detained for two months by the Dutch. In 2014 he traveled to Ukraine in which he was arrested and sent back to UK, he came back may of that year by crossing the boarder with two others. The place they were staying in got swatted by the Urks and he was tortured by the National guard. He was then deported to Latvia in which he was then detained by the Latvian government. The Other Russia protested for his release. In 2015 he Hitch hiked to Tallinn then ferried to Finland then took a bus to Russia then arrived in Lugansk in which the newly formed republic allowed him to write articles and join military service. He participated in Debaltseve, and Stanytsia Luhanska. The was a at Large Convict by the Latvian government after his escape. In Beginning of this year (2020) he was detained in Yarensk, Russia for a protest about a garbage landfill. The Latvian government requested extradition and requested from Putin political asylum.