Bandera Lobby Show Ep. 1: Russ Bellant
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For this debut episode of the Bandera Lobby Show, I interviewed Russ Bellant, author of "Old Nazis, New Right, and the Republican Party." Subscribers may remember him from my found footage documentary, "WAZ and the Magic Circle." Russ is a writer and activist from Detroit who inspired me to research the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. On October 29 in Berlin, we will be speaking at a conference on "The Bandera Complex: Ukrainian fascism -- history, function, networks" which will be live-streamed to reach an international audience. For more information (including how to buy tickets) please visit: https://www.jungewelt.de/blogs/bandera_komplex. If you would like to help us expose the Banderites in Berlin, you can support this fundraiser that I organized: https://gofund.me/0c91af51. As of 9/13, GoFundMe hasn't yet approved it, so in case they try to stop us, or if you don't want to wait, you can send the money to me directly and I will make the donation on your behalf when that becomes possible. (Venmo: @Moss-Robeson. Cashapp: $mrobeson.)

And then when I went to the Republican ones, and I talked to Latvians and Lithuanians and so forth, they just started talking openly about the connection between the Republican Club, the Coalition for Peace through Strength, the ABN [Antibolshevik Bloc of Nations], and the World Anticommunist League. They all—it was all umbrella, the same people.

And so, I said [that] this story is going to take a while to tell, because I wanted to cover everything, and… make sure they—they were used to operating without anybody questioning who[m] they were. They were taken at face value. You know. ‘I hate the Soviet Union.’ ‘Well, you hate the Soviet Union, so we don’t ask any other questions’, you know. Right.

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[A]fter the election of 1988 was over, the New York Times published an opinion piece [that] I wrote on this subject, about the [Fascist] wing of the Republican Party, and not one newspaper picked the story up, and there was no reporting on it ever. And… 60 Minutes, which was a major television investigative reporting program, started working on it, but White House pressure was put on them to kill the story and they did.

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Events that happened today (September 14):

1940: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, massacred 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania.
1943: The Wehrmacht commenced a three‐day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
1944: The Axis the Dutch city of Maastricht to the Allies.
1966: Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, dropped dead.