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The Fascist International continues to coalesce

This is looks like it was a fun hack!

The hackers from the Anonymous International have disclosed thousands of text messages sent to and by Timur Prokopenko, deputy chief of the Domestic Politics Department of the Russian Federation’s Presidential Administration.

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The messages dating back to March 2014 also mention Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far right National Front, and contribute to better understanding of the relations between Russia and Le Pen’s party.

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These communications correspond well to the developments in March 2014. Le Pen did not indeed go to Crimea, but her contemporary adviser on international relations, Aymeric Chauprade, went to observe the “referendum”. The French newspaper Libération informed, with a reference to Chauprade’s entourage, that he had been invited to monitor the “referendum” by the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections (EODE), a Belgium-based NGO run by Belgian extreme right activist Luc Michel. Together with the pro-Kremlin, Poland-based European Centre for Geopolitical Analysis, the EODE was responsible for inviting international monitors to observe the “referendum” in Crimea. However, the National Front denied that the EODE had invited Chauprade, as the party feared that the publicized relationship with the Belgian right-wing extremists could damage the reputation of the National Front, especially on the eve of the municipal elections.

Whilst the Le Pen/Putin association is hardly a secret, it is always fascinating to see the spider-web of links amongst amongst Europe and Russia’s assorted fascists.

5 comments to The Fascist International continues to coalesce

  • Paul Marks

    A lot of people, and quite rightly, denounce the social democratic (“liberal”, “progressive”) consensus that dominates Western nations – for example my dear fiends (after all they have just endorsed my re election – much to my shame) the Economist magazine – with their claims to be a “limited state” “free market” publication, whilst they push Obamacare and demand that more States expand Medicaid.

    The gut churning dishonesty of the “liberal” elite is indeed hard to bare, and their system is unsustainable – both in monetary policy (the credit bubble financial system), fiscal terms (the ever growing weight of the “entitlements”), and culturally – social breakdown.

    The end of Civil Society (which rests on voluntary institutions – families, churches, fraternities and so on) and the rise of “atomised” individuals utterly dependent on the state, and seeing other human beings as such objects to plunder and abuse.

    Some of the people who see all this turn away desperately seeking something to save them.

    And they find Fascism – Mr Putin and his allies.

    They clutch at this – as a drowning man clutches at a snake.

    A poisonous snake.

    The odd thing is that a lot of such people, at least in Britain and the United States, think they are OPPOSING Fascism.

    They have been taught the Hollywood version of Fascism (a false story invented by the NKVD) that Fascism is the rule of “the rich” and “big business corporations”.

    In reality Fascism crushes the independence of these people and enterprises.

    Mussolini did and so does Mr Putin.

    However, for those who have been taught to see Fascism as the rule of the dragon “big business” – seeing Mr Putin attack big “trans national corporations” and eliminate certain very rich “capitalists” (whilst making others his servants) makes them see Mr Putin as a sort of St George.

    And, by the absurd ideology taught by the universities and Hollywood (that “the rich” and “big business corporations” are to blame for everything), I suppose Mr Putin is St George.

    Thus even people who think they are rebelling against the “Progressive” “liberal” ideology that is now dominant in the West are, in fact, mentally enslaved by it.

  • Regional

    Isn’t Hollywood dominated by big corporations?

  • bloke in spain

    @Regional
    “Isn’t Hollywood dominated by big corporations?”
    But that wouldn’t imply “big corporations” weren’t fascist. Part of the philosophy is that the big players should compete amongst themselves. So there’s nothing in the rules, one set of corporations can’t sling shit at other sets.

  • Cristina

    The determination of the role of the state is what defines every political party. Le Pen, Putin, Merkel, Miliband, Tsipras, Grillo, Iglesias, and so on are all die-hard statist. With that trait in common, every other difference in rhetoric is just political campaign tailored to their specific useful idiots.
    Of course, that goes without saying that, for them, “l’état, c’est moi”.

  • Nicholas (Self-Sovereignty) Gray

    Since Fascists are Nationalists, how could they ever have conferences? If a Fascist becomes an Internationalist, then he/she is a Communist!