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September 23rd, 2017 | #1 |
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Russian and American white nationalists raise their flags in Washington
Russian, American white nationalists raise their flags in Washington
"The big thing was being able to identify that their goals and our goals are very similar." Since 2015, Matthew Heimbach, one of the foremost white nationalists in the United States, has been trying to construct links with Russian nationalists. At the 2015 launch of his Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), Heimbach hosted Alexander Dugin, Russia’s neo-fascist polemicist — although Dugin, due to the United States’ sanctions regime, could only appear via video. Last year, Heimbach announced his intentions to travel to Russia’s World National Conservative Movement conference, but his travel plans eventually fell through. Now, though, it appears Heimbach has finally had his tete-a-tete with a member of one of Russia’s more notable nationalist movements. Speaking with ThinkProgress, Heimbach revealed that he had spent time earlier this month in both Washington, D.C., and Gettysburg, Pa., with a representative from the Russian Imperial Movement. The meeting appears to be the first summit on American soil between one of the leaders of the white nationalist movement in the United States and an official representative from a Russian nationalist organization. “I think [the meeting] was tremendously positive in every regard,” Heimbach told ThinkProgress. “The big thing was being able to identify that their goals and our goals are very similar: being opposed to liberalism, being opposed to really left and conservative reactionary politics, spiritual revival, and nationalist principles. And it looks like we’re really aiming to have TWP kind of be the representative of America at the future gatherings of the Russian Imperial Movement.” Heimbach has gained outsized notoriety over the past few years, both for being involved in violent scuffles at a Donald Trump rally in 2016 as well as, more recently, his efforts to promote the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville that resulted in one of the most violent far-right terror incidents in years. [More...] |
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