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Neo-Confederates reach out to their ‘Russian friends’ in new project

Rejected submission by aristarchus at 2018-07-22 00:33:26 from the Non-agression-pact-all-over-again dept.
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Found at Think Progress [thinkprogress.org] (--Link to Fine Article)

In late 2014, before Russian hackers had stolen emails from Hillary Clinton or accused Russian agents had met with Republican higher-ups, a small conference gathered in Moscow’s Izmailovo Alfa Hotel.

Organized by a group called the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), the one-day conference was, according to a press release, dedicated to the “struggle for independence and creation of new sovereign geopolitical entities on the map of the world.”

The 2014 gathering was the first of what would become an annual affair for AGMR. The group went on to host a series of conferences that would, in time, attract both Kremlin funding and secessionists from states like Texas, California, and Hawaii — and, this week, help spark the newest plea for help from neo-Confederates in the United States

Now, though, Hill is reaching out once more to his allies in Russia. First reported by Right Wing Watch’s Peter Montgomery, Hill penned a note to his “Russian friends” this week, announcing that the League of the South would soon have a “Russian language section” on the group’s website. Wrote Hill:

We understand that the Russian people and Southerners are natural allies in blood, culture, and religion. As fellow Whites of northern European extraction, we come from the same general gene pool. As inheritors of the European cultural tradition, we share similar values, customs, and ways of life. And as Christians, we worship the same Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and our common faith binds us as brothers and sisters….

Seems to have forgotten the Marxist tradition of European tradition.


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