2. Owner of the missed Samsonite luggage travelled under name of Richard Hatch. He was in fact Francis Parker Yockey, a fascist agitator soon arrested by FBI, which had been following him for years. He killed himself in jail & became a martyr of the far right still revered today
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3. Francis Parker Yockey, a strange Oswaldian figure who trotted the globe & intersected with covert networks in many countries, is worth remembering today as he planted in 1940s an idea that then seemed odd but which now is more common: Russia is a useful ally to far right.
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4. Yockey was a deranged anti-Semite, and active in trying to reactive fascist movements after WWII. In late 1940s, taking note of Stalin's anti-Semitic turn, Yockey started arguing that USSR's Marxism was superficial & European fascist should look to Moscow as a patron.
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5. Yockey's pro-Russia comments of the late 1940s and 1950s made him an odd man out. When he was found dead in jail of an apparent suicide in 1960, Yockey gained a new posthumous renowned, championed in particular by Willis Carto, leading far right anti-Semite.
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6. Thanks to Carto's mythmaking, Yockey became more famous in death than life. Collapse of USSR in 1991 made many on the right more receptive to the idea of Russia as an important ally.pic.twitter.com/MLh5CnnCOy
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7. Yockey's legacy can be seen everywhere, for example over the weekend in far right conference organized by Nick Fuentes (where several GOP lawmakers spoke or were in the audience).https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1497471734609584128 …
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8. For more on Yockey and the history of far right seeking an ally & patron in Russia, see here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/putin-aint-woke?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
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I realize this is going to be a thread, but reading it isolated is pretty dramatic.
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Early contender for best first tweet of a thread of the year award.
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Imagine being born 7 times.
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Image how hard it was on his mom.
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