1. In 1960, airport handlers in Fort Worth, Texas were confounded by an unclaimed Samsonite suitcase due to missed connection. They opened it & inside found fascist literature, porn, 7 birth certificates & passports from 4 countries, with different names but all for the same man
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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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