Interview with the author of Old Nazis, New Right, and the Republican Party
Interview with the author of Old Nazis, New Right, and the Republican Party

For this debut episode of the Bandera Lobby Show, I interviewed Russ Bellant, author of "Old Nazis, New Right, and the Republican Party." Subscribers may remember him from my found footage documentary, "WAZ and the Magic Circle." Russ is a writer and activist from Detroit who inspired me to research...

And then when I went to the Republican ones, and I talked to Latvians and Lithuanians and so forth, they just started talking openly about the connection between the Republican Club, the Coalition for Peace through Strength, the ABN [Antibolshevik Bloc of Nations], and the World Anticommunist League. They all—it was all umbrella, the same people.
And so, I said [that] this story is going to take a while to tell, because I wanted to cover everything, and… make sure they—they were used to operating without anybody questioning who[m] they were. They were taken at face value. You know. ‘I hate the Soviet Union.’ ‘Well, you hate the Soviet Union, so we don’t ask any other questions’, you know. Right.
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[A]fter the election of 1988 was over, the New York Times published an opinion piece [that] I wrote on this subject, about the [Fascist] wing of the Republican Party, and not one newspaper picked the story up, and there was no reporting on it ever. And… 60 Minutes, which was a major television investigative reporting program, started working on it, but White House pressure was put on them to kill the story and they did.
(Spotted here.)