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There are probably a lot of Russians who fled to Germany after WWII only to end up in Huntsville, Al with a 9 year gap in their resume starting in 1941..., right?

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    https://toad.social/@PimentoMori/115108786623074186

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky

    http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2175

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      https://toad.social/@PimentoMori/115108786623074186

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky

      http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2175

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      At first I thought you were implying the dad was a part of Operation Paperclip. But that would require Nazis to have recruited an ethnic Slav for missile work.

      Then I wonder if you're implying dad might have been a Soviet spy targeting the stuff in Huntsville. And that seems more plausible. Under that scenario it is likely that significant parts or all of the refugee story are real, and that can be fashioned into decent cover.

      And then it's also plausible that there is no meaning, and a refugee settling in Huntsville is mere coincidence.

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        https://toad.social/@PimentoMori/115108786623074186

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky

        http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2175

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        I don't know if you can really call Huntsville a small town? It's a city of almost a million people, including the suburbs around it.

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          At first I thought you were implying the dad was a part of Operation Paperclip. But that would require Nazis to have recruited an ethnic Slav for missile work.

          Then I wonder if you're implying dad might have been a Soviet spy targeting the stuff in Huntsville. And that seems more plausible. Under that scenario it is likely that significant parts or all of the refugee story are real, and that can be fashioned into decent cover.

          And then it's also plausible that there is no meaning, and a refugee settling in Huntsville is mere coincidence.

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          By the looks of the dates he left Yugoslavia when the Axis attacked, which seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do

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            I don't know if you can really call Huntsville a small town? It's a city of almost a million people, including the suburbs around it.

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            In 1941?

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              At first I thought you were implying the dad was a part of Operation Paperclip. But that would require Nazis to have recruited an ethnic Slav for missile work.

              Then I wonder if you're implying dad might have been a Soviet spy targeting the stuff in Huntsville. And that seems more plausible. Under that scenario it is likely that significant parts or all of the refugee story are real, and that can be fashioned into decent cover.

              And then it's also plausible that there is no meaning, and a refugee settling in Huntsville is mere coincidence.

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              An ethnic slav? He was born in Saint Petersburg...

              And sure, it could just be a coincidental 9 year gap in his resume starting in 1941 and have nothing to do with him being a Nazi

              https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/russian-roots-nazism-white-emigres-and-making-national-socialism-19171945

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                I don't know if you can really call Huntsville a small town? It's a city of almost a million people, including the suburbs around it.

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                Huh, if only there was some way to know how big Huntsville was in 1951

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Huntsville,_Alabama

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                  In 1941?

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                  Technically I don't think he got to Huntsville until 1951, but yeah when he got there it was a town of less than 17k people and only 4 square miles.

                  In 1941 he was somewhere else... Doing something. Who knows what. We can't say for sure what he was doing before he suddenly reappears in Germany in 1950 and then off to the city that never sleeps, Huntsville, Alabama, in 1951.

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                    An ethnic slav? He was born in Saint Petersburg...

                    And sure, it could just be a coincidental 9 year gap in his resume starting in 1941 and have nothing to do with him being a Nazi

                    https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/russian-roots-nazism-white-emigres-and-making-national-socialism-19171945

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                    Well if you're saying he was in paperclip, paperclip has been mostly declassified. You can look him up in the rolls here. Not a lot of Russian names on that list, but there might be a few.

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                      An ethnic slav? He was born in Saint Petersburg...

                      And sure, it could just be a coincidental 9 year gap in his resume starting in 1941 and have nothing to do with him being a Nazi

                      https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/russian-roots-nazism-white-emigres-and-making-national-socialism-19171945

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                      Why would it be weird for an ethnic Slav to be born in the capital of the Russian empire? And are you suggesting he was a member of the Nazi party while he was teaching in Yugoslavia?

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                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky

                        http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2175

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                        What's funny about this is you're going a long way to imply the father was a fascist/Nazi, when growing up in Alabama in the 50's is all that's needed to turn a child into a racist, fascist piece of shit.

                        Heritage foundation isn't a Nazi respawn. It's the American born and bred fascists who have been in America all along. Either way it doesn't matter. They're fascists through and through, no different to the nazi's.

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                          At first I thought you were implying the dad was a part of Operation Paperclip. But that would require Nazis to have recruited an ethnic Slav for missile work.

                          Then I wonder if you're implying dad might have been a Soviet spy targeting the stuff in Huntsville. And that seems more plausible. Under that scenario it is likely that significant parts or all of the refugee story are real, and that can be fashioned into decent cover.

                          And then it's also plausible that there is no meaning, and a refugee settling in Huntsville is mere coincidence.

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                          Operation Paperclip

                          So the idea of apolitical nazi scientists just working on rockets is kinda not true when you look closer, but the real meat is Operation Bloodstone, where nazi officers were brought over snd given immunity to help run anticommunist programs.

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                            What's funny about this is you're going a long way to imply the father was a fascist/Nazi, when growing up in Alabama in the 50's is all that's needed to turn a child into a racist, fascist piece of shit.

                            Heritage foundation isn't a Nazi respawn. It's the American born and bred fascists who have been in America all along. Either way it doesn't matter. They're fascists through and through, no different to the nazi's.

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                            growing up in Alabama in the 50’s is all that’s needed to turn a child into a racist, fascist piece of shit

                            Alabama was the birthplace of the modern Civil Rights Movement, from Montgomery to Birmingham to Selma. A little unfair to assert it was a state that just makes people racist. The neo-confederates of the post-Depression Era had to work pretty hard to keep cramming Jim Crow down people's throats decade after decade.

                            That said, Huntsville Alabama circa 1950 was most notable for Redstone Arsenal, home to the Marshall Space Flight Center. The center was founded through Operation Paperclip, a project to export German rocket scientists to the United States and pump them for their expertise in the field.

                            A guy with a Nazi mother and White-Russian father who emigrated to a city built around the famous rocketry lab was almost certainly influenced by the German brand of fascist ideology.

                            That said, the Germans got their strain of fascism from Fordist antisemitism pumped into the country after WW1. So if you're going to pick a state to blame for The Heritage Foundation's brand of white nationalist hate, you'd be better off pointing the finger at Michigan.

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                              Operation Paperclip

                              So the idea of apolitical nazi scientists just working on rockets is kinda not true when you look closer, but the real meat is Operation Bloodstone, where nazi officers were brought over snd given immunity to help run anticommunist programs.

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                              I went to Paperclip because of the connection to Huntsville specifically with Redstone and NASA.

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                                What's funny about this is you're going a long way to imply the father was a fascist/Nazi, when growing up in Alabama in the 50's is all that's needed to turn a child into a racist, fascist piece of shit.

                                Heritage foundation isn't a Nazi respawn. It's the American born and bred fascists who have been in America all along. Either way it doesn't matter. They're fascists through and through, no different to the nazi's.

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                                Ok.. not sure why you're trying to defend a neo Nazi or his old school Nazi dad, but sure.

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                                  Ok.. not sure why you're trying to defend a neo Nazi or his old school Nazi dad, but sure.

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                                  I don't think they were defending him; I think they were saying you don't need German credentials to be a proper, full-blooded Nazi. Just being American is enough.

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                                    I don't think they were defending him; I think they were saying you don't need German credentials to be a proper, full-blooded Nazi. Just being American is enough.

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                                    Uhm.. ok just seems like it's kind of deflecting from the point that this dude's dad probably got off the hook for commiting crimes against humanity and was allowed to start over fresh without ever facing justice for the atrocities he directly committed.

                                    I know as an American in many ways, I arguably hold some responsibility for benefiting from an unjust system. Still seems like a distraction in a post trying to call attention to the fact that a man literally trying to overthrow the American government was probably raised by a war criminal, and nobody has ever noticed this or brought it to the public's attention.

                                    So like the openly racist son of a Nazi war criminal who escaped justice is equivalent to any other American such as myself? Interesting, I would like to imagine I'm not quite as bad for being part of an exploited working class in an unjust system this guy is actively controlling, but I guess if you see it that way, not much I could say to change your mind.

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                                      At first I thought you were implying the dad was a part of Operation Paperclip. But that would require Nazis to have recruited an ethnic Slav for missile work.

                                      Then I wonder if you're implying dad might have been a Soviet spy targeting the stuff in Huntsville. And that seems more plausible. Under that scenario it is likely that significant parts or all of the refugee story are real, and that can be fashioned into decent cover.

                                      And then it's also plausible that there is no meaning, and a refugee settling in Huntsville is mere coincidence.

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                                      "Settled in Yugoslavia after WWI" means White Russian, so not really Soviet agent material.

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                                        Uhm.. ok just seems like it's kind of deflecting from the point that this dude's dad probably got off the hook for commiting crimes against humanity and was allowed to start over fresh without ever facing justice for the atrocities he directly committed.

                                        I know as an American in many ways, I arguably hold some responsibility for benefiting from an unjust system. Still seems like a distraction in a post trying to call attention to the fact that a man literally trying to overthrow the American government was probably raised by a war criminal, and nobody has ever noticed this or brought it to the public's attention.

                                        So like the openly racist son of a Nazi war criminal who escaped justice is equivalent to any other American such as myself? Interesting, I would like to imagine I'm not quite as bad for being part of an exploited working class in an unjust system this guy is actively controlling, but I guess if you see it that way, not much I could say to change your mind.

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                                        You don't have to be German to be a Nazi, there are American Nazis.

                                        Are you calling me a Nazi?!?

                                        Jesus you people...

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                                          You don't have to be German to be a Nazi, there are American Nazis.

                                          Are you calling me a Nazi?!?

                                          Jesus you people...

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                                          What’s funny about this is you’re going a long way to imply the father was a fascist/Nazi, when growing up in Alabama in the 50’s is all that’s needed to turn a child into a racist, fascist piece of shit.

                                          You don’t have to be German to be a Nazi, there are American Nazis. Just being American is enough

                                          I'm trying to say this is dumb without just coming out and saying this is fucking dumb

                                          You don’t have to be German to be a Nazi, there are American Nazis..Jesus you people…

                                          Why bother with acknowledging reality when we can paraphrase and keep distracting from the original point by getting weirdly defensive bc somebody pointed out a fascist's dad was also a literal WWII Nazi

                                          Also, this is fucking dumb

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