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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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    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://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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        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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                            I'm suggesting he was a member of the Nazi party during the 9 years of his resume that are blank.

                            He was a teacher in Yugoslavia until 1941 and then I guess he took a nearly decade long sabbatical. Then suddenly he was in Germany . Then suddenly Huntsville.

                            His son wrote an essay after his mom died about how he wasn't a Nazi, but his son is also a pathological liar who was responsible for preemptively stirring up an insurrection based on false claims he made about 2020 election security..

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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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                              Alabama was the birthplace of the modern Civil Rights Movement, from Montgomery to Birmingham to Selma.

                              I mean, isn't that because the core of the movement was persecuted black Southerners? Alabama having enough of thise guys to kickstart the movement feels like more of an indictment than praise.

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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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                                He was born in Saint Petersburg...

                                Uh, yes, the capital of Russia? Your point?

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                                  No point, he was a white emigre born in Russia and an ethnic slav mystery solved. He was also a Nazi. He started teaching in Yugoslavia and then suddenly stopped in 1941. Then yada, yada, yada it was suddenly 1950 and he popped up in Germany and then Huntsville, Alabama.

                                  Now his son is in the Heritage Foundation, he's destroying everything, and he looks like he intentionally modeled himself off the nazi villain from Indiana jones


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

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                                    There were plenty of reasons to flee Russia after WWI other than being a member of the White Movement. I mean you had civil war, famine, terror, more terror, etc. Plenty of reasons to fuck off and never look back.

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                                      Oh, yeah, Interwar Yugoslavia was full of Russians who weren't necessarily politically slanted, but took one look at the mess and went "fuck that". They're commonly referred to as 'whites' because the 'reds' are presumed to have stayed in Russia.

                                      I was more saying that jumping from "ethnic Russian" to "Soviet spy" is going the wrong direction. Presumably, someone pro-Soviet would go back when the revolution ended, whereas I can't help but notice this dude stayed until '41, disappeared just about when the Nazis rolled in, and then reappeared just about when the Soviets were releasing Nazi POWs.

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                                        I'm suggesting he was a member of the Nazi party during the 9 years of his resume that are blank.

                                        He was a teacher in Yugoslavia until 1941 and then I guess he took a nearly decade long sabbatical. Then suddenly he was in Germany . Then suddenly Huntsville.

                                        His son wrote an essay after his mom died about how he wasn't a Nazi, but his son is also a pathological liar who was responsible for preemptively stirring up an insurrection based on false claims he made about 2020 election security..

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                                        The country he was teaching in got invaded by the Axis in 1941. Of course he stopped teaching, the literal biggest war in all of history had come to his doorstep. It should not be that surprising for records to become patchy at that point

                                        I agree that we shouldn't bother with what his son says, that guy is not going to be a useful source here. It just seems like a huge leap to say "the fascists invaded his home and we don't know what he did, therefore he must have joined them". Surely if he was that much of a Nazi, he'd have gone to them instead of waiting until they came to him?

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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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                                          Yes, this is dumb. I intentionally paraphrased the comments to be shorter and simpler, in the hope you will not misunderstand them. Let's try and dumb this down even further: Nazism is neither an ethnic nor a heritable trait.

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