Friedensforschung mit der Maus

Friedensforschung mit der Maus

Freitag, 7. März 2014

Die Krim: Historischer Schauplatz von Krieg und Konflikt

Aus
Im Zeichen des Zaren
Frankfurter Rundschau / 7.3.2014
(Der britische Historiker Orlando Figes in einem Interview mit Michael Hesse)
 
Es gibt viele Parallelen zwischen dem Krimkrieg von 1853 bis 1856 und dem heutigen Konflikt. Die Schikane des russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin gegenüber der Ukraine und seine Forderungen nach einer neuen Regierung erinnern sehr stark an die Politik des russischen Zaren Nikolaus I. (1796-1855) gegenüber dem Osmanischen Reich am Vorabend des Krimkriegs. [...]
 
Nikolaus I. sah sich auf einer Mission, einem Kreuzzug zur Verteidigung der russischen Christen gegenüber dem Osmanischen Reich. Er wollte es für die russischen Interessen gleich mit der ganzen Welt aufnehmen und überreizte seine Karten. Er setzte alles auf einen Krieg gegen die Türkei, dem Ausgangspunkt des Krimkrieges, und wollte die russischen Interessen im Nahen Osten, insbesondere die orthodoxen Christen vor dem Sultan schützen. Das führte letztlich zur Intervention der verbündeten Mächte Österreich, Frankreich und Großbritannien, die mit ihren Truppen auf der Krim landeten und die Russen besiegten.
 
Nikolaus I. hat dem Westen die Stirn geboten. Das wird in der russischen Geschichtsschreibung als ein moralischer Sieg angesehen. Die Nationalisten feiern ihn dafür. Dies ist Putin bewusst. Der Zar Nikolaus I. wird von dem Putin-Regime bewundert, weil er gegen den Westen kämpfte, um die russischen Interessen zu verteidigen. Putin sucht gezielt eine Identifizierung mit ihm. [...]
 
Ähnlich wie am Vorabend des Krimkrieges findet sich in der russischen Rhetorik und Propaganda der Zorn über die westliche Doppelmoral. [...] Russland soll nicht in der Ukraine intervenieren, während der Westen selbst im Irak und Afghanistan militärisch eingefallen ist. Dieser Zorn auf den Westen geht bis in die 1850er Jahre zurück, diese Wut ließ Nikolaus I. im Jahr 1853 den Krieg führen. Und für die Franzosen und die Briten war der Krimkrieg ein Kreuzzug gegen den russischen Tyrannen. Ein Vorläufer des Kalten Krieges, wenn man so will. Auch die liberale Presse vor allem in Großbritannien spielte in den Konflikt mit hinein. Man wollte die westliche Freiheit gegen die östliche Tyrannei verteidigen – nicht unähnlich der heutigen Rhetorik. [...]
 
Die militärische Aggression der Russen war dadurch bedingt, dass Nikolaus I. die Christen schützen wollte gegen das Osmanische Reich. Zudem gab es russische Interessen im Nahen Osten. Aus westlicher Sicht war es ein politischer Kreuzzug, angeheizt durch die russenfeindliche britische Presse, um die russischen Bestrebungen zurückzuweisen. Sie sollten die Türken verteidigen, um den Russen durch die Briten eine Lektion zu erteilen und natürlich um britische imperiale Interessen zu schützen. Für die Franzosen ging es auch um eine Revanche gegen die Russen, wegen der Niederlage in der Zeit von 1812 und 1815. Die Franzosen und Briten wollten die Freiheit verteidigen und auch schwächere Staaten – so wie auch heute wieder. In diesem Sinne ist der Krimkrieg ein dem heutigen Ringen um die Krim sehr ähnlicher Konflikt, in dem sich vieles von damals wiederholt.
 
Die Lehre aus dem Krimkrieg bedeutet für den Westen, dass er ohne seine eigenen Prinzipien zu verleugnen, eine politische Lösung für die Ukraine und speziell für die Krim nur finden kann, wenn die Russen Bestandteil dieses Prozess sind. [...]
 
http://www.fr-online.de/ukraine/putin-und-die-krim-im-zeichen-des-zaren,26429068,26490732.html



Vor 160 Jahren machte sich der britischen Journalist William Howard Russell sehr unbeliebt. Russell war nämlich, wenn man so will, der erste Kriegsberichterstatter. Sein Einsatzgebiet war 1854 die Krim. Bis dahin war es bei Kriegen in Europa üblich, dass die Geschichte im Nachhinein geschrieben wurde, während Russell per Telegraf für die Zeitungsleser quasi “in Echtzeit” schrieb. Da Russel nicht mit Kritik am britischen Militär sparte, führte dieses 1856 die Militärzensur ein.

Dieser Tage wird auf und über die Krim wieder allerhand gelogen. Besonders peinlich fiel eine Propagandainszenierung auf, bei der ein und dieselbe Schauspielerin in fünf verschiedenen Rollen Ukrainerinnen darstellte. Wer von der Zuverlässigkeit der Medienwelt in Sachen Krieg geheilt werden möchte, dem empfehle ich unbedingt Phillipp Knightleys “The First Casualty”.

Rechtsanwalt Markus Kampa
http://www.kanzleikompa.de/



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Noch eine historische Parallele:

Den Teufel mit Beelzebub austreiben, oder

Nazis fuer den Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus aufpeppen


"Ja – man bemerkt sie auf einmal, die rechten Straßenkämpfer, die in Kiew das Parlament “bewachen”. “Swoboda” heißen sie – und auf einmal darf man doch wahrnehmen, das es sich dabei um sehr bedenkliche Gesellen handelt [...]"
http://www.nachrichtenspiegel.de/2014/03/04/krieg-um-die-krim-beendet-deutschland-blamiert-lehren-aus-einer-beinahe-katastrophe/

 Die Begeisterung der NPD für Swoboda ist erklärbar. Denn die Partei definiert die Nation als “Gemeinschaft, die durch Blut und Geist verbunden ist”, und rühmt den Kampf ukrainischer Kollaborateure an der Seite der Hitlertruppen. Die Waffen-SS-Division “Galizien”, rekrutiert aus westukrainischen Nationalisten, habe, so Swoboda, doch “nur an der Front gegen die Bolschewiken gekämpft”.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/krim-krise-die-fatalen-fehler-der-kiewer-regierung-a-956680.html



Von der Krim nach Connectitut:
Der “anti-bolschewistische” Kampf des Anastase Vonsiatsky und seine Zeitschrift "The Fascist"

(siehe auch Stichwort „Vonsiatsky“ auf
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2013/03/auf-gut-deutsch-und-plain-english.html und Stichwort „Pelley“ auf http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2012/05/was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html)




Anastase Vonsiatsky
Bild gefunden auf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Anastasy_Vonsyatsky.jpg

 
  Anastase Andreievitch Vonsiatsky […] attended military preparatory schools in Warsaw, St. Petersburg, and Moscow from 1908 and 1916, entering the Emperor Nicholas Academy in St. Petersburg in the latter year. This Academy has been reported to be comparable with West Point in the United States. During the Second Revolution in November 1917, Vonsiatsky and others left the military school and went to Rostov where they joined in the battle against the Reds. Vonsiatsky himself obtained the rank of Lieutenant and fought with the White Russians until March 1920. During his period of service he received a bullet wound […] Leaving the Crimea in March 1920, Vonsiatsky proceeded to Constantinople where he received treatment in a British hospital. He remained in Constantinople until April 1920, and then went to Paris and in May, arrived in London where he remained for three months as the guest of the wealthy Prince Yuossopoff. In September, 1920, the young Vonsiatsky returned to Paris and during the following month journeyed to Constantinople where he came in contact with many White Russians. […]
It might be noted that Vonsiatsky's revolutionary activities have been the subject of numerous magazine and newspaper stories. It has been stated that he undoubtedly participated in numerous tortures and killings during the Russian Civil War and it had been alleged that failure to disclose his activities in this regard constituted sufficient ground to cancel Vonsiatsky's American citizenship which he received in 1927. Such action, however, was never taken. Some newspaper articles have been published in which Vonsiatsky allegedly admitted the killings but stated "the murders referred to were justified; a civil war was raging and we were defending our country." During 1939, one newspaper carried a story in which he allegedly stated that he would commit the killings again if he had the opportunity. […]
The first political organization Vonsiatsky joined in the United States was known as the Brotherhood of Russian Truth which was founded by three men about the year 1923. This party had as its goal the overthrow of the Communist regime in Russia so that the Russian people could set up a type of government of their own choosing. Members of the party attempted to accomplish its goal by preparing propaganda to be distributed among the Russians. The propaganda was usually in pamphlet form and was smuggled into Russia by workmen who placed the pamphlets in boats sailing for Russian ports. […]

In a speech delivered July 4, 1937, to what was described as the Annual Meeting of Executives of the New England and New York Districts of the Russian National Revolutionary Fascist Party, Vonsiatsky made the following statements among others: […]
"With the existence of Germany and Adolph Hitler, as a fortified base, and directing center for all anti-Communist movements, the beginning of a war by the U.S. S. R. with Germany can change with lightening-like rapidity into the end of International Communism and the victory of the Russian National Revolution." […]

During the FBI's investigation of Vonsiatsky's activities, evidence was obtained that he had had some dealings with William Dudley Pelley's organization. In fact, upon one occasion Vonsiatsky sent several copies of his publication, "The Fascist," to Pelley's organization in Asheville, North Carolina. On one occasion at least, Vonsiatsky ordered a hundred copies of Pelley's publication. During 1936, a representative of the Pelley Publishers wrote Vonsiatsky stating, "Your work for the Cause we are mutually serving, publishing your Russian Fascist, has just come to our attention. From reports given us it seems you are fighting a rather lone battle, and a little camaraderie is not amiss." The letter further stated that Pelley's organization had been in battle "militantly" for over four years and was "determined to block Judah in government and the Jewish bankers by the coming national election." […]
During the course of the FBI's investigation [in 1940], information was received indicating Vonsiatsky once had an audience of thirty-seven minutes with Adolph Hitler in Berlin and had dinner with field Marshal Goering. Vonsiatsky had pictures of Hitler on the walls of the stone building he used as an office and arsenal and reportedly had the highest regard for both Hitler and Mussolini and spoke of them with reverence. It might be noted in this connection that Vonsiatsky has denied meeting with Hitler and other high German officials. […]
Rumors circulating in 1940 indicated that Vonsiatsky was conducting a military camp in which he specialized in teaching youths Nazi principles and military science and tactics. […]
On May 8 and 9, 1942, Vonsiatsky's estate at Thompson, Connecticut was searched by special agents of the FBI under appropriate legal process and vast amounts of material were obtained. Among the articles seized were 17 file cabinets containing three drawers each of Russian correspondence between Vonsiatsky and various Russians from 1929 to date; a complete set of "The Fascist;" hundreds of documents relating to Vonsiatsky's Party; numerous Victrola billies; 18 gas billy cartridges, 1 police billy, 2 gas guns, 57 rifles, two automatic pistols and a quantity of ammunition; 1 large silk banner with swastika emblem; 2 khaki military coats with swastika emblems on the left arm sleeve; and 1 box of swastika arm bands.

Von der Webseite des FBI (eingesehen heute)
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/vonsiatsky-espionage



 
Propaganda-Aktivitaeten von Anastase ("Annie") Vonsiatsky
und anderen russischen Nazi-Freunden in den USA
Auch Praesident Hoover unterstuetzte die “Internationale
Bewegung
zur Bekaempfung der Roten Gefahr”
 
On November 20, 1941, an editorial entitled "Ignorance of Russia appeared in the Houston Post. … The editorial stated: -

[…] The White Russian Peter Afanassieff, alias Prince Peter Kushubue, alias Peter Armstrong, arrived in San Francisco in 1922, aided in the American distribution of The Protocols of Zion, and, in collaboration with the former Czarist officer Captain Victor de Kayville, began publishing a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic propaganda sheet, The American Gentile. In this work, Afanassieff was associated with the Nazi agents Fritz Gissibl and Oscar Pfaus.
Nicolai Rybakoff, a former colonel in the Japanese-controlled White Russian Army of Ataman Grigori Semyonov, arrived in the United States in the early nineteen-twenties and carried on anti-Soviet and anti-Semitic propaganda. In 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, Rybakoff founded Rossiya, a pro-Nazi Russian newspaper in New York City. … In 1941, after Hitler's attack on Russia, Rybakoff's New York paper described the Nazi Wehrmacht as "a fiery sword of the justly-punishing Providence, the Christian patriotically anti-bolshevik white victorious legions of Hitler." […]
The most important German and Japanese agent among the White Russians in the United States was "Count" Anastase A. Vonsiatsky. On September 25, 1933, the Nazi agent Paul A. von Lilienfeld-Toal wrote in a letter to William Dudley Pelley, chief of the pro-Nazi American Silver Shirts: - This is to give you a report about my contacts with the White Russians... I am in touch with the "General Staff of the Russian Fascists" …
"Count" Vonsiatsky of Thompson, Connecticut, was an ex-Czarist officer who had fought in Denikin's White Army. After Denikin's defeat, Vonsiatsky headed a White terrorist band in the Crimea which kidnaped Russian citizens, held them for ransom, and tortured them to death if the money was not forthcoming. Vonsiatsky came to the United States in the early nineteen-twenties and married Mrs. Marion Buckingham Ream Stephen, an American multimillionairess who was twenty-two years older than himself. Vonsiatsky became an American citizen and settled down on the luxurious Ream estate in Thompson.
With his wife's fortune at his disposal, Vonsiatsky began to entertain grandiose visions of creating an anti-Soviet army which he would personally lead into Moscow. He started traveling extensively in Europe, Asia and South America, meeting with representatives of the Torgprom, the International League against Bolshevism, and other anti-Soviet agencies.
In August 1933, Vonsiatsky founded the "Russian Fascist National Revolutionary Party" in the United States. Its official emblem was the swastika. Its headquarters was at the Ream estate in Thompson, where Vonsiatsky set up a private arsenal of rifles, machine guns and other military equipment and began drilling squads of uniformed, swastika-wearing young men.
In May 1934, Vonsiatsky visited Tokyo, Harbin and other Far Eastern centers, and conferred with members of the Japanese High Command and fascist White Russians, including Ataman Semyonov. From Japan, Vonsiatsky went to Germany where he met with Alfred Rosenberg, Dr. Goebbels and representatives of the German Military Intelligence.  … Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, "Count" Anastase Vonsiatsky was arrested by the FBI. He was tried for violation of the Espionage Act, found guilty of divulging United States military information to the German and Japanese Governments, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. […]

On August 13, 1931, Herbert Hoover, then President of the United States, stated in an interview with the San Francisco News: -
To tell the truth, the ambition of my life is to stamp out Soviet Russia.
In 1931, at the time Hoover made his statement to the San Francisco News, a "Plan for an International Movement to Combat the Red Menace" was sponsored in the United States by an organization called the National Civic Federation. The founder and head of this organization, which specialized in anti-Communist and anti-labor agitation, was a former Chicago newspaperman, Ralph M. Easley. […]
The membership of Easley's National Civic Federation included Representative Hamilton Fish of New York; Harry Augustus Jung, a former labor spy and anti-Semitic propagandist in Chicago; George Sylvester Viereck, the ex-agent of the Kaiser and future Nazi agent; Matthew Woll, reactionary vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and acting president of the National Civic Federation, who publicly referred to Soviet Russia as "this Red Monster - this Madman"; and a number of other prominent Americans interested in the anti-Bolshevik crusade.
Early in 1933, Easley became chairman of an organization called the American Section of the International Committee to Combat the World Menace of Communism. The international headquarters of this organization was in Europa House, Berlin. Many members of the National Civic Federation joined Easley in the new organization.(4)
The American Section of the International Committee to Combat the World Menace of Communism sponsored the first official Nazi propaganda document to be circulated in the United States. it took the form of an anti-Soviet book, printed in English, and entitled Communism in Germany. The book was published in Germany by the firm of Eckhart-Verlag. Thousands of copies were shipped across the Atlantic for distribution in America.
Through extensive mailings and at "patriotic" rallies in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities, the book was widely circulated free of charge. A nationwide campaign of newspaper articles, lectures, meetings and form letters was arranged to promote the book in the United States.
The book was prefaced by this quotation: -
At the beginning of this year there were weeks when we were within a hair's breadth of Bolshevist chaos!
Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in his proclamation of the 1st September, 1933. […]
Directly underneath this announcement there followed a list of names of leading members of the American Section of the International Committee to Combat the World Menace of Communism: -
Walter C. Cole (chairman, Council of National Defense, Detroit Board of Commerce)
John Ross Delafield (commander-in-chief, Military Order of the World War)
Ralph M. Easley (chairman, National Civic Federation)
Hamilton Fish (United States Congressman)
Elon Huntington Hooker (chairman, American Defense Society)
F. O. Johnson (president, Better America Federation)
Orvel Johnson (Lieutenant-Colonel, R.O.T.C. Association of the United States)
Harry Jung (chief, American Vigilante Intelligence Association)
Samuel McRoberts (banker)
C. G. Norman (chairman, Building Trades Employers' Association)
Ellis Searle (editor, the United Mine Worker)
Walter S. Steele (editor, National Republic)
John B. Trevor (chairman, American Coalition)
Archibald E. Stevenson (former member, United States Military Intelligence) For the American Section of the International Committee to Combat the World Menace of Communism

These are the records of some of the American sponsors of the Nazi propaganda book, Communism in Germany:-
Harry Augustus Jung, former labor spy, headed the anti-democratic Chicago organization called the American Vigilante Intelligence Federation. Its organ the Vigilant was listed as recommended reading by the official Nazi propaganda agency, World Service. Among Jung's early associates in anti-Soviet activities was the White Russian Peter Afanassieff, who supplied Jung with a translated version of the Protocols for distribution in "quantity lots" throughout the United States. Jung was subsequently befriended by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the isolationist and violently anti-Soviet Chicago Tribune, and set up offices in the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
Walter S. Steele, editor of the National Republic, carried on an incessant anti-Soviet propaganda campaign intended to influence American businessmen. Steele collaborated with Jung in the distribution of The Protocols of Zion.
James B. Trevor was head of the American Coalition, an organization which in 1942 was listed by a Department of Justice indictment as an agency which had been used in a conspiracy to undermine the morale of the United States armed forces. Trevor was intimately associated with anti Soviet White Russians, and his organization constantly spread anti-Soviet propaganda.
Archibald E. Stevenson, a onetime member of the Military Intelligence Division of the United States Army, was one of the leading instigators of anti-Soviet agitation in the United States throughout the period prior to the Second World War. A close associate of Ralph M. Easley, Stevenson subsequently became public relations counsel for the New York State Economic Council, an anti-labor and anti-democratic propaganda agency whose chairman was Merwin K. Hart, a notorious propagandist for the Spanish Fascist dictator, Generalissimo Franco.
Representative Hamilton Fish, of New York, visited Soviet Russia in 1923, when he was head of the firm Hamilton Fish & Company, Exporters and Importers. After his return to the United States he introduced a resolution into Congress calling for the establishment of commercial relations with Soviet Russia. Subsequently, he became one of the most bitter anti-Soviet propagandists in the United States. In the early 1930's, as chairman of a Congressional committee to investigate "American communism," Fish was the chief spokesman of the White Russian anti-Soviet migrants in the United States and other inveterate foes of Soviet Russia. Among the "experts" who supplied Fish's committee with material were the former Okhrana agent, Boris Brasol, and the German propagandist, George Sylvester Viereck. After Hitler came to power in Germany, Fish hailed the Nazi leader as the man who had saved Germany from Communism. As a key exponent of isolationism and appeasement, Fish shared platforms with notorious American pro-Nazis and inserted their propaganda in the Congressional Record. In the fall of 1939 Fish conferred in Nazi Germany with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Minister; Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; and other Axis leaders. Fish toured Europe in a German plane, urging a second Munich and claiming that "Germany's claims" were "just." In February 1942 it was disclosed at the trial of the Nazi agent Viereck that Fish's Washington office had been used as the headquarters of a Nazi propaganda ring and that Fish's secretary, George Hill, was one of the key members of the German propaganda network in the United States.
At the time of America's entry into the Second World War, scores of American fascist organizations describing themselves as "anti-Communist" were active throughout the United States. These organizations had received guidance and, many of them, financial support from Berlin and Tokyo. Paid agents of Nazi Germany had founded a number of the organizations. Some of the organizations, like the German-American Bund and the Kyffhauser Bund, made little attempt to conceal their foreign affiliation; others, like the Silver Shirts, the Christian Front, American Guards, American Nationalist Confederation, and the Crusaders for Americanism masqueraded as patriotic societies which were "saving America" from the "menace of Communism."
By 1939, no less than 750 fascist organizations had been formed in the United States, and were flooding the country with pro-Axis, anti-Semitic and anti-Soviet bulletins, magazines, newsletters and newspapers. In the name of saving America from Communism, these organizations and publications called for the overthrow of the Government of the United States, the establishment of an American fascist regime, and an alliance with the Axis against Soviet Russia.
On November 18, 1936, William Dudley Pelley, chief of the Nazi-inspired Silver Shirts, declared: -
Let us understand thoroughly that if a second civil war comes to this country, it will not be a war to overthrow the American government, but to overthrow the Jew-Communist usurpers who have seized the American government and bethought themselves to make it a branch office of Moscow...

After the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia, Father Charles E Coughlin, leader of the pro-Nazi Christian Front, declared in the July 7, 1941, issue of his propaganda organ Social Justice. -
Germany's war on Russia is a battle for Christianity... We remember that atheistic Communism was conceived and brought to birth in Russia chiefly through the instrumentality of godless Jews.
The same propaganda was disseminated throughout the United States by Gerald B. Winrod's Defender of Wichita, Kansas; William Kullgren's Beacon Light of Atascadero, California; Court Asher's X-Ray of Munice, Indiana; E. J. Garner's Publicity of Wichita, Kansas; Charles B. Hudson's America in Danger! of Omaha, Nebraska; and many similar pro-Axis, anti-Soviet publications.
After Pearl Harbor, a number of these persons were indicted by the Department of justice on charges of spreading seditious propaganda and plotting with Nazi agents to overthrow the United States Government. Nevertheless, throughout the war, they continued to spread the propaganda that the Axis Powers were waging a "holy war" and that the United States had been tricked into the conflict by the connivance of "Jewish Communist conspirators in Washington, London and Moscow."
This is the story of a very surreptitious meeting of about 100 known right wing extremists held in The Jung Hotel in New Orleans which was known for being a Nazi safe haven and a meeting, eating and drinking safe house for those of their ilk. Both the employees and all meeting attendees were thoroughly screened and they had to be recommended by someone else as being "one of us" before they could even get a job there or be invited to one of the conclaves held there. What happens at The Jung Hotel, stays at The Jung Hotel. The only known attendees, I believe were Guy Bannister, Edwin A. Walker, Leander Perez and maybe 1-2 more including a Senator from the South.
Here is a brief history of Harry Augustus Jung who was like the Dietrich Eckart of the Nazi anti-Communist Philosophy. Both Walter Steele and Major John B. Trevor were classic Wickliffe Draper Nazi sympathizers or even worse:
These are the records of some of the American sponsors of the Nazi propaganda book, Communism in Germany:-
Harry Augustus Jung, former labor spy, headed the anti-democratic Chicago organization called the American Vigilante Intelligence Federation. Its organ the Vigilant was listed as recommended reading by the official Nazi propaganda agency, World Service. Among Jung's early associates in anti-Soviet activities was the White Russian Peter Afanassieff, who supplied Jung with a translated version of the Protocols for distribution in "quantity lots" throughout the United States. Jung was subsequently befriended by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the isolationist and violently anti-Soviet Chicago Tribune, and set up offices in the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
Walter S. Steele, editor of the National Republic, carried on an incessant anti-Soviet propaganda campaign intended to influence American businessmen. Steele collaborated with Jung in the distribution of The Protocols of Zion.
(Major) John B. Trevor, Sr., OSJ who was head of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, started by Wickliffe Draper of The Pioneer Fund, an organization which in 1942 was listed by a Department of Justice indictment as an agency which had been used in a conspiracy to undermine the morale of the United States armed forces. Trevor was intimately associated with anti Soviet White Russians, and his organization constantly spread anti-Soviet propaganda. He and his son were also on the Board of The Pioneer Fund.
Archibald E. Stevenson, a onetime member of the Military Intelligence Division of the United States Army, was one of the leading instigators of anti-Soviet agitation in the United States throughout the period prior to the Second World War. A close associate of Ralph M. Easley, Stevenson subsequently became public relations counsel for the New York State Economic Council, an anti-labor and anti-democratic propaganda agency whose chairman was Merwin K. Hart, a notorious propagandist for the Spanish Fascist dictator, Generalissimo Franco.
Representative Hamilton Fish, II of New York, visited Soviet Russia in 1923, when he was head of the firm Hamilton Fish & Company, Exporters and Importers. After his return to the United States he introduced a resolution into Congress calling for the establishment of commercial relations with Soviet Russia. Subsequently, he became one of the most bitter anti-Soviet propagandists in the United States. In the early 1930's, as chairman of a Congressional committee to investigate "American communism," Fish was the chief spokesman of the White Russian anti-Soviet migrants in the United States and other inveterate foes of Soviet Russia. Among the "experts" who supplied Fish's committee with material were the former Okhrana agent, Boris Brasol, and the German propagandist, George Sylvester Viereck. After Hitler came to power in Germany, Fish hailed the Nazi leader as the man who had saved Germany from Communism. As a key exponent of isolationism and appeasement, Fish shared platforms with notorious American pro-Nazis and inserted their propaganda in the Congressional Record. In the fall of 1939 Fish conferred in Nazi Germany with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Minister; Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; and other Axis leaders. Fish toured Europe in a German plane, urging a second Munich and claiming that "Germany's claims" were "just." In February 1942 it was disclosed at the trial of the Nazi agent Viereck that Fish's Washington office had been used as the headquarters of a Nazi propaganda ring and that Fish's secretary, George Hill, was one of the key members of the German propaganda network in the United States. [..]

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Links:
Billard-Zimmer im Ream Estate, Thompson, Connectitut, dem Zuhause von Anastase Vonsiatsky nach seiner Heirat mit einer 22 Jahre aelteren amerikanischen Multimillionaerin.
Bild gefunden auf der Webseite der Thompson Historical Society;

http://www.thompsonhistorical.org/
Newsletters/2002_Summer.PDF



Die Webseite der Thompson Historical Society enthaelt bemerkenswerterweise keine Informationen ueber Vonsiatsky und seine Millionaers-Gattin. (Kein Interesse an dieser Art von historischer Heimatforschung, wie wir ja auch auch im Fall der "Murphy Ranch" bei Hollywood, Kalifornien, schon gesehen haben - siehe http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2012/05/was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html).

Die New York Times vom 1. Februar 1922 berichtete ueber das Paar.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20F11FB3A541B7A93C3A91789D85F468285F9

Demnach hatte Voniatsky auch Kontakt mit Cherep Spiridovich (siehe Stichwort "Spiridovich" auf meinem anderen Blog; z.B. http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2011/08/bolschewisten-gesichter-das.html)


Weitere Quellen zu Vonsiatsky, gefunden auf
http://www.konflikty.pl/a,2196,II_wojna_swiatowa,Bialogwardyjski_Hitler.html

Andreyew C., Generał Własow i rosyjski ruch wyzwoleńczy, Warszawa 1990
Gdański J., Zapomniani żołnierze Hitlera, Warszawa 2005
Littlejohn D., Foreign Legions of the Third Reich (4) Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Free India, Estoni, San Jose 1994

Draper (Pioneer Fund) und Vonsiatsky als Comic Strip Figuren in den 1930er Jahren
"Draper and Vonsiatsky were the paradigms for Harold Gray's comic strip of the 1930's Big Daddy Warbucks and Little Orphan Annie."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.assassination.jfk/4liTMrds1FM


Zu "Little Orphan Annie" siehe auch meinen neuen Post
http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2014/03/bestehende-vermoegensverteilung.html



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"Geopolitischer Schwanzvergleich"

Heute Show, 14.03.14
ab ca. 17:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDMmQ5YBTJ8



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11.04.2014

Nanu, wo ist denn das Zitat von Swoboda-Mann Parubyi geblieben, das im Google-Cache einer Seite des Atlantic Council vom 3.2.14 noch zu finden ist?

Policy Workshop on NATO in an Era of Global Competition
www.atlanticcouncil.org/.../policy-workshop-on-nato-in-an-era-of-globa...
Feb 3, 2014 - The year 2014 will be pivotal for NATO as it draws down from the mission in ... Parubiy: Russia's Attempts to Subvert Ukraine Are Failing.

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Warum erhielt dieser Post das Label "Blowback-Phaenomen"?

Weil das historische Beispiel (Vonsiatsky und Konsorten) zu denken geben sollte. - "Im Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus" wurde nicht immer so genau hingesehen, was fuer Kraefte man rief.
"Blowback" ist der Wind, der zurueckweht; beschrieben wird damit das Phaenomen, dass die Kraefte, die man rief, sich im Endeffekt gegen einen selbst richten koennen.

Siehe weitere Posts mit diesem Label; z.B. "Schmusebilder".