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Ex-Nazis as well as fascist col-laborators and sympathizerscan be found at the highest lev-

els of the Republican Heritage Group.Who are these people? Russ Bellant’sresearch provides much information.

������������Pasztor, the founding chair and a keyfigure in the Republican HeritageGroup (and ipso facto, the Republican

Party) helped form the Bulgarian Na-tional Front, headed by his friend, IvanDocheff. As early as 1971, the GOP[“Grand Old Party,” i.e. the Republi-can Party] was warned that the Bul-garian National Front was “beyond thepale.” A Jack Anderson column quotedanother Bulgarian-American organi-zation, the conservative Bulgarian Na-tional Committee, which labeledDocheff’s Front as “fascist.” But theGOP took no action. Professor Spas T.Raikin, a former official of the Na-tional Front, says it grew out of a Bul-garian organization that in the 1930sand 1940s was “pro-Nazi and pro-fas-cist.” [Jack Anderson, “Nixon Appearsa Little Soft on Nazis,” WashingtonPost, Nov. 10, 1971, p.B17.]

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By Russ Bellant

The émigré fascist network within theRepublican Party represents a small butsignificant element of the coalition thatbrought Ronald Reagan into the WhiteHouse. It is from this network that theGeorge H.W. Bush presidential cam-paign assembled its ethnic outreachunit in 1988. When news of thisemerged, Bush’s ethnic outreach unitsaw eight resignations by personscharged with anti-semitism, racism,fascist leanings and Nazi collabora-tion. [Editor’s Note: George Bush, Jr.,was responsible for spin control dur-ing his father’s 1988 campaign. Whenthe Nazi-linked organizers withinGeorge Sr.’s Heritage Council were ex-posed, George Jr. urged the exposedEuropean fascists to resign. However,four of the eight who did resign con-tinued to hold top positions within theRepublican Heritage Groups Council.]

These right-wing émigrés area small but vocal element within thebroader ethnic communities they claimto represent. They utilize anti-commu-nist sentiments, historical revisionismand lack of knowledge about Easternand Central Europe as a shield to de-flect inspection and criticism of theirpast actions and current views.

The émigré fascist network or-ganizes support for its ideological

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agenda through national and interna-tional coalitions of like-minded con-stituencies that often work with otherauthoritarian and pro-fascist forces.This broader coalition ranges fromAxis allies and their apologists tofriends and allies of contemporary dic-tatorships and authoritarian regimes.

The nature of the right-wing

Russ Bellant is an investigative journal-ist. In 1984, he contributed to an award-winning NBC documentary on Americanfascist, Lyndon LaRouche. Bellant’s booksinclude: The Religious Right in MichiganPolitics (Silver Spring, MD: Americans forReligious Liberty, 1996) and Coors Con-nection: How Coors Family PhilanthropyUndermines Democratic Pluralism (St.Paul, MN: Consortium, 1992). The latterexamines Coors family funding of union-busting, homophobia, racism and covertoperations of the extreme right. (Coors andCanada’s Molson merged in July 2004)

émigré network that Reagan and Bushused to promoted their 1984 and 1988campaigns can be illustrated by brieflyreviewing the backgrounds of some ofthe past and current leaders of the Re-publican Heritage Groups Council.

Source: Old Nazis, the New Right and theRepublican Party, Boston: South EndPress, 1991.

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��� ��������Slavoff, the Republican HeritageGroup’s executive director, is a mem-ber of the Bulgarian GOP unit of theGroup Council. [He was also the na-tional co-chairman of Bulgarians forBush.] Slavoff is active with the Nazi-linked National Confederation ofAmerican Ethnic Groups (NCAEG),which becomes active about a year be-fore presidential elections. NCAEGleaders have included Austin App andJosef Mikus (see below). NCAEG’sExecutive Vice President, MichaelSzaz, is an official of the Virginia Re-publican Heritage Groups Council. Heis also an associate of prominent rac-ist Roger Pearson [associated with theNazi Northern League of northernEurope, the Heritage Foundation, theWorld Anti-Communist League andother fascist organizations.]

��� �����App, a pro-Nazi activist, and authorof The Six Million Swindle, asserts thatthe Nazi extermination of the Jewsdidn’t happen. He is a founder of theNCAEG, a member of the GermanAmerican National Congress and theCoalition for Peace Through Strength.He has been particularly active in Wil-lis Carto’s anti-Semitic Institute forHistorical Review and worked withRoger Pearson on a Carto publicationcalled Western Destiny. In 1946, Appwrote that “the German armies [were]the most decent armies of the war.” Inhis 1974 pamphlet, “A Straight Lookat the Third Reich and National So-cialism, How Right? How Wrong,”App wrote: “The truth is that in WWIIthe Third Reich fought for justice, andthe Allies fought to prevent justice.”[Foster and Epstein, p. 229, No Timefor Silence: Pleas for a Just Peace

Over Four Decades, 1987, p. 62; Aus-tin J. App, Ravishing the ConqueredWomen of Europe, as cited by John RoyCarlson in The Plotters, 1946, pp.160-61.]

������� ���Mikus asserts that a German victorywould have been preferable to an al-lied one during the WWII. Mikus wasan unrepentant supporter of Monsig-nor Josef Tiso, the Catholic priest andleader of the Slovakian Hlinka Guardduring WWII. Lucy Dawidowicz, inher book War Against the Jews, esti-mated that the Hlinka Guard partici-pated in the murder of 75,000 SlovakJews. Jack Anderson named Mikus asan advisor to various national Repub-lican Party figures [Jack Anderson,“Doleful Dole,” Washington Post, May18, 1978, p. A25; Jack Anderson andLes Whitten, “Nazi Eulogy,” Washing-ton Post, May 4, 1976, p.B15.]

� ��������������A former WWII officer in the GermanSS Cossack Division under GeneralHelmuth von Pann-witz, Nazarenkoheaded a CossackGOP unit of the Re-publican HeritageGroups Council. Heis still active withpro-Nazi elementsin the U.S. and con-tinues to be con-sumed with hiswartime hatred ofJews, having onmore than one oc-casion declared thatJews remain his “ideological enemy.”He has been accused by other Cossackémigrés with hanging Jews in Odessaduring the war. He used to organizethe annual “Captive Nations” marchin New York City. [Note: “Captive Na-tions” is the term used by these fas-cists to describe countries with com-munist governments.]

��� ���������An associate of Romanian ArchbishopValerian Trifa (see below), who emi-grated to the U.S. after WWII and es-tablished an American network of Naziexpatriates. Trifa brought Galdau to

the U.S. in 1955 tohead a New YorkCity Iron Guardunit. (The IronGuard was the Ro-manian army thatcollaborated withthe Nazis duringWWII.) Galdau’stask was to recruitnew Romanian im-migrants into theGuard. According

to FBI documents, however, Trifa liedto Immigration authorities about hisNazi background. He also hid the factthat he had participated in the murderof Jews in Bucharest, Romania in1941. In 1984, Archbishop Trifa wasbrought to trial by the Office of Spe-cial Investigation (OSI) on charges thathe had filed false immigration papers.Trifa fled the country later that year toavoid prosecution, leaving behindGaldau to carry on his work. Beforeleaving, Trifa ordered the installationof Galdau as pastor of St. Dumitru, aManhattan parish. It has been esti-mated that Galdau helped bring intothe U.S. as many as 20,000 Romanianrefugees – all Nazi collaborators. Overthe years, Galdau has performedpriestly functions at events that com-memorated Iron Guard founderCorneliu Codreanu. Trifa himself onceconcurred in an interview that theGaldau church was “a center of fas-cists.” In 1974, The United Israel Bul-

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letin of New York headlined a story,“Florian Galdau, a Priest, Heads NewYork Iron Guard Cell.” [Summer 1974,p.1.] Galdau is a founder of the Re-publican Heritage Groups Council andwas listed as a member of the HostCommittee for a reception honoringPresident Reagan’s Ambassador to theUN, Jeane Kirkpatrick and FrankFahrenkopf, Jr., Chairman of the Re-publican National Committee, duringthe Council’s 1987 meeting in Wash-ington, D.C. In 1988, he was namedNational Chair of Romanians for Bush.

���� ���� ��Leader of the Romanian Iron Guardin Bucharest in 1941. The Guard wasa pro-Nazi Romanian group linked tothe SS by liaison officers such as Ottovon Bolschwig of the German SS. In1941, the Guard went on a rampagein Bucharest, seeking out Jews forgruesome deaths. Three days of chaosensued. Witnesses charge that duringthose days, Trifa personally went intoa jail and killed Jews. After the war,Trifa came to the U.S. and took overthe Romanian Orthodox church bymeans of physical coercion. In 1952,Trifa became an Archbishop of the Ro-manian Orthodox Church.

�������� ���� � The head of the Byelorussian GOPunit. The unit is closely associated withthe Byelorussian-American Associa-tion (BAA), an émigré group made up,in part, of former collaborators of theNazi occupation and its exterminationcampaign. An early BAA leader wasFranz Kushel, an SS major general andcommander of the Belarus Brigade, aWaffen SS unit. According to The

Belarus Secret (1982) by John Loftus,a book about Byelorussian Nazi col-laboration [and the post-WWII recruit-ment of Byelorussians by the U.S. gov-ernment], Kushel’s men took 40,000Jews to an execution ground in 1941.Another BAA leader, StanislawStankievich, the editor of a Nazi-funded newspaper, came from an up-per-class family of Nazi collaborators.He became mayor of Borissow in 1941.After having a wall built around theJewish section of the city, Stankievichconducted a series of financialextortions on the contained ghetto. Hispolice then sadistically exterminatedBorissow’s 7,000 Jews on October 20,1941. As the Soviets advanced on Ger-man-occupied Byelorussia, a puppetByelorussian Congress was formed tohelp mobilize support for the defenseof Germany. The 1,039 delegates tothis All-Byelorussian Second Congresswere screened and approved by Ger-many. These delegates, many of themleaders of police units and aByelorussian Waffen SS division, cameto dominate the BAA.

Melianovich has met with vari-ous U.S. agencies including the Na-tional Security Council staff in an ef-fort to return fascists to power inByelorussia. Melianovich has evenprovided U.S. government leaders witha map of Byelorussia complete withnew “ethnogenetical borders.”Melianovich claims that the Republi-can Heritage Groups Council has“changed the image of the RepublicanParty under our pressure.” Chargingthe Democrats with only caring about“the Black and Jewish vote,” he saysthat “if anyone should be called na-tionalist, it is the GOP.” Melianovichbecame national chairman ofByelorussians for Bush in 1988.

������!��� ������"��!Fahrenkopf, the former chairman ofthe Republican National Committee,became particularly linked to CroatianRepublicans. For example, he signeda 1984 Republican Heritage GroupsCouncil booklet listing commemora-tive dates of significance to ethnicAmericans. The entry for April 10reads: “The Independent State ofCroatia was declared by unanimousproclamation in 1941.... Lack of West-ern support and Axis occupation forcedthe new state into an unfortunate as-sociation with the Axis powers.” Thestatement is a fabrication. Croatia waspro-Nazi long before the German oc-cupation. The Nazis had a long-stand-ing relationship with the CroatianUstashi beginning years before theWWII. Indeed, the Nazis conspiredwith the Vatican to help create the “in-dependent state of Croatia” after theGerman attack on Yugoslavia in thespring of 1941. Without Vatican andNazi support, Croatia would neverhave gained its “independence.”

Soon thereafter, the Ustashibegan systematically liquidating Or-thodox Serbians, Jews and Gypsies. Sofrenzied did their effort eventually be-come that even the Nazis were takenaback by the barbarity of the Ustashiconcentration camps and the liquida-tion of whole Serbian villages. Hugeovens at Jasenovac reportedly burnedSerbs, Jews and Gypsies alive. An es-timated 750,000 people, mostly Serbs,were killed by the Croatians. The “in-dependent state of Croatia,” whichFahrenkopf suggests should be com-memorated, ceased to exist after thefall of the Third Reich.

Croatia’s recent re-emergenceunder right-wing German, Austrianand Vatican pressure may very wellforeshadow the kind of power struc-ture which is currently re-surfacing inCroatia.

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�� ���#����The head of the Slovak-American Re-publican Federation of the RepublicanHeritage Groups Council is a closefriend of Josef Mikus and John Hvasta(see below). Like Balco, Mikus andHvasta are members of the Slovak Re-publican delegation to the RepublicanHeritage Groups Council. All threework closely with the Toronto-basedSlovak World Congress, a group set up

and greatly influ-enced by formeraides to Mon-signor JosefTiso. Tiso wasthe head ofSlovakia, aNazi puppet

state during the war. Slovakia was cre-ated by Hitler after he split Czecho-slovakia in 1939. When the U.S. de-clared war on Germany on Dec. 12,1941, Tiso declared Slovakia at warwith the U.S. Tiso created the HlinkaGuard, a unit allied with the GermanSS that slaughtered 75,000 Jews. De-spite this Nazi history in Slovakia,Balco organized an annual commemo-ration of the Tiso rule in New York.

�� ��$����A member of the Slovak Republicandelegation to the Republican HeritageGroups Council. Hvasta also helpedthe 1988 Presidential Campaign offormer Ku Klux Klan leader and whitesupremacist, David Duke. Hvasta hasalso been linked to Joseph Kirsch-baum, a principal of the Slovak WorldCongress. Kirschbaum was a top com-mander of the SS-like Hlinka Guard.Kirschbaum edited a number ofspeeches by Ferdinand Durcansky,Tiso’s former foreign minister. Onespeech which touched on the massa-cre of Jews in Slovakia ominouslywarned, “I hope we live to see the timewhen the Jews draw from these factsthe necessary objective conclusions.”

Source: Excerpts from Russ Bellant’sOld Nazis, the New Right and the Re-publican Party (Boston: South EndPress, 1991). The article above, com-piled by S.R. Shearer in 1996, quotesfrom and summarizes Bellant’s work.It is available online as: “Strange Bed-fellows: The Religious Right and theSecular Right: Evangelicals are inDanger of being Defined by the Com-pany they Keep.” <www.antipasministries.com/oldnews/bedfells.html>)

#� ����������When Fedorak was the national vice-chair of Ukrainians for Bush. He in-troduced vice-presidential candidateGeorge H.W. Bush at a July 20, 1988,campaign stop at the Ukrainian Cul-tural Center, Warren, Michigan. It wasa banquet in solidarity with the so-called “Captive Nations.” This banquetwas co-sponsored by the pro-Nazi,Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations.

Fedorak was the top leader forexternal affairs in the U.S. for the Or-ganization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B). During the Nazioccupation of the Ukraine, the OUN-B organized military units that partici-pated in terrible atrocities includingpogroms in which Ukrainian Jewswere massacred. Fedorak chaired theCommittee on Foreign Affairs of theUkrainian Congress Committee ofAmerica (UCCA) in the 1980s.

He joined the Presidium of itsExecutive Committee in 1984. TheUCCA lobbied Congress to stop theJustice Department’s Office of SpecialInvestigations from pursuing Nazi-linked, Ukrainian war criminals in theU.S. The UCCA is heavily influencedbut not totally controlled by the OUN-B. For many years, Fedorak has beena delegate to conferences of the pro-fascist, CIA-linked World Anti-Com-munist League.

� ����� ��Phil Guarino, vice-chair of the Repub-lican Heritage Council and leader ofits Italian section was a RepublicanNational Committee staffer. He was re-moved from Bush Sr.’s 1988 campaignbecause of his involvement in Italy’sillegal P-2 Lodge. P-2 included topmilitary and intelligence officers, cor-porate and political leaders. It waslinked to the 1980 Bologna train sta-tion bombing, which killed 85. The P-2’s goal was to instal a rightwing Ital-ian dictatorship. Guarino’s ties to P-2became known when Michele Sindona,the Vatican’s top banker, got 25 yearsin a U.S. prison for illegal banking.Investigations of Sindona led to LicioGelli, the P-2g r a n d m a s t e r .Sindona and Gelliwere associates ofGuarino. Gelli, anardent Blackshirtin Mussolini’sFascist Party wasthe P-2 leader whomade violations ofits oaths punish-able by death. Italian police found thatGuarino was corresponding with Gelli.Guarino also hosted Gelli at Reagan’s1981 inauguration, introducing him to“members of the entourage.”

Guarino’s dealings with P-2began no later than 1976, when Ma-fia-linked Sindona financed “Ameri-cans for a Democratic Italy,” co-chaired by Guarino and Paul Rao, Jr.Rao is described in Luigi DiFonzo’sSt. Peter’s Banker (1983) as “attorneyfor the head of the Gambino family.”Sindona and Gambino family memberswere indicted in 1982 for “operating a$600 million-a-year heroin trade be-tween Sicily and America.”

Guarino was also involved inJohn Connally’s Committee for theDefense of the Mediterranean, whichpropagandized on the Italian Commu-nist Party (PCI) threat to the West.Connally, a friend of Sindona, wasNixon’s Secretary of the Treasury anda member of both Nixon and Ford’sForeign Intelligence Advisory Boards.

Source: These summaries on Fedorak andGuarino was culled by Press for Conver-sion editor, Richard Sanders, from RussBellant’s Old Nazis, the New Right & theRepublican Party (1991).

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