Vladimir Putin Leads a Pan-National White-Power Movement

A Russian “journalist” at a Moscow press conference displays a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin, French National Front Party leader Marine Le Pen and then-US President-elect Donald Trump in December 2016. (Photo by Sergei Fadeichev/TASS via Getty Images)

When the big annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, begins on the last weekend in February, the program will be linked with a Hungarian think tank called (likely with a straight face) the Centre for Fundamental Rights in Budapest, where Tucker Carlson’s new friend Viktor Orban is up for re-election as premier on April 3 and will deliver a keynote address. Spain’s right-wing Vox Party leader Santiago Abascal and the son of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo, have accepted invitations to Budapest for the last weekend in March, as well as “several U.S. senators and representatives,” as the think tank’s director Miklos Szantho told Hungarian state news agency MTI.

Not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union near the end of the 20th century, Russia and the former Soviet republics drew the interest of Western white supremacists.

Back around the time when the Berlin Wall first went up, American Jewish-German philosopher Hannah Arendt examined the pan-national nature of the racist, tribalistic and antisemitic rise of European fascist domination with her monumental post-Holocaust work The Origins of Totalitarianism:

“Nazism and Bolshevism owe more to Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism (respectively) than to any other ideology or…