Talk:Anastasy Vonsiatsky

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One source say the following (Russian): "В нашем распоряжении оказались уникальные номера эмигрантской газеты "Новая Заря", выходившей в Сан-Франциско, штат Калифорния. В субботних номерах, датированных 23 и 30 сентября 1961 года, на первой полосе была опубликована обширная статья Анастасия Вонсяцкого "Мадридские Багратионы".

Ее автор - известный публицист и общественный деятель, поручик Белой армии. В 20-е годы перебрался на жительство в Америку. Играл значительную роль в консолидации русской эмиграции в Харбине. Во время II-й Мировой войны был интернирован американскими властями и осужден на шесть лет. Причина - крайне правые взгляды, которых придерживался Вонсяцкий. После освобождения выступил одним из учредителей Общероссийского монархического фронта. Умер в 1965 году. [1]

This contradicts the article. Present text is probably based on the cited book: "The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946)". But this book is a well-known falsification, just as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Biophys 20:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Another source:

Russian fascists in the United States

The foundation and structure of the Russian fascist movement in the United States was in essentials the work of its leader Anastasi Anastasievich Vonsiatsky. He was the son of a colonel in the gendarmerie who had been murdered by Polish revolutionaries in 1910. In November 1917, as a junior officer in the Nikolaevsky Cavalry School, he joined the Volunteer Army then being formed

and fought throughout the Civil War until the Army's evacuation of the Crimea in 1920.As emigrt he attached himself to the militant anti-communist Brotherhood of the Russian Truth, for which he provided funds after his marriage to a rich American. In the early thirties he became convinced that the existing political emigrt organizations no longer met the requirements of the day, largely because the older generation were unable to show the younger people a promising road to the liberation and transformation of Russia. But he did not differentiate his movement from that of the Whites as sharply as did the Russian fascists in the Far East. He and his party did indeed wish to learn from the mistakes of the Whites, 'who never found real contact with the people', but he was also anxious to establish that Russian fascism was 'the heir of the White movement'. Heroic deeds, such as the legendary march across the ice to Ekaterinodar, in which Vonsiatsky had himself taken part, seemed to him peculiarly well suited to inspire the fascists with rnilitancy.8 When, in May 1933, impressed by the spectacular Nazi triumph in Germany, he founded the All-Russian Fascist Organization (VFO), he looked on it as the continuation of the White movement. The new party had its headquarters in Putnam (Connecticut), and soon built up an entire network of branch organizations throughout America. In August 1933 the first issue of Fashisf appeared. It proposed, as Lenin's Iskra had done, to establish contact with all Russian 'activist' emigres, to penetrate Russia as the voice of the 'national revolutionary leadership', and to become the nucleus of the new mass fascist movement. Vonsiatsky, who quickly became the focus of an extraordinary leader cult, introduced the first issue of his paper with an 'open letter' to the principal party body, the 'Russian Fascist Supreme Staff', in which he set down guiding lines for VFO activities. In contrast to Rodzaevsky and the fascists in Manchuria, who made it their first task to draft a programme, Vonsiatsky rejected any kind of political 'programme-mongering', for this would only bring abstract ideas to the consideration of the Russian reality. He devoted his entire attention to the 'tactical struggle for the liberation of the Russian people'. He wanted to reach the people who, embittered by hunger, by life in the kokhoz, and by the coercive measures of the government, were rising again and again in sporadic outbreaks of unrest, to encourage their protest with inflammatory battle-cries. He was convinced, above all, that in an archetypal peasant country like Russia, fascism would have to seek support among the peasants, to co-ordinate their resistance to collectivization and transform it into a 'national popular movement' led by the fascists. With this in mind, Vonsiatsky put forward three principal slogans for fascist propaganda: protection of private property, distribution of kolkhoz and sovkhoz land among the peasants, and freedom of trade in agricultural products. This programme indicates the high importance which Vonsiatsky attached to tactics. What he added by way of fascist theory to these and similar concrete slogans in the course of time consisted in essentials of borrowings from his like-minded comrades in Manchuria. In an interview given to a Belgrade paper at the end of 1933 he admitted that he and his colleagues had chosen the title 'fascist' primarily because it was popular in the Soviet Union as a synonym for every kind of resistance. Since the Soviet rulers branded everything hostile to them as fascist, they were themselves the best propagandists for fascism among the discontented population.9 The first goal of the VFO was to create a 'united fascist front' within the emigration; but the attempt to turn the existing political emigre organizations into fascist bodies, and to bring their leaders together as the general staff of the national revolution, was a failure. Vonsiatsky made a trip to Europe in 1933 to meet the leaders of the various emigre groups, but the only agreement reached was one for close cooperation between the VFO, the Russian National-Socialist Movement (RNSD) in Germany, and the League of Young Russians. For the rest, he had to be content with the setting up of VFO sections in various places in North and South America, Europe, and the Near East. In these circumstances it is easy to understand why Vonsiatsky, 'in the name of 2000 VFO members', welcomed Rodzaevsky's proposal to merge their two parties. Early in 1934 he and his colleague I. D. Kunle were sent by the Supreme Council of the VFO to the Far East to negotiate the agreement. [2]Biophys 20:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I especially like this: "Vonsiatsky put forward three principal slogans for fascist propaganda: protection of private property, distribution of kolkhoz and sovkhoz land among the peasants, and freedom of trade in agricultural products."Biophys 20:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

But most interesting reference is this: from FBI history.Biophys 21:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

So, he was convicted in US for helping Germans against Soviet Union during WWII. Biophys 21:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

"He and one Donat Kunle, a former officer of the White Russian Army who had come to the United States about the same time as Vonsiatsky, founded the Russian National Revolutionary Labor and Workers Peasant Party of Fascists, frequently referred to as the All Russian National Revolutionary Party, for the purpose of grouping together White Russians all over the world who would be willing to go to any length to assist the Russian people in overthrowing the Communist regime and setting up a government of their own choosing. Vonsiatsky's organization was organized in May, 1933, and had its headquarters, called The Center, at the Vonsiatsky palatial estate near Thompson, Connecticut."Biophys 21:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

His political platform

"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."

"The Russian National Revolutionary Party, of which I am the leader, does not support either Germany's or Japan's ambition for hegemony in Europe or the Far East.

"The Germans and the Japanese have never made clear their attitude toward a replacement of the present Stalinist rule by a Russian National Government.

"The sole aim of our organization is to return Russia to a free people with a government elected by the people, of the people and for the people.

"Our intention is to form in Russia a truly DEMOCRATIC government.

"Our Party is not anti-Semitic.

"Only in the United States can we enjoy freedom of action and thought within the laws of the country.

"I HEREWITH STATE EMPHATICALLY THAT THE ACTIVITIES OF OUR ORGANIZATION ARE AGAINST THE PRESENT SOVIET GOVERNMENT ALONE" End of citation.Biophys 21:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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