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Italian fascists from Millennium ally with pro-Russian right-wing extremists

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German version of this post can be found here: "Italienische Faschisten von Millennium verbünden sich mit pro-russischen Rechtsextremisten"

Following the visit of Polish fascists to Eastern Ukraine, in support of pro-Russian right-wing extremists of the "Donetsk People's Republic", now Italian fascists from the Millennium organisation pledge allegiance to anti-Ukrainian terrorists.

According to Pavel Gubarev, one of the leaders of pro-Russian extremists and former member of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity, "anti-fascists" from the Italian Millennium organisation have come to Donetsk and will join the "military forces" of the "Donetsk People's Republic" under the leadership of Igor Strelkov.

Orazio Maria Gnerre (far left) and Pavel Gubarev (far right), Donetsk, June 2014
Pavel Gubarev (centre) and Orazio Maria Gnerre (far right), Donetsk, June 2014

Orazio Maria Gnerre (centre) and Denis Pushilin, the self-declared Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the "Donetsk People's Republic", Donetsk, June 2014

In terms of ideology, the Millennium organisation is the opposite of anti-fascism. Its ideology is close to neo-Eurasianism of Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin with whom Millennium has been actively cooperating already for a few years.

Millennium's chief ideologue is Andrea Virga, born in 1987 in Casale Monferrato and currently a PhD student at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy). His thesis is on Falangism in Cuba.

Andrea Virga complains about Italian anti-fascists who disrupted a Millennium conference at the Polytechnic University of Milan in January 2014
Millennium's formal leader is Orazio Maria Gnerre, who is also an editor of Millennium's journal Nomos - Bollettino di studi e analisi. Apart from being a fascist, Gnerre likes to get photographed with big cannons, as if compensating for something.

Orazio Maria Gnerre and two cannons

Orazio Maria Gnerre and a tank
Orazio Maria Gnerre caressing a big cannon
In summer 2013, Gnerre took part in the international conference "Russia and Europe: Dialogue of Resistance" that was attended, in particular, by the following far right activists: Felix Aleman, Natella Speranskaya, Adriana Ratmiskaya, Anton Zankovsky, ManuelOchsenreiter, Alexander Dugin, Tim Kirby, and some others. The videos from the conference can be found here and here.

Millennium has been cooperating with Dugin at least since 2012, when they met at a conference in Brazil, but more research should be done on Millennium's first contacts with Russian fascists.

(from left to right) Orazio Maria Gnerre, Emmanuel Riondino, Mateus Azevedo, Aleksandr Dugin and André Martin, Federal University of Paraíba, September 2012

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