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.
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Orazio Maria Gnerre (far left) and Pavel Gubarev (far right), Donetsk, June 2014
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Pavel Gubarev (centre) and Orazio Maria Gnerre (far right), Donetsk, June 2014 |
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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.
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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.
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Orazio Maria Gnerre and two cannons |
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Orazio Maria Gnerre and a tank |
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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.
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(from left to right) Orazio Maria Gnerre, Emmanuel Riondino, Mateus Azevedo, Aleksandr Dugin and André Martin, Federal University of Paraíba, September 2012 |