Russia and the Right

[David Morris]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/world/europe/intent-on-unsettling-eu-russia-taps-foot-soldiers-from-the-fringe.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

In late October, however, Mr. Gyorkos, a veteran neo-Nazi and the leader of
a tiny fringe outfit called the Hungarian National Front, suddenly took on
a more sinister visage when, according to Hungarian police officers who
raided his home in search of illegal weapons, he shot and killed a member
of the police team with an assault rifle. Members of his family is say the
dead policeman was shot by a fellow officer.

The saga then took an even stranger turn: Hungarian intelligence officials
told a parliamentary security committee in Budapest that Mr. Gyorkos had
for years been under scrutiny for his role in a network of fringe
extremists linked to and encouraged by Russia
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>.
So close was the relationship, the committee heard, that Russian military
intelligence officers, masquerading as diplomats, staged regular mock
combat exercises using plastic guns with neo-Nazi activists near Mr.
Gyorkos’s home.

That Russia, a nation intensely proud of its huge role in the defeat of
Hitler’s Germany in World War II
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/world_war_ii_/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,
would want anything to do with marginal, anti-Semitic crackpots who revere
Hitler’s wartime allies in Hungary might, at first glance, seem beyond
comprehension.
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