Special to In Defense of Communism.
In our post titled “Golden Dawn's Neo-Nazis's admiration for Donald Trump” (April 6) we had described the public admiration that known members of the Greek fascist organisation had expressed for the US Presidential candidate Donald Trump. There is plenty of evidence which shows a connection between far-right, fascist and racist groups in the two sides of the Atlantic; more specifically between American White supremacists and Greek neo-Nazis.
Before
going to the ties of Golden Dawn's Nazis with US fascist groups, lets
go back to June 2015 when 59 year-old John
Russel Houser opened fire at a movie theater in Lafayette,
Louisiana. Two women, aged 21 and 33, were killed as a result of
this. According to police investigation, Houser had a history of
far-right ideas, being a member of the ultra-conservative Tea Party
and an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Timothy
McVeigh. A research on the web unveiled that, in one of his
comments, Houser had praised Golden Dawn. Here
is the part of his reference to the Greek nazi-criminal group: