Trotsky lambasted the Russian "liberals" who backed genocide, lashing the democrat Pavel Milyukov for his complicity in the murder of Albanian infants.
But this pattern holds through recent history. Romanian Orthodox terrorists were also seen at Srebrenica. In 2007, Romanians assigned to United Nations police duties in Kosovo murdered two Kosovar Albanian political activists, Mon Balaj and Arben Xheladini.
Most recently, a distasteful figure named Matthew Heimbach, an accomplice in the Charlottesville riot that killed Heather Heyer, an antifascist activist, has capered publicly with an Orthodox cross around his neck and other Romanian fascist symbology. As I observed in my reporting from the Balkans, Romania harbors the largest and most extreme neo-Nazi subculture in eastern Europe, second only to Russia and ahead of Hungary under Orban and Serbia, the terrorist black hole.
I have been derided for comparing the current breakup of American comity with the collapse of ex-Yugoslavia, but have insisted on pointing out, perhaps too stridently, the persistence of the post-Soviet pattern. First comes disinformation ("fake news"). Then deliberate ethnic polarization. Followed by the appearance of militias and other violent fascist entities. All with Russian financing.
The West was warned, but ignored the warnings. We must all now live with the result.
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