Anastasy Vonsiatsky
Russian-American white émigré and fascist activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsyatsky (Russian: Анаста́сий Андре́евич Вонся́цкий, Polish: Anastazy Wąsiacki; June 12, 1898 – February 5, 1965), better known in the United States as Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky, was a Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré and fascist leader based in the United States from the 1920s. He was the founder of the All-Russian Fascist Organisation.
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Born | (1898-06-12)June 12, 1898 Warsaw, Russian Empire |
Died | February 5, 1965(1965-02-05) (aged 66) St. Petersburg, Florida, United States |
Political party | All-Russian Fascist Organisation |
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Children | 2 |
Relatives | Andrew Mamedoff (Nephew) |
Residence(s) | Quinnatisset Farm, Putnam, Connecticut, U.S. |
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He became a naturalized American citizen while leading a splinter far-right organization, the Russian National Revolutionary Labor and Workers Peasant Party of Fascists. The headquarters of the RFO were based in Putnam, Connecticut. In 1942, following the United States's entry into war with Germany and Japan, Vonsyatsky was charged with supporting secret contacts with agents of Nazi Germany. He pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Released in 1946, Vonsyatsky lived out the remainder of his life in the United States. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1965.