1. Povl Heinrich Riis-Knudsen is a Danish neo-Nazi, prominent in the US as well as Denmark.
14 Facts About Povl Riis-Knudsen
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Povl Riis-Knudsen first came to prominence when Matt Koehl took charge of the World Union of National Socialists and sought out Povl Riis-Knudsen, already a leading neo-Nazi in Denmark, as his European contact.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen, who felt that Nazism in Europe was hamstrung by the continent's historical experience, welcomed the move as he felt the United States had less of this and so he became General Secretary of the WUNS.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen published National Socialism - A Left Wing Movement, which argued that the revolutionary nature of Nazism set it apart from the reactionary ways of the right and so Nazism was in fact a left wing ideology.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen had come to look for more of an accommodation with communism, becoming part of a tendency in the European far right at the time to think this way.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen even went as far as to visit the Soviet Union in 1978, a move which led to controversy in the Danish press who knew Riis-Knudsen as a neo-Nazi.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen came to view Russia, rather than the United States, as the saviours of the Aryan race and made this break clear in A Left Wing Movement.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen wrote for CEDADE in a special edition of their bulletin which featured Salvador Borrego, Wilfred von Oven and Richard Edmonds.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen caused further controversy in the late 1980s when he appeared on TV calling for Denmark to be purged of all immigrants, the death penalty for anyone caught transmitting AIDS, labour camps for his political opponents and sterilization of non-whites.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen has declared his support for Palestine against Israel and a sympathy with Islamic fundamentalism, albeit balanced against a desire to see Islam expelled from Europe.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen has since turned his attention to running his own publishing house, Nordland-Verlag, from Aalborg.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen has blamed the Western countries for making the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine necessary.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen has claimed that the Bucha massacre was staged.
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Povl Riis-Knudsen has claimed that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not work for Ukraine but rather for some undisclosed powers and that the goal for Zelenskyy is a nuclear war.