What does the Austrian historian who warned for two years about Călin Georgescu say

Although Călin Georgescu's messages, full of legionary elements, were known, no one took legal measures against him, warns Austrian historian Oliver Jens Schmitt. Georgescu, quite simply, was underestimated.

Important institutions of the state have been propagating a more moderate type of nationalism for years – the leadership of the Romanian Academy and most of the members of the Holy Synod of the BOR – preparing the ground for a reborn Codreanu.

Given Georgescu's success, an investigation is the task of the critical press, but especially of those political forces that do not share Georgescu's openly pro-Russian course. Parliament would have an obligation to control the secret services and not the other way around.

Oliver Jens Schmitt spoke about Călin Georgescu and his rise in neo-legionary circles since two years ago, also in an interview with spotmedia.ro.

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