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Entry: Right Face! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/right_face#13228 Post contents: Constrained as I am by the need to produce legal work for the ever more impatient clients, I have not had a chance to read my copy of Codreanu's "For My Legionaries", but the desultory net looking I have done suggests that the Legion of the Archangel Michael (the "Iron Guard"), whatever its other defects, at least had a more explicitly religious (Orthodox) association than most other 1930's style Right movements (I hesitate to call the IG “fascists”). An interesting anecdote about this is as follows: As a Roman who likes to ecumenize to the right (per F. Wilhelmsen), I subscribe to a very interesting Orthodox publication called "The Orthodox Word", coming from the St. Herman Brotherhood in Platina, California. One of their past issues had a very edifying account of an Iron Guard member who was arrested and imprisoned by the Antonescu regime, along with other Iron Guard members, and then kept imprisoned by the Communists until his death from tuberculosis in the early 1950’s. In both cases the incarceration was motivated by purely political considerations. While in prison this young man spent his time doing acts of Christian charity and witnessing to his faith to the others, many of whom were atheists. His life ended, it was written, when he gave the TB medicine he had received from his family to (the later to become famous) Pastor Richard Wurmbrand. Sent at: 2008 11 23