Andrey Dikiy
Andrey Dikiy | |
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Born | Andrei Ivanovich Zankevich February 9, 1895 Gaivoron, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | September 4, 1977 New York City, United States | (aged 82)
Occupation | writer, journalist, historian, political activist |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Conspirology, Antisemitism |
Andrey Ivanovich Dikiy (Russian: Андрей Иванович Дикий; Ukrainian: Андрій Іванович Дикий; February 9, 1895 – September 4, 1977), real surname Zankevich (Занкевич) was a white émigré Russian Nazi collaborator, writer and journalist who served as the Deputy Head of the civilian administration of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) and as a volunteer for the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) under Andrey Vlasov. Known for his radical antisemitism and anti-Ukrainian sentiment, Dikiy has been described by Christian essayist Dmitry Talantsev as one of the main theorists of Judophobia.
Biography
Zankevich was born into a noble family, at the family estate in the village of Gaivoron, in the Chernigov Governorate, 30 km south of Konotop (now in Ukraine). His father was the owner of a large sugar factory and sugar beet plantation. His mother's maiden name was Kandiba. Andrey had three brothers and one sister.
He emigrated to Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. There he was active in the anti-Soviet community, and was a member of the executive committee of National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. During World War II, Dikiy volunteered for the Nazi collaborationist Russian Liberation Army, and was deputy head of the personnel department of the Civil Administration of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.
He moved to the United States after World War II and was a prolific publisher of articles in the Russophone press characterized as pseudo-scientific, antisemitic and anti-Ukrainian. His writings were extensively used by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his tract Two Hundred Years Together.
He died on September 4, 1977, in New York and is buried at the Russian Orthodox cemetery at the Novo-Diveevo Cemetery in Nanuet, New York.
- 1895 births
- 1977 deaths
- Antisemitism in Russia
- People from Chernihiv Oblast
- People from Chernihiv Governorate
- National Alliance of Russian Solidarists members
- Russian Liberation Army personnel
- Nobility from the Russian Empire
- Anti-communists from the Russian Empire
- White Russian emigrants to Yugoslavia
- White Russian emigrants to the United States
- Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
- Burials at Novo-Diveevo Russian Cemetery
- People from Richmond, Maine
- White movement collaborators with Nazi Germany