Bacu was born in 1925 in Grammatiko, Greece, in an Aromanian family (Balkan Eastern Romance speakers). According to his close friend and (fellow Aromanian fascist) Zahu Pană, Bacu was introduced to Iron Guard texts as a high-school student in Greece. 5/
Pană alleges that Bacu was forced to leave Greece because of ethnic hatred directed at Aromanians. He traveled to Italy and then Austria. The timeline here is vague, I haven't been able to verify secondary sources placing Bacu in Romania in 1943. 6/
One thing is certain: in 1946 he was part of a group of Iron Guard members in Austria who denounced Horia Sima's leadership. In the following years Bacu travels to Romania, graduates from high-school, enrolls in an engineering program, is arrested, manages to leave the... 7/
... the country and settles in Evry (Paris area) France. Interestingly enough, he takes a job in a printing shop owned by another Iron Guard member... Ioan Cușa (see 🧵⬇️). 8/ bsky.app/profile/bast...
Like in the case of Cușa, surviving correspondence (and other documents) shows a close relationship with Iron Guard leader Papanace, a rival of Sima. Bacu died in 1997, a soldier in the service of his cause. What are the main takeaways here? That there is still a lot we... 9/
... don't know about the Cold War exile, it's a history of the "in between". That Romanian fascism was never, at any point, a "spiritual movement" disconnected from European fascism and Nazism. Not even half a century after the war. Baston out. 10/10