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TIL that the founder of the Paneuropean Union, the oldest European unification movement, was the Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher, and count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro. His wartime politics and adventures served as the real life basis for fictional Resistance hero Victor Laszlo.

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