Context: In early May 2026, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that approximately 5,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Germany within six to twelve months. There are a total of 36,000 U.S. military personnel in the country. The reported withdrawal followed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s comments on the U.S. war with Iran. He stated that Washington cannot end the war because it lacks a negotiating strategy, and Iran is humiliating the U.S. by refusing to compromise. Earlier, Merz also discussed the need to strengthen the Bundeswehr so that it is prepared for defense at any time.
In the May 4, 2026 episode of Azaryonok. Napryamuyu, Ryhor Azaronak linked the partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany to the strengthening of Germany – the country hostile to Belarus – which he believed the U.S. troops would no longer be able to restrain. During the same conversation, he claimed that the American elite exhibits signs of Nazism, citing the origin of Elon Musk’s name as an example.
“The name Elon is very rare. Do you know where Grandpa Musk got it from? From a novel by Wernher von Braun. The main character is conquering the planet Mars. I mean, in Wernher von Braun’s book, the planet Mars is conquered over by a boy called Elon,” said Azaronak.
“The guy doing the Nazi salute, right, Ryhor?” confirmed the guest of the program, political scientist Andrei Lazutkin.
“Yeah, yeah. You see, everything happens for a reason.”
Indeed, Wernher von Braun was a member of the NSDAP and was involved in developing rockets for Nazi Germany during World War II. After the war, he moved to the United States, where he played a key role in the American space program and wrote books. One of them is the science fiction novel The Mars Project, which contains the word “Elon”. However, it is not a boy, not the main character, or a name, but rather the title of the head of the Martian government.
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The name Elon appeared in the Musk family long before von Braun’s novel was published. In an interview, Elon Musk revealed that he was named after his great-grandfather, John Elon Haldeman. Musk’s mother also wrote that her grandfather’s name was the same. There is documented evidence of this.
