Rodna Zashtita

Rodna Zashtita (Bulgarian: Родна Защита), meaning Native Defense, was a nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist organization that operated in Bulgaria from before 1923 to 1936. At its peak in the late 1920s, it had tens of thousands of members.[1]

Rodna Zashtita had an anti-agrarian, anti-communist, and anti-Semitic ideology. In addition, the organization opposed the Freemasons. The organization advocated corporatism and demanded the abolition of political parties. The organisation's members wore black shirts, saluted with a fascist salute and spread propaganda of love for Bulgaria and preaching sacrifice for the homeland.[2] The organization has been classified as "proto-fascist" by the researcher of fascism in Bulgaria, Nikolai Poppetrov.[3] Rodna Zashtita sporadically committed attacks upon Bulgarian Turks.[4] In 1933, the group attacked the Turkish cemetery in Razgrad.[5] After 1936, its members merged with the Ratnik organization.[6]

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References
  1. Poppetrov, Nikolay (2008). Фашизмът в България. Развитие и прояви. „Кама“. ISBN 978-954-9890-92-1.
  2. Gerhard Schreiber; Bernd Stegemann; Detlef Vogel (1995). Germany and the Second World War. Oxford University Press. p. 330. ISBN 9780198228844.
  3. Roumen Daskalov (January 2011). Debating the Past. Central European University Press. p. 162. ISBN 9786155053009.
  4. Mary C. Neuberger (15 May 2011). The Orient Within. Cornell University Press. p. 179. ISBN 9781501720239.
  5. Hande Sözer (2014). Managing Invisibility. Brill. p. 78.
  6. Jacky Comforty; Martha Aladjem Bloomfield. The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust. p. 93.


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