| Iron Guard | |
|---|---|
| Garda de Fier | |
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| Leader | Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Horia Sima (disputed)[1] |
| Foundation | 24 June 1927[2] |
| Dates of operation | March 1930 – 1990's |
| Split from | National-Christian Defense League |
| Headquarters | Green House, Bucureștii Noi[3] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Notable attacks | Killing of I. Gh. Duca Killing of Armand Călinescu 1941 Rebellion and Pogrom |
| Size | 272,000 (late 1937 est.)[17] |
| Part of | |
| Opponents | |
| Battles and wars | Anti-communist resistance[20] (9% were former Iron Guardists) |
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| President | Gheorghe Cantacuzino[a][23] Gheorghe Clime[b] Horia Sima[c] |
| Founded | 10 December 1934 |
| Registered | 20 March 1935 |
| Banned | 23 January 1941 |
| Preceded by | Gruparea Corneliu Zelea Codreanu[d][24] |
| Newspaper | |
| Youth wing | Frăția de Cruce[28] |
| Paramilitary wing | Iron Guard |
| Labour wing | Corpul Muncitorilor Legionari |
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| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox Christianity |
| International affiliation | Fascist International Congress (observer)[34] |
| Colours | Black White Green |
| Senate (1937) | 4 / 113 (4%) |
| Chamber of Deputies (1937) | 66 / 387 (17%) [35] |
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The Iron Guard (Romanian: Garda de Fier) was a Romanian militant revolutionary religious fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail) or the Legionary Movement (Mișcarea Legionară).[36] It was strongly anti-democratic, anti-capitalist, anti-communist, and anti-Semitic. It differed from other European far-right movements of the period due to its spiritual basis, as the Iron Guard was deeply imbued with Romanian Orthodox Christian mysticism.
In March 1930, Codreanu formed the Iron Guard as a paramilitary branch of the Legion, which in 1935 changed its official name to the "Totul pentru Țară" party—literally, "Everything for the Country". It existed into the early part of the Second World War, during which time it came to power. Members were called Legionnaires or, outside of the movement, "Greenshirts" because of the predominantly green uniforms they wore.[37]
When Marshal Ion Antonescu came to power in September 1940, he brought the Iron Guard into the government, creating the National Legionary State. In January 1941, following the Legionnaires' rebellion, Antonescu used the army to suppress the movement, destroying the organization; its commander, Horia Sima, along with other leaders, escaped to Germany.
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- ^ In March 1930, Codreanu formed the "Iron Guard" as an armed wing of the Legion.
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The institute only lasted one year, but allowed Crainic to advance ideas such as anti-Masonry, anti-Semitism, and biological racism within an LANC-approved forum (Crainic, Ortodoxie 147).
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Nae Ionescu considered ethnicity as "the formula of today's Romanian nationalism," while for Nichifor Crainic the "biological homogeneousness," the "historical identity" and the "blood and the soil" were the defining elements of the "ethnocratic state."
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A prominent proponent of the concept of 'ethnic homogeneity' was the chauvinistic, xenophobic and pro-Nazi writer, politician, poet and professor of Theology Nichifor Crainic (1889–1972), author of "Orthodoxy and Ethnocracy" (Ortodoxie și etnocrație), published in 1938.
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The Iron Guard was the ultra-nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist movement and political party in Romania.
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A Unique Death Cult: How the Romanian Iron Guard blended nationalistic violence with Christian martyrdom to spread a singularly morbid fascist movement. [...] As in some other Eastern European countries, there had developed strong currents of populism that espoused a kind of peasant nationalism, equally opposed to liberalism, conservatism, and Marxist socialism.
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