National-Christian Defense League

National-Christian Defense League
Liga Apărării Național Creștine
PresidentA. C. Cuza
Secretary-GeneralNichifor Crainic
FounderA. C. Cuza
Nichifor Crainic
Nicolae Paulescu
Founded4 March 1923; 101 years ago (4 March 1923)
Dissolved16 July 1935; 89 years ago (16 July 1935)
Merged intoNational Christian Party
HeadquartersBucharest, Kingdom of Romania
NewspaperApărarea Națională[1]
Paramilitary wingLăncieri
IdeologyRomanian ultranationalism
Antisemitism
Corporate statism[2][3]
Political positionFar-right
ReligionRomanian Orthodoxy
Colours  Blue   Yellow   Red
  Brown (customary)
Party flag

The National-Christian Defense League (Romanian: Liga Apărării Național Creștine, LANC) was a far-right political party of Romania formed by A. C. Cuza.[4]

  1. ^ Background and precursors to the Holocaust Jewish Virtual Library
  2. ^ Crainic, Programul statului etnocratic apud Sugar, Peter F. (1995). Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth-Century. American University Press. pp. 275–276. ISBN 978-1-879383-39-5.
  3. ^ Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. [...] fascist Italy [...] developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,
  4. ^ Background and Precursors to the Holocaust, p. 14