Slavic Union (Russia)

Slavic Union
Славянский союз
AbbreviationSU (English)
СС (Russian)
SS (Romanized)
FounderDmitry Demushkin
FoundedSeptember 1999 (1999-09)
BannedJune 29, 2010 (2010-06-29)
Split fromRussian National Unity
Succeeded byRussians
IdeologyNeo-Nazism[1][2][3]
Anti-immigration
Pan-Slavism[4]
Russian nationalism[2]
Ultranationalism[5]
Anti-communism
Anti-Semitism[6]
Political positionFar-right[3]
ReligionSlavic paganism[4][7]
Colours  Red   White
Slogan"Russia for Russians"
Party flag

National Socialist Movement "Slavic Union" (Russian: Национал-социалистическое движение «Славянский союз», romanizedNatsional-sotsialisticheskoye dvizheniye «Slavyanskiy soyuz»)[2] was a Russian neo-Nazi organization founded in 1999 by Dmitry Demushkin.[8] In 2010, it was banned by the Moscow City Court.[1][8] The group's website, in Russian, links to extensive material on Holocaust denial and to works by Adolf Hitler. Its organizational logo was a stylized swastika and the group's initials, "SS" in Russian, are the same as those used by the German Schutzstaffel during World War II.[8] The party was also notorious for promoting a far-right, "Aryan" tradition of Slavic paganism.[7] The organisation was described as ultranationalist and anti-Semitic.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b "Factbox: Groups that Russia has declared extremist". Reuters. 6 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Что такое "Славянский союз"". Kommersant. 25 July 2006.
  3. ^ a b "В России запрещен ультраправый "Славянский союз"". BBC Russian. 27 April 2010.
  4. ^ a b Nataliia Vdovychenko (27 November 2018). "Slavic Union is on the rise in Eastern Europe". diggitmagazine.com. Tilburg University.
  5. ^ a b Mansur Mirovalev (23 September 2015). "Behind Russia's ultra-nationalist crackdown". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera.
  6. ^ a b Richard Arnold (13 April 2015). "Russian Neo-Nazis 'Celebrate' Hitler's Birthday, Part One: Background". Jamestown. Jamestown Foundation.
  7. ^ a b Aitamurto, Kaarina (2015). More Russian Than Orthodox Christianity: Russian Paganism as Nationalist Politics. In L. M. Herrington, A. McKay, & J. Haynes (Eds.), Nations under God: The Geopolitics of Faith in the Twenty-First Century (PDF). Bristol: E-IR Edited Collections. pp. 126–132. ISBN 978-1-910814-06-2.
  8. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Banned was invoked but never defined (see the help page).