National Fascist Community
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The National Fascist Community (Czech: Národní obec fašistická, NOF, sometimes translated as National Fascist League) was a Czechoslovak Fascist movement led by Radola Gajda, and based on the Fascism of Benito Mussolini.[4]
Formation and ideology
The party was formed in March 1926 by the merger of a group of dissident
far right there was dominated by an indigenous movement.[5]
Activity
The NOF even made plans for a possible
coup d'etat and secured the support of Slovak paramilitary group Rodobrana in this endeavour although ultimately the plans were intercepted by Brno police and thus shelved.[7]
Popularity of the party and dissolution
In the
1929 elections the NOF ran under the name "Against Fixed-Order Lists",[8] but won three seats. Gajda was elected to Parliament, but the party failed to maintain its support, and received only 2% of the vote and seven seats in Chamber of Deputies in the elections of 1935.[4]
The NOF attempted a comeback during the
German occupation,[8] although the Nazis did not support due to their earlier criticism and their overall minor status. Ultimately the NOF were disbanded and largely absorbed into the puppet National Partnership, Gajda having been bribed to leave politics.[9] The party's demise was sealed in late 1939 when they organised a rally in Prague's Wenceslas Square and only managed to attract 300 supporters.[10]
Electoral results
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1935
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167,433 (#12) | 2.0 | 6 / 300
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| Senate | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1935
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145,125 (#13) | 2.0 | 0 / 150
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References
- ^ Dana, Massowová (2007). "Národní obec fašistická na Bučovicku za první republiky" (PDF) (in Czech). Masaryk University. p. 11. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
- ^ "Českým fašistům. Blog - Vít Šlechta (Bigbloger.lidovky.cz)". Archived from the original on 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
- ^ ISBN 80-86226-73-5.
- ^ a b c d Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism 1914-1945, London, Routledge, 2001, p. 309
- ^ a b c Andrea Orzoff, Battle for the castle: the myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948, Oxford University Press US, 2009, p. 100
- ^ Andrew C. Janos, East Central Europe in the modern world: the politics of the borderlands, Stanford University Press, 2002, p. 170
- ^ Orzoff, Battle for the castle, p. 101
- ^ ISBN 0-313-23804-9
- ^ Payne, A History of Fascism, p. 426
- ^ Benjamin Frommier, National cleansing: retribution against Nazi collaborators in postwar Czechoslovakia, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 21