Spectres of Fascism: Anti-communist Resistance and the Legacy of the Legion of the Archangel Michael in 1940s Romania

Roland Clark

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Chapter 14 Spectres of Fascism: Anti-communist Resistance and the Legacy of the Legion of the Archangel Michael in 1940s Romania

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Seiten:: 309–331

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657703043_015

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Scores of armed resistance groups formed in the wake of General Ion Antonescu’s resignation as the ruler of Romania on 23 August 1944 and the gradual establishment of Communist rule. Although the most famous of these groups were tightly coordinated bands firmly ensconced in the mountains under the leadership of charismatic individuals such as Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu and Toma Arnăuțoiu, the majority were small, loosely-organized networks of people who took up arms for a variety of reasons, including out of fear that they would be targeted by the communists because of their fascist pasts. National Liberals and Peasantists were reluctant to join forces with former legionaries even though they were happy to cooperate with antisemites who had been affiliated with other extremist right-wing parties such as the National Christian Party. For others, being a legionary was the epitome of what it meant to be anti-communist. This chapter examines how the myth of the Legion shaped armed resistance to the Romanian Communist Party during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It argues that reframing memories of the Legion for a Cold War audience shaped armed resistance in significant ways, from alienating potential collaborators to forcing people into resistance out of fear of reprisals for their past affiliations and motiving young people who needed an ideology they could appropriate.

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Zeci de grupări de rezistenţă armată s-au format în preajma demisiei Generalului Ion Antonescu în calitate de conducator al României în data de 23 august 1944 şi a întemeierii graduale a orânduirii Comuniste. Deşi majoritatea acestor grupări erau strâns coordonate de găşti refugiate în munţi sub conducerea unor indivizi caristmatici precum Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu şi Toma Arnăuțoiu, majoritatea erau reţele mici de oameni superficial organizate care s-au ridicat la arme din diverse motive, inclusiv de frică că ar putea fi ţinta comuiştilor din cauza trecutului lor fascist. Naţional Liberalii şi Ţaraniştii erau reticenţi să-şi unească forţele cu foştii legionari chiar dacă erau bucuroşi să coopereze cu antisemiţii, care la rândul lor fuseseră afiliaţi cu alte partide de extremă dreapta ca şi Partidul Naţional Creştin. Pentru alţii, a fi legionar întruchipa chintesenţa a ceea ce înseamna să fi anti-comunist. Acest capitol examinează în ce fel mitul Legiunii a format rezistenţa armată împotriva Partidului Comunist Român spre sfârşitul anilor ’40 şi începutul anilor ’50. Capitolul argumentează că reîncadrarea memorillor despre Legiune într-o mentalitate a războiului rece a format rezistenţa armată în diverse feluri semnificative, de la alienarea potenţialilor colaboratori până la a forţa oamenii în rezistenţă de frica represaliilor din cauza apartenenţelor lor trecute şi până la a motiva tineretul care avea nevoie de o ideologie de care să se ataşeze.

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Violent Resistance

From the Baltics to Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe 1944–1956

ISBN:: 9783657703043

Verleger:: Brill | Schöningh

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 25 Jun 2020

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