Uniunea Vatra Românească | |
| Formation | February 1990 [1] |
|---|---|
| Type | NGO |
Region served | Romania |
The Romanian Hearth Union [2] [3] or Romanian Hearth Federation [4] ( Romanian: Uniunea Vatra Românească) is a far-right nationalist movement [5] and civic organization, [2] founded in Târgu Mureș in 1990. [4]
The main purpose of the organization is to save Romanians "hunted down in their own country" from the Hungarians viewed as "hordes plaguing humanity". [4] The emergence of the "Romanian Hearth" was helped by ex- Securitate officers. [4] The organization has been described by various sources as quasi-fascist, [6] radical nationalist, [4] xenophobic ultra-nationalist, [7] anti-Hungarian [8] and anti-Semitic. [9] It was associated with the former political party of Romanian National Unity Party (PUNR). [4]
See also
References
- ^ Valentin Borda. Vatra Românească
- ^ a b "Romania". International Religious Freedom Report 2007. United States Department of State. Archived from the original on 2019-05-27. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
- ^ George W. White, Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, p. 161
- ^ a b c d e f Mihaela Mihailescu, Dampening the Powder Keg: The Role of Democratic Oppositions in Fostering Ethnic Peace in Post-Communist Romania and Slovakia, ProQuest, 2006, pp. 116-117
- ^ Harden, Blaine (1990-03-21). "Hungary protests Romanian mob action". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 174
- ^ Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, The Balkans: A Post-Communist History, Routledge, 2007, p. 144
- ^ Juliana Geran Pilon, The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe : Spotlight on Romania , Transaction Publishers, 1982, p. 67
- ^ Joseph F. Harrington, American-Romanian Relations, 1989-2004: From Pariah To Partner, East European Monographs, 2004, p. 34