Romanian Hearth Union

Romanian Hearth Union
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 nationalistic 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,[5] radical nationalist,[4] xenophobic ultra-nationalist,[6] anti-Hungarian,[7] extreme-nationalist[7] and anti-Semitic.[8] It was associated with the former political party of PUNR.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Valentin Borda. Vatra Românească
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Romania, International Religious Freedom Report 2007". www.state.gov. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  3. ↑ George W. White, Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, p. 161
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 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
  5. ↑ Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 174
  6. ↑ Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, The Balkans: A Post-Communist History, Routledge, 2007, p. 144
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Juliana Geran Pilon, The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe : Spotlight on Romania , Transaction Publishers, 1982, p. 67
  8. ↑ Joseph F. Harrington, American-Romanian Relations, 1989-2004: From Pariah To Partner, East European Monographs, 2004, p. 34