Konstantin Wladimirowitsch Rodsajewski

Konstantin Rodsajewski

Konstantin Rodzaevsky ( Russian Константин Владимирович Родзаевский * 11. August 1907 in Blagoveshchensk ; † 30th August 1946 in Moscow ) was a politician of the Russian Fascist Party (RFP) that he from the Manchurian led exile.

Career

Rodzajewski comes from a Siberian middle class family and grew up in Blagoveshchensk, a border town on the Amur River . In 1925 he fled the Soviet Union to Chinese Manchuria. In Harbin , Rodzajewski attended the Law School and joined the Russian Fascist Organization . On May 26, 1931 he became general secretary of the newly formed Russian Fascist Party; In 1934 the party merged with the Russian Fascist Organization and Rodsayevsky became its " leader ". He took Benito Mussolini as a model and used the swastika as one of the symbols of his movement.

Rodsajewski surrounded himself with a personally selected bodyguard and used emblems of both the fall of the Russian Empire and Russian nationalism ; Like the Italian black shirts , the Russian fascists wore black uniforms; the Imperial Japanese Army supplied them with weapons. They created an international exile organization of the White Army with headquarters in Harbin, the "Moscow of the Russian Far East" and connections to 26 countries around the world. The most important of these international outposts was in New York City .

Manchukuo

RFP headquarters in Manjur

Rodsajewski had around 12,000 followers in Manchukuo . On the occasion of the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire, Rodsajewski paid homage to Emperor Hirohito with a delegation at the official celebrations in the region .

The fascists erected an oversized swastika made of neon tubes on the roof of their headquarters in Manjur , three kilometers from the Soviet border. It burned day and night, against the Soviet government and as a sign of strength. Rodsajewski looked forward to the day when he would lead the anti-Soviet White Army, together with General Kislitsin and the Japanese armed forces, into battle to "liberate" the Soviet Union. Their most important military activities also included the establishment of an all-Russian special unit in the Kwantung Army , which should carry out sabotage actions against the Red Army in the event of a Japanese invasion of Siberia and the Pacific region of Russia ; Japan was apparently interested in establishing a puppet state in Outer Manchuria .

Second World War and execution

During the Second World War Rodsajewski strove to openly fight against Bolshevism , but the Japanese authorities limited the activities of the RFP except for acts of sabotage in the Soviet Union. The notorious anti-Semite published numerous articles in the party newspapers Our Way and The Nation ; He was also the author of the pamphlet Judas ' Ende and the book Zeitgenössische Judisierung der Welt or: Die Judenfrage im XX. Century .

Towards the end of the war, Rodzaevsky began to believe that the Soviet leadership under Josef Stalin had turned towards nationalism. He surrendered to the Soviet authorities in Harbin in 1945; he carried a letter with him, the content of which was strikingly close to national Bolshevism:

“I called for an unknown leader who […] would be able to overthrow the Jewish government and create a new Russia. It was not clear to me that, by the stroke of fate, through his own genius and millions of workers, J. W. Stalin, the leader of the peoples, had become this unknown leader. "

He returned to the Soviet Union, where he was granted impunity and a job in one of the Soviet newspapers. Instead, he was arrested, charged, and sentenced to death by shooting . He was executed in a cellar of the Lubyanka while his former colleague Lev Pavlovich Okhotin was sentenced to 15 years of forced labor in katorga .

Works

• Zaveshchanie russkogo fashista. FERI-V, Moscow 2001. Originally written in Harbin in 1943, ISBN 5-94138-010-0 .

literature

• John J. Stephan: The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925–1945 . Harper Row, 1978, ISBN 0-06-014099-2 .
• Martin Ros: Jackals of the Third Reich. Downfall of the collaborators 1944–1945 . Neske, Stuttgart, 1997, ISBN 3-7885-0516-8 .
• Knútr Benoit: Konstantin Rodzaevsky . Dict, 2012, ISBN 978-6-13841624-1 .