Patriotic People's Movement
| Isänmaallinen kansanliike Fosterländska folkrörelsen Patriotic people's movement |
|
|---|---|
| Party leader |
Vihtori Kosola (1932–1936) Vilho Annala (1937–1944) |
| Emergence | Lapua movement |
| founding | 1932 |
| resolution | 1944 |
| Youth organization |
Sinimustat (–1936) Mustapaidat (1936–1939) |
| newspaper | Ajan Suunta |
| Alignment |
Fascism , anti-communism , Völkischer nationalism , corporatism , Panfennismus |
| Colours) | Black, blue |
The Finnish Patriotic People's Movement ( Finnish : Isänmaallinen kansanliike , IKL, Swedish : Fosterländska folkrörelsen ) was the successor to the fascist , nationalist and anti-communist Lapua movement .
It was founded on June 5, 1932 and dissolved on September 23, 1944 after the continuation of the war. Unlike its predecessor, the ICL also took part in elections, but there were no great differences in ideology.
ideology
Many of the party leaders , who were strongly influenced by fascism and Scandinavian nationalist activism , were clergymen or members of the predominantly Ostrobothnian Pietist movement Herännäisyys , who oriented the party ideologically strictly nationalist and anti-communist. The ICL saw itself as the “Christian moral conscience” of parliament. She was hostile to the Soviet Union and Swedish-speaking Finns and their status .
The youth organization Sinimustat , led by the charismatic priest Elias Simojoki , was oriented towards the Central European fascist youth organizations. The ICL's uniform consisted of a black shirt with a blue tie.
history
In 1933 the Patriotic People's Movement took part in parliamentary elections for the first time and formed an electoral alliance with the conservative National Assembly Party . The ICL won 14 of a total of 200 seats, while Kokoomus lost 24 of its previous 42 seats. After this election failure , Juho Kusti Paasikivi was chosen as the new Kokoomus chairman, who then pushed the most important ICL sympathizers out of the party. In the 1936 elections, the ICL was able to maintain its 14 seats again, but in 1939 it only had eight seats. In 1938 the Interior Minister Urho Kekkonen imposed a party ban against the ICL, which was lifted by a regional court in Helsinki.
The “ Winter War ” and, in particular, the peace agreement with Moscow were seen by the ICL and its supporters as the decisive evidence of a failed government foreign policy. After the Winter War, Finnish foreign policy was drastically changed and then by and large corresponded to the ideas of the Patriotic People's Movement, which in December 1940 even became part of the all-party cabinet. After the initial public euphoria subsided in the Continuation War of 1941 during the first winter of the war, the ICL was no longer convened in the cabinet of Edwin Linkomies in the spring of 1943 . After the Continuation War, the ICL was finally banned at the request of the Soviet Union on September 23, 1944, four days after the signing of the armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Election results
Parliamentary elections
| year | MPs | be right | percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 14th | ||
| 1936 | 14th | 97 891 | 8.34% |
| 1939 | 8th | 86 219 | 6.65% |
Presidential election
| year | electors | be right | percent | candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 23 | 90 378 | 8.12 | (Support of the candidate Svinhufvud ) |
Party leader
- Vihtori Kosola (1932–1936 †)
- Vilho Annala (1937-1944)
Established in 1993
From 1993 to 2010 the party was re-established under the same name.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ AF Upton: Finland , in SJ Woolf: Fascism in Europe , London 1981, p. 215
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
