National Salvation Front (Russia)

The National Salvation Front (Russian Фронт национального спасения ( ФНС ) ) was in the 1990s, an umbrella organization of several parties and movements of Russia, who opposed the policies of the then Russian President and his government. The front united national- patriotic and communist organizations ( including Gennadi Zyuganov's KPRF ), but also some national- socialist groups. All member organizations, representing very different directions of the political spectrum, the reforms of the government rejected under Yeltsin.

The front was the first example in the history of Russia from a union of the various political movements on the basis of statism. In the wide coalition there was an effective distribution of activities: the rights were more concerned with the ideology that left dealt with the mass actions.

The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Salvation Front Ilya Konstantinov was. In September 1993, after the unconstitutional dissolution of the Supreme Soviet Yeltsin, Konstantinov began the formation of the fighters for the support of the Russian parliament. Many individual members of the Front took part in the support of the parliament building; after the suppression of the resistance of the front (as well as many of its affiliates ) was banned by Yeltsin Regulation.

As a precursor of such a coalition, the Popular Fronts in the Soviet Union (eg, Leningrad Popular Front and similar movements in the Baltic States ) can be considered. However, this represented a different ideology. But also Konstantinov was a former Popular Front activist who later became an opponent of the so-called reform policies of Yeltsin and Gaidar was.

However, there were already at the beginning of 1992, calls for establishment of a new opposition movement to unite the various opponents of the Yeltsin regime. On October 1, 1992, a call "To the Citizens of Russia" ( " К гражданам России ") was published in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya communist, which contained an appeal to the founding of the United Front for the Salvation of the Fatherland. 38 opposition politicians who had signed the call, also founded the Organizing Committee of the National Salvation Front.

The founding congress began on October 24, 1992; at the congress was attended by 1428 delegates and 675 guests from some 103 cities from all republics of the former Soviet Union ( except Uzbekistan and Tajikistan). The congress adopted a manifesto in which they described the intentions of the front. It was noted that the country would be on the brink of civil war, chaos and anarchy, and the policy of Yeltsin and his troops " the policy of high treason " ( " политика национальной измены ") was. The front sought a change of the constitutional system and a gradual "rebirth" of Russia, in its historical boundaries ( or in the borders of the Soviet Union in 1975 ), at. After the suppression of the uprising antijelzinschen in October 1993 at which the FNS leadership was involved, the organization was banned by Yeltsin Regulation.

Members et al

  • KPRF
  • Communist Workers Party of Russia
  • National Republican Party of Russia
  • Russian Party of National Revival
  • Association of Officers

Swell

  • Http://old.russ.ru:8083/antolog/1993/krasnik.htm
  • Http://www.viperson.ru/wind.php?ID=333
  • Http://www.panorama.ru/gazeta/p35_fns.html
  • Historic Party ( Russia)
  • Nationalism
  • Communism
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