Falanga (organisation) explained

Falanga
Logo Alt:A black, red and white flag
Colorcode:
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Leader:Bartosz Bekier
Foundation:January 2009
Ideology:
Falangism
Polish nationalism
Revolutionary nationalism
Militarism
Eurasianism
Russophilia
Hard Euroscepticism
Anti-LGBT
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Zionism
Antisemitism
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
Position:Far-right
Founder:Bartosz Bekier
Colors:Black, red and white
Split:National Radical Camp
Continental:Eurasia Movement
Slogan:Polska! Młodość! Rewolucja! ("Poland! Youth! Revolution!")
Website:www.xportal.press

Falanga is a Polish national radical organization which was founded in January 2009.[1] It is led by, former coordinator of the Masovian Brigade of the National Radical Camp (ONR).[2] [3] [4]

History

Falanga was founded by Bartosz Bekier in 2009, based on the Masovian Brigade of the National Radical Camp (ONR). Bekier, who was interested in politics, joined the ONR as a teenager in 2005. Inspired by Italian and Spanish fascism, he became head of the ONR's Masovian Brigade. Bekier left the ONR in 2009 after a failed attempt to take over the organisation and a dispute with former ONR leader Przemysław Holocher. At the peak of its development, Falanga had branches in Kraków, Zielona Góra, Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn, Gdańsk, Poznań and Warsaw. Their ideology is based on opposition to liberalism and globalization. Falanga supports Eurasianism, a geopolitical vision whose core is the alliance of Russia and Western Europe against the United States.[5] Other notable (current or former) members of Falanga include Michał Prokopowicz, Ronald Lasecki, and Adam Danek.

Missions

Syria

Falanga began a mission in Syria in June 2013, engaging with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Falanga representatives met with Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi, the country's Grand Mufti, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Christian clergy, government troops, Hezbollah,[6] and representatives of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.[7]

Donbas

During a mission to eastern Ukraine in 2014, Falanga expressed support for the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic in Donbas.[8] Falanga leader Bekier also met with Denis Pushilin, prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic,[9] and interviewed Pushilin for Xportal.[10] In October 2014, Ukrainian border guards detained several Falanga members and banned them from entering Ukraine for three years.[11]

Zmiana party

Falanga joined the new, pro-Russian Zmiana party in February 2015,[12] which was founded by former MP and Samoobrona RP spokesman Mateusz Piskorski.[13] Bekier became deputy head of Zmiana,[14] and Krakow Falanga member Michał Prokopowicz became its security expert and regional coordinator for Lesser Poland.[15] On May 2, 2016, Bekier published a statement about his departure from the party.[16] Zmiana leader Mateusz Piskorski was arrested 16 days later by the Internal Security Agency, and was later charged with spying for Russia and China.[17]

Alliance with Czech National Democracy party

Falanga allied itself with the Czech Republic's National Democracy party (ND) on July 4, 2015, participating in a joint conference on Central European issues and an anti-American protest at the US consulate in Krakow.[18] On August 15 of that year, a delegation from Falanga and Xportal.pl participated in anti-liberal and anti-immigrant demonstrations organized by the National Democracy party in Prague.[19]

Participation in Anakonda-16

In June 2016, Michał Prokopowicz and the members of Krakow Rifle Unit Association 2039 (who were associated with him and Falanga) participated in the multinational Anakonda-16 NATO exercises.[20] [21] [22] [23] The Ministry of National Defense denied inviting Falanga members to the military manoeuvres.[24] Their participation was announced by Krakow Rifle Unit Association 2039 members, and information about the participation of the "Rifleman" groups appeared on the Ministry of National Defense webpage for NATO exercises. In September 2016, former Foreign Intelligence Agency officer Michał Rybak called the state of affairs a "system error".[25]

Attempted Ukrainian arson

On February 4, 2018, an attempt was made to set fire to the Hungarian centre in Uzhhorod, Ukraine.[26] [27] The Security Service of Ukraine said at the end of the month that several Falanga members who had acted on orders from the Russian special services were responsible for the arson attempt, and they were arrested by the Internal Security Agency on February 21.[28] [29] On February 24, Bekier denied that Falanga was responsible for the incident.[30]

In January 2019, several former Falanga members were charged with committing a terrorist act by a Kraków court.[31] [32] According to the prosecutor's office, the operation was aimed at "disrupting the system of Ukraine and deepening the ethnic divisions between Ukrainians and Hungarians".[33]

On March 23, 2020, an interim ruling was issued in the case. The Kraków district court of affirmed the position of the prosecutor's office that the crime was a terrorist one, and found all the accused guilty. Arson organizer Michał Prokopowicz was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and his two accomplices were sentenced to one- and two-year terms. No one appealed, and the judgment became final.[34] [35] [36] [37]

Prokopowicz testified that the terrorist attack was organised and financed by German journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter, whose spokesperson denied the accusation.[38] Ochsenreiter then lost his job with Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD member of the Bundestag. Polish and German law-enforcement agencies unsuccessfully sought him for several years, with reports that he had been in Russia and Morocco. In August 2021, Russian authorities and media announced that Ochsenreiter had died of a heart attack in Moscow.[39] [40]

Russian international forum

In July 2019, Bekier traveled to Russia for the Second International Forum for the Development of Parliamentarianism. In his appeal to Vladimir Putin and members of the State Duma, Bekier demanded that Poland leave NATO and the EU; the implementation of a Polish-Russian alliance; the partition of Ukraine and the annexation of Lviv to Poland. He also suggested the forced federalization of Lithuania and territorial autonomy for the Vilnius Region.

Opposition to Women's Strike

In October 2020, during the Women's Strike protesting the tightening of abortion regulations in Poland, an interview with Bekier was posted on Onet.pl. According to Bekier, "about 10,000 nationalists are expected to appear in Warsaw in the first week of November, and to half of them are trained in combat tactics".[41] [42] [43] On the evening of October 30, several thousand protesters demonstrated.[44] Thirty-seven people were arrested, 35 of whom had attacked protesters.[45] [46] [47]

Allies

Falanga has cooperated with:

References

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  48. https://kresy.pl/wydarzenia/spoleczenstwo/falanga-i-inna-rosja-domagaly-sie-w-warszawie-rozbioru-ukrainy-foto/ Falanga i "Inna Rosja" domagały się w Warszawie rozbioru Ukrainy

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