The Movement in Support of the Army, Defense Industry and Military Science (Russian: Движение в поддержку армии, оборонной промышленности и военной науки), or simply Movement in Support of the Army (Russian: Движение в поддержку армии, romanized: Dvizheniye v podderzhku armii, DPA) is a Russian radical nationalist political movement established in 1997. The group was founded by Lev Rokhlin, who was killed in July 1998, and then run by Viktor Ilyukhin and Albert Makashov. As one commentator noted, "By December 1999, the DPA was little more than a mouthpiece for its two leaders' rabid anti-Semitism and it scored close to nil in the elections."[1]
Movement in Support of the Army Движение в поддержку армии | |
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| Abbreviation | DPA |
| Leader | Viktor Sobolev |
| Founder | Lev Rokhlin |
| Founded | 8 July 1997 |
| Split from | Our Home – Russia |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Paramilitary wing | classified |
| Ideology | Stratocracy Russian ultranationalism Antisemitism Soviet patriotism |
| Political position | Syncretic |
| National affiliation | National Patriotic Forces of Russia |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Glory to Soviet Army!" (Russian: "Советской армии слава!") |
| State Duma | 1 / 450 |
| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| viktor-iluhin.ru/dpa | |
In 1999, the group announced a "green and red" alliance with Geydar Dzhemal's Islamic Committee of Russia.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ David Betz; John Lowenhardt (8 April 2014). Army and State in Postcommunist Europe. Routledge. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-135-31094-3.
- ^ Mark Sedgwick Lecturer in History and Arabic Studies American University in Cairo (6 May 2004). Against the Modern World : Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-0-19-974493-0.
- ^ Shireen Hunter (3 May 2004). Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 267–. ISBN 978-0-7656-1282-3.