Golden Dawn
| Chrysi Avyi | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Political position | Greek nationalism | ||
| Leader | Nikolaos Michaloliakos | ||
| Country | Greece | ||
| Existence | 1980–present | ||
Golden Dawn is a Greek Nationalist party. It is frequently misrepresented in the politically correct media which regularly applies labels such as "Neo-Nazi" despite this being rejected by the party. In 2012 the party won 7% of the election vote. This was followed in 2013 by the party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and others being arrested on charges such as "forming a criminal organization". The trial is still ongoing.
Hrisi Avgi described itself as a "Popular Nationalist Movement" and "uncompromising Nationalists."[1] Its former website demonstrates both its nationalist and populist character.[2] Party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos described Hrisi Avgi as opposing the "so-called Enlightenment" and the Industrial Revolution, while supporting National Socialism. According to the party's charter, "only Aryans in blood and Greeks in descent can be candidate members of Hrisi Avgi".[3] At first, the party embraced neo-Pagan beliefs, believing them to be intermingled with National Socialism in accordance to NS esotericism, describing Marxism and liberalism as "the ideological carriers of Judeo-Christianity.[4] Later, however, the party underwent ideological changes, accepting Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[5]
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History
In December 1980, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and a group of his comrades launched Hrisi Avgi magazine. Michaloliakos (a mathematician and former commando) had been active in nationalist politics for years, and he had been arrested several times for politically-motivated offences. While he was in prison, Michaloliakos met the leaders of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974, and he laid the foundations of the Hrisi Avgi movement. The characteristics of the magazine and the organization were clearly National Socialist.
Hrisi Avgi magazine stopped being published in April 1984, when Michaloliakos joined the National Political Union and took over the leadership of its youth section. In January 1985, he broke away from the National Political Union and founded the Popular National Movement - Hrisi Avgi, which was officially recognised as a political party in 1993.
Hrisi Avgi had remained an underground and elitist movement, choosing strictly its members, until the Macedonia naming dispute in 1991 and 1992. The fellow traveller newspaper "Eleftherotypia" reported that on October 10, 1992, about 30 Hrisi Avgi members engaged in direct action against communist students at the Athens University of Economics and Business during a massive demonstration against the usage of the name Macedonia by The Former Yugoslav state of Skopje. Accusations that never proved though. Around the same time, the first street ‘patrol groups’ appeared under the leadership of Giannis Giannopoulos, a former military officer who was involved with the South African Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) during the 1980s. After the events of 1991 and 1992, Hrisi Avgi had gained a stable membership of more than official 300 members, and Giannopoulos rose within the party hierarchy. Hrisi Avgi ran in the 1994 European Parliament election, gaining 7.264 votes nationwide; 0.11% of the votes cast.
A few Hrisi Avgi members participated in the Bosnian War in the Greek Volunteer Guard (GVG), which was part of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska. Spiros Tzanopoulos, a GVG sergeant who took part in the attack against Srebrenica, said many of the Greek volunteers participated in the war because they were members of Hrisi Avgi. Hrisi Avgi members in the GVG were decorated by Radovan Karadžić, but — according to former Hrisi Avgi member Charis Kousoumvris — those who were decorated later left the party.
In April 1996, Giannopoulos represented the party at a pan-European convention of nationalist parties in Moscow, where he presented a bust of Alexander the Great to Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky for his birthday. Hrisi Avgi participated in the 1996 legislative election in September, receiving 4,487 votes nationwide; 0.07% of the votes cast. In October 1997, Giannopoulos published an article in Hrisi Avgi magazine calling for nationalist vigilantism against foreign invaders and communists. In 1998, a prominent party member, Antonios Androutsopoulos, engaged in direct action against communist student subversive Dimitris Kousouris. The resulting media attention, along with internal party conflicts (due to poor results in the 1996 elections), led some of its more radical members (such as Giannopoulos) to gradually fade from official party affairs.
Hrisi Avgi continued to hold rallies and marches, and it ran in the 1999 European Parliament election in an alliance with the Front Line party, gaining 48,532 votes nationwide; 0.75% of the votes cast. Eleftherotypia criticicized Hrisi Avgi in 2005 after party members distributed orthosexual fliers during a homosexual supremacist rally in Athens.
According to Hrisi Avgi leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the party paused its own autonomous political activities after December 1, 2005, due to clashes with anarchist and communist thugs. Hrisi Avgi members had been instructed to continue their activism within the Patriotic Alliance party, which was very closely linked to Hrisi Avgi. The former leader of Patriotic Alliance, Dimitrios Zaphiropoulos, was once a member of Hrisi Avgi's political council, and Michaloliakos was also a current leading member of Patriotic Alliance. Alleged "anti-fascist" groups have accused Patriotic Alliance of simply being the new name of Hrisi Avgi. Activities by Patriotic Alliance's members were often attributed to Hrisi Avgi (even by themselves), creating confusion. This is the main reason Hrisi Avgi members announced the withdrawal of their support to Patriotic Alliance, which eventually led to the interruption of this party’s political activities. As of 2007, the Hrisi Avgi newspaper and magazine continued to be published, and the organization's website continued to be updated. In March 2007, Hrisi Avgi held its sixth congress and announced the continuation of their political and ideological activism.
On November 7, 2010, Hrisi Avgi received 5.29% of the vote in the Athenian municipal election, with Michaloliakos winning a seat on the City Council. He shortly proceeded to enrage his liberal colleagues by giving the roman salute, associated with National Socialism at a meeting after a leftist called him a "fascist".
Political prisoners of conscience
Whenever people vote in representatives that are not Zionist puppets, the Zionists who control the world put them in prison. September 29, 2013, Greek police arrested the Golden Dawn members of parliament and held them as political prisoners to stifle democracy. Former Greek Justice Minister, Antonis Roupakiotis, even openly admits that organised Jewry ordered Samaras to carry out unconstitutional hostage taking of Golden Dawn patriots. Proving that Greece has a Jewish controlled government. A month later, they were still held as political prisoners. After a large raid, they found a toy gun which they claimed in court was a lethal weapon. Their only alleged witness was a person whose identity was hidden, back to the camera, and voice garbled.
Friday, November 1, 2013, at least two were killed in a drive-by shooting outside Golden Dawn's offices. The victims were aged 20 and 23 years old.
On August 3, 2014, Greece showing off how they have no freedom of speech or any real democracy at all, arrested people for distributing sane, harmless political leaflets. The leaflets outlined how The Golden Dawn has been the target of political persecution which has resulted in several of their members being jailed on trumped up criminal charges. That's it! And people were arrested for this as if this as if they lived in The Soviet Empire. Plus in taking a trend from Israel itself, Greece's Zionist Occupied Government accused Golden Dawn supporters earlier of of throwing rocks.
In October 2014, after 24 hours of fundraising in Australia, hellenophobic MP Nick Kotsiras shut it down
Gallery
Golden Dawn banner
Meandros flag
See also
External links
Official
Unofficial
- I stand with Golden Dawn
- Golden Dawn - International Newsroom
- Golden Dawn Fan Club - videos on YouTube
- Golden Dawn Subs & Dubs - videos on YouTube
References
- ↑ 2006 interview of Michaloliakos published in Eleytheros Kosmos newspaper.
- ↑ From the former website of Hrisi Avgi
- ↑ The charter also puts the leader in dictatorial control of the party, and formalizes the use of the Roman salute for party members.
- ↑ "Our ideology: God Religion" ("Η ιδεολογία μας: Θεός-θρησκεία"), Hrisi Avgi's newspaper, issue 57, October 1990
- ↑ 18/6/2000 article in Eleftherotypia (in Greek)
