Rodna Zashtita

{{Short description|Bulgarian fascist organization in 1920s-1930s}}

Rodna Zashtita ({{langx|bg|Родна Защита}}), meaning Native Defense, was a nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist organization that operated in Bulgaria from before 1923 to 1936. At its peak in the late 1920s, it had tens of thousands of members.{{cite book | last = Poppetrov | first = Nikolay | year = 2008 | title = Фашизмът в България. Развитие и прояви | publisher = „Кама“ | isbn= 978-954-9890-92-1}}

Rodna Zashtita had an anti-agrarian, anti-communist, and anti-Semitic ideology. In addition, the organization opposed the Freemasons. The organization advocated corporatism and demanded the abolition of political parties. The organisation's members wore black shirts, saluted with a fascist salute and spread propaganda of love for Bulgaria and preaching sacrifice for the homeland.{{cite book |title=Germany and the Second World War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVlyhZucoFcC&pg=PA330 |author1=Gerhard Schreiber |author2=Bernd Stegemann |author3=Detlef Vogel | year=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198228844 |page=330}} The organization has been classified as "proto-fascist" by the researcher of fascism in Bulgaria, Nikolai Poppetrov.{{cite book |title=Debating the Past |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGovFoKjOB8C&pg=PA164 |author=Roumen Daskalov | date=January 2011 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=9786155053009 |page=162}} Rodna Zashtita sporadically committed attacks upon Bulgarian Turks.{{cite book |title=The Orient Within |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hf6tDwAAQBAJ&dq=rodna+zashtita&pg=PA179 |page=179 |author=Mary C. Neuberger | date=15 May 2011 |publisher=Cornell University Press | isbn=9781501720239 }} In 1933, the group attacked the Turkish cemetery in Razgrad.{{cite book |title=Managing Invisibility |author=Hande Sözer |year=2014 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iw6JBAAAQBAJ |page=78 |publisher=Brill }} After 1936, its members merged with the Ratnik organization.{{cite book |title=The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gb8lEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22rodna+zashtita%22+members&pg=PA93 |page=93 |author1=Jacky Comforty |author2=Martha Aladjem Bloomfield }}