TheMovement of Polish Nationalists Zadruga was a Polishneopagan nationalist movement.
It was founded in 1937 byJan Stachniuk. It published a monthly political and cultural bulletinZadruga. The group that coalesced around this bulletin was the most active neopagan group during the 1918–1939 period in Poland, with around 300 followers in 1939. However, the Zadruga movement never formalized its membership.
During 1945–1947, as part of the Nationalist opposition, Zadruga published theZryw in Poznań andArkona journals in Bydgoszcz. The movement leaders were arrested in 1949 by the Communist regime, accused of collaboration withNeo-Fascists, and were imprisoned in 1952.
After the amnesty in 1956, they were released. Rather than resume their former activities, they transformed into an informal intellectual movement, based inWrocław. Attempts in the 1980s and 1990s to revive the association were not successful.
After 1989 the elements ofZadruga were used by Bolesław Tejkowski in his ideology of Polishanti-clerical nationalism of the Social-National Union (Unia Społeczno-Narodowa).[1] The ideology was propagated separately by theToporzeł Publishing House.[2] Many former participants of the informal Zadruga intellectual groups became members of theNational Movement (Ruch Narodowy) or of the Nacjonalistyczne StowarzyszenieZadruga.[3]
The foundational writings of Stachniuk and Wacyk are used now by certain PolishSlavic native faith groups, especially by the Union of Native Faith (Rodzima Wiara) and by theAssociation for Tradition and Culture "Niklot" (Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Tradycji i Kultury „Niklot”):.[4]
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Its spiritual guide was Antoni Wacyk, who promoted a return toSlavic native faith. Stachniuk promoted an ideology ofculturalism, aiming at the unification of Western Slavic peoples based on the reconstruction of their original national culture. Stachniuk believed that Christianity, especially the Catholic clergy, presented an anti-cultural influence and promoted a culture oflaxism,[5]escapism, and consumption.[6] It was believed that unification under the Slavic native faith would prepare these nations for an inevitable confrontation withRussian andGerman expansionism and that each nation would build its own strength through itscollective matrix (a term used inzadruga), after the original Slavic notion of the organization of rural communities. According to the movement, the Western Slavic nations should function as one centralized state with thecollective ownership of land and industry, based on grass-roots enthusiasm and heroism.
Stanisław Potrzebowski, the founder of Rodzima Wiara andzadrugist, noticed the influence of theZadruga movement onSlavic Native Faith, as described in his bookSlavic movement Zadruga. He stated thatZadruga and Slavic Native Faith were linked by a common set ofvalues. He expressed an appreciation of the work of Zdzisław Słowiński, founder of Toporzeł Publishing House, which triggered the rebirth of zadrugist thought in theThird Polish Republic from Polish and Ukrainian Rodnover groups.[7] According to Potrzebowski, the founding ofWorld Congress of Ethnic Religions (later European Congress of Ethnic Religions) in 1998 inVilnius, coincided with Stachniuk's dream of the "renovation of Aryan people's unity"[8] and a number of joint initiatives of Rodnovers from different countries. For example, the Generic Weche of Slavs is a realization of the social-political program of pre-warZadruga.[9]
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