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image by M Schmöger, 14 January 2007
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The Noua Dreapta (= New Right) is a neo-fascist organization in Romania. It
sees itself as successor to the 1930ies fascist organization
Iron Guard (Garda de Fier). Not surprisingly it uses
a lot of flags, their main symbol being the Celtic Cross [http://nouadreapta.org/simbolistica.php]:
"Simbolul Noii Drepte este Crucea Celtica, unul dintre cele mai raspandite
simboluri crestine, prezent in mii de biserici si in simbolistica populara a
fiecarei natiuni europene."
My translation: The symbol of the New Right is the Celtic Cross, one of the most
widespread Christian symbols, present in our churches and in the popular
symbolism of each European nation.
This Celtic Cross is mainly used on green flags [see sources],
as the colour of the Iron Guard was green, and the
Noua Dreapta members wear green shirts.
Sources
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0411276.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/041127b4.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0508101.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0508103.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0508104.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0511305.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0601252.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0603134.jpg
M Schmöger, 14 January 2007
The colour green for the field was previously used by the
Legionary movement.
Marc Pasquin, 30 March 2007
There are also two variants of the Celtic Cross on a black field in use, but not as widespread as the green version.
image by M Schmöger, 14 January 2007
image by M Schmöger, 14 January 2007
Sources:
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0603134.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0603132.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0507257.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0409121.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0409211.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0408101.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/04081010.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0408102.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0408107.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0408108.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0408109.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0403111.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0303273.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0303277.jpg
image by
M Schmöger, 14 January 2007
As the Noua Dreapta reveres the historical leader of the Iron Guard,
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, they show a portrait of him together with the
Celtic Cross on another flag variant.
Sources:
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0506041.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0506241.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0508103.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0508104.jpg
http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0508105.jpg
image by
M Schmöger, 14 January 2007
Finally, a horizontal bicolour of dark grey over light grey, with a
white Celtic Cross (fimbriated black) in the center, and the
inscriptions "NOUA DREAPTA" (in an arc over the Celtic Cross) and
"TIMIŞOARA" (in an arc under the Celtic Cross) can be seen [5]. This is
obviously the flag of the Timişoara branch of the organization, and it
is probable that other branches have similar flags.
Source: http://www.nouadreapta.org/imagini/mari/0506041.jpg
Manuella Schmöger, 14 January 2007
image by
Tomislav Todorovic, 7 June 2011
The national flag with a black Celtic cross in centre of yellow field
was used by the New Right at a rally in Timisoara in April 2011. The
rally was held before the Consulate of Serbia as the protest against
the "persecution" of ultra-rightists in that country. In fact, the
cases described in the article are those of football hooligans, one of
whom was sentenced for attempted murder of a policeman during the
riots that broke at a national championship match and a large group of
others were sentenced for having massacred a French football fan who
had come to Belgrade for an international match. (This is just another
example of ultra-rightists' attempts - unfortunately, often successful
- of infiltration among the football hooligans with the ultimate goal
of converting them to their ideology, typical not only for Romania and
Serbia, but for other European countries as well.) This flag might be
inspired by the similar flag of National-Christian Defense
League (see FOTW page ro}fasc.html), only replacing the swastika with
the Celtic cross.
Source: deBANAT.ro website;
Image from the same site.
image by
Tomislav Todorovic, 7 June 2011
New Right also uses flag based on its current logo, which is a white
rhomboid charged with party name initials in black and placed in
centre of a larger green rhomboid which also contains party name
inscribed in white above and below the central device1. This logo
is based on a common template used also by other European
ultra-rightist movements which are the members of European National
Front2. On the flag, the whole field is green. This flag was used
in Spain in January 2011, at the celebration of 74th anniversary of
the battle of Majadahonda, which was organized jointly by several
Romanian and Spanish ultra-rightist parties3, and also in Rome in
April 2011, during the celebration of anniversary of Nationalist
victory in Spanish Civil War, which was organized by the National
Association of Italian Fighters in Spain, with the participation of
Spanish and Romanian ultra-rightists4. The New Right was involved
in these events as the
self-designated successor of the Iron Guard, whose members have
fought in the Spanish Civil War on the Nationalist side, some of them
having been killed at Majadahonda.
Sources:
Tomislav Todorovic, 7 June 2011
Concerning the ND image (above), the flag may also have the name of a local
branch of the party inscribed beneath the whole device, which is smaller in that
case to make space for the additional inscription. An example was photographed
in the town of Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna county, in December 2015. While the
additional inscription cannot be read completely, the first word is obviously
FILIALA ("branch" in Romanian" and the other is most likely COVASNA, because the
first letter is C and the word length does seem to match.
Source:
NapocaNews website:
http://www.napocanews.ro/2015/12/partidul-noua-dreapta-a-fost-din-nou-alaturi-de-romanii-din-covasna-de-ziua-nationala.html
(photo:
http://www.napocanews.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG-2.jpg)
image by
Tomislav Todorovic, 20 May 2018
The other version of the flag with
logo is a white-green-white triband, with the logo occupying the whole flag
width and separated from the green field by white fimbriations; width of the
green field is the same as the height of white rhomboid within the logo [1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
This flag also has a variant with the name of local
branch inscribed along the bottom edge, the logo being smaller and whole
basic pattern moved closer to the top, with narrowed top white stripe and
much widened bottom one, which also contains the additional inscription in
green. Most of the examples found online are from the city of Timişoara; the
flag may be used alone [7], but also together with the basic flag [8, 9, 10].
Sources:
[1] Mandri.ro website:
http://www.mandri.ro
[2] Monitorulcj.ro website:
http://www.monitorulcj.ro
[3] Adevarul daily newspaper website (photo
gallery):
http://adevarul.ro/
[4] NapocaNews website:
http://www.napocanews.ro/2015/
[5] BihorStiri.ro website:
http://bihorstiri.ro
[6] BZC.ro website - News report on 2014-03-15:
http://www.bzc.ro
[7] deBANAT.ro website:
https://debanat.ro
[8] Timis Online website:
http://www.tion.ro
[9] Opinia Timisoarei website:
http://www.opiniatimisoarei.ro
[10] BZC.ro website - News report on
2015-03-17:
http://www.bzc.ro
Tomislav Todorovic, 20 May 2018