An important aspect of the registration, closely followed by the authorities, was that of the requests received from the members of the formers political parties, and especially those coming from the National Peasants' Party, the National Liberal Party and the
Iron Guard. Immediately after the establishment of the first single political party, different representatives of the political spectrum--from left to right--hurried to show their adherence to the National Renaissance Front.
The next step taken by Idel is to retrace the significance and the portrayal of death in the Romanian culture; Eliade was surrounded by the ideas of great Romanian personalities, such as Mircea Eminescu or Lucian Blaga, and although Eliade wasn't the only one who took an interest in the matter, his ideas were bold and ultimately led him to a dangerous path, one that later would explain his affiliation to The
Iron Guard, as Idel explains.
There was a curved cast
iron guard over those knives to keep small boys' fingers out of the rotating knives.
The second factor that disrupted DHM activity was the tension between the Antonescu government and Romania's contribution to fascism, the
Iron Guard. By January 1941, Antonescu decided that cooperation between his government and the leader of the
Iron Guard, Horia Sima, was no longer possible and that the
Iron Guard would have to be dealt with decisively.
They are put straight into the deep end with their first task, the gruelling
iron guard marathon.
It is therefore interesting to compare it with, for example, the Romanian case of the
Iron Guard, where religion (in this case, Orthodoxy) was a core component of the movement's identity.
The Accident was published in a country under rule of the anti-Semitic
Iron Guard, and although the war is not mentioned directly it is impossible to read now without this shadow hanging over the novel.
But I faced a new surprise the following week, when, on the same TV program, the hostess was rather passive towards her guest, a militant journalist turned mercenary journalist, as he confessed his admiration for Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the "Captain" of the
Iron Guard, the far-right Orthodox terrorist organization of the pre-war years.
However desperate the Jews were before the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, they were even more panic-stricken afterwards, as more than 600,000 Jews were summarily massacred in the next few months in Lithuania, eastern Poland, Bukovina, and Bessarabia, while the
Iron Guard commenced, literally, butchering Jews in Bucharest.
Hard to believe that thoughts of Romania's rusty "
Iron Guard" would make Adolf tremble.
at Bloomington) is largely concerned with explaining the evolution of Cioran as a thinker from his youth to his triumph as a French writer, an evolution she sees as defined by dichotomies of east and west and by a cycle of identity crises for Cioran which explain his temporary devotion to the apocalyptic nationalism of the fascist
Iron Guard of Romania and his later shift in focus from the nation to the self.
Ovidiu Comsia, a Moldovan disciple and member of the nationalist
Iron Guard, replaced the Nazi "race" idea with the Romanian concept of neam, or "ethnicity"; hence the Antonescu regime's desire to create a country composed entirely of"ethnically pure" Romanians.