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Image by Tomislav Todorović, 04 June 2015
National Bolshevik Front (Natsional-bol'shevistskiy Front - NBF) was founded
in Moscow on 2006-08-29 by former members of National Bolshevik Party who
disagreed with its new policies of co-operation with more moderate opposition
movements. The new organization has also became a collective member of the
Eurasian Youth Movement, with which its members had closely co-operated wile
still in their original party. Beside Russia, it has also been active in Ukraine,
but never reached the strength and influence which the National Bolshevik Party
had, nor has ever been registered as a political party. Still existing, the NBF
seems to largely inactive nowadays.
Sources:
National Bolshevik Party at Wikipedia - the 2006 split and founding of
National Bolshevik Front
National Bolshevik Front
website - report from the founding congress
Tomislav Todorović, 04 June 2015
The official flag is red, charged with an eagle which holds a sword in the
dexter talon and a sickle in the sinister talon, all black, and is charged on
its breast with a black hammer fimbriated white. Its photos from the 2nd
congress of NBF, which took place in Moscow on 2007-05-12, can be found
here.
More recent photos
were taken at village Talalihino, in Moscow region, on 2012-09-15, and during
the NBF members'
expedition to Kyrgyzstan, on 2013-07-23 (In all the above source pages,
select the area above the top photo to see the text.)
Hammer, sickle and sword probably represent workers, peasants and soldiers,
respectively, as in some early Soviet Russian emblems. The whole design is said
to originate from the flags used by some extremist groups in Germany during the
early 20th century, which the National Bolsheviks, regardless of the
organization they belong to, consider their ideological ancestors. Such claims
could have been found at some Internet forums during the 2000's, which seem not
to exist any more. However, a similar flag, with white charges on black field,
was reportedly used in Weimar-era Germany, as shown here.
(Image
)
Image by Tomislav Todorović, 04 June 2015
A more frequently used variant, regarding the frequency of its
appearing on the photos, omits the hammer. The best examples are from
Samara, on 2006-12-23
on 2007-02-11 and on
2007-03-31
and from Chelyabinsk, on
2007-02-04.
The members often display the flag reverse side instead of the
obverse, as was seen in Ulyanovsk, on
2007-02-10
and in Samara, on 2007-03-18
on 2012-04-05
and on
2012-05-01
even though the position of sleeve could clearly enable them to make
difference between the two sides, as visible in the photos from
Chelyabinsk, taken on 2007-02-04
and from Samara, taken
2007-02-07
(In all the above source pages, select the area above the top photo to
see the text.)
Image by Tomislav Todorović, 04 June 2015
An unusual design was produced in Odessa, Ukraine and photographed on
2012-12-07
(In the above source page, select the area above the top photo to see the text.)
It was made of a flag of the Soviet Union, to which was added a disc
made of white plastic foil on which a black eagle with sword and
sickle was printed; instead of the hammer, the eagle was charged on
its breast with a white Russian cross - or more precisely, its
mirror-image (note the position of the slanted bar). The flag created
this way is another example of vexillological oxymora so favored by
the National Bolsheviks.
Tomislav Todorović, 04 June 2015
In the early years of NBF, its members also used the original National
Bolshevik red flags with black hammer and sickle on white disc. Their
use was photographed in Samara, on
2006-11-07.
The NBF members, being automatically the members of Eurasian Youth
Movement as well, also use its flags, as seen in Moscow, on
2006-11-14
in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on
2006-11-30
and in Samara, on 2007-03-31.
Tomislav Todorović, 04 June 2015
