All-Russian Fascist Organisation
The All-Russian Fascist Organization (VFO) (Всероссийская фашистская организация; ''Vserossiyskaya Fašistskija Organizatsiya") was a Russian white émigré group led by Anastasy Vonsyatsky. It was based in Putnam, Connecticut, United States and was founded on May 10, 1933, by Vonsyatsky and Donat Yosifovich Kunle, a former White Russian Army officer. The group never had more than several hundred members.
All-Russian Fascist Organization | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Anastasy Vonsyatsky |
| Founded | May 10, 1933 |
| Dissolved | 1942 |
| Succeeded by | Russian Fascist Party |
| Headquarters | Putnam, Connecticut |
| Newspaper | Fashist |
| Membership | Several hundred |
| Ideology | Fascism |
| Political position | Far-right |
In 1934, in Yokohama, the Russian Fascist Party (RFP) and VFO attempted to merge into a new entity, the All-Russia Fascist Party. On April 3, 1934, representatives from both organisations signed a protocol number 1, which proclaimed the merger of RFP and VFO and the creation of the All-Russia Fascist Party (VFP). The new organisation was intended to connect the RFP's organizational structure with the financial resources of the VFO. April 26, 1934, in Harbin on 2-m (Unity) Congress of Russian Fascists happened formal association VFO and the RFP and the creation of the All-Russia Fascist Party.
A full merger was quite problematic however, because Vonsyatsky was an opponent of anti-Semitism and considered the support base of the RFP—primarily Russian Cossacks and the monarchists—as an anachronism. In October–December 1934 there was a split between Konstantin Rodzaevsky and Anastasy Vonsyatsky. The Vonsyatsky group remained in the RFP, but later he refounded his party as the All-Russian National Revolutionary Party. The party remained a marginal feature. It was renamed several times, eventually assuming the name All-Russian National Revolutionary Toilers and Workers-Peasants Party of Fascists (Russian: Всероссийская национально-революционная трудовая и рабоче-крестьянская партии фашистов)
In 1940 – December 1941, the cooperation of Konstantin Rodzaevsky and Anastasy Vonsyatsky resumed, interrupted with the start of Japanese-American War.
On June 21, 1941, Donat Kunle, a pilot, was killed in a plane crash in California, resulting in the VFO ceasing the publication of its newspaper, Fashist.
After the U.S. entry into World War II in 1942 Anastasy Vonsyatsky was arrested by the FBI for espionage, after which the party ceased to exist.