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Transnationalizing Fascist Martyrs : An entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41

Zavatti, Francesco LU orcid (2022) In Historical Research 95(268). p.264-286
Abstract
This article analyses the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin, two Romanian Legionary movement volunteers who died while fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, as an entangled history of Romanian and Spanish fascisms. The commemoration practices and narratives recounted in the Spanish and Romanian newspapers and archival sources from the period 1937–41 show that commemorating foreign ideological peers and appropriating symbolic elements of foreign fascisms in order to memorialize fallen comrades served as resources for legitimizing the struggle against domestic competitors. Although the totalitarian ambitions of Spanish and Romanian fascists remained unfulfilled, the Spanish-Romanian entanglement contributed to... (More)
This article analyses the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin, two Romanian Legionary movement volunteers who died while fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, as an entangled history of Romanian and Spanish fascisms. The commemoration practices and narratives recounted in the Spanish and Romanian newspapers and archival sources from the period 1937–41 show that commemorating foreign ideological peers and appropriating symbolic elements of foreign fascisms in order to memorialize fallen comrades served as resources for legitimizing the struggle against domestic competitors. Although the totalitarian ambitions of Spanish and Romanian fascists remained unfulfilled, the Spanish-Romanian entanglement contributed to consolidating Moţa and Marin as martyrs of transnational fascism. (Less)
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entangled history, transnational fascism, martyrdom, fascist movements, Romania, Spain, interwar era
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Historical Research
volume
95
issue
268
pages
23 pages
publisher
Oxford University Press
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  • scopus:85132774916
ISSN
0950-3471
DOI
10.1093/hisres/htab042
language
English
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no
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Research output for the project "Memory Politics in Far Right Europe: Celebrating Nazi Collaborationists in Post-1989 Belarus, Romania, Flanders and Denmark", financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (grant 40/17).
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  author       = {{Zavatti, Francesco}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  pages        = {{264--286}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  series       = {{Historical Research}},
  title        = {{Transnationalizing Fascist Martyrs : An entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab042}},
  doi          = {{10.1093/hisres/htab042}},
  volume       = {{95}},
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