Draft:Navi Society

The Navi Society, also known as the Navi Church, Gnostic Church of the White Race, or the Sacred Church of the White Race, was a secularized Slavic Neopagan and neo-Nazi new religious movement located in Russia. Общество_Нави

It was founded by former Komsomol activist

Background
Followers of the Navi Church adhered to ___________.

Dress codes and religious rituals of the group closely resembled those of the American Ku Klux Klan, including the wearing of _______ and cross burnings

Neo Nazism in Russia excerpt
A former Komsomol activist became one of the founders of the Union of Russian Youth. In 1992-1994 he was the head of the neo-Nazi youth movement called "Front of National Revolutionary Action" that evolved from the Union, and declared its allegiance to Orthodox Christianity. He published the newspapers Our March (1992-1993) and People's Construction (1993-1996). In March 1996, criminal proceedings were instituted against Lazarenko and he was the first person convicted of inciting ethnic hatred. While under investigation, Lazarenko broke with the Orthodox faith and, under the influence of the founder of esoteric Hitlerism, Miguel Serrano, founded the neo-Nazi Navi Society (also known as the "Holy Church of the White Race") in Moscow on Hitler's birthday in 1996. In October 1994 Lazarenko became the leader of the youth neo-Nazi National Front party. The Navi Society was based on the worship of two supposedly Slavic gods, Yav and Navi, and practiced dress uniforms and rituals similar to Ku Klux Klan. The doctrine of the "church" was a combination of the ideas of Slavic neo-paganism with Indo-Aryan and Zoroastrian beliefs. Lazarenko identified "white people" exclusively with Russians. The main attribute of the movement's supporters were armbands with swastikas; others included Novgorod crosses (identical to Celtic crosses) with inscribed swastika, runic inscriptions, a ram's skull and Siegfried's sword. One of its goals was the extermination of people characterized by physical deformity. In 2005 Lazarenko repented and returned to the Orthodox Church.

Literature

 * Агурский М. С. Неонацистская опасность в Советском Союзе // Новый Журнал. — Нью-Йорк, 1975. — Кн. 118: 199—204.


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 * Неонацизм в России//Передача радиостанции «Эхо Москвы» Архивная копия от 9 июня 2013 на Wayback Machine