Here’s a good country-by-country report on the history and modern growth of right-wing extremism in ten European Union countries (Sweden, UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic).
Read full report here.
As Migrant Tales has correctly reported time and again, the biggest sources of right-wing extremism in Finland are the Perussuomalaiset (PS) party, Suomen Sisu, Hommaforum, Suomalaisuuden liitto and others.
The aim of these groups is to make right-wing extremist ideology, which always comprises of racism and xenophobia, as natural as Finnish blueberry pie.
Here are some of the main points of the report by Anne-Cahtherine Jungar:
- Right-wing extremism has, with some exceptions, tended to develop in the form of parliamentary political parties, and has therefore probably been less prone to extra-parliamentary violence than the phenomenon in other European countries;
- One third of the 39 True Finns parliamentarians have a background online, both with Hommaforum and Suomen Sisu. These representatives have been particularly influential in radicalizing the True Finns’ immigration policies.
- Historically, right-wing extremism was spearheaded by the Academic Karelia Society (Akateeminen Karjala Seura) during 1922-44, the Laupa Movement (Lapua liike) during 1929-32, and Patriotic People’s Movment (Isänmaallinen Kansanliike) during 1932-44. The peace treaty with Moscow banned fascist organizations in Finland;
- Those right-wing extremist groups which did mobilize in the late 1990s are better organised, more internationally connected, and aim for more political influence than the skinhead groups in the late 1980s;
- According to SUPO (the Finnish security police unorganized right-wing extremism decreased towards the beginning of the 21st Century; it has recently resurged again. SUPO estimates that there are 1000 to 2000 individuals involved in the Finnish right-wing extremist environment today;
- The Internet has been a key tool for spreading far-right ideology. The best known platforms are Hommaforum, Tundratabloids, Scripta and Varashammer. Right-wing extremism in Finland comes in the form of counterjihadism;
- A more successful route for the extreme right milieu has been to engage with existing political parties that enjoy popular legitimacy, as Suomen Sisu has done with the True Finns.
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Th eproblem with this report is that, because, it is produced in Sweden, it criticises every country, but Sweden.
Read this. it is quite funny: “In recent years, the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party has been the dominant electoral force on the far-right scene. Though this party has historical roots in neo-Nazi and extreme right subcultures, it has worked hard and to some extent succeeded in becoming a more mainstream populist radical right party.
It will therefore not be covered in this report.”
It basically says: Swedish true neo-Nazi party has managed to get into government. But we don’t think it is worth covering in our report, because they are mainstream and populist. Fantastic, guys… Nazi going mainstream.
I suppose if Nazi never went mainstream, Holocaust wouldn’t happen.
I rather wish Hitler organized concerts…
And from this report it seems like concerts and marches are the problem, and fascists in government is not.