Fascist Symbolism - Other Regions

Other Regions

Many other fascist movements did not win power or were relatively minor regimes in comparison and their symbolism is not well-remembered today in many parts of the world.

• The symbol of the Bulgarian national-socialist Ratnik movements was a sun cross named "Bogar".
• The chief symbol of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists was the Flash and Circle adopted in 1936, which represented the "flash of action" within the "circle of unity" that symbolized the all-important British State (which is also used by the People's Action Party of Singapore). The BUF previously used the image of a gold fasces superimposed on a blue circle, located centrally on a red background. The emblem was also disparagingly referred to as "The Flash In The Pan", particularly by opponents of Mosley.
• The symbol of the Croatian Ustaše movement was capital letter U
• A prominent symbol of the Greek 4th of August Regime was the Labrys/Pelekys, the double-headed axe which Ioannis Metaxas thought to be the oldest symbol of all Hellenic civilizations.
• The symbol of Hungary's fascistic Arrow Cross Party was the Arrow Cross.
• Austria's Fatherland's Front that ruled the country from 1933 to 1938, used the crutch cross as its symbol.
• The symbol of the Norwegian Nasjonal Samling was as golden/yellow sun cross on red background.
• The symbol of Salazar's Portuguese Estado Novo regime was a stylized version of the Armillary sphere and shield found on the national flag; its rivals in the Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista used the Order of Christ Cross.
• The symbol of the Romanian Iron Guard was a triple cross (a variant of the triple parted and fretted) - three parallel verticals intersected with three parallel horizontals, usually in black; it was meant to represent prison bars, as a badge of martyrdom. It was sometimes deemed the Archangel Michael Cross, after the patron saint of the movement.
• The symbol of the Spanish Falange was the yoke and the arrows, which were also the symbols of the Reyes Catolicos. Each Arrow represents one of the 5 early kingdoms of Spain.
• Several Polish far-right and nationalist organizations have used the Mieczyk Chrobrego ( the Brave's Sword), which resembles the Szczerbiec, or the coronation sword of Polish kings.
• The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) used the Wolfsangel as its main symbol.
• The Brazilian Integralist Party used an upper case sigma
• The Russian Movement Against Illegal Immigration, which is often considered to be a moderate and legal neo-Nazi movement, uses the black-colored road sign "Stop Prohibited" (similar to the swastika) as their main symbol.