Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky (August 11, 1907-August 30, 1946) was the vozhd (leader) of the Russian Fascist Party , which he led in exile from Manchuria.
Born in Blagoveshchensk (across the Amur from China) in a family of Siberian bourgeoisie. He fled to Manchuria in 1925. In Kharbin, Rodzaevsky entered the law academy and joined the Russian Fascist Organization . On May 26th, 1931 he became the Secretary General of the newly created Russian Fascist Party . In 1934 the Party amalgamated with the Russian Fascist Organization , Rodzaevsky becoming its leader. He modeled himself on Benito Mussolini.
Rodzaevsky published numerous articles in the party newspapers “Our way” and “The Nation”; he was also the author of the brochure “Judas’ End” and the book Contemporary Judaisation of the World or the Jewish Question in the XX Century.
During World War II Rodzaevsky tried to launch an open struggle against Bolshevism, but Japanese authorities limited the RFP’s activities to acts of sabotage in the USSR.
At the end of the war, Rodzaevsky began to believe that the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin was evolving into a nationalist one. He gave himself up to Soviet authorities in Harbin in 1945, with a letter saying, "I issued a call for an unknown leader, ... capable of overturning the Jewish government and creating a new Russia. I failed to see that, by the will of fate, of his own genius, and of millions of toilers, Comrade J V Stalin, the leader of the peoples, had become this unknown leader."
He returned to the USSR, where he was promised freedom and a job in one of the Soviet newspapers. He was instead, arrested, tried and sentenced to be shot. He was executed in a Lubyanka cellar on August 30, 1946.
References
- The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925-1945 by John J. Stephan ISBN 0060140992
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