Monument strategies: Open fascist rehabilitation

exculpating fascist figures and events in new nationalist memory

Zelea Codreanu Monument

Location: Tâncăbești Forest, located along the DN1 highway between Bucharest and Ploiești in Ilfov County, Rom...
Commemorative eventMemorial siteOtherCommunist crimesOpen fascist rehabilitation 1998.
Designed by: The monument was created by sculptor Cristian Ivanov in collaboration with Ștefan Georgescu, a fo... Initiated by: The monument was erected in 1993 by Iron Guard sympathizers in the post-1989 period. It has been ...
Description: The Zelea Codreanu Monument is a wooden Orthodox-style cross (troiță) located at the edge of Tânc...

Monument to Miro Barešić

Location: Drage, Croatia
Figurative sculptureNationalist propagandaOpen fascist rehabilitation 2016.
Designed by: Ivan Kujundžić, academic sculptor originally from Imotski. He previously created the statu... Initiated by: Ante Barešić, one of Miro Barešić's cousins, initiated the project to erect the statue. 96...
Description: A two-metre-high bronze statue located in the village of Drage near Pakoštane in central Dalmatia...

Acca Larentia

Location: Rome, via Acca Larenzia. Submitted by: Matteo Locci
Commemorative eventPlaqueOpen fascist rehabilitation 1978.
Initiated by: local fascist militant group. former MSI member. Now Casa Pound movement.
Description: Every year on January 7th, fascists gather in Rome to commemorate the death of 3 fascist militant...

Memorial to General Rodolfo Graziani

Location: Affile, a town in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region, Italy. It is situated on the highest ...
Grave/mausoleumMemorial siteOpen fascist rehabilitation 2012.
Initiated by: Major of Affile, Ercole Viri
Description: In 2012, Ettore Viri, the right-wing mayor of Affile, included a memorial to General Rodolfo Graz...

Monument to Jure Francetić

Location: The original monument was located near a parking lot in the center of Slunj, and since its removal v... Submitted by: Vjeran Pavlaković
Abstract sculptureMonument removalPlaqueOpen fascist rehabilitation 2000.
Initiated by: Erected by Hrvatski Domobran in 2000, removed by the government of PM Ivo Sanader in 2004.
Description: Jure Francetić was an Ustasha commander of the infamous Black Legion (Crna legija) in the Indepen...

Memorial Plaque to Rajko Lozo

Location: The plaque is located on Oštrić Street in Zadar, Croatia Submitted by: Vjeran Pavlakovic
PlaqueOpen fascist rehabilitation 1996.
Initiated by: Parents of fallen soldier
Description: This is a small plaque on relatively busy street in Zadar, Croatia. It is dedicated to Rajko Lozo...

A monument to Miklós Horthy

Location: Former Horthy Castle, Kenderes, Hungary. The monument is erected on a “private land” and since then,... Submitted by: Ferenc Grof
BustOpen fascist rehabilitation 1993.
Designed by: Béla Domonkos Initiated by: Vitézi Rend (Order of Vitéz). The Order of Vitéz is a Hungarian kind of order of chivalry, ...
Description: Conventional life-size bronze bust on granite pedestal. In 1993, only a few years after t...

Stepan Bandera monument in Lviv

Location: Kropyvnyts’koho Square, L’viv, Ukraine. Monument is prominently located close to the city centre on...
Figurative sculptureMemorial siteOpen fascist rehabilitation 2007.
Designed by: Mykola Posikira (sculptor), Myhajlo Fedyk (architect), Grygorij Shevchuk (designer) with Yuriy St... Initiated by: The initiative for the monument dates back to the early 1990s. Some of the funds came from a coal...
Description: Composed of a bronze statue on a pedestal nearly seven meters high and a triumphal arch behind it...

HOS Memorial Plaque

Location: Jasenovac (kindergarten on King Peter Svačić square), Novska (Trokut Memorial Park). The controversy... Submitted by: Fokus Grupa
PlaqueOpen fascist rehabilitation 2016.
Initiated by: HOS (Croatian Defence Forces), Zagreb and Jasenovac association of HOS volunteers. HOS was a par...
Description: Croatian government refused to act decisively concerning the erection of the memorial plaque in J...

Grahovo Monument

Location: Grahovo, Cerknica, Slovenia Submitted by: Gal Kirn
Abstract sculptureMemorial sitePlaqueOpen fascist rehabilitation 2014.
Designed by: Franc Popek, architect (author of significant array of diverse plaques, granite crosses and memor... Initiated by: Nova Slovenska Zaveza. A civil society group closely connected to the Catholic Church and support...
Description: A substantial intervention in the centre of the town, since the monument is a half-rounded wall, ...