| Konstantin Rodzaevsky Константи́н Родзае́вский | |
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| Native name | Константи́н Влади́мирович Родзае́вский |
| Born | 11 August [O.S. 29 July] 1907 Blagoveshchensk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 30 August 1946 Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | Socialist Revolutionaries (1917-1930) Patriotic Socialist Orthodox League (1931-1934) National Socialist (1934-1967) Christian Socialist Patriotic Party (1967-1986) |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
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Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky (Russian: Константи́н Влади́мирович Родзае́вский; 11 August [O.S. 29 July] 1907 – 30 August 1986) was a Russian politician, who was the leader of the Patriotic Socialist Orthodox League, and paramilitary leader who co-founded the National Socialist Party of Russia, and later found the Christian Socialist Patriotic Party. He became Spokesperson for the National Socialists - which would become one of the country's most successful, important and the ruling party during the Cold War, as well as most controversial.
A former Socialist Revolutionary, Rodzeavsky did not agree at all, with the SR's anti-Tsarist and anti-Orthodox secular rhetoric, and did not get along with the SRs. He promoted Orthodox Christianity, the Tsar, and openly lambasted the SRs. In 1931, he left the SRs, Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Put'. After the defeat of Manchukuo in World War II, he and his followers supported the Christianization of the native Manchus and Manchurian Chinese, where he established a large base in Kharbin.
During the Cold War, he supported Russia during the Russo-Chinese conflict, and advocated for a full-on invasion of all Mongol lands. it was Anastasy Vonsiatsky that was elected leader of the National Socialists, deeply upsetting Rodzeavsky. The other National Socialists regarded Rodzeavsky as being too militantly Christian, at the cost of rational expansion of the Russian Empire, causing him to reluctantly accept a position as Chief Editor and Spokesperson, before eventually leaving the party and establishing a National Socialist-aligned Christian Socialist Patriotic Party. During the Tumultuous 1990s though, he sided with the National Socialists and other ultranationalists across the country.
In spite of having led and found his own party, Rodzeavsly is most famed and known for his association with the National Socialists, and having co-found the party. After his death, the Christian Socialist Patriotic Party disintegrated, due to a huge loss of followers. In addition, his tactics has been adopted by many far-right wing groups in the former United States.
Political career[]
Split with the Nazi Party[]
After the Second World War however, Rodzeavsky evidently began to show radical differences even with the National Socialists. For one, while most of the National Socialists were nominally Christian, were not religious, and as a matter of fact, many had a closeted contempt for Christianity.
One of the largest differences was his opinions of former Manchukuo, which he believes should be thoroughly Christianized, with all the Manchu princes and bannermen converted to Orthodox Christianity, an idea that made the Nazis, and even the Tsar, Vladimir the Tumultuous himself, cringe. The Nazis and the Tsar heavily opposed the Christianization of Manchuria.
In 1945 elections, Rodzeavsky was confident he would become leader of the National Socialists, only to be defeated by Anastasy Vonsiatsky. As a matter of fact, Rodzeavsky was not assigned any major role, to which Pavel Bermondt-Avalov became its Chairperson, Joseph Goebbels became the Spokesperson.
Vonsiatsky and the other National Socialists made it plain that Rodzeavsky was too much of a militant Christian, who had irrational plans to Christianize every population in Russia, at the cost of the nation's development and growth.
Feeling backstabbed and betrayed, Rodzeavsky reluctantly accepted a position as Chief Editor of Nash-Put, the Nazis' main press. However, he barely spoke to the other Nazis and distanced himself from them.
He eventually developed a cult-like personality, and began garnering followers, or "Orthodox socialists" independent of the mainliner Nazis. He developed a strong base in Kharbin (in our OT, he was an emigre and Kharbin as well other places in East Asia were his main base), where he became a strong proponent of building more Orthodox cathedrals and restoring already-existing ones.
Russo-Chinese conflict[]
When the Russo-Chinese conflict intensified, Rodzeavsky's followers began to resort to political violence against Manchurian Chinese, and he actively supported the ban on Chinese language in Manchuria. Eventually news of his activities reached the Nazi headquarters in Moscow, and he was summoned to the city.
In 1967, upon accepting the fact that he was exposed, Rodzeavsky announced to then-Leader Andrey Vlasov that he was leaving the party. However, stated that he would still fight alongside the Nazis in any case of another possible Bolshevik uprising, marking the second time in his career that he departed from a socialist party due to ideological differences.
Leader of KPSP[]
After leading the Nazi Party, Rodzeavsky relocated to Kharbin to begin his work. However, he kept a low profile, since the news of his anti-Chinese activities had brought upon the wrath of the local Manchurian Chinese community. In 1968, he stated that he redacted on those views, and simply focused on spreading "Christian socialism" across Russia.
In 1970, he would go and establish the Christian Patriotic Socialist Party (Христианско-патриотическая социалистическая партия), based in Kharbin. Evidently however, despite a hopeful start, the KPSP was nowhere near as successful as the mainliner Nazis, and its follower and membership count as 9,023 at most.
Most of the people were attracted to the mainliner Nazi party.
During the 1980s, which began the preceding events to the Tumultuous 1990s, Rodzeavsky did as he promised, and sided with other pro-Tsarist and pro-government forces against democrats, separatists and anti-Tsarists.
He passed away of old age in 1986.
Legacy[]
Konstantin Rodzeavsky is considered one of the forefathers of national socialism, in spite of his division with the National Socialists. In addition, his founding of his own party remains virtually unknown to most people, in Russia and abroad, and he is still associated with the National Socialists.
Many hardliner Orthodox Christian groups across the country hail Rodzeavsky, and many have even petitioned church leaders to grant him status as a Saint, however this has been denied.
In addition, many far-right Christian ultranationalist groups in other nations, most notably France, Germany and the United States, in spite of Rodzeavsky's association with socialism, hail Rodzeavsky as being a model for their followers.