The National Union Council (Kansallinen liittoneuvosto, KLN) was an Umbrella organization of neo-Nazi groups founded in 1994 by Väinö Kuisma and Pekka Siitoin in Vehmaa, Finland.[1][2] National Union Council was the subject of a documentary called Sieg Heil Suomi.[2]
Ideology
The KLN was explicitly neo-Nazi organization, as were all the member groups. The KLN also blended Nazism and occultism, Siitoin being a notorious satanist, Kuisma adhering to Finnish neopaganism and Union of Aryan Blood holding esoteric blood ceremonies.[2][3]
Organizations
Member organizations of the KLN included National Democratic Party led by Pekka Siitoin, Aryan Germanic Brotherhood led by Väinö Kuisma, Union of Aryan Blood led by Kristian Arje and Finnish National Front led by Kai Aalto.[4] The organization used the Kalevalaic "hands of the runesingers" as its symbol.[5]
Elections
In 1996, Siitoin ran for the city council of Naantali with the slogan "Elect Siitoin the Nazi to the council" and was the fifth most popular candidate, but was not elected due to the D'Hondt method as he was running on his own list.[6][7] Aryan Germanic Brotherhood also managed to get an elected official to the city council of Hartola.[8]
References
^Pasanen, T. (2021). Christus verus Luciferus, Demon est Deus Inversus: Pekka Siitoin’s Spiritism Board. Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion, 57(2), 181–207. https://doi.org/10.33356/temenos.107763
^ abcHäkkinen, Perttu; Iitti, Vesa (2022). Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-64411-464-3.
^The Finnish New Radical Right in Comparative Perspective, Jeffrey Kaplan, Published in Kyösti Pekonen, ed., The New Radical Right in Finland in the Nineties (Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, 1999)
