Russian national autonomous party

The founder of the party was Stepan Fenzik , a Greek Catholic priest who was deprived of his dignity for political activities ^[1] . The party appeared in Mukachevo in connection with the parliamentary elections of 1935 in Czechoslovakia.

The party actively collaborated with the Russian white emigration and Russian nationalists , in particular, with Konstantin Rodzaevsky . The leader of the party (who called himself “ Führer ”) Fenzik has been an honorary member of the last Russian Fascist Party since the early 1930s.

The main print edition of the RNAP was the newspaper Nash Pout ( czech Nash puť ) ^[2] , so named in imitation of a similar edition of the Harbin fascists.

In 1934-1938, the party leader Fenzik actively collaborated with the Polish and Hungarian intelligence services; researcher Andrei Puskas claims that “the party was created on the direct request of the Polish government, with a specific target” ^[3] . In general, the RNAP occupied a similar niche with the Provenger Autonomous Agricultural Union, which also formally declared a Ruthenian orientation.

In 1935, Fenzik was elected to the Czechoslovak parliament from the RNAP, and in 1938 became the minister of the first autonomous government of Subcarpathian Rus, but as a result of the discovery of his Provenger activities by the Czechoslovak authorities, he fled to Budapest . After the transfer of the flat territory of Subcarpathian Rus of Hungary on the First Vienna Arbitration on November 2, 1938, RNAP functionaries headed by Fenzik participate in the formation of the Black Hundred “Russian National Guard of Black Shirts”, mainly from the former scouts of the them. Dukhnovich, who opposed the Czechoslovak authorities, the Carpathian Sich and the Communists with weapons.

Party members were Ruthenian and / or Russian nationalists and insisted on creating autonomy called Carpathian Rus for the Ruthenian minority, and also demanded recognition of the Ruthenians as an independent nation. They also adhered to anti-Semitic and far-right views ^[2] .

Having lost the support of the masses by the time of the Hungarian occupation of Transcarpathia, the Russian National Autonomous Party was renamed the Ugro-Russian National Party, which eventually became one of the Hungarian political parties that supported the Horthy regime. In 1939, Fenzik himself was appointed deputy to the upper chamber of the Hungarian parliament, where he remained until 1944 , and after the region was annexed to the USSR, he was executed for collaboration on the decision of the Transcarpathian Regional Court.