Round 2: Tossup 16

This group sought to form a parallel society through the creation of “nests” that would create the “New Man.” Members of this group clashed in street fights with the rival LANC, or “Lancers,” during an election in which this group ran as the “Everything for the Country” Party. The National Renaissance Front was formed to prevent this group’s rapprochement with its erstwhile rival, Octavian Goga’s National Christian Party. Horia Simia led this group’s 1941 pogrom and rebellion against the (*) Conducător. (10[1])This group’s founder, the mystic Orthodox (10[1])Christian Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, was executed under king Carol II. For 10 points, name this fascist group that was disbanded after a failed rebellion against Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu. ■END■

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