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.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.107763Häkkinen, Perttu; Iitti, Vesa (2022). Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-64411-464-3. National Union Council was the subject of a documentary called Sieg Heil Suomi.
Ideology The KLN was explicitly a 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.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)
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. The organization used the Kalevalaic "hands of the runesingers" as its symbol.Nordling, Iiro & Koskela, Olavi: Suomen Führer: Valtakunnanjohtaja Pekka Siitoin (1944–2003). Helsinki: Iiro Nordling, 2006. ISBN 952-92-0509-0 p, 187
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.Pohjola, Mike (toim.): Mitä Pekka Siitoin tarkoittaa? Savukeidas, 2015. , pp. 23 Aryan Germanic Brotherhood also managed to get an elected official to the city council of Hartola.Turun Sanomat, Suomi-Isänmaalle ensimmäinen valtuutettu, 30.3.2005
See also Finnish Realm Union - 1940s Umbrella organization of Nazi groups Nationalist Front (United States) - Umbrella organization of neo-Nazi groups World Union of National Socialists - Umbrella organization of neo-Nazi groups
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