Nederlandse Volksbeweging
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The Nederlandse Volksbeweging (NVB, English: "Dutch People's Movement") was a political reform movement established in the Netherlands
in 1945, immediately after the Second World War.
With ideologies such as fascism
and communism
permanently excluded from Dutch politics, the NVB was intended to renew the political landscape in the Netherlands. A breakthrough had occurred in the pillarized political landscape: politics was no longer dominated by the opposition between Christian and secular parties (the so-called Antithesis).
The NVB was disbanded in 1951.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
in 1945, immediately after the Second World War.
With ideologies such as fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
and communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
permanently excluded from Dutch politics, the NVB was intended to renew the political landscape in the Netherlands. A breakthrough had occurred in the pillarized political landscape: politics was no longer dominated by the opposition between Christian and secular parties (the so-called Antithesis).
The NVB was disbanded in 1951.