Movement in Support of the Army Движение в поддержку армии | |
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| Abbreviation | DPA |
| Leader | Viktor Sobolev |
| Founder | Lev Rokhlin |
| Founded | 8 July 1997 |
| Registered | 5 March 1998 |
| Split from | Our Home – Russia |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Newspaper | DPA Combat Leaflet (1998–2008) |
| Ideology | Stratocracy Militarism Russian nationalism Economic socialism Soviet patriotism Antisemitism (1998–2011) |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 2000s) |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Let's save our Fatherland!" (Russian: "Выручим отечество!") |
| State Duma | 1 / 450 |
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The Movement in Support of the Army, Defense Industry and Military Science (Russian: Движение в поддержку армии, оборонной промышленности и военной науки), or simply Movement in Support of the Army (Russian: Движение в поддержку армии, romanized: Dvizheniye v podderzhku armii, DPA) is a Russian pro-military nationalist political movement established in 1997 by the lieutenant general and State Duma member Lev Rokhlin. Rokhlin, who had been radically opposed to Boris Yeltsin's government, was killed under unclear circumstances in July 1998 amid rumors that he was preparing a military coup against Yeltsin.
After Rokhlin's murder, the movement took a more radical nationalist and anti-Semitic stance under the leadership of generals Viktor Ilyukhin and Albert Makashov, but after its failure in the 1999 legislative election, it went into decline and by the end of the 2010s had become a full satellite of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.