Mindaugas Murza

Who is Mindaugas Murza?

Mindaugas Gervaldas is an anti-semitic Lithuanian politician, a radical nationalist former member of the National Democratic Party, former member of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces, a one time leader of the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party, and member of Šiauliai city municipality council. He is known for his anti-semitic statements.

In 1998, Gervaldas and other members of his party, Lithuanian Alliance of Nationalist-Socialist Unity, in their publications "Voice of the Nation" attacked Lithuania's minorities of Jews, Poles and Russians, and demanded that conditions for these minorities be made so unbearable so that they would leave Lithuania. In 2001 he attempted to revive moribund Logic of Life Party when registration for the national socialist alliance was refused.

In April 2005, Gervaldas passed plans to establish a new political party, called the Unified Lithuanian National Workers Movement. Its aims would be to encompass up to 3% of the population eventually, and win in the next municipal elections to Šiauliai city council.