The National Italo-Romanian Cultural and Economic Movement ( ro, Mișcarea Națională Culturală și Economică Italo-Română) or National Italo-Romanian Fascist Movement () was a short-lived Fascist movement active in

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during the early 1920s. The movement was formed in 1921 by Elena Bacaloglu, a female journalist who had an

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husband at the time, and was an acquaintance of Benito Mussolini (she had been briefly the wife of

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). The group deliberately mimicked Italian fascism and stressed the close ethnic bonds between the

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and the

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. The group attracted only around 100 members. The group was based in

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, where it was initially established. It was wound up in 1923, when it merged with the National Romanian Fascia to form the

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.Chronology of Romanian Fascism

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