Vaps Movement

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Vaps Movement Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Liit
Vapsid logo
Leader	Andres Larka and Artur Sirk
Founded	1929
Banned	December 1935
Ideology	Estonian nationalism[1] Anti-communism Populism
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
Politics of Estonia Political parties Elections

The Vaps Movement^[2] (Estonian: Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Keskliit, later Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Liit, vabadussõjalased, or colloquially vapsid, a single member of this movement was called vaps) was an Estonian political organization. Founded in 1929, it emerged as a mass anti-communist and populist movement from the Union of Participants in the Estonian War of Independence,^[3] an association of veterans of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920).^[2] The leaders of this association were Andres Larka (formal figurehead and presidential candidate) and Artur Sirk.