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The National Alliance (Swedish : Nationella Alliansen) was a neo-Nazi organisation run by Robert Vesterlund. [1] Previously known as SUNS (Stockholms Unga NationalSocialister) and formed by Vesterlund at the same time as he ran Sverigedemokratisk Ungdom, they published the magazine Info 14. [1] [2] Christopher Rangne was appointed leader in 1996 and the group was contemplating the launch of a National Republican Army (NRA), to function in tandem like the IRA and Sinn Féin. [3] Rangne was previously one of the main players in the White Aryan Resistance movement. [4] National Alliance disbanded in 1997. [2]

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