Oud-Strijders Legioen

The Oud-Strijders Legioen (OSL; "Former Warriors' Legion"[1]) was a Dutch right-wing veterans' organization that was active after 1958 and which still maintains a web presence.

It attracted people who were opposed to communism and the peace and anti-nuclear movement of the 1960s and afterward, and supported the South-African apartheid regime.

[4][5] During the large demonstrations of the 1980s against nuclear arms in the Netherlands, the OSL organized prominent counterprotests, flying planes over the demonstrations trailing banners with slogans such as Liever een raket in de tuin dan een Rus in de keuken ("Better a cruise missile in your garden than a Russian in your kitchen").

[9] By 2010 Ego, still the OSL's chairman, had begun to scale down the organization, donating the archives documentation to the Nationaal Archief.

[13] Dutch writer Jeroen van Bergeijk compared the OSL to the American Legion—"a kind of Boy Scout organization for the elderly ... a conservative club which aims to combat desecration of the flag, reintroduce prayer in schools, and keep homosexuals out of its ranks".