That includes mass torch light processions in 1858 at Hartford Connecticut, the Republican Party in New York City in 1860[3][4] and in Galesburg, Illinois in 1884.
On 1 January 2014, Stepan Bandera's 105th birthday was celebrated by a torchlight procession of 15,000 people in the centre of Kyiv and thousands more rallied near his statue in Lviv.
a group of white nationalists – variously numbered from "dozens"[12] to "about 250"[13] – gathered for an unannounced (and unsanctioned by the city) march through the University of Virginia's campus.
According to Blue Awakening, the torchlight march is meant to honor those who have fallen for the nation of Estonia and to signify that Estonian youth have not abandoned the nationalist principles.
[20][21][22][23][24] The event has been harshly criticized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center that described it as "Nuremberg-esque" and likened the ideology of the participants to that of the Estonian nazi collaborators.