Fascist ideology has won the day in Russia and the Russian people gleefully support all of the tenets of fascist thinking. Today, Russia is celebrating its victory over Nazism, but how can there be a victory when you fully adopt the ideology you think you defeated 69 years ago?
Hitler, Franco and Mussolini would have approved of what Russia is like today. And that is a real tragedy.
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I agree completely. Unfortunately, Nazism is still alive.
Their leader said a short time ago, ‘We would have won in WWII without them.’ By ‘them’, he meant Ukraine. But who are the ‘we’? Maybe the Nazis? isn’t that a Freud-type slip of the Russian leader’s tongue?
And isn’t it awful that the above-mentioned leader has just been invited to celebrate the D-day in France?
Unfortunately, Nazism is still alive…
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Well, we all know how France behaved when Hitler came. And after the defeat if Hitler, France was handing over the Republican refugees from Spain who did so much to defeat Hitler in France back to Franco, to be killed or to trusted. France kept the Spanish Republicans in horrible concentration camps even though their only fault was to fight fascism and defend the democratically elected government in their country.
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// And after the defeat if Hitler, France was handing over the Republican refugees from Spain who did so much to defeat Hitler in France back to Franco, to be killed
After end of WW2? I have never heard of that. And, of course, nobody (f.e. USA) said anything and the world continued to be silent?
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The Spanish Republicans were so sure that the Allies would not stop at the Pyrenees and would remove Hitler’s best buddy Franco from power. They fought so well and with such abandon in France because they thought they were fighting for Spain. But the US feared that if Franco were gone, Spain would fall into Stalin’s sphere of influence. So the decision was made to keep Franco in place. This was a tragic betrayal of Spain. I’m actually in tears as I’m writing this.
Later, the US helped Spain rebuild its economy and assisted Franco in consolidating his power by organizing his famous economic miracle of the 1950s. This allowed Franco to die peacefully in his bed as Spain’s fuehrer in 1975.
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Unfortunately, what quite a few people love the least about fascism is the word itself.
Lucky for them, there is a simple solution of coining a third term to “nazism” and “fascism.”
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Yes, exactly. This is precisely why I always insisted that it’s wrong to use the word “Nazi” for “an unpleasant person I dislike.” Nazism and fascism are very specific, concrete ideologies. They have been studied at length, there is no need to invent the wheel here.
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Putin, for instance, is moving in the direction of fascism, not nazism because there is a strong religious component in his politics. I see Putin and I don’t think Hitler. I think Franco. And not because I’m obsessed, which I am, but because the 2 guys have so much in common.
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I think this link might be appropriate for this thread.
http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2014/05/thoughts-on-victory-day.html
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Your post almost made me weep. I’m exhausted and very weepy today but, still, the post is wonderful.
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I insist that putin (this is not a typo, I mean putin) is a Nazi. The core of his ideology is hatred to nations other than Russian. They include (but not limited to) Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, Gypsies (there have been several pogroms in Slavyansk inspired by the Russian invaders), etc., etc. He obviously despises his allies, such as Armenians and Byelorussians. Actually, he hates those who doesn’t surrender and despises the rest. Present-day Russian TV prompts the viewers (millions of them) on which nation is ‘good’ and which is ‘bad’.
So I do insist on the term Nazi.
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Franco also hated, despised and persecuted the Basques and the Catalans. His discourse on them was shockingly similar to what Putin has to say on Ukraine.
Of course, I do tend to jump to Franco as my main point of reference but in reality the difference between him and Hitler was not that huge, except for the religion.
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Oh, as to what he calls ‘religion’, putin is super pseudo orthodox. It’s one of his main points, and that’s why his best friend is patriarch Cyril, a well-known atheist having in fact nothing to do with Christianity. Hitler was a pagan, putin is an orthodox (not Orthodox Christian of course). I can see no substantial difference here.
But I also think that the son of a gun (machine gun as well) hardly deserves this highly scientific dispute. 🙂
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Franco was way too stupid to be religious. He pretended to be a believer and welcomed the bishops at his residence but always made stupid nasty jokes about them behind their backs. He was also short of stature and butt-ugly like we-know-who.
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http://02varvara.wordpress.com/
Fight for Eurasian Solidarity against Amer-Israeli fascism.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascist-killers.html
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