Communists always use “Fascist” instead of “Nazi” because to do so would be admitting they were fellow Socialists.
Look at any Soviet Propaganda from WWII, they never used the term “Nazi”, just “Fascist”.
Woody Guthrie’s Guitar said “This Machine Kills Fascists”, it didn’t say “This Machine Kills Nazis”. We didn’t really do all that much fighting against the Italians during the War.
Exactly. Great point.
Some people get confused because the Nazi party started out as fascist, since socialist or not they were smart enough to know that a socialist economy would never be strong enough to do what they wanted to, transformed into a party that was all about race with economics secondary, even haphazard, all the while calling themselves socialist.
People really underestimate Mussolini; he went off the rails drunk with power and just wasn’t quite up to running a nation in the complex and turbulent circumstances Italy found herself in at the time; but at first he really was hailed as a great leader and turned things around. People have tried to redefine what it means, but he created the word and implemented it.
No one ever won a war or a battle underestimating their enemy.
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