Posted on 02/04/2013 9:41:13 AM PST by Nachum
Tens of thousands of neo-Nazis rallied in Athens in support of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, in the movement's largest demonstration of support since its rise to power in last June’s general election.
Men dressed in military uniforms, holding torches, donning swastikas and chanting anti-immigrant slogans, marched through central Athens in what was reportedly a memorial event paying tribute to the party’s “fallen soldiers,” The International Business Times reported.
"This is a day of remembrance. It's a day to remember that Golden Dawn is here to stay. And so long as it does, there will be hope for the country," Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kassidiaris told supporters.
Hundreds of riot police and security officials were deployed to the scene of the march, which took place near the prime minister's office and the Turkish embassy in Athens, according to The Times.
The party, which has become notorious for its blatant anti-Semitic and xenophobic rhetoric and has been responsible for perpetrating attacks on Jews and foreigners, has begun spreading its anti-immigration message in schools and youth clubs, as well as through online social media networks, according to recent reports in the international press.
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LOL!
The connection with Occupy is much more accurate.
sad that liberal/labor unions have shafted Greece to a point that The Golden Dawn is seen as they only group that can reverse things. This group will not be the same as the old Nazi Movement-—Its focus will be the elimination of Islamic People and other foreigners. I would not be surprised if such a thing happens here when Obama crashes the systems and attempts to set up a Worker’s paradise.
Odd that just last year Greeks were calling German president Merkel a NAZI. Now I guess it is ok.
This group is made up of a lot of liberal/labor union types. The unions in Greece have been supporting Golden Dawn.
The comments under the vid are surprising.
The Greeks don’t want no freaks.
The problem is no ‘established’ political party in Greece has any economic plan except keep getting money from Germany to support a massive welfare state they can’t support and can’t cut. Golden Dawn offers some return of national pride and more importantly a scapegoat.
Just as a side note everyone might want to look at what’s happening with Cyprus right now.
Who would immigrate to Greece?
How about those patriotic Gleeks? Just say No to illegal immigration. How dare they say No to the moslem hordes.
How about those patriotic Gleeks? Just say No to illegal immigration. How dare they say No to the moslem hordes.
How about those patriotic Gleeks? Just say No to illegal immigration. How dare they say No to the moslem hordes.
I can’t believe Hans Gruber supported these guys!?!
That being said, I can’t blame them for wanting to kick out foreigners. Greece has enough problems without it being flooded by muslims and various non-europeans
Greece is a tick embedded on the testicles of Europe.
Why wouldn’t you leave North Africa for a socialist welfare state? Greece is a good place to start until you can get a British visa.
Heck, Yemen is flooded with refugees from Somalia. Can you imagine fleeing TOO Yemen?
You are 100% correct. And the country is Europe to watch is France. The nation has a strong Fascist streak, and it would not surprise me one day to seem them pass laws to ship every Muslim back to where the came from. The French are very stubborn..they don’t give a rat’s ass for “world opinion..”
You are 100% correct. And the country in Europe to watch is France. The nation has a strong Fascist streak, and it would not surprise me one day to seem them pass laws to ship every Muslim back to where the came from. The French are very stubborn..they don’t give a rat’s ass for “world opinion..”
while i am no expert i have read more than once they are anti Semitic.
Nazi Germany invaded Greece ( and Yugoslavia ) just before it did Russia in 1941.
Ironically, if the neo-Fascism were based on Mussolini's Italian Fascism as originally conceived before it became an ape of German Nazism it wouldn't be so bad. Ditto for the ideology of Franco or Salazar.
At the International Fascist Congress in Montreaux in December 1934 anti-Semitism was a big issue, with some parties being for it and some being adamantly against it.
Unfortunately Nazi Germany displaced Italy as the model of "fascism," so that since that time practically all "fascist" and "neo-fascist" movements have been neo-Nazi. Italy itself became officially anti-Semitic on July 14, 1938 with the publication in Italian newspapers (which Mussolini personally controlled) of the "Manifesto of the Racist Scientists," and from that moment Mussolini and his ideology became a mere parrot of Hitler. The Salo Republic was anti-Semitic, socialist, and run by the SS. And neo-Fascist movements in Italy since the war have all been based on this late, Nazified, anti-Semitic version.
Believe it or not, there are actually non-Nazi "fascist" parties in the United States, though the ideology is so alien to America they will never get anywhere. Some of them are affiliated with the Lebanese Falangists but there is also a National Syndicalist party (or used to be). But at least these parties aren't racialist.
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