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[–]Chipit[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

If fascism was going to work, it would have worked by now.

Time for something else.

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It worked so well it took two superpowers and the biggest empire in history to destroy it.

[–]weavilsatemyface 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Are you talking about the Polish military junta in 1939? Spain under Franco? Pinochet? The Second Republic of Portugal? Vichy France? The Free City of Danzig? The Kuomintang? Guatemala's CIA-installed "banana republic" for the benefit of the United Fruit Company? El Salvador? Argentina? Uruguay, Honduras, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia?

So many failed regimes that ruined their nations. I'm pretty sure I would remember if they were destroyed by "two superpowers and the biggest empire in history".

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AFAIK none of those were fascist except for possibly Cuba.

Edit: I'm talking about Castro, especially before he decided he was a Communist, in case that wasn't clear. Peronism actually sounds a lot like fascism, but I'll admit I haven't looked into that enough to pass judgement on it.

I would say that there are three main categories of which I would describe as fascist movements getting into power (and the most exemplary countries):

European/First Wave: Germany, Italy

Islamic/Arab Nationalist: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya

"Red Fascism": China, North Korea, Romania