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Why do we use Stalin's definition of fascist today?

Stalin made unbelievable inroads into America's psyche. They have not gone anywhere.

Michael Flores

Feb 8

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The first time Stalin misused the term fascist was the German elections in which he ordered all German reds to raise money for, campaign for and vote for, wait for it, Hitler! Stalin called the German Social Democratic Party the liberal fascist threat and on June 23, 1933, Hitler outlawed the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) as a thank you to Stalin, which for over four decades, until 1932, had been the largest German party and, since the founding of the Weimar Republic in 1918, the principal advocate and defender of the democratic system and a peaceful foreign policy.

Stalin next misused the term fascist when he declared that Leon Trotsky was one. Party members were told to repeat it, fellow travelers spread it to the press. Trotsky had written that the Communist Parties around the world were nothing but spy recruitment centers for the KGB, and he predicted Hitler and Stalin would work together. That made him a fascist.

The third time Stalin misused the term was when he was working with Hitler after the signing of the The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe. The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 (backdated 23 August 1939) by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. (Wikipedia)

Stalin and Ribbentrop shaking hands after the signing of the pact in the Kremlin. Russia had already been trading the same raw materials that Russia would forge into weapons and ultimately attack Germany with them.

Hitler was acclaimed by Stalin for creating a brand new form of socialism. FDR and Churchill were now the real fascists. Once Hitler went into Poland without Stalin’s approval Stalin had a problem. After years of saying Hitler was a socialist, how could he then hide all that? Easy! Party members were ordered to stop saying Hitler was a socialist. There was no argument or debate, members could discuss it but under the rules of democratic centralism (never in public), and in the end, dissenters had to accept and spread the party doctrine.

As the late 1940’s happened and hearings were held, historians and the media jumped into action slavishly following Joe’s dictates yet again. The spies had been “premature anti-fascists”, and the history of the peace pact was erased. It never happened. For decades the pact was covered up.

This has led to people not actually knowing what fascism is. Consider: reds predicted that Eisenhower, whom they called a fascist, would not leave office and ordered American communists to move in the middle of the night, quit their jobs, change their names and hide. People in communist study groups showed up only to discover the people in charge were long gone.

Eisenhower left office.

The Weathermen or Weather Underground went to Cuba during the Vietnam War and were trained by Cubans who were trained by Soviet Intel. Russians couldn’t believe Nixon would step down so they thought we were on the verge of - fascism, of course. The Weather Underground returned home, the men cut their hair and the women stopped using sex as a recruiting tactic. They moved to the suburbs. For years they didn’t mention being anti-war and waited for the Soviet Union to call them so they could do whatever it was they were trained to do.

Nixon stepped down.

What exactly was the platform of the National Socialist Party?

Let me share a chunk of it:

11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.

12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.

13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.

14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.

15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.

25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.

The formation of professional committees and of committees representing the several estates of the realm, to ensure that the laws promulgated by the central authority shall be carried out by the federal states.

The leaders of the party undertake to promote the execution of the foregoing points at all costs, if necessary at the sacrifice of their own lives.

Trust me, most of the people using the term today would agree with every part of this platform. Hitler was also a vegetarian; he was also against using animals in scienctific experiments. He banned smoking in public. He created a car, the Volkswagen, that Germans received for free. Did I mention a 2 week vacation paid for by the state?

Today people have no idea what populism is. They’ve never heard of Huey Long from Louisiana; they just use the term fascist just like Stalin and the Soviet leaders did- a fascist is anyone they don’t like.

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