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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Brazil president raises eyebrows saying Holocaust can be forgiven
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PTownsend
Once again those in the farthest right (think 'bound bundle of wooden rods' far right) are trying to get those unable to read history for themselves, the intellectually vulnerable and others easily manipulated to think that National Socialism, i.e. NAZISM, was leftist.
That's historical revisionism at its most idiotic.
lincolnman
Sounds like his buddy The Donald....
Just hurl insults and labels, irrespective if they have any basis in fact...
PTownsend
Could be from modern Russia or any of the many other places around the globe where neo-fascists are increasing in numbers.
Pukey2
O Trump brasileiro.
Both ugly inside and out.
PTownsend
Actually I try to disparage all totalitarian states, and Russia is one. But thanks for following me.
Kestrel
Of course the Nazis were leftists. An inconvenient truth for modern leftists/socialists.
Anonymous
It’s easy to understand why Leftist eyebrows would have been raised after Bolsonaro’s visit to Yad Vadshem. Was it because there is always the fear among Leftists that a similar memorial might some day be raised to the victims of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and lesser tyrants? Or were they not “true” Socialists? Or were the people they defined as enemies deserving of death after all?
M3M3M3
I certainly don't think the Nazis were 'leftists'. I think Bolsonaro, like many people, is confusing ideologies and economic systems.
I would say the Nazis were promoting a rightwing ideology while also using a socialist economic system. The Nazi government's nationalisation and control over every major German company and all aspects of industry in the years before the war place it squarely within the basic/dictionary definition of socialism. However, many people today seem to believe that a socialist economic system can only exist if it's being used to promote a leftwing/egalitarian/internationalist ideology. But it's just not true. There's nothing within the definition of socialism which precludes a rightwing/nationalist state from socialising the means of production to promote a shared rightwing ideology, which is what happened in Nazi Germany.
Jimizo
Why did they hate and persecute communists and socialists?
Strangerland
The nazis were about as left as they were right.
Either side could pick out things that Hilter and the nazis did that fit the other side's ideology.
lostrune2
Nazis hated Russian Communists and placed Germany first
starpunk
Brazil's Bozo is a full bore fascist. The Jewish Holocaust is unforgivable. This dummy is also too stupid to face up to the worst genocide in history - the Native American people of North + South America, half a planet.
Kestrel
@Anonymous,
Exactly.
bass4funk
Nothing false or accidental
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-socialism-and-the-falsification-of-history/10214302
Thus, last week, Paul Murray complained that young people tempted by left-wing politics fail to understand that the Second World War was waged against socialism. Presumably by this he meant the Axis powers, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
*This bizarre view fails to consider the inconvenient fact that the Allies included among its number the communist Soviet Union, the state that bore the brunt of the conflict in lives and domestic destruction. But inconvenient facts should not get in the way of a convenient narrative. *"The modern culture doesn't understand WWII," lamented Murray. "Too many of this generation want socialism and don't understand what their relatives fought for and that's why we speak up about it."
The Democrats only way to garner support or doubt is always use and play race and victim card when all else fails.
What?
Anonymous
History, as a narrative written by scholars after extensive but not necessarily infallible research and inference, is and will always be subject to revision as new material comes to light. For any government to forbid revision, i.e. the incorporation of new material and new inferences that may be drawn from it, is unconscionable.
starpunk
In Italy it's forbidden to reestablish the original Fascist Party but Benito Mussolini's granddaughter keeps raising a stink in Italian politics with her hate-filled hissy fits. And in Spain the Espana Phalanx founded by Francisco Franco is forbidden.
There was a Japanese filmmaker who advocated the old Japanese fascism that killed himself in the late 60s.
A few years ago a rally held by a handful of people sympathetic to Japanese fascism was jeered at and derided. Japan has long outgrown that crap.