Going Nazi

[joanna bujes]

At 09:49 PM 01/24/2002 -0500, Hakki wrote:
>True but a lot of them came back in one piece as opposed to the "inferior
>races" which were either massacred (Slavs) or treated like cattle (Jews,
>Gypsies). I've heard Berlin stories of commies coming back home from the
>camps and having to coexist with the neighbors who'd denounced them. Fascism
>in the 30's, 40's, and 50's was politically primarily anticommunist but
>frequently exhibited a greater sadistic cruelty towards ethnical or racial
>scapegoats (Jews in Europe and blacks in the US) than towards its political
>opponents (Italy and Spain were somewhat exceptional). Neofascism today
>still has this character trait. In Western Europe, neofascists will beat up
>their political opponents, but they'll burn Turks alive. In the Balkans,
>fascist Serbs will shoot their opponents, but they'll torture Moslems. In
>Turkey, fascists will go berserk against Alewites and Kurds. I vaguely
>remember that Russian fascists behave similarly with communists as opposed
>to ethnical hate-groups.

Thanks for the correction. I guess my comments were a bit thin on history 
and more of a reaction to the eternal rendition of jews as the sole victims 
of fascism.

Joanna