Saturday, November 23, 2024

Pooh-tin's Historical Re-Write: Leader of the global Neo-Fascist International

  Like, for example, the one he made during his interview with ultra-reactionary American journalist Tucker Carlson last February, when he asserted that “the Poles had not given the Danzig Corridor to Germany, and went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them. Why was it Poland against whom the war started on 1 September 1939? Poland turned out to be uncompromising, and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland." [2]

So here’s Mr. Putin, rewriting the history of the Second World War to exonerate Hitler and his criminal regime. As we wrote at the time: “So, if Mr. Putin is to be believed, the real culprit behind the outbreak of the Second World War was...Poland! And Mr. Hitler and his army, who he claims were so friendly to the Poles, only attacked Poland...under duress due to the intransigence of that country’s leaders! In other words, Putin takes at face value, adopts and re-proposes to us what Hitler himself said at the time to justify his invasion of Poland! But what’s even more mind-boggling is that this outrageous absolution of Hitler and his Third Reich comes from the same Mr. Putin who keeps talking about the need to “denazify” Ukraine in order to justify his war against that country!!” [3]

 

Mr. Putin’s attempt to rewrite the history of the Second World War isn’t all that surprising, given his predilection for ultra-reactionary or even outright fascist “philosophers” and other “masters of thought” currently in vogue in Putin’s Russia. Take, for example, Ivan Iline (Иван Ильин), a Russian émigré philosopher and champion of Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s Nazism, both of which he served and associated with in the ’20s and ’30s, and whom Putin has been quoting more and more frequently over the past decade... Why this adoration of this Slavophile aristocrat and avowed fascist? Because Iline postulated a (greater) Russia - including the Ukraine, which should not exist - that resembles like two drops of water the one Putin is building: a highly centralized state, headed by an all-powerful, idolized autocrat, who would rule regardless of the outcome of the electoral ritual known in advance.

https://www.cadtm.org/Vladimir-Putin-godfather-and-federator-of-the-international-far-right 

 

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