In his article in The Washington Post, writer George Will says that the prosperity of fascism in the 21st century indicates that it is the most successful fighting doctrine of the twentieth century, and therefore it is good to understand its founder Benito Mussolini, who orchestrated 100 years ago the Rome march that brought him to power in the 39 From his age to be the youngest ruler in the world at the time.
The writer described Mussolini as the destroyer of parliamentary democracy in Italy, and that he had a descendant occupying the Kremlin today, Vladimir Putin.
He alluded to the atrocities committed by the followers of the Italian Duce, and that although he condemned the massacre committed by his followers, he announced "a general amnesty for politically motivated blood crimes committed for national ends."
The writer considered Mussolini to be the embodiment of fascism and its pure energy in search of occasions for aggression.
He pointed to an article published by The Economist last week asserting that "Putinism is fascism," meaning that it is a simmering mixture of grievances and grudges (about the post-Soviet dwindling) expressed in the rhetoric of victimhood, as Putin's regime relies on violence It is practiced by the state and offensive brigades tolerated by the state such as Mussolini's militia.
As in Mussolini's Italy, Putin's Russia has what the magazine calls a "culture of cruelty", where "domestic violence is no longer a crime" and "almost 30% of Russians say torture should be allowed."
As The Economist notes, Alexander Yakovlev, a democratic reformer who worked under Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1990s, warned that “the danger of fascism in Russia is real, because since 1917 we have been accustomed to living in a criminal world with a responsible criminal state, and banditry — sanctified by ideology — is wording that suits both communists and fascists.
So genocide - understood to include the erasure of the cultural identity of an entire people - flows relentlessly from fascism.
As Andrew Stofford, who writes for the National Review, notes that the Russians are not only destroying the cultural connotations of Ukraine (churches, monuments, etc.), but forcibly transferring to Russia more than “a million Ukrainians, including hundreds of thousands of children, including This is orphans, some of them young, and it is enough to forget their identity and their language.”
The Economist says, "The engine of fascism has no backward gear, and it will seek to expand both geographically and in people's private lives." As Mussolini said the first fascist, "everything is within the state, nothing outside it, nothing against it."
The writer noted that Putin's regime encourages the people to show their support for the Ukraine war by displaying a "Z" sign, which the magazine calls "half of the swastika."
He concluded his article that fascism may flourish in this century more than in the previous century.