The description of Putin’s Russia as a fascist state by Rob Garver, writing in The Fiscal Times, is not only deeply ironic — considering the concern expressed on many levels in Russian society on the growth of fascism in Ukraine and the Baltic states — but shows incredible ignorance regarding the structure and mechanisms of the modern Russian state, which is arguably built on Soviet and Tsarist foundations. Unfortunately the article by Mr. Garver seems to be yet another attempt from an ill-qualified keyboard warrior to comment on today’s Russia.
His suggestion that “‘fascist’ can be a simple way of insulting somebody” is laughable. It that what happened to the six million Jews in the holocaust? Merely insulted? Many forget, Russia lost at least20 million people fighting Nazism — the embodiment of fascism — and to see its rise in Europe once again is frightening. It’s a very real presence in Europe today, particularly in Ukraine, the Baltic States and Germany. This chart illustrates this very point:
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