Comment on Is Russia a fascist dictatorship?

muse@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ExfilBravo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forced Conscription. Check. Rigged Elections and kills all opposing candidates. Check. Control of the state media and news outlets. Check. Sounds right to me.

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  • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forced Conscription.

    Lol! Conscription is forced by definition.

    Rigged Elections

    If this was a definition of fascism the US would qualify as fascist as well.

    kills all opposing candidates

    This was a thing long before Mussolini thought up the word “fascist.”

    Control of the state media and news outlets.

    Again, all states exert control over the media inside the territories they control.

    This is not how you go about describing something as fascist.

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