golden dawn

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The history of fashism is something really complex.

Ask a random person what fashism is and that person will say "Hitler, Germany, NSDAP" a person who will be a bit smarter will also mention Italy and Mussolini.
But no one will mention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Fascist_Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Bu...al_Legions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_P..._(Finland)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix-de-Feu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%93rkonkrusts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Activist_Front

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_So...etherlands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radical_Camp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_(Portugal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fr...itzerland)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_So...y_(Sweden)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party

Especially the brutal Arrow Cross Party from Hungaria, the Croat fashists, Franco and Salazar are worth mentioning.
Fashism didnt just start off in Germany and Italy, it started of in all off Europe and even the world (Egypt, India, Lebanon) and was seen as a legitemat political movement.
No matter how progressive a country might be, almoust every European country had a fashist party in it`s past.

And everything rightwing you see today in Europe is a resemblence of this past.

It depends largely on how well a country worked up it`s history, to see how many fashist are still arround in politics today.

And I think it is worth mentioning, since fashism is connected to catholicism historicaly and culturaly that even today the biggest rise in right wingish bollocks is happening in catholic Europe.