Fascism waged a deadly battle against the great powers and ideologies of the world: Russia and America, capitalism and communism, which allied to destroy it, crushing all of Europe under its ruins.
That after this duel to the death, fascism—and especially its most radical side—became identified with the forces of evil, that a kind of mythology of darkness was woven around them, always speaking of their crimes, never of their ideas, is entirely understandable.
Even more understandable when one considers that communism, which throughout its fifty-year history always used strictly “cheerful” methods, eliminating tens of millions of people and enslaving hundreds of millions of others, has ensured that the “crimes of fascism” are constantly discussed in order to distract the world’s attention from its own internal affairs.
Add to this that European fascism had its victims among those who were particularly powerful and audible in the world—and not among those “useless” millions of whites, “bourgeois,” and “kulaks” who disappeared without glory.
Powerful personalities, not without the strength of Hollywood and other centers of world public opinion, capable of producing films, diaries, and comics, to perpetuate among intellectuals and servants a healthy horror of Fascism and its evils.
Films and diaries that the millions of Russian peasants who disappeared because they refused to accept collectivization, or the twenty million Chinese who disappeared because they were unwanted by Chairman Mao, the “bourgeois” eliminated by the millions in Russia and behind the Iron Curtain, or the three million Germans who disappeared during the Russian invasion—all these never had time to leave behind them.
We do not write this in a polemical tone, but simply to explain why—while we study the French or the Russian Revolution first for their ideas and only then for their crimes—Fascism is rejected and dismissed as a pure outburst of violence.
