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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.

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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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