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Island for the Whites". Book V. Chapter 27.

 

An execution of a fascist.

A ragged piece of comics in an empty airport

 

In the first picture, the drawing displays a frightened man in an official bureaucratic suit with a noose around his neck. A speech balloon comes up from the head, in the oval there is a picture: a judge in a wig and a black robe with a lace jabot, and the caption from his mouth goes: "What reason do you see for not being hung high and short by the neck until you die?" It is the formula of old English legal proceedings from historical novels that teenagers once read.

The second picture drawing: a rope with a noose around the little man's neck is thrown over a street lamp; a teenager is sitting on its crossbar; two men in workers overalls are ready to pull on the hanging loose end. There are about two dozens of men, a few women, some armed, in the yellow circle of lamplight. Above the gray-haired old man in the Stetson hat the caption reads: "Let justice be done!"

Drawing in the third box: the convict is crying:

"Have mercy! For what?!"

Fourth drawing, a caption over the crowd: "For that that you have destroyed the country, scoundrel!" "Who has destroyed our history? Who has pitted the children on their parents, and now is howling, bitch!?"

The sheet is torn in a few places, not all drawings are visible, but the meaning and sequence of the scenes are clear:

Hard worker with clenched fist:

"It was you who outsourced our jobs into China and Malaysia, closed the factories, threw us out into the street and put us on a beggar allowance!"

A rancher in high heeled boots being girded with a bandolier:

"Greens and vegans have banned meat! That led to slaughtering all our cattle! People eat your genetically modified soy and degenerate!"

Veteran in old army uniform:

"It was you who wanted to confiscate our weapons! Who wanted to make the people defenseless!"

Crying old woman:

"You drove my son crazy, your doctors castrated him, he became a eunuch and dresses like a woman! I won't have grandchildren..."

An official with a noose around his neck:

"You are fascists! The killers! Cave people!"

Bald professor in glasses, with a scar across his face:

"It's you who are fascists – you! Universities educate the Hitler Youth! You force people to lie, intimidating those who disagree! You banned freedom of speech! You rob hard workers and sustain parasites! You control our whole life declaring enemy everyone whom you do not like!

Oilman in an orange helmet:

"We all lost our jobs. Now oil is bought in Russia and Iran. Death to traitors!"

A fat driver in a Trump T-shirt and a red baseball cap:

"We drove trucks all over America! From New York to California, from Seattle to New Orleans! Furniture and meat, books and shoes! You banned gasoline and diesel fuel, leaving only electric trains and stupid feeble electric cars! You have made the whole country poor!"

Drunken journalist in a tweed jacket:

"You are a true fascist, guy. You have lied to everyone and always. You deprived everyone of their freedom and demanded to agree and obey. You created a state against which man is powerless. Your fascist state controls everything. And in order to divert the blame, you called your enemies fascists! We wanted freedom, we wanted to control our own destiny and our country, raise our own children and elect our own government. And you fascists dare to call us fascists. Drop dead, buddy."

General choir:

"Death to fascism!"

The penultimate drawing: a sign hangs on the chest of a trembling official: "Leftist Democratic Fascist."

And in the last picture: legs twitching above the ground, a shoe has fallen from one foot, and a thin stream of urine flows over the other shoe. Pretty naturalistic.

It's on the left page of the magazine spread. And on the right side there is an excerpt from the article:

"…  mistakenly considered fascism a right-wing movement. This is not so much a delusion stemming from ignorance in history about the left movements in general and fascism in particular, but rather the deliberate propaganda by socialist and communist governments, who, for obvious reasons, want to dissociate themselves from their once compromised fellow traveler, and then the competitor.

Established in Italy on March 23, 1919, the Fascio di Combattimento, the "Union of Struggle", created by Benito Mussolini (expelled from the leaders of Italian socialism) had a program to move along a "third way", different both from Marxist socialism in the interpretation of the Moscow-led Third Communist International, and from a free enterprise society commonly referred to as bourgeois democracy or simply capitalism. Three years after the fascists came to power, powerful state construction began: laying roads, draining swamps, creating jobs and new arable land. Three quarters of firms in Italy belonged to the state. An 8-hour working day was established, universal suffrage was introduced (for women as well), Mussolini set wages and regulated prices for ...

… January the same 1919, Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer created the German Workers' Party. It was created precisely as a party of the working class, in contrast to other socialist parties, which consisted mainly of the intelligentsia and the middle class. Later, Adolf Hitler joined the ILP; in early 1920 it was renamed the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany.

25 point program ……

...... The Comintern, III International, also known as the Communist International, was created at the direction of Lenin in Soviet Russia on March 2, 1919! This coincidence should be noted.

The Comintern was an instrument exclusively of the foreign policy of the Soviets aimed at undermining the capitalist states – i.e. the rest of the world! First of all – against the economically developed, that is, Western Europe and the United States. The task of the Comintern was the all-round spread and strengthening of communists throughout the world with the goal of subsequent establishing a communist system throughout the world. That is, the concepts of a communist, an anti-state subversive element, and a saboteur, have become close or even equal concepts.

This fact fundamentally distinguishes Soviet socialism from Italian fascism and German National Socialism, which dealt almost exclusively with the internal political and economic structure, while in terms of foreign policy they were limited to the return of the colonies and the conquest of the "living space" necessary, in their opinion, for the prosperity of the country.

The internal differences between the USSR, Italy and the III Reich were insignificant. Soviet socialism was the most cruel and radical, physically destroying entire social classes (aristocracy, officers, bourgeoisie) and forcing millions of citizens to emigrate. Germany took a radical anti-Semitic stance, coming to extermination of Jews as well as Gypsies, homosexuals and the mentally ill. Italy, on the other hand, was the most tolerant of racial, national and social differences, proclaiming a course towards a corporate state and the unity of the race as a culture.

However, all three regimes were characterized by totalitarian ideology, the suppression of pluralism, by militarism, the cult of heroism and the cult of the state, propaganda of a conscientious attitude to work, state regulation of the economy, and caring about the well-being of a simple working person. All three regimes proclaimed the principles of justice, equality, patriotism, the health of the nation, all glorified the working man and hated world financial capital and bourgeois democracies.

The only internal difference: the absolute nationalization of the economy of the USSR vs. a mixed economy with the inclusion of both state and private ownership of the means of production in Germany and Italy. That gave a huge economic effect in the latter and inefficient management in the former.

In political terms, the only and main difference between Soviet socialism and Italian and German fascism was a sharp class struggle and the destruction of "hostile social elements" in the Soviet Union vs. class peace with social solidarity and cooperation in fascism ......"

On the spread of the magazine, there are brown stains of gore and the imprint of the corrugated sole of an army boot. A draft from the terminal's broken windows stirs the debris on the floor, and a beer can rattles down the stairs.