Like yeah, we all know that communism defeated fascism in WWII, but that was only after a lot of war & genocide had already transpired.
I’m interested in the counterfactual, in which it never got to that point because the Nazis and Italian fascists were prevented from ever acquiring power to begin with. What would that have looked like? What would have been needed for that to happen?
1956 Hungary
Magyaroids malding rn, their modern national founding myth in tatters.
every failed coup against venezuela in the past 25 years?
Bolivia too
I nominate Juan Guaidó to answer this question
Countless examples, surely, but it’s not really notable if some randos fail to gain power
You could kinda say thats what happened in Tsarist Russia but youre still going to say that they really only did that after a war and then another war to finally hold power.
China also falls into this boat, but of the main countries I can think of are the conditions of Korea and Vietnam prior to the invasion of the US. The Fascists there could not get or keep any stable hold of power because the classes they needed to work with simply didnt exist or valued their national liberation above collaboration and obeisance of the US/global capital.
There was that time that neonazis were organizing in middle america until the blues brothers hit them with a car
spain kinda? fascism had to fight to get back in power
The Black Hundreds in Russia? Not up on my history at all, someone with more knowledge would be better here.
