There's Another Name For Authoritarianism: It's Time We Started Using It

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- Attributed to the same guy, that Putin just called a "Chump" ...
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- Daily Kos, Feb. 24, 2022.

au·thor·i·tar·i·an·ism
/ôˌTHäriˈterēənizəm/
noun: authoritarianism

the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
lack of concern for the wishes or opinions of others.
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I normally avoid Godwin’s territory like the plague …

But this story seemed very much on point. Evil has a history. It’s best we don’t let the evil tyrants of today — rewrite it, to suit their own modern devices.

Ukraine's president throws the Nazi label back at Vladimir Putin after Russia's 'evil' invasion

by Peter Weber, TheWeek.com — 2-24-2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his invasion of Ukraine early Thursday would achieve the "demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish and not a Nazi, threw the Nazi label back at Putin a few hours later, accusing Russia of acting like Nazi Germany, not literally being full of Nazis.

Link to tweet

Putin and his aides keep using the Nazi slur against Ukraine's government because it hits Russians "in the gut," former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul explained on MSNBC early Thursday. "The most important event for Russian and Soviet citizens is something called the Great Patriotic War — we call it World War II. That was the defeat of Nazis, where they lost millions of people. Every single Russian today has a relative that died in that war"

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Here’s another monumental chapter in History, that Putin is actively distorting, in hopes of restoring that supposed ‘Soviet empire’ of the past …

Stalin was NO hero. About a million miles from it.

How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine
Cruel efforts under Stalin to impose collectivism and tamp down Ukrainian nationalism left an estimated 3.9 million dead.
www.history.com/…

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- You don’t use this word in your text, but I’ve said Putin is as pure a “fascist” as we’ll ever see in the 21st Century and I’ve said it for years and years. Not sure why the consolidation of industry, hyper conservative faith, nationalist bigotry, and authoritarian government under his own personal thumb didn’t alert people earlier to the right terminology, but oh well. Maybe the mobile crematoriums will finally do the trick?
- Fascist fits. I was aiming for the “plain English’ word “Evil” — but also wanted to leave it open to the reader’s own lexicon, too.
- “Tyranny”. It had a meaning before the right wing stole it.
- “Hero & Patriot” were once noble terms that the Right now uses to denote cowards, terrorists and traitors.
- The WaPo & New York Times couldn’t find the word “lie” for four years...