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As Timothy Snyder writes in "On Tyranny," "Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people."

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

Two of his uncles had been active members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists before World War Two.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023

The setting is still Sicily but the story has been fast-forwarded to World War II in the jubilant period when the Allied forces overtook the island and drove the Fascists from power in 1943.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Popular discontent with the neglect of Piombino, which became a symbol of resistance to the Fascists during World War II and was long a stronghold of the left, spurred voters to elect their hard-right mayor.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022

It needs to be said too what salacious nonsense it is to claim that Lord Darlington was anti-Semitic, or that he had close association with organizations like the British Union of Fascists.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro