Russian fans display "Heil Hitler" banner at World Cup....

[blitzen]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/ct-spt-world-cup-russia-neo-nazi-fine-20180630-story.html

Meanwhile, Bannon has been consulting for Italy's new fascist government. Seems like Trump and Putin are in league and intentionally stirring up fascism around the globe. For their own profit, of course.

[Itchinjim]

1. I can't shake the feeling that this World Cup

Will be the historical equivalent of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I heard they have been cozying up with other European countries too.

[Tipperary]

5. Who has?

And which countries. Where did you “hear” this?”

[BigmanPigman]

7. I heard it on CNN and here is a similar article.

Bannon sees much of Europe as fertile territory for his populist revolution. In March he appeared at the conference of the far-right Front National in France, saying: "Let them call you racist. Wear it as a badge of honor."
He is also close to Nigel Farage, the public face of the Brexit movement and former leader of the UK Independence Party.
Last month, Bannon said: "The working-class, blue-collar workers in the US and the middle class were completely abused by the globalist elite that ran the country for the last 20 or 30 years and Trump's victory was a complete rejection of that."
He made those remarks in Hungary, whose leader, Viktor Orban, he sees as another flag-bearer in this revolution. Orban is "Trump before Trump," Bannon declared. This week Orban said that Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia had agreed to establishing "hot spot" centers to process migrants outside EU borders.
Bannon sees much of Europe as fertile territory for his populist revolution. In March he appeared at the conference of the far-right Front National in France, saying: "Let them call you racist. Wear it as a badge of honor."
He is also close to Nigel Farage, the public face of the Brexit movement and former leader of the UK Independence Party.
Another popular target for Bannon, Salvini, Farage and the rest of the insurgency is the mainstream media. In an interview this year, Bannon called the Financial Times, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist "the propaganda department of the globalists."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/europe/salvini-bannon-lister-intl/index.html

[malthaussen]

3. Russian Nazis are, if anything, more absurd than American ones.

Talk about betraying your ancestors.

-- Mal

[roamer65]

4. Thank you.

How many Russians did Hitler kill? 50 million?

[Igel]

8. And what's amazing is

that they still insist on decrying others who are far from being Nazis as "fashisty". Or "fascists."

When I was learning Spanish words like "embarazada" and English "embarrassed, or French "exite" and English "excited," were called false friends.

At times "fashist" can mean "fascist." Mostly historical references, these days. In most uses, for a while, it meant "anti-socialist" or "anti-Soviet", and these days it just means something vaguely like "they don't like Russia or being controlled by Russia." There were very left-leaning gay Ukrainians condemned as "fashist" because they simply thought the EU's human rights were superior to either Ukraine's laws or Russia's. I think of it as a general term of political and social abuse.

Which is much like how some socialists I knew in the '80s used it. "I work for a church." "Fascist!" They didn't need to know anything else--what kind of church, for example, or what were its views on pretty much anything. And no middle ground. Again, a general term of abuse.

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[Cal Carpenter]

6. For the record, Russia & Croatia were both busted for fans' Neo Nazi flags at the 2014 Cup too

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. There was plenty of Nazi imagery and adulation when I was there in the 90s.

Fascists are everywhere.