Submitted by Jack Rueter, May 10, 2007 04:46

Fascism is used in reference to (a) the Italian variety, (b) the German Nazism (National Socialism), (c) the Stalin variety (Russian National Socialism), and, of course, Eastern Fascism with reference to Asian Totalitarian governments.
When speaking of Europe, the westerner often uses the term "Fascism" with reference to the two totalitarian systems (Italy and Germany) that were defeated in WW II. In European countries caught between the Germany-Italian geographical alignment and the pre-war Soviet Union (home of the third totalitarian government in Europe), "Eastern Fascism" might seem synonymous with Russian National Socialism.
The Russian usage with reference to German Nazism is naturaly "Fascism"; otherwise a parallel might be drawn too readily between the two varieties of National Socialism.
The war was over, two totalitarian governments were removed from Europe. Two of the victor states, Great Britain and France began to disolve their empires. Colonies began to gain independence. But the third Historical Empire in Europe did no such thing; the colonies were land-bound, and any disolution of the contiguous state would appear as a weakness of the state. Therefore when the USSR was disolved in the early 1990s, the eastern half of the Yalta division of Europe was finally allowed to pick up where it left off at the end of the 1930's.
Rewriting History is not always look upon with pleasure by the previous writers. Belgian and US liberation of portions of Bohemia is often covered up by USSR-minded historians who would prefer to maintain that when the Red Army entered Prague, they had, indeed, liberated all of Czechoslovakia. Modern Czech sources on their English-language pages -- not their Russian ones -- will maintain that the Czech uprising in Prague defeated the Germans on May 8th, and the Red Army entered the following day.

The Soviet army in Europe outnumbered that of the US 3 to 1. The USSR saw itself as the protectorate of Europe, and so does the Russian Federation, which declared itself a sovereign state in 1991 and celebrates Independence Day on the 12 of June. Moscow is correct in calling for the honorable and dignified comemoration of human life lost in the war against the Third Reich, but by the same token, it would seem there is no recollection of the losses suffered by any other nations.

The question then is one of reinstating the independent statehood with a unique history for each of the states who, of their own will, have set themselves free of Soviet style liberation. We have to help them to look for their own roots before German and "Eastern" Fascism and to find solutions that allow them distance from all forms of oppression brought upon them by the Molov-von Rippentrop Pact and the accordance found in Yalta by the Big Three.

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