I wonder, though, if the automatic equating of “fascists” with “Nazis” helps or hurts the fight? One the one hand, it’s a scary thing. On the other hand, many/most of them aren’t actualNazis, and the use of the word “Nazi” might cause some people to think “we defeated the Nazis, that group aren’t Nazis, this seems overblown.”
I dunno. Just some early morning musings.
Punch them all and sort out the taxonomy later.
Anticommunist activist Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, who led his British affiliate out of WACL, declared in 1974 that despite a publicized housecleaning, “The World Anti-Communist League is largely a collection of Nazis, Fascists, anti-Semites, sellers of forgeries, vicious racialists, and corrupt self-seekers. It has evolved into an anti-Semitic international.”
Oh and in the Wikipedia article they meantions these members of the league:
Oberländer had participated in Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Bavaria, in 1923 during the Weimar Republic era, already at the age of 18.
Otto’s life would make a awesome 80’s action movie.
As I have pointed out before, anti-fascists are not entirely made up of communists, but anti-communists do seem to end up being entirely made up of fascists.
Oberländer? Sounds like a character from The Boys.
He’s a major character in the ensemble cast of Harry Turtledove’s WorldWar books, so you might get to see his alien-punching analogue if someone decides to adapt those.
Vlad needs a spanking.
Although with O’Hare Airport’s website its such a clunky mess that I’d wager nobody noticed.
It took out O’Hare AND Midway, so apparently backup options don’t always work as intended.
How does Estonia do it?
Estonian kids are outshining Finnish pupils—at least according to the results of the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test, while Finland’s declining trend continues.
Estonia’s education system is based on Finland’s, but the small Baltic country’s methods are more “old-fashioned,” Iltalehti reports, adding that 90 percent of teachers are women and 48 years old on average.
“Teachers in Estonian schools are more demanding than Finnish teachers,” one teacher who has worked in both countries told IL, adding that Estonian teachers give their pupils more homework.
Frequent testing is also a feature of the Estonian system, according to the paper, which said that differences are apparent early on, as Estonian kindergarten teachers already focus on academic issues.
IL quotes Kaarel Rundu, who manages Tallinn’s schools, as saying Estonia’s daycares aren’t storage facilities.
“In Estonia, daycares follow a curriculum preparing kids for formal schooling,” he said.
Hit them where it hurts.
