Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.
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Para-fascism
//ˌpæɹəˈfæʃɪz(ə)m//
Synonyms for "para-fascism" (2 found)
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6 translations across 6 languages.
French
1 entries- parafascisme noun (social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices)
Galician
1 entries- parafascismo noun (social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices)
Italian
1 entries- parafascismo noun (social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices)
Portuguese
1 entries- parafascismo noun (social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices)
Russian
1 entries- парафаши́зм noun (social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices)
Spanish
1 entries- parafascismo noun (social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices)
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It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.
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