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 The Forgotten Fight Against Fascism
 | | In 1935, coalitions formed the Popular Front to oppose the spread of fascism. Stills from the film The Good Fight. |
In late 1944 as a high school senior I rushed off to a U.S. Navy recruiting station ready to take on world fascism. Cooler heads insisted I wait until my graduation in June. After boot camp I served in "The Pacific Theater"----Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hawaii, Saipan, Japan, and the China Sea.
Anyone who has gone through school in the United States knows that history textbooks devote a lot of attention to the so-called "Good War": World War II.
But the texts either ignore or gloss over the fact that for almost a decade, during the earliest fascist invasions of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Western democracies encouraged rather than fought Hitler and Mussolini, and sometimes gave them material aid. Continue reading. _____________________________________________________________
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