Fascism is specific, BUT.... As many have pointed out, the Nazis learned a lot from the US and others and just turned up the volume. I'd argue that Belgium in the Congo and the Dutch in Indonesia definitely had some "proto-fascism" going on. And people at the time saw it and recognized it. 1/

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Too often we treat Asia and Africa like cultural vacuums, but they had trade and communication very early on. They recognized when one group was not as favorable as somebody else. I encounter a lot of that communication with my primary focus on Red Sea and Indian Ocean Piracy. So to answer 2/

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in name, absolutely, in action, no. (Except in Ethiopia) And in some cases folks saw the Fascists as the enemy of their enemy. It's part of the disconnect into why Hitler and Nazi uniforms don't carry the same weight in Asia as they do in Europe or the US. /End

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Point of no return by @silentmiddlechild

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