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| Austrian far-right triumphs in presidential vote with 36% | |
| 2016-04-26 | |
[AlAhram]
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 When this guy was elected to the Austrian Parliament, he wore a cornflower. Sounds innocent, right? Well, in the early 1930s, when the Nazi party was illegal in Austria, clandestine members of the Nazi party wore a cornflower in lieu of the illegal swastika. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-04-26 20:30 |
| #4 Far right in the European sense of not being left of center. Like National Socialism, for example. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-04-26 14:03 |
| #3 They used to be Haider's party, before he pulled a Sharon and decamped along with his cronies in government to found a new party. When Haider was in charge, they played footsie with the League of the North and were characterized as neo-fascist by the international press, but even when they had Haider and his "hey, at least the Nazis had full employment" bullshit, it was still a libertarian-ish sort of "European liberal" party. I think "Far right" in this context doesn't mean much more than Euroskeptic and anti-open-borders. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2016-04-26 14:01 |
| #2 Three kinds of people - 1. The vast majority of normal, liberal, progressive, regular folks 2. Far right wackos 3. Hitler So I guess that puts Stalin in group #1. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-04-26 13:45 |
| #1 Far right? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-04-26 02:49 |