Another day: When Mussolini Hailed Stalin as a Fascist

Submitted by dalcassian on 13 November, 2014 - 2:04

Benito Mussolini addressed to Joseph Stalin last week the felicitations of one butcher to another. He wrote in his own paper, Popolo d'ltalia, that Stalin "had become a Fascist" and, in effect, that Stalin was doing more than any other to destroy the faith of the workers of the world in the Communist Movement.

For cutting down thousands of revolutionists as "Fascist spies," Stalin has won the gratitude of the Fascist dictator, Mussolini. Let those who still think they can believe in the monstrous frame-up-terror system of Stalin, who think they can ignore the heavy blows the Stalin terror is dealing the whole revolutionary movement, ponder the brutal irony in the words of Mussolini:

"Stalin does not resort to castor oil to punish Communist leaders who are so stupid or criminal as still to believe in Communism, Stalin is unable to understand the subtle irony involved in the laxative system of castor oil. He makes a clean sweep by means of systems which were born in the steppes of Genghis Khan ... Stalin renders a commendable service to Fascism.”

Socialist Appeal, March 12 1938

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