User blog comment:Arsonist Firefly54/What my definition of Fascism is./@comment-32919735-20180906004605/@comment-34650195-20180906074629

There were only three fascist countries ever - Italy, San Marino and Albania. Germany was National-Socialist, not Fascist. Spain was Falangist, not Fascist. Romania was Legionnarist, not Fascist. And Greece was Metaxist, not Fascist. They were inspired by certain elements of Italian Fascism and later German National-Socialism but none of them was Fascist and they did not and were not supposed to follow defenitions of Fascism. In fact when the Allied referred to non-Italian Axis nations as "Fascists" in their propaganda their commanders were really triggered.

What pisses me off about accusations of Greek authoritarism of being Fascism is because Fascism was inspired by it. The ideals of Fascism were inspired by Classical Republicanism that was modeled in Ancient Greece and lived in Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire (including the "Byzantine" period). The symbol that Metaxists used was the symbol on which the symbol that Fascism uses was originally based. Of course Metaxism took some elements of Fascism that the originally weren't part of Greek ideology (not the worst ones) but mostly it wasn't that. Accusing Metaxism of being evil is accusing of millenia of Greek history.