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“The roots of the rise of Fascism lay in Peace Treaties.”

  • UPSC 2003
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Fascism rose from the wreckage of a post-war settlement widely felt to have humiliated the very nations that produced fascist movements, giving the thesis genuine force — though it explains only one strand of a wider crisis.

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