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From: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: On Democracy:re to Lewis on History
Message-ID: <265@garth.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 18:05:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 18:05:21 1986
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In article <532@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>  1. Election of Adolph Hitler in freer and more democratic elections than
>     the United States had at the time.

Clayton, it seems, has both a distorted view of history and a short memory.
I will partly excerpt from my responses the last time he posted this nonsense.

Hitler had already been appointed chancellor before the 1933 election took
place.  State radio was used for Nazi propaganda in that campaign, and police 
were forbidden to interfere with the Nazi SA's suppression of opposition 
gatherings and newspapers.  This is freer and more democratic than the US
in 1933?  How so?

>  2. Formation of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini in 1922 after
>     getting more seats in the Parliament than any other party.

Out of 535 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Parliament), the Fascists
won 35 seats.  For comparison, the Socialists won 123 and the Populists won
108.  Three coalition governments were formed between the election of May, 1921
and the Fascist uprising in October, 1922 that resulted in Mussolini's being
allowed to form a government, his price for not besieging Rome.

					Baba