Word: fuhrer
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Almost invariably, the answer is yes. When it comes to Hitler, most people don't worry about the ethics of political assassinations. They think pragmatically: eliminating the Fuhrer would have saved millions of lives. It would obviously have been the right things...
...Today, in Russia, another ultranationalist, anti-Semitic megalomaniac is fast growing in popularity even as he models himself on the Fuhrer's image...
Similarly, Russia in 1994 is demoralized and economically devastated in the aftermath of the Cold War. The nationalist, anti-Semitic themes Zhirinovsky emphasizes are little different from those played up by the Fuhrer. As Hitler promised to recreate a "greater Germany" be annexing parts of France and Czechoslovakia, so does Zhirinovsky pledge to retake to Baltics and Alaska for Russia. As Hitler spoke of the "Jewish world danger," so does Zhirinovsky attack alleged international "pro-Zionist" conspiracies...
...term economic decline, rather than just as a cyclical downturn. The House-bank scandal underscores the impression that Congress is mired in corruption. "There's something out there of major significance," says University of Texas political scientist Walter Dean Burnham. "Thank God we're not a culture that produces Fuhrer figures very easily. Because the underlying conditions that do that are in the process of being formed...
...because it gave him a sense of purpose. In 1919 that suddenly changed when he discovered, as he said, "I could make a good speech." He turned out to be a bold, sharp political tactician as well, but it was his hypnosis of the masses that made him the Fuhrer, the unchallenged leader...