Orthodox Christian fascism?

I'm not sure if they'd have much contact with one another, with the Estado Novo being the only clerico-fascist regime IOTL.

At a guess, opposition.

Vichy France I'd argue was also pretty Clerico-Facist, though that could only be because I'm looking at it next to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, at least in local practice and general natural rhetoric. It certainly wasn't a Blood and Soil cult.
 
Maybe Russia in a Bolsheviks lose TL might become fascist, probably even clericofascist.

Though this may be borderline ASB, I do think seeing the theology embraced by Rasputin somehow catching the mainstream and tempered with Soavofascist thought would produce an... interestingly and uniquely Russian ideology of clericofascism (Or, perhaps, Ceaseropapist Fascism)
 
He is the most well known, there are a small number of cult style orthodox starets, who straddle the line between government, faith, and debauchery.
Perhaps a group could form a Von Sternberg type regime in reverse.
 
How would Oriental Orthodox Christian countries like Egypt or Ethiopia be affected by fascism?

Egypt's Christian population is very much a minority. It's more likely to turn either Arab-Nationalist-Secularist Fascist or Islamic Fascist.

Ethiopia - well, that depends. Do you mean it is independent, and has a native fascist movement? Or do you mean how Fascist Italy would treat it? Because we got the latter IOTL.
 
Probably the most likely outcome of a White victory in the Russian Civil War.
Indeed.

I'll note as I have for over a decade, that I had no idea when I wrote that that Bob Novak is the name of a conservative pundit. There's also a procedural error that I got from movies and TV, that nonetheless might have been more accurate in the early 70s.
 
I'm not sure if they'd have much contact with one another, with the Estado Novo being the only clerico-fascist regime IOTL.

At a guess, opposition.
Spain, Slovakia, Romania (at least briefly), Austria, Croatia... How did you forget about all of them only to name a state which had rather debatable Fascist credentials?
 
What is with people's refusal to admit that a far-right single-party racist corporatist state might be fascist?
Nice deflection. Really love it when people ignore the content of a reply to focus on a single portion of a sentence.

Anyways I really don't care why you consider the Estado Novo to be a fascist state. I just wanted to point out how bizarre it was for you to call it the only clerical fascist state. As for why some people don't consider it be be fascist, I dunno may be the lack of expansionism, may be the lack of militarism (both of which are core tenants of Fascism), may be that in promoting the “Luso-Tropicalism” narrative it actually glorified race mixing (which is the exact opposite of the general fascist view on race), may be just because Salazar said he wasn't. I really don't care why some people think the Estado Novo wasn't fascist, I just know that there actually is a debate on that matter where as there is no debate on the ones I mentioned.
 
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Really love it when people ignore the content of a reply to focus on a single portion of a sentence.

That’s exactly what you did, isn’t it? You ignored my wider point about how they would be opposed to one another, and my somewhat narrower point about the distance between Orthodox and Catholic Fascist states, in favour about my (admittedly wrong) throwaway line about Portugal being the only clerico-fascist state.

No need to be so rude about this matter.
 
That’s exactly what you did, isn’t it? You ignored my wider point about how they would be opposed to one another, and my somewhat narrower point about the distance between Orthodox and Catholic Fascist states, in favour about my (admittedly wrong) throwaway line about Portugal being the only clerico-fascist state.
The fact that there were actually many clerical fascist states, including a few in Eastern Europe, completely debunks your entire point about them being too distant from each other. Furthermore because of that we can actually look at examples from OTL, and I don't recall Romania (an Orthodox clerical fascist state) having much bad blood with Croatia or Slovakia (both Catholic clerical fascist states).
 
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