Perception of Fascism if it never car to power?

Assume that, due to any POD (lets say Victor Emmanuelle growing some balls and stopping Mussolini) Fascism is never adopted by any nation. In the modern era, how is Fascism perceived? We'll also assume that Communism was the boogy man of WWII and was defeated in said war. So yeah, how common is Fascism in this world? Is it even called that?
 
Well it probably wouldn't be called 'fascism' for a start, that was name derived from the Italian symbol of a fasces.
 
Assume that, due to any POD (lets say Victor Emmanuelle growing some balls and stopping Mussolini) Fascism is never adopted by any nation. In the modern era, how is Fascism perceived? We'll also assume that Communism was the boogy man of WWII and was defeated in said war. So yeah, how common is Fascism in this world? Is it even called that?
Would there be a WW2 without a fascism or some other far right political movement? I don't think so.
 
Would there be a WW2 without a fascism or some other far right political movement? I don't think so.

Well, Stalin was certainly expansionistic. The butterflies would be too numerous to say the course of the war, but there would definitely be one.
 
Hitler destroyed/occupied a collection of able European states that would have kept the Russians at bay and from expanding into Europe. In the wake of that destruction, Hitler was the reason the Soviets managed to expand into Eastern Europe in the first place.
 
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