WI: Kim Il-Sung was fascist?

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That would be REALLY bad for South Korea. More importantly, while the USA has supported Fascist regimes during the Cold War, I doubt they would do it for one with a lot of media attention on it. The world's eyes are, somewhat, focused on the region, so supporting a de-jure Fascist regime is probably out of the question.

This scenario would be better for North Korea, because even STALIN would probably provide a better leader than Kim, all things considered.
The Republic of China was very fascistic.
 
True, except once again, world media wasn't exactly focused on it, if you mean Nationalist China.

Communist China... de jure obviously no. De-facto? Debatable. I'd argue sure, IF you consider Stalinism Fascistic, which I myself do.
 
Let's say Kim Il-Sung wasn't a Communist and instead a fascist, learning from Hitler & Mussolini instead of Lenin, but still has anti-Japanese sentiments. Probably an independent road of fascism? And North Korea might still have the OTL look, but instead of Juche Socialist, they've got a Korean-centric version of Fascism

The end result would very likely be the same...
 
That would be REALLY bad for South Korea. More importantly, while the USA has supported Fascist regimes during the Cold War, I doubt they would do it for one with a lot of media attention on it. The world's eyes are, somewhat, focused on the region, so supporting a de-jure Fascist regime is probably out of the question.

This scenario would be better for North Korea, because even STALIN would probably provide a better leader than Kim, all things considered.

Let's not forget what the South Korean government was capable of at this time, nor the countless other people who either imitated or were outright sympathetic to the Nazis (like Stroessner in Paraguay, who gave refuge to the Nazis like Peronist Argentina), it was a different time, playing the anti-communist card generally got people to overlook a whole lot of different things that certain governments the US allied with were up to.
 

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True, except once again, world media wasn't exactly focused on it, if you mean Nationalist China.

Communist China... de jure obviously no. De-facto? Debatable. I'd argue sure, IF you consider Stalinism Fascistic, which I myself do.
If I was referring to the Communists I would have put a 'People's' in front of the Republic of China. :eek:

And there was a very significant focus on Nationalist China. Especially after they were forced south and later to Taiwan.
 
Juche was practically a fascist ideology disguised as a communist ideology, right?

"Juche" is simply the idea that mankind is the master of all wordly things, which is pretty much the staple in communist, socialist and fascist ideology. It's pretty much a sham doctrine that the DPRK government fabricated to add credence to their claim that Kim Il-sung was a great philosopher.

The DPRK claims that Kim Il-sung was the first to coin this idea, although many before him have come up with similar ideas.
 
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