A lot. It led right to it. And at the time, people were convinced (with some good reasons) to believe that communist were the main threat to Europe.
Fascism was seen as a necessary evil. But evil remains evil. It was in fact the most aggressive of the two.
So fascism seeded the war, prepared the related people to support the war, and then dictated the conduct of the war by the Nazi Germans and Mussolini’s Italia in Europe. Japan has somehow its own variant with its cultural specificities, the Statism / Showa nationalism, which led to the same kind of atrocities that were then perpetuated in Europe.
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