#mackenzieking — Public Fediverse posts

Le grand désordre
🔸 Les passionnés ultranationalistes sont toujours plus amoureux d’une idéologie que de leur pays.
➡️ «Les admirateurs de Mussolini sont nombreux. […] Rien d’étonnant à ce que ces adhésions trouvent des échos dans la population montréalaise.»
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chroniques/932400/grand-desordre
#ultranationalistes #idéologie #fascisme #Mussolini #Balbo #Montréal #Québec #Canada #USA #Taschereau #HenriBourassa #MackenzieKing @jfn
Image : Balbo's Seaplanes, Longueuil, 1933 (BAnQ)
https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/1990747

*#MackenzieKing was #Canada’s longest running #PrimeMinister & he was a #racist #fascist jerk.*

Both works, Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators, by Roy MacLaren, and Four Days in Hitler’s Germany: Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War, by Robert Teigrob, rely heavily on the King diary. Indeed, without access to the prime minister’s private thoughts, neither book would be as insightful, as cringe-inducing, or, likely, even possible.

#Fascism #CanadianHistory #Coloniser

*This #racist #antisemite led #Canada for 21 yrs.*

#MackenzieKing’s “cheerleading” for #Hitler’s regime got a tremendous boost during his tour of landmarks of the #Nazi “miracle,” as Teigrob recounts in riveting detail. The photographs tell a very chilling story as well, especially one that shows King sitting proudly in Hitler’s seat at the All-German Sports Competitions while surrounded by Nazi bigwigs in full swastika-studded regalia.

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/books/four-days-in-hitler-s-germany

#CanadianHistory #Colonialism