Fascism is capitalism in decay. As with anticommunism in general, the ruling class has oversimplified this phenomenon to the point of absurdity and teaches but a small fraction of its history. This is the spot for getting a serious understanding of it (from a more proletarian perspective) and collecting the facts that contemporary anticommunists are unlikely to discuss.
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For our purposes, we consider early Shōwa Japan to be capitalism in decay.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s.
those were the people US were supporting as "democracy defenders" against the "communist threat" of the north
It's fascinating watching the west talking about Korea during the cold war. It was rarely, if ever mentioned, and was treated as pretty bad, at best an "unfortunate necessity" but usually just ignored as much as possible. It wasn't until the 90s when South Korea's image was rehabilitated and the DPRK was demonised.