duminică, 12 ianuarie 2014

What have in common Stalin and Recep Erdogan? Beside moustache and georgian origin

Stalin allied with Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukharin against Leon Trotsky the commissioner for the Army.
Erdogan,Gullen and secular civil society movement allied to oust the military out of politics.
Stalin afterwards get rid of his allies, a ruled Soviet Union for himself.
Erdogan whet the riot police on the civil society at Ghezi Park protests then tried to cut Gullen movement financial support, by forbidding the cram schools.
This is not just a political move, this a proof of totalitarianism. What right does have a politician to forbid some schools that use the state curricula?
Another proof of his totalitarian thinking is the criticism of 'Soleiman Magnificent' series, just like a communist politician he is proposing punishing of  the deviant artists.
I don't know how to frame his idea of neo-ottomanism: it is similar with Stalin's idea to remake the Tsar empire or  is more similar with Mussolini idea of remaking the Roman empire?

If he want to remake the Ottoman empire, then he doesn't have to do much: he must return to the state of corruption,graft and religious intolerance before Kemal Ataturk.


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