who the fuck wrote this page? this guy was a fascist, you literally say so a sentence later. how can he have been a "moderate authoritarian"? the guy sent homeless and other asocials to fucking work camps. he also outlawed all opposition, arrested hundreds if not thousands of people and forced them into decades of forced labour. this guy is the estonian dictator of whom there is a big mussolini style bust in the middle of the capital. note his last prime minister, uluots, was a literal nazi, a guy who congratulated the nazis for "liberating estonia" and called for every able bodied man to be conscripted in the nazi army.
the funny thing is the only criticism of him in modern day estonia is that he was too lenient on the soviets. that he didnt call for mobilisation against the coup that took place, as if the estonian army stood a chance. the only people who like him are fucking liberals, they really do adore him. the only reason he isnt viewed that positively in estonia is, really, that he cracked down on the sieg-heiling "vaps" association. most of estonian history and historiography is still filled with emigre slop and the emigres for some reason seem to love them, probably because they themselves were nazis or collaborators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_chambers_(Estonia)
You can tell that this guy was anti-USSR because he is described as a "moderate authoritarian", which is a totally real political descriptor, and not just a way to soften the image of a hitherto little known eastern european fascist from the years up to WWII.
Much like they'll try to rehabilitate pro-west terrorist groups by calling them "moderate rebels" they also will rehabilitate fascists in the same way.
moderate authoritarian is the most brain dead libbed up vibes based political disposition Jesus Christ
they like to portray him as SOLELY fighting against the nazi-vaps, but if you really look into it the brunt force of his authoritarianism was felt on the left, not the right. you can see this through the partial "amnestia" in 1938, where a majority of the political prisoners released were communists, not vaps. he would have no logical reason to release more communists than vaps, this is more likely to be reflective of the general prison population than any political slant of the amnesty. i also want to note the anti-communist repression was ongoing for the entire existence of the republic of estonia, the first one. thousands were killed in the white terror, you can read up on events like the muhu uprising and the events that followed. also the 1924 coup or revolt, where hundreds of people tried to overthrow the government of estonia, this resulted in even more repression.
"Moderate authoritarian figure solved the problem of unstable democracy" is textbook fascist propaganda. It's what francoists say in Spain about the coup during the 2nd republic.
There is some truth to it however, in that 'moderate centrism' is ultimately fascistic.
Wikipedia is shit with a known Nazi problem. There's an article out there somewhere about one woman's fight against the Nazi editors of Wikipedia and how deep the rot is.
But you can take a page like Wikipedia's Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, many of of all the citations in the ideological justification section are from one guys Gregor, who was a eugenicust and fascist
In 1959, Gregor joined with Robert E. Kuttner to found the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE), where Gregor acted as secretary. According to Gregor, the organization was founded to restore "an intellectual climate in the U.S., and throughout the Western World, which would permit a free and open discussion of racial ... problems." The organization was funded by segregationist Wickliffe Draper to oppose the civil rights movement.
Gregor was part of a movement of scholars in the 1960s who rejected the traditional interpretation of fascism as an ideologically empty, reactionary, antimodern dead end. He claimed Italian fascism owed a major debt to European ideological currents in sociology and political theory. Gregor described fascism as a coherent and serious theory of state and society, and argued that it played a revolutionary and modernizing role in European history. His theory of generic fascism portrayed it as a form of "developmental dictatorship."
According to Gregor, many revolutionary movements have assumed features of paradigmatic Fascism, but none are its duplicate. He said that post-Maoist China displays many of its traits. He denied that paradigmatic fascism can be responsibly identified as a form of right-wing extremism.
The entire section on ideological justification of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics cites one guy who happens to be a fascist.
Cool wikipedia.
