Talk:Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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This article reads like agitprop for the founder of a fascist organization that ultimately destroyed the independence of Romania. One cannot use patriorism or religious fervor of a cause to excuse that cause if immoral or amoral, whether the cause is the (Russian) Black Hundreds, the American Ku Klux Klan, the Croatian Ustase, or al-Qaeda.
The Iron Guard is generally recognized as a violent, terrorist, racist, anti-democratic movement that ultimately pushed Romania into an anarchy that caused the nazis, of all people, to mediate in favor of leaders supposedly more 'moderate'. I sympathize with the Romanian people (including its Jews) who endured a tragedy that began with the rise of the Iron Legion and culminated in the communist takeover of the late-1940s, whose horrors ended only with the fall of the communist dictatorship that lasted until 1989. I'm not picking one nation over others; I find fascist tyranny and violence objetionable wherever and whenever it arises.
One can be religiously devout without being a bigot. One can be a patriot without polarizing a society into armed camps. One can be an anti-communist without adopting the demagoguery and dictatorial tendencies of communists.
This article is thus in dispute for fairness.
- Heh, nice speech - too bad you sound like agitprop too. Then again, the Talk pages aren't supposed to be NPOV, so there's nothing wrong with it. And for the record, you are absolutely correct regarding the Iron Guard - although I wish you would have presented your arguments in a less emotional manner.
- I am Romanian myself, and I will begin editing this blatantly pro-fascist article right away.
- - Mihnea Tudoreanu
Comment from original disputer:
Nice re-write. Not a Romanian, and having an extreme antipathy to all forms of totalitarianism, I could never have done what you did.