Madeleine Albright - Fascism - A Warning

“The branch”: John Kander and Fred Ebb, “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” from Cabaret , directed by Bob Fosse (New York: Allied Artists Pictures, 1972).

CHAPTER SIX: THE FALL

“The whiz of a flying bomb”: Prokop Drtina, Československo můj osud (Prague: Melantrich, 1991), 573. Author’s translation.

“many tens of millions of people”: Hermann Göring, war directive, May 23, 1941, quoted in Bullock, Hitler , 642.

“a much better” new dad: David F. Crew, ed., Nazism and German Society, 1933–1945 (London: Routledge, 1994), 180.

“emancipation from emancipation”: German slogan, quoted ibid., 3.

“You believe you have the devotion of the people”: Dino Grandi, quoted in Collier, Duce! , 218–19.

“you are the most hated man in Italy”: King Victor Emmanuel, quoted ibid., 229.

“lose any sense of balance”: Benito Mussolini, quoted ibid., 317.

to “men who despise you, enslave you…”: The Great Dictator , directed by Charles Chaplin (Hollywood, CA: Charles Chaplin Film Corporation, 1940).

CHAPTER SEVEN: DICTATORSHIP OF DEMOCRACY

“the State is all-embracing”: Benito Mussolini, “Doctrine of Fascism.”

“engineers of human souls”: Joseph Stalin, quoted in Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds., Beyond Totalitarianism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 319.

“I do not agree with the policy of your government”: Yugoslav army office, quoted in Josef Korbel, Tito’s Communism (Denver, CO: University of Denver Press, 1951), 124–25.

“ Ili Schweigen ili Gefängnis ”: Russian citizen quoted in I. F. Stone, The Haunted Fifties: 1953–1963 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963), 80.

“I have in my hand a list”: Joseph McCarthy, quoted in Jack Anderson and Ronald W. May, McCarthy: The Man, the Senator, the “Ism” (Boston, Beacon Press, 1952), 194.

“a conspiracy so immense”: Ibid., 237.

CHAPTER EIGHT: “THERE ARE A LOT OF BODIES UP THERE”

“Fascism did not die with Mussolini”: Harry S. Truman, remarks to founding session of the United Nations, San Francisco, California, June 26, 1945.

“We must secure unity in Serbia”: Slobodan Milošević, quoted in Steve Engleberg, “Carving Out a Greater Serbia,” New York Times , September 1, 1991.

CHAPTER NINE: A DIFFICULT ART

“The Constitution only maps”: Adolf Hitler, quoted in Bracher, The German Dictatorship , 193.

“it is a difficult art”: Cicero, quoted in Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way (New York: W.W. Norton, 1932), 58.

“have had enough of experts”: Michael Gove, interview by Faisal Islam, Sky News , June 3, 2016.

“Democracy is not only a form of state”: Tomáš Masaryk, quoted in Karel Čapek, Talks with T. G. Masaryk , ed. and trans. Michael Henry Heim (North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 1995).

CHAPTER TEN: PRESIDENT FOR LIFE

“irresponsible populism”: Brian Palmer, “Why Did Hugo Chávez Hate the United States So Much?” Slate , March 6, 2013.

“I was overwhelmed by the feeling”: Gabriel García Márquez, quoted in Rory Carroll, Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), 4–5.

“How can I forget the feelings”: Hugo Chávez, quoted ibid., 188.

“Fourteen years ago, my barrio neighbors”: Lisa Sullivan, “Yo Soy Chavez, Tu Eres Chavez, Todos Somos Chavez,” Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, https://www.crln.org/reflection-on-the-death-of-hugo-chavez.

“rolling on in”: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, “And the Money Kept Rolling In,” from the musical Evita (1976).

“coup-mongering, power-grabbing”: Nicolás Maduro, quoted in Mariana Zuñiga and Nick Miroff, “Venezuela’s Opposition Holds Its Biggest Protests in Years. Will They Change Anything?,” Washington Post , April 12, 2017.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: ERDOĞAN THE MAGNIFICENT

“The mosques are our barracks”: Ziya Gökalp, “The Soldier’s Prayer” (1912).

“For the People, In Spite of the People”: political slogan, quoted in Steven Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds , rev. ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 47.

“Other parties have members”: Necmettin Erbakan, quoted in Soner Cagaptay, The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey (London: I.B. Taurus, 2017), 69.

“shining star in the darkness”: Adolf Hitler, quoted in William O’Connor, “The 20th-Century Dictator Most Idolized by Hitler,” Daily Beast , November 24, 2014.

“whatever issues are going on in Turkey”: Madeleine Albright, press conference with Valdis Birkavs, foreign minister of Latvia, Washington, D.C., June 13, 1997.

“pious generation”: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, quoted in “The Decline of Turkish Schools,” The Economist , September 30, 2017.

“holy path”: Erdoğan, quoted in “Erdoğan Strengthens Grip with AKP Return,” Financial Times , May 21, 2017.

“Turkish-style”… “half-people”: Freedom House, “Freedom in the World 2017” report, March 2017, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2017/turkey.

“the second war of independence”: Erdoğan, quoted in “Brave ‘New Turkey’: The Legacy of an Attempted Coup,” The Economist , April 12, 2017.

“Nazism… risen from the dead”: Erdoğan, quoted in Patrick Kingsley and Alissa J. Rubin, “Turkey’s Relations with Europe Sink amid Quarrel with Netherlands,” New York Times , March 12, 2017.

“If the West calls someone a dictator”: Erdoğan, quoted in Steven A. Cook, “Five Myths About Turkey,” Washington Post , March 17, 2017.

“I don’t look at what Hans and George say”: Erdoğan, quoted in Patrick Kingsley, “Erdogan and Supporters Stage Rally on Anniversary of Failed Coup,” New York Times , July 16, 2017.

“surpassed Hitler in barbarism”: Jack Simpson, “Turkish Prime Minister Says Israel Is ‘More Barbaric Than Hitler,’” Independent (UK), July 20, 2014.

CHAPTER TWELVE: MAN FROM THE KGB

“a pure and utterly successful product”: Vladimir Putin, with Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova, and Andrei Kolesnikov, First Person , trans. Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (New York: PublicAffairs, 2000), 41–42.

“Do not try to squeeze Russia”: Putin, quoted in Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir (New York: Talk/Miramax, 2003), 560.

“almost uncontained hyper use of force”: Putin, address to 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy, Munich, February 10, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021200555.html.

“We have no democracy”: Nikita Orlov, quoted in Neil MacFarquhar and Ivan Nechepurenko, “Across Russia, Protesters Heed Navalny’s Anti-Kremlin Rallying Cry,” New York Times , June 12, 2017.

“start picking berries and eating honey”: Putin, annual press conference, Moscow, December 18, 2014.

“If Ukraine does secede”: Eduard Shevardnadze, quoted in James A. Baker III, The Politics of Diplomacy (New York: Putnam, 1995), 560.

“A lie ain’t a side of the story”: The Wire , season 5, episode 8, “Clarifications,” directed by Anthony Hemingway, written by Dennis Lehane and David Simon, aired February 24, 2008, on HBO.

“Sure, I like Chinese food”: Putin, quoted in Albright, Madam Secretary , 439–40.

“The idea of Fascism conquers the world”: Benito Mussolini, quoted in Collier, Duce! , 114.