This machine kills fascists
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"This machine kills fascists" is a message that American musician Woody Guthrie placed on his guitars in the mid-1940s, starting in 1943.
Woody Guthrie in March 1943 with his guitar labeled "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS"
Colin Huggins playing piano with listeners
File Hank Green performing at Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C
Anti-fascism
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Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups, and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and durin
This machine kills fascists
…Anne E. Neimark, "In a fit of patriotism and faith in the impact of the song, he painted on his guitar THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS." In Guthrie's opposition to fascism, he conceptualized the ideology "as a form of economic exploitation similar to slavery," straightforwardly denouncing the fascists—particularly their…
Italian partisans in Milan during the final insurrection leading to the liberation of Italy in April 1945
Hitler with Mussolini at the site of the 20 July Plot, an attempted bombing assassination of Hitler by dissident German military officers that took place in 1944.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill