By spreading talk of fascists, of gangs of unknown armed men, of coups and self-determination and persecution – while sending armed men into Ukraine, egging on real and staged protests, bribing politicians and blocking the media – the Kremlin is enacting and realizing its propaganda on the ground.
Although President Putin denies sending troops, Moscow talks of a "fascist coup" in Kiev and insists that ethnic Russians in the country's east are under threat.
And it often turns a blind eye to the fascist talk of ultra-nationalists.At a time of financial crisis, this posturing is meant not only to project Russian invincibility but also to compensate for falling incomes and rising unemployment.
She took up scuba diving in her seventies, and continued straight through her nineties, posing in her bathing gear and publishing books of underwater photographs, practically daring anyone to talk about Fascist images of fish.
At the top level of EU institutions in Brussels, there is talk of "populists, xenophobes, extremists, fascists" gaining around 30% of seats in the next parliament and using that platform to try to paralyse EU policy-making.
There's even talk of an SNP "coup" and "fascist intimidation".
"Mankind is a cancer in its own body," says Zobrist during some kind of fascist version of a TED talk.
On this song, with its talk of being "built to destroy" and having "fascist alloy" and, finally, being "my father's son", he goes a vital step further.
Some of his allies now in the democratic opposition regarded Mr. Kostunica as a strange mixture of constitutional legalist, democrat and "urban fascist" for his fervent talk of Serbian national interests.
