The controversy launched by Jair Bolsonaro's favorite philosopher on the rise of Nazism

The Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, one of the favorite intellectuals of President Jair Bolsonaro, provoked Saturday a controversy in social networks to emphasize that the rise of Nazism and the Second World War was a project of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "to occupy half of Europe" on the eve of the 55th anniversary of the coup d'etat in Brazil.

The controversial author of the book "The minimum you need to know to not be an idiot", whom Bolsonaro placed on his desk when he delivered his victory speech in the October elections, made his supporters and detractors tremble on Twitter by adhering to a controversial revisionist theory about the origin of the most brutal conflict in the history of the world.

"The rise of Nazism and the Second World War were planned with great anticipation by Stalin in order to achieve the result actually achieved: the occupation of half of Europe by the Soviet dictatorship ", expressed Olavo de Carvalho.

"This thesis makes Stalin the greatest strategist of all time", considered Olavo de Carvalho, to quote later Ernst Topitsch, Joachim Hoffman and Victor Suvorov as the main exponents of the theory. "To formulate it [Topitsch] he did not have access to unpublished material and used only sociological badysis. Later, the opening of the Soviet archives gave an overwhelming verification of his thesis, for example in the books of Hoffman and Suvorov. That's engineering, " he added.

The Austrian Topitsch, a former professor at the University of Graz who died in 2003, was one of the first to write aboutand a so-called Stalin plan to try to convince Germany of the invasion (Operation Barbarossa of 1941) in order to have a pretext for occupying Europe and subjecting it to communism, even if this invasion almost caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. He did it in his 1985 book "Stalins Krieg" or "The Stalin War".

According to this theory, Stalin would have started developing his plan in the 1920s as part of a scheme to destroy the capitalist world put their main promoters at war with each other. ThenThe Soviet Union could intervene by defeating the Western powers and occupying all of Europe, which would become communist.

The pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union of 1939, then broken by Berlin, is proof of this., according to Topitsch, and Adolf Hitler was forced to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the dictator "had in his heart a deep fear of war," the author said.

"The Second World War was essentially a Soviet attack on Western democracies, in which Germany and Japan were only military substitutes."He concluded.

Since its publication, "Stalin's War" has been criticized bythe lack of rigor and the low quality of their speculative arguments without documentary basis, based on polemical positions.

"This book does not deserve to be taken seriously", said the 1987 review published by the New York Times.

But he quickly became a hit among the most extreme members of the far right, that they saw in it a reinvention of an "anti-communist act" allegedly launched by Hitler for the good of all Europe, as well as in the circles of the revisionist historians and among the negationists, interested in relativising Nazism and bringing charges against the Soviet Union.

The German Hoffman and the Russian Suvorov, also quoted by Olavo de Carvalho, investigated the possibility that Stalin was preparing for a war with Germany and that the Barbarossa operation could be considered as a preventive , a very controversial thesis among historians. But they did not reach the extremes of Topitsch, although they are, like him, names regularly cited in right-wing circles, such as the Califron Institute for Historical Revision, linked to the neo-Nazi sectors.

The publication of the Brazilian philosopher sparked a discussion on Twitter, Facebook andN times the Bolsonaro government was criticized for its stance on the 1964 military coup in Brazil, which this Sunday marks 55 years.

"Have you heard of the Battle of Stalingrad, crazy and ignorant? If Stalin had been allied with Hitler, the world would be much worse when Hitler struck in 1933, his first persecuted were the German Communists!"commented a Twitter user." Inclusive, All this was planned not only by Stalin, but also by the reptilians, the New World Order and the inhabitants of Mars.was another answer, ironically.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the coup in Brazil, Bolsonaro, himself of military origin, ordered the "commemorations" of the overthrow of Joao Goulart's government., which instituted a military dictatorship that lasted until 1985.

"The company came together and aware of the danger that the country was living at that time,and joins civilians and military to recover and relocate Brazil. If all this had not happened, today we would have a government that would not be good for anyone, "said Bolsonaro.