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- noun Plural form of
blackshirt .
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Examples
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Mr. Griffin, 50, is a pinstripe-suit-and-tie-wearing Cambridge University law graduate whose mission is to put a mainstream gloss on a party that is the ideological descendant of the British Union of Fascists, the pro-Hitler "blackshirts" of the 1930s.
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Thus, the blackshirts of the Italian Fascists and the brownshirts of the German Nazis were extra-legal until their respective parties took complete power.
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In other words, the teabaggers are, or are going to be, blackshirts.
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No more taxis or red -, blackshirts on the street.
Global Voices in English » Thailand: Protesters disrupt ASEAN Summit 2009
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In 1936, Londoners stood up against fascist marchers and, 75 years after the Battle of Cable Street, a free jamboree recalls the day when East Enders rose up against Oswald Mosley's blackshirts.
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'Richard III' 1995 This rousing version, directed by Richard Loncraine, relocates the play to a fictional fascist England of the mid-1930s that suggests some surreal convergence of Sir Oswald Mosley's blackshirts with the sumptuous decadence of Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist."
Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller Joe Morgenstern 2012
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To answer your question - yes I believe such a trade off would be justified, and in the 1930s as other commentators have said, fascist regalia and blackshirts were banned.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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To answer your question - yes I believe such a trade off would be justified, and in the 1930s as other commentators have said, fascist regalia and blackshirts were banned.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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It really is important that the BNP is exposed for what it is: a politically isolated throwback to Mosley's blackshirts.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It really is important that the BNP is exposed for what it is: a politically isolated throwback to Mosley's blackshirts.
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