":No that does'nt make him a fascist, even if what you say is true(and you've furnished no evidence of that). An authoritarian regime can be represssive, wihtout having the trappings of fascism. You would know this if you were'nt so busy making judgments.  

 :And yes, i know that he was not universally popular, even among Pashtuns, and that some valid criticisms of him have been made. For example, it has been said that he was a hedonist, whose lack of commitment in politics allowed the communists to gain influence in the country. That is probably true. 

 :Also, during the war with the Soviets, he was content to stay in the relative luxury of his villa in Italy, while his people were getting massacred. That is undoubtedly true, and caused much resentment. 

 :But i've never heard that he was a fascist, quite on the contrary. Did he not organise elections in 1965? Did he not guarantee the rights of women by law? Not exactly your typical fascist... Afghanistan may not have been a model democracy during this period, but that did not make it a fascist country. 

 :As for this ""enslavement of the Hazara"" thing, I know for a fact that it isn't true. During his reign, he tried to integrate the old Hazara elite into the state machine, and several Hazara deputies were elected in 1965(see Olivier Roy, Islam and resistance in Afghanistan, page 140). The Hazara are fond of saying that everyone persecutes them, but that is not always justified. 

 :I see that you're not too confident about this fascism thing yourself, or you would have written something about it on the article itself, rather than making snide insinuations on the talk page. If you want a definitive answer on his supposed fascism, and as you seem so keen to insert the wikiproject fascism banner, then maybe you could ask the fascism experts what they think.   

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