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Culture minister fired for giving a speech by Goebbels — literally

JL;DR SUMMARY Brazilian Culture Minister Roberto Alvim was fired after delivering a speech that borrowed heavily from a 1933 address by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Nazi PropagandaPlagiarismBrazilNationalismJair BolsonaroRichard WagnerJoseph GoebbelsRoberto AlvimCultural Policy

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Brazil
"A protestor waves the Brazilian flag."
Jerusalem, Israel
"In April 2019, after a tour of Yad Vashem, he stated that Nazism was a left-wing movement; Yad Vashem itself stipulates that it emerged from the far right."

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