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19Apr/26

When the Minority Must Suffer: The Brutal Pragmatism of Saboteur Applied to the Modern Far-Right Resurgence

April 19, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — In the October 1941 script for Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur, the “Thin Man” (Bones) uses the circus troupe’s internal disagreements to explicitly allegorize the global political paralysis during World War II, specifically regarding the spread of Fascism. Please note that the provided sources do not contain information connecting this scene to the contemporary rise of the far-right in modern Europe and the USA; they only discuss this film within its original 1940s historical context.

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