Back in 2020, this article noted that the fight against fascism didn’t end in 1945. The Independent (UK) provided some perspective to show that the fight against modern totalitarian forces began in the 19th century and continues into the 21st, and that even though those forces were defeated in the bloodiest, deadliest human conflict in history, they weren’t exactly down and out:

“The fight against fascism didn’t end with the Nazis – Britain’s Jewish antiracists continued it here on our streets. … During the war, the government had interned Britain’s fascists – including the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley – and banned all fascist organising. At the war’s end, all such restrictions were lifted, and many of Mosley’s supporters immediately tried to resurrect their movement: based primarily in London, they began holding public meetings, publishing incendiary literature, daubing antisemitic graffiti and otherwise targeting the Jewish community.
“Jewish ex-service personnel returning home from the war reacted to the fascists’ renewed presence with outrage. Realising that neither police nor government were willing to curb the Mosleyites, and that the Jewish community leaders would countenance nothing that could cause controversy, they decided to take matters into their own hands. They had just been sent to Europe to defeat fascism; for them, it stood to reason that a similar approach should be taken at home.
“Their answer to the fascists was the 43 Group (named after the number of founding members), a militant anti-fascist organisation founded by Jewish ex-servicemen, but open to all who were willing to tackle the fascists head-on.” —The Independent (UK)

Our hats are off to the 43 Group. But it shows that even suffering cataclysmic destruction and having your crimes exposed and your ideology revealed to be the empty, deadly … thing it is, is often not enough to put an end to them. You must be eternally vigilant. Fight on.