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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
No, but there have been instances of Labour politicians and leftwing fellow travellers supporting Soviet Union ideology...a regime every bit as repressive and murderous as the Nazis.
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Put a sociopath in power, surround him with sycophantic sadists, add a population exhausted by defeat, poverty, starvation, and overwhelmed by a feeling of hopelessness and you get a represive and murderous regime. It's no surprise that those on the right would be drawn to Hitler, and those on the left, to Stalin. I've no doubt they were unaware that both were insane. But there were differences between the two; some of them not so subtle. The Soviets wished to see Communism go global, mainly by sponsoring revolutionary movements ... Comintern, I believe it was called ... something like that anyway; I'm on a non google kick right now
The Nazis, on the other hand, would do away with political subtleties and just go and take what they wanted, decimate populations, starve and work to death what was left, and usher in a tausend jahr dark age.