perfidy

Johno endorses Federalism.

The Bolsheviks crushed the trade unions in Russia, too, and they didn't stop being socialist. Economic planning in the Third Reich was still centrally controlled, was it not? Sadly, I know too little about the early years of the Nazis. But my dad (blatant appeal to authority: eminent Russian historian) says that Fascism grew out of the left; and if I remember correctly, in Europe the right was all the wacky ancien regime monarchist reactionary types.

Saying that workers and farmers in both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia lived under feudal conditions is unkind to serfs. From my vantage point in 21st century America, I can only discern three critical differences between the Nazis and the Commies.

1) Nazis hate Jews because they're not German, Commies hate Jews because they're rich.
2) Nazis believed that everyone who is not German must die, to make room for Germans. Commies believed that everyone should become commie, then die.
3) Nazis had far cooler uniforms.