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[Hitler pushed the same thing .
Collectivism is evil.]

Germany is the only place collectivism has been paid more than lip service. 10% of the German population died during WWII, vs 4% in Japan*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties The Russians fought because the alternative was root and branch extermination. The Germans fought for Hitler. The Japanese were the usual mess of independent warlords in all but name fighting for personal glory, using a puppet Emperor’s name as a shield and rubber stamp, much as the shoguns before them had, for close to 800 years.

* Japanese soldiers fought because they were told they would be tortured and killed if captured alive. Ditto for Japanese civilians who committed suicide on Okinawa. Once it became clear that they would be unharmed, mass surrenders followed. Whereas the Germans fought until Berlin lay in Soviet hands, costing Germany 100,000 dead in 2 weeks of hard fighting, rivaling the worst weeks in in WWI battles. Okinawa involved a similar death count, but that took place over 3 months, not 2 weeks.