[jmacusa]

The Nazis weren’t some thing that fell out of the clouds one day into Germany and so was the case with the Communists in Russia. The Nazis were Germans and the Soviets were Russians.

[Revolting cat!]

True, except that the Red Army was more likely to include members of nationalities other than Russian, and was more likely than the German Army, to my knowledge, to have members of the ruling party. That said, ‘Nazi’ is the term that the Soviet propaganda used after WWII to distinguish the Good Germans in DDR from the Bad Germans in West Germany. The mystification has unfortunately succeeded in the West, as shown on this forum, as did the lies about the Soviet War heroes and heroines.

[katana]

Just a side comment, but if you ever have the opportunity to socialize (no pun intended) with Germans and Russians you'll probably find that the Russians are a lot more fun. This is generally true of all the Slavs. Personally I found Alexis de Tocqueville's surprising comments about the similar natures of Americans and Russians (NOT their politics) to be accurate. On a person to person level they can be excellent companions. But as somebody else once said, no one has ever invented a system that the Russians could make work nor one the Germans could not make work. The very best Communists, after all, turned out to be the East Germans.