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To: Kaslin
The Soviet propaganda machine never referred to the Nazis as "Nazis". They were always called "fascists" instead.

Why? Because the Soviets knew that "Nazi" was the German abbreviation for "National Socialist German Workers Party". Stalin didn't want to remind folks that the Nazis were Leftists, just like he was.

12 posted on 05/20/2019 7:06:01 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right
The Soviet propaganda machine never referred to the Nazis as "Nazis". They were always called "fascists" instead.

Why? Because the Soviets knew that "Nazi" was the German abbreviation for "National Socialist German Workers Party". Stalin didn't want to remind folks that the Nazis were Leftists, just like he was.

Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,
'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved [already in 1939!] as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’
— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Reader’s Digest Condensed Version)

27 posted on 05/20/2019 4:17:55 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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