I didn't say they were good for the environment.
I said they were fanatical environmentalists, which they were.
But if they were good for the environment, took care of social stuff, and had an economy and military which kicked the crap out of Europe, why would you think that "wasn't possible"?
According to whom?
I would like to believe that totalitarian systems don't work at least in the long run. I'll wait till the jurry is in, but judging from how poorly communism worked, I'll stick with this hunch for now. Anytime you concentrate all power with a in a party (or any wierd group), that group will try cling to power and become decadent. These systems fail to work as meritocracies, failing to allow new people and ideas to chalenge preconcieved beliefs and the whims of powers that be.
Nazis still had captialism. There were still companies making big bucks off doing evil things. They had no respect for human dignity and no democracy. Hmmm, kind of like modern China (scary). I sometimes wonder if that system would have collapsed of its own faults like the USSR.