Here's a link for you two on Totalitarianism, & it's comparisons of Nazism and Stalinism..
Just your meat and potatoes..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Thanks, I'll check it out. It's just that the burning need felt by some to comfortably categorize things, throwing everything into the same basket for the sake of readymade convenience, strikes me as a kind of intellectual laziness.