The burden of The Road to Serfdom is just that NAZIism and Communism are birds of a feather. Reading it put me in mind of a movie I had seen on TV (but failed in my effort to Google it up) in which two counselors to the Sultan are walking together, and two teenagers are belaboring each other. One counselor remarks to the other, “They fight as only half-brothers can.” And so it was between the Third Reich and the USSR.Serfdom was written before the Holocaust was known, yet FA Hayek predicted - on the basis of the similarities between Communism and Fascism - that dark evil things would be found done by the NAZIs in analogy to the Soviet Gulag, which was publicly known of before the war (if not by that name). For example, Will Rodgers went to the USSR, and wrote about seeing a trainload of people being dispatched to Siberia “. . . and nobody had a ticket back but the engineer."
Well said.
Check out this video on the cooperation of the Socialist workers party people in Germany and the Socialists in the USSR:
Soviet started WWII Together With Nazi Germany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL15BEB3143796F5D5&feature=player_detailpage&v=K2hg2MO6Te0