What an odd thing to say. Many more
people died under Stalin than Hitler and
communism enslaved nations for decades.
Yet you tell us not to forget the political
nature of Nazism as if we need the lesser
of two evils as comparison to remind us
of the greater of two evils. Methinks you
have unknowingly introjected the liberal
mindset that sees communism as less
objectionable than Nazism.
OK, never forget. The Communists were socialists
Both totalitarian systems were, of course.
The point you miss is that our "liberal" establishment consistently, although often subtly, infers that socialism is somehow an advancement over free-market, free interaction status quo. They consider it to be progress or "progressive," if you will.
Since Hitler and the Nazis were exposed as evil far, far more quickly and concretely than the Communists, the big-government types were forced to disown him. I'm not letting them.
The Nazis were socialists.