re: #60 Dark_Falcon

BTW, I would add that it’s my understanding that:

As early as 1925, Adolf Hitler vaguely declared in his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed to secure Lebensraum (“living space”) to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come. Nazism viewed the Soviet Union (and all of Eastern Europe) as populated by non-Aryan Untermenschen (“sub-humans”), ruled by “Jewish Bolshevik conspirators”. Mein Kampf said Germany’s destiny was to “turn to the East” as it did “six hundred years ago”. Accordingly, it was stated Nazi policy to kill, deport, or enslave the majority of Russian and other Slavic populations and repopulate the land with Germanic peoples. The Germans’ belief in their ethnic superiority is discernible in official German records and by pseudoscientific articles in German periodicals at the time, which covered topics such as “how to deal with alien populations”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa

I find it odd that the early Nazis would begrudge the Communists their ambition when as early as 1925 it was clear that Hitler wanted to take over the Soviet Union, and by WWII, as much of the rest of the world as he could.

I’m not questioning the veracity of a part of history that you clearly know much more about than I do, I’m just saying that they were very typically hypocritical (i.e. as most extremists are). Extremism seems to cripple one’s critical thinking skills.