re: What would the world be like if the NAZIs had won?

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A victorious Germany/Hitler would have been far better than what a victorious Russia/Stalin unleashed on the world.

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Doubtful IMNSHO.

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A victorious Germany/Hitler would have been far better than what a victorious Russia/Stalin unleashed on the world.

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Uh.....no.

Seriously, take Hitler at his word or at least his dream-- all of Eastern Europe is converted into a slave plantation, so think what happened in the Holodomor times 5, then add in the complete elimination of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, etc.

Stalin was evil but post-Stalin, while still Authoritarian the USSR was way, way less genocidal and oppressive than the Nazi's would have been-- think about say the Gulags but then imagine instead of people who survived getting out after 5 or 10 years being sentenced to work their unto death (remember, we know of the Gulags in large part because people were eventually released both after Stalin died and after being paroled, with the Concentration Camps we have survivor narratives because the Nazi regime fell).

Stalin was a paranoid mad man largely denounced even by the USSR within half a decade after his death and his primary cronies like Beria were killed before Stalin's body was cold, Hitler on other hand would likely have been viewed as the ideal Reich leader and others would have sought to emulate him.