re: Nazis and Communists

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May be a dumb question

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It is, but go on.

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but in WWII, why were Germany and Russia on opposing sides?

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Because they were archenemies and Hitler wanted to wipe them all out.

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Naziism and Communism are not very different ideologies both a variation of left wing socialist totalitarianism.

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They may be Left wing, but their ideologies aren't that similar. Nazism is focused on racial purity and a fricking dictator. Communism in principal isn't that, it's just always doomed to devolve into authoritarianism. It's about redistributing property among the people. Nazism isn't that.

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Was it just ego that would not let them work together as both wanted total control. Or is there some underlying political difference between the 2 that I am missing?

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Like literally everything. The Communists and the Nazis are pretty much the biggest archenemies in world history. In Hitler's first month in power, the first thing he did was take out the Communists, long before he took out the Jews.