Stalin is dead.
HockeyDad wrote:
Exactly.
And so is Hitler.
And they were contemporaries.
Mussolini too.
But info that is finding, influencing, and manipulating Ray in these times is what the victims and descendants of the victims know all too well as "revisionist history". Ray has no connection other than the referenced writings of others. Despite insults tossed at his intellect by some , I've not done that and believe he has studied well, but has been given the wrong syllabus.
Nonetheless, I'll go with the teachings of those who were alive at the time. It's just so much more genuine than those with theories to prove and need history tweaked to accomplish that end.
Hitler and his little band of nazis hated Stalin's commies, despite the revisionist teachings that Ray has been recruited to believe. They were mortal enemies.
Mussolini dabbled in socialism but found fascism more expedient. He joined Hitler's mission.
Admittedly, there were elements of socialism adopted, but wicked smaht people take what works from other sources rather than lean entirely on failed dogma. That is where the connection ends.
Sort of like that great capitalist democracy, Israel. It is undeniable that they incorporate the elements of socialist thought that work for their country...just look at the Kibbutz system. Nothing more than communal farm communities, mostly.
There was an actual socialist party of influence in Germany as Hitler rose. But it was blocking his ascent. In order to recruit these workers, he used the word socialist to aid in making those workers defect from the considerable power of the social democrats or democrat socialists or whatever the party was known as back then.
And he went out to destroy and claim (for his super race) not just Russia but the socialist(ish) European nations.
But Hitler would deny any connection to leftist politics. And he had no connection to rational right of center politics either.
He and his league of contemporary acolytes that exist today know they are waaaay right fascists.
