Imagine you are an alien who wanders into both countries.
- Nazi Germany, you see:
- military on the street asking for papers
- secret police monitoring everyone
- picture of supreme leader hung up everywhere
- dissidents sent to labor camps
- USSR, you see:
- military on the street making sure you comply
- secret police monitoring everyone
- picture of supreme leader hung up everywhere
- dissidents sent to labor camps
Some people think Nazi Germany's system was far different than a communist country. On the things I care about it wasn't.
If you fight the war by forming a government apparatus nearly identical to the enemy, did you really win? Reminds me of the war on terror. "They want to take our freedoms", "let's take away our freedom to fight those people who hate our freedom"
In Germany it was "Let's fight communism", "let's create slave labor camps, secret police, attack capitalism and destroy the free press!".
How did they attack capitalism or destroy the free press?