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Reply To: Police called to sort out a young wargamer.

August 1, 2019 at 8:33 pm #1420741

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@muggins the clue is in the name – National Socialist German Workers’ Party. I am not going to say whether the Nazis or Soviets were left or right because what they both were is “top”* ie. Authoritarian. The Nazi party and the Communist party of Russia share many common traits, both nationalist, populist movements and neither were particularly capitalist (in fact Hitler’s economic policy was absolutely shocking and designed solely for war, it’s likely Germany would have lost any war of attrition because it did not have the economic staying power to continue to fight). They also clashed violently with the communist party of Germany before their ultimate ascension to power, who in the absence of the Nazi party could well have turned Germany into another red state. Scarily we are seeing the same scenes mimcked across the western world now. The reason the Nazis persecuted communists is probably because traditionally they saw them as a potential threat to their authority.

* Top based on capitalism/socialism and Authoritarianism/Libertarianism matrix.

Doesn’t take much to get a thread locked these days, does it? Ah well.