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Originally Posted by Stefan
Ahh but you see it is easy enough to argue that Fascism was presented as a religion in and of itself. It could provide moral guidance, a description of how to live your life, a leader(Al Gore) and a plethora of other hallmarks of religion.
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Sort of like global Warming today.
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Originally Posted by Stefan
Then again, the Soviet Union was never truly communist.
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Well you can make an argument that it was a dictatorship, but since the cornerstone or Communism and Liberalism for that matter, is the dictatorship of the proletariot, then I find it hard to give credibility to your statement that it wasn't truly communist.
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Economically facism and democracy are similar EXCEPT under fascism the economy was controlled by the government, I would describe that as a fairly massive difference, though it's also not totally true.
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Wasn't the Five year Plan the brainchild of Stalin who was the government?
And in Germany the Nazis allowed the War materials Industry to make their profits and later infiltrated that industry to try and create their own, SS run with camp labor.
The Germans, Nazis were Christian, not all of them, many agnostic, many renounced their religion for favor in the SS, many practised in secret. Bavaria was predominantly Catholic. Parts of the North, Protestant, Lutheran.
If you ask if they acted as good Christians my answer would be no.
Yet the Godless communist ideal worked pretty well when motivating men under arms.