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unabomberman: Nazi program was very big on providing jobs, security, and organization to the German people. Gleichschaltung was a concept of "organization," with the idea being that everyone would be made to feel to belong to the Volk. There was a strong element of economic opportunity (if...

Yes, life in the USSR (especially under Stalin) was not flowers & sunshine. Especially if you weren't a Great Russian, and especially if you were Ukrainian. I dunno about "worse;" by the end of the war, Nazi Germany was pretty shit too. Also, Stalinism (just to toss around another ism) is...

Yeah...funny, isn't it? Actually, the socialist program was pretty big, in idea if not in execution, right to the end. I read a book that made the point that Hitler was a lot like revolutionary communists, but instead of social class being the deciding factor of history, race was.

Pikka: I disagree with your point on Nazi Germany; if you weren't Jewish, strongly religious, Communist, liberal, homosexual, socialist, Roma or another ethnic minority, and didn't piss off the SA (or, later, the SS or Gestapo), things were okay for a couple of years. But, it still wasn't all...

Alright hiks89: first, I'm with CIA; stop typing like that. Second, your version of Christianity (to which I don't adhere) is total bullshit. To the question more generally... Communism is extremely hard to define, because people have defined it differently and it became a common label to...