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The Nazi partly benefited from the fear in Germany during the 30s to get into power. A lot of pro-Nazi throughout Europe were in fact anti communist. An entire
by mafribe 11y ago
The Nazi partly benefited from the fear in Germany during the 30s to get into power. A lot of pro-Nazi throughout Europe were in fact anti communist.
An entirely justified fear, we must never forget, as inconvenient as this may be! Even after the Soviet Union was massively weakened and contained by WWII and and subsequent US anti-communism, the communistist ruined many countries, with the Cultural Revolution in China under Mao and the Rape of Cambodia by Pol Pot (politicised by the French communist party, trained in Moscow and Belgrade, and armed by Moscow via China and Viet Nam) being the most well known examples today.
One shudders to think what Stalin and his followers would have done had their planned global expansion not been contested by the west.
As for the fear of Stalinist parties, the French Communist party was one of them and the country did not fall into Stalin's arm.
And this was in large parts because Nato made it very clear that further communist expansion would not be in Europe.
the other dictators (and criminal organisation) that had support from the British and the Americans (and from others "allied" countries).
The existence of nuclear weapons on both sides arrested the cold war in an uneasy standoff, and proxy wars were fought in the developing world, where nations and their leaders were only too happy to play west/east off against each other.
- cafard 11y agoThe Communist Party in Germany took a serious beating from the SD-headed government immediately following WW I. They were a relatively minor factor in the troubles of the 1920s and 1930s. While everyone was quite rightly concerned about the influence of the Soviet Union, its sphere of influence was extremely limited until the end of WW II. It lost a great deal of population, but so far from being contained by WW II, it moved its control as far west as the Elbe. You are of course correct that the French and Italian Communist parties had no real prospects of successful insurrection with American troops stationed there.
- touristtam 11y agoUnfortunately, the reading of declassified documents that have surfaced in the last couple of decades shows a great capacity for the United States to destabilize countries (even allies) that might have otherwise had a chance of integrating socialist and moderate communists in the political arena in their home countries. To the aim of blocking any chance of success for alternative to the hardliner liberal and neo-con, the official discourse from the United States, has been to confuse all variation of communism into one blob: the destroyer of economical growth and private property. Such a reading of a political movement is naive to say the least. I clearly remember an article about a CIA plan to have a puppet government in France in case the "civil war" (event) of May 1968 would turn into the favor for the French Communist Party (PC). And this is despite the fact that the PC could have never formed a government on its own, and had already had political alliances and a good relationship with the French Socialist Party (PS). This is the same right of interference that was invoked when the United States decided to invade Vietnam and other countless countries, often with the help, active or not, of its allies.