"In 1938 the common man’s condition in the Soviet Union, Germany, or the United States may have been grim, but he was constantly told that he was the most impor

"In 1938 the common man’s condition in the Soviet Union, Germany, or the United States may have been grim, but he was constantly told that he was the most important thing in the world" That might have been the case in the United States, but in Nazi Germany and especially in Soviet Union, the common man was told that he was worth nothing, and that the state was everything.