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> The Nazis got elected, they didn't start a revolution. Nazi's killed their political opposition, especially Communists.

• Chlorus 6y ago
  20th century Communists, of course, were famously tolerant of their opponents.
  • atomi 6y ago
    > between 1933–39, with 30,000 communists executed and 150,000 sent to Nazi concentration camps.
• luckylion 6y ago
  Do you believe that killing political rivals makes a movement a revolution? Is Assad in Syria running a revolution? The Nazis went wild with murdering everyone they didn't like after they got elected (not that they weren't into violence before, but Hitler's attempt at a revolution failed in '23, Hitler was convicted and went to prison). They got elected on a populist vote, but that's not a revolution. Revolution != getting elected by normal proceedings.
  • atomi 6y ago
    > ...killing political rivals... > ...got elected on a populist vote... To my mind, a violent populist movement is a revolution. It's not contentious term for me.