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The war was driven by nazi ideology, not an actual rational assessment of reality. For example, there is no version of WWII that doesn't involve Hitler wanting

The war was driven by nazi ideology, not an actual rational assessment of reality. For example, there is no version of WWII that doesn't involve Hitler wanting to destroy communism by conquering the soviets, and even just that one thing basically means there was no real path to victory. Nazi ideology was not based in reality, which is why they started a war that they would inevitably lose. Hitler was playing map painting in a video game, not analyzing reality.

c_crank 3y ago
>For example, there is no version of WWII that doesn't involve Hitler wanting to destroy communism by conquering the soviets, and even just that one thing basically means there was no real path to victory. It's easy to imagine an alternative WWII scenario where the local communist parties took over Germany and fought with the USSR. Stalin actually decided not to support the KPD during the pre war period, seeing them as a bigger threat than Hitler. Even if you think Communism is great, there can only be one Communism to rule them all..
- hackandthink 3y ago
  >Stalin actually decided not to support the KPD during the pre war period, seeing them as a bigger threat than Hitler This does not make sense. Did you mean SPD (instead of KPD)? Comintern politics were confused, but I think they changed to a popular front strategy after Hitler's "coronation" (which they should have done many years earlier). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front#Comintern_policy:_1934%E2%80%931939 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front#Comintern_policy...
  - c_crank 3y ago
    The SPD, right. My mistake.