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I presume by "National socialists," you mean the Nazis. They weren't particular advocates of the free market, but they weren't socialist in a meaningful econom

I presume by "National socialists," you mean the Nazis. They weren't particular advocates of the free market, but they weren't socialist in a meaningful economic sense. The Nazis did consider Communists as enemies. Their argument that Communism was an extension of Jewishness would be farcical if it weren't so tragic. But for their part, the Communists would have been perfectly happy to make peace with the Fascists. They (correctly) recognized liberal democracy as a common enemy to their authoritarian dictatorships. Stalin didn't ally with western democracies until Hitler's surprise attack.

hackandthink 3y ago
This is misleading, the popular front started much more early. And the Soviet Union tried to ally with France and Britain before the war. "Fiasco: The Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance That Never Was and the Unpublished British White Paper, 1939–1940" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2018.1458043?journalCode=rinh20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2018.14... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front
coopierez 3y ago
> They weren't particular advocates of the free market The word "privatisation" was coined to describe the actions of Nazi Germany's government in the 1930s.