Nazism in Germany versus Communism in the USSR: similarities and differences
Signing the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) First, some Both tended to solve political problems by resorting to violence. Both had a driving force in the form of a Party organisation: the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) in Germany and the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Both had a man at the top: Hitler in Germany and Stalin in the Soviet Union. Both had a secret police. It was called Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) in Germany. In the Soviet Union it went under various names: Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MV...
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