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Ive got a test on this tommorow so tell me what you know. Google is not giving me answers on this.

I understand that in the 1940s the USSR was controlled by Stalin who was a communist. And the Nazi party was socialist. So if this is true why did they hate eachother enough for the US to support communism in Stalin and the USSR? I mean isn''t socialism basically one step below communism (I may be totally wrong on this)? I feel like it would have made more sense for the Nazis not to have hated the USSR so much and for them to have kept their original treaty together throughout WWII.

Anyways, I guess my question here is why did Hitler hate Stalin and how the hell did the US end up supporting Russia's communism over the Nazi's socialism.
 
Could be wrong but from my memory Hitler saw all Slavic countries as inferior to his Aryan Race, but needed to side with the Russians so he could fight the British/French/Allies rather than fight on two fronts.

US sided with the Communists because it was their only option to stop Hitler. They rarely collaborated unless necessary.
 
Hitler commited genocide. Stalin didnt. And if you recall we had quite the standoff with the russians after WWII
 
So then the US only didn't like Hitler because he was racist as fuck?

Again, I thought capitalism was closer to socialism than communism so this makes no sense to me

Ooor is it because the US was with England and England was against Germany so when Germany betrayed Russia they had to go to the allies?
 
That was part of it. It was a combination of needing to rid the world of Hitler, standing by the English, and probably some economic reason I am forgetting. Possibly stemming from reparations from WWI. Dont quote me on that last part
 
Yeah right after WWII we immediately were like fuck your politics to the russians which is why I don't get why we were with them in the first place.

I thought Hitler didn't commit genocide until after he went against Stalin because like half the Jews he did kill were slavic and when he was with the USSR he obviously couldn't take all their people.
 
Yeah I forgot about the treaty of Versailles. You are right. Actually I think the main reason was economic at least that was the reason Germany fought the british, because they refused to pay for damages. Then the US joined the british because even though Roosevelt had been supplying them with weapons it wasn't until Pearl that we actually fought

Thx bro this makes sense now
 
First off socialism and communism are extremely different (simply put communism is a political system and socialism is an economic system) however that only somewhat applies because Hitler is much better described as a Fascist. That comparison with communism or the totalitarian state that Stalin was working towards will help you understand the divide in ideology. Fascism is on the far right of the political scale (total militarization, strong leader, violence and imperialism needed to help state maintain control, discrimination based on race ect.) This differs from socialism in that fascism replaces the idea of equality and class struggle with a struggle between states, justifying the atrocities committed in WWII. On the other far end (left) you have a system similar to the one Stalin was hoping to implement. There are similarities but on the basic level the ideas are on completely opposite ends of the political spectrum.

There was really not a good reason for the US to side with Russia, it was just to take care of Hitler. Stalin and Hitler had made a non-aggression pact in 1939 but in 1941 Hitler broke that by attacking Soviet controlled territory. Russia was able to hold the Nazi's back and that was enough to make the US use them as they could.

Been a while since I studied about this, but good luck.
 
 JOSEPH STALIN

Soviet Union (1929-53) Regime Communist Victims 40 million

Lenin’s paranoid successor was the runner-up to Mao in the mass-murder stakes. Stalin imposed a deliberate famine on Ukraine, killed millions of the wealthier peasants – or ‘kulaks’ – as he forced them off their land, and purged his own party, shooting thousands and sending millions more to work as slaves and perish in the Gulag.

 ADOLF HITLER

Germany (1933-45) Regime Nazi dictatorship Victims 30 million

The horror of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship lies in the uniqueness of his most notorious crime, the Holocaust, which stands alone in the annals of inhuman cruelty. It was carried out under the cover of World War II, a conflict Hitler pursued with the goal of obtaining ‘Lebensraum’. The war ended up costing millions of lives, leaving Europe devastated and his Third Reich in ruins.

 
The US never supported communism. It was more of the enemy of my enemy is my friend type of deal.
 
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