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Originally Posted by August
I disagree.
Stalinist stability is still missed by many older Russians. He was feared yes, but from what i've read he was not hated by the average Russian man in the street of the time, to whom pogroms and repression had always been facts of life.
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True and my answer was way simplified.
But the average Ivan ( :P ) admired Stalin for nothing more than that - stability. Yes, there were many true-red Stalinist Communists who admired Stalin as better than Lenin but what they wanted was Communism, whose lurid goal is everyone's the same and we're all one big happy ant colony, even if we only eat straw and stubble.
This is a far cry from Aryan racist national ideology.
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either the soviets or the nazis came to power by telling their peoples that they would soon be oppressing and murdering them in wholesale lots, They at least paid lip service to the concept of popular rule and they offered a way out of crushing poverty and oppression. They offered the hope of a better life to desperate people.
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Mein Kamp was not published in 1941. It was published in 1925 and 1926. Aryan supremist ideology was part and parcel of what Hitler offered his countrymen (and Austria's and then some). He was worshiped for it.