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Originally Posted by Damo1977
But the average person would have benefited more living under the Soviet rule than before the revolution with Czar Nicholas. SO they would have been quite happy living under the soviet rule due to them only knowing what life was like living under Czar Nichloas.
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This is exactly what i was getting at in my post.
We tend to judge the past by our reality, not the reality of those times. To the average person of the times the Soviets certainly looked like an improvement over the Czars and so to were the nazis considered an improvement, at least at first, over the Kaisers and Landgraves of German past.
Were it not for WW2 Hitler might well be considered no worse than Stalin.