Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Historical Comparison: Finland's Winter War vs Russian Invasion of Ukraine" video.

  1. 5:04 seems a historical fault that many fail to realize how powerful the unifying force of Nationalism actually is. It's actually why so many former socialist abandoned the Internationalism of Marxism, and adopted Nationalism. They saw what happened during the Great War, and how the Worker's Revolution didn't come to end the war, not until years later with millions dead and millions more starving to death did any kind of revolutions start, primarily Russia/Germany. The Italian Fascist were pretty much just National Syndicalist, Mussolini himself was kicked out of the Communist Party because he wanted the party to follow a more Nationalist route, Lenin was actually very angry that they kicked him out as well. He believed Mussolini was the only man in Italy who could lead a revolution, so Lenin was not surprisingly willing to accept that perhaps a pro Nationalist Communist Party in Italy would of been fine as long as it was under the Communist Banner. USSR and China both have gone into pro Nationalist phases on and off so Nationalism isn't completely incompatible with Communism. But that one difference was enough to get Mussolini thrown out of the party in Italy. Where as the National Socialist took Preussen Socialism and merged it with a race instead of class focused version of Marxism, ie no longer fighting for the international workers, but fighting for the ethnic race which was the Nazi's Nationalism, their idea of the Nation was the race. Interesting enough like Mussolini, Hitler was also once a member of the Communist Party in Bavaria, even elected to represent his regiment in the Bavarian People's State and Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1918 and 1919. Basically he was elected by his peers in a Communist government.. something he completely leaves out of Mein Kamphy chair, for obvious reasons. As in the 1920s he was trying to distance the National Socialist Party from almost everything Marxist, in spite of his past history. Interesting know, Julius Schreck and Sepp Dietrich were also members of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, both key members of the SS later on in history, of course this is completely absent from say Wikipedia. I love how WWI ends, 2 years pass between 1918 and 1920 which they mention nothing about what Schreck did on Wikipedia for obvious reasons. It's actually a fundamental difference between Nazism and Fascism, and it was their ideas of Nationalism. Were as an Italian Fascist would view the race nonsense of Nazi Germany as Nonsense because a nation isn't a specific ethnicity but a collection of different groups with similar national goals, and that nationalism is the glue that brings those groups together. A Nazi's idea of the Nation and Nationalism is literally the ethnic group, or race. A lot of people don't realize that Fascism and Nazism are fundamentally opposed in this respect. s
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