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  1.  @wdaadwa5005  "The trade unionists were also disliked by this man at the time the poem is set in, supporting the NSDAP, and the trade unions being socialist." NSDAP was also socialist. The reason why trade unionists were disliked, was simply because their priority wasn't the well being of the nation in general. Every single socialist one-party dictatorship disliked unions. In fact, Hitler was simply imitating Lenin, who had earlier closed down all independent labor associations, factory committees and worker cooperatives, banned strikes, walkouts, and lockouts. Lenin even forced workers to work a slavish 80-hour week. After the Bolsheviks banned all labor unions, one unionist “described the unions as ‘living corpses.’” Any Russian worker who participated in general strikes was arrested, imprisoned or shot. Under Lenin’s regime, workers had no real representation or bargaining rights and were treated like industrial serfs who were chained to their factories. Although Hitler followed Lenin’s nationalizing craze, his treatment of workers did not mimic their Russian counterparts.
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