• @JohnBrownEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
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    102 years ago

    Yeah, I’m sure Russia and other former territories of the Empire would’ve been so much better off under the restored rule of incompetent, anti-semitic tyrants.

    They’d probably be so much better off than under the revolutionaries that gave them free healthcare, education, housing, democracy, that industrialized the country in less than a century, that took them to space, and that was only a few decades away from giving them a quality of life matching that of the developed world.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    102 years ago

    Along with Scheubner‐Richter’s activities came an increasingly close cooperation between the right‐wing Russian émigrés and the [Fascist]s. Each group saw the other not only as an anti‐Communist, anti‐Semitic ideological companion but as a source of money. The Whites still hoped to be able to reconquer Russia if only they could get German help. Apparently they contributed to the Nazi Party, a rapidly growing anti‐Bolshevik mass movement, because Scheubner‐Richter convinced them that Hitler’s movement would soon have a great influence on the German government and would see that they got the necessary funds and equipment to march east.

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    Scheubner‐Richter also used his activities with the White Russians to spread pro‐Nazi propaganda to the general public. The Jews, he said, were responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution. Communism must be wiped out as Mussolini was doing in Italy. He expressed the hope that a movement like Italian Fascism would take over in Germany too. But the traditional German right‐wingers were not militant enough for this task, so he urged them to accept new leadership that would carry out a march on Berlin “to save Germany from the Red terror.” Aufbau, which was financed by both wealthy Germans and Russians, predicted that only Adolf Hitler could achieve something. His struggle would decide the fate not only of Germany but of Europe: “This struggle will be waged under the slogan of the Sovietstar versus the Swastika. And the Swastika will prevail.”

    (Emphasis added. Source.)