WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Communist
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Fascist
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -From its creation, the government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Detailed explanation-2: -The ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Bolshevist Marxism–Leninism, an ideology of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state to realise the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Detailed explanation-3: -While primarily focused on critiquing Nazism, Wilhelm Reich considered Stalin’s Soviet Union to have developed into red fascism. The term is often attributed to Franz Borkenau, a key proponent of the theory of totalitarianism (which posits that there are certain essential similarities between fascism and Stalinism).
Detailed explanation-4: -While communism is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society, fascism is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles that is ruled by an all-powerful dictator.