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Originally Posted by oleg
Elaborate it. After Germans have democratically elected NS party, all democracy was curbed very quick and tough. The political opposition got to the KZs, and the dictature of Adolf carried out the massive nationalisation. Of course, the population supported all revanchist tendencies and strategy of the pay back to France and Britain and hailed the rapid positive social changes. But tell me how could Germans have overted the sudden adventure of assault on USSR, if soldiers deployed in echelons to the East border of Reich in Poland thought till the end that they all expected soon shortcut delivery through the territory of allied USSR to the Iran to fight British?
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Actually let me begin by saying I do not think we went to war for Haliburton to become rich, however they certainly have profited. The American people did not like the way the war was sold or has been handled. That would have been communicated to the government in 2004 had the Democrats not run such a weak candidate. It has now however been communictated loud and clear. Moreover it was being communictated through poll after poll that showed Bush loosing support. Since he did nothing his part was ousted and by ousting his party we rejected his policy on Iraq.
Now as to Germany. Hilter in fact to my knowledge only won one election himself. In fact he was appointed to the post of Chancelor not elected. His party never even reall won a majority in any election, but under a parlimentary system you do not have to. Even after the Reichstag fire in 1933 and the banning of the Communist Party and the supression of the SPD he still did not win more than 43.8% of the seats in Parliment. And this in a weak Democracy that was in economic turmoil. You can hardly point to Germany at the time and claim it was a defeat of democracy that cause WWII, it was in fact a failure of the Allies after WWI and their appeasement in the 30's that caused WWII. As for Germany's attack on teh USSR, the only people who thought they had prevented that were the Russians. Given how Hitler saw people he considered to be not up to Aryan standards, and openly admited that in Mein Kampf, I am suprised he fooled even you all for a period of time. Perhaps if Stalin had been just a little less paranoid and so effective at ruining his military and a little more of a reader he could have avoided some of the misery your country suffered. There is blame enough for what happened to go around, and most of it rests with Hitler. But the fact that German demcoracy was not strong enough at the time to withstand the world around it was not the main problem. It was designed to be that way.