Propaganda Campaigns Quotes
The Nazis persecuted the Freemasons along with the Jews and Gypsies. The rationale was that the Freemasons were traitors and enemies of Germany. There is no record of any organized opposition to the Nazis by German Freemasons. However, it is likely that the older aristocratic German families which tended to join Masonic lodges, were not great enthusiasts about Hitler. For Nazi Germany, lack of enthusiastic support was treason. Kaltenbrunner was one of the major war criminals declared guilty at the Nuremberg Trials and hanged.
This was a fairly unique notion. In Russia the army never played this role to the same degree. The Long March in Chinese History blended and amalgamated the people and the army in a way that was unique in World History.
Many American ideologues assumed that the Chinese Communist Revolution would lead to an economic collapse. They did not realize that historically a competitive business economic system had been operational in the Chinese culture for thousands of years. In reality the economy was however really being suppressed somewhat by the Mau style of communism. When Deng loosened up the economic rules in China, their “Communist” system not only functioned as it had under Mao, but then thrived and China became a world economic power in just a relatively few years.
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