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[[File:German-Soviet invasion of Poland.jpg|thumb|300px|A Nazi German and Soviet Communist officer shake hands after their successful invasion of Poland in September 1939.]]

[[File:German-Soviet invasion of Poland.jpg|thumb|300px|A Nazi German and Soviet Communist officer shake hands after their successful invasion of Poland in September 1939.]]

[[File:Govt placement chart.png|thumb|250px|Nazism and communism are identical in the amount of power government exercises over its people.]]

[[File:Govt placement chart.png|thumb|250px|Nazism and communism are identical in the amount of power government exercises over its people.]]

'''Communism and Nazism''' are [[totalitarian twins]]. However, according to scholar Alain Besançon regarding the general different perceptions of the two extremist ideologies:<ref>Arch T. Allen (August 2007). [https://archive.vn/nFftI Nazism and Communism: Twin Evils, Different Memories]. ''Metro Magazine'' via ''Archive.vn''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref>

'''Communism and Nazism''' are [[totalitarian twins]]. However, according to scholar Alain Besançon regarding the general different perceptions of the two extremist ideologies:<ref name=twinevils>Arch T. Allen (August 2007). [https://archive.vn/nFftI Nazism and Communism: Twin Evils, Different Memories]. ''Metro Magazine'' via ''Archive.vn''. Retrieved December 15, 2022.</ref>

{{cquote|Our horrified reflection on [[Nazism]] seems to even gain in breadth and depth each year.”  On the other hand, [[Communism]], “although still fresh and just recently fallen, benefits from an amnesia and an amnesty that receive the almost unanimous consent, not only of its supporters — because they still exist — but of its most determined enemies, and even its victims.|||Alain Besançon, ''A Century of Horrors''}}

{{cquote|Our horrified reflection on [[Nazism]] seems to even gain in breadth and depth each year.”  On the other hand, [[Communism]], “although still fresh and just recently fallen, benefits from an amnesia and an amnesty that receive the almost unanimous consent, not only of its supporters — because they still exist — but of its most determined enemies, and even its victims.|||Alain Besançon, ''A Century of Horrors''}}

Liberals regard these as opposites of left and right, though conservatives agree with [[Hannah Arendt]] that they belong at the same end of the [[political spectrum]].

Liberals regard these as opposites of left and right, though conservatives agree with [[Hannah Arendt]] that they belong at the same end of the [[political spectrum]].

*Communism redefined the political spectrum; first falsely attaching Nazism to [[capitalism]], and later to [[fascism]], to fit its [[propaganda]] needs, Communism always placed socialist Nazism on the [[far right]], opposite socialist Communism on the [[far left]].  This Communist classification has become fixed in [[Western thought]], with Communism on the left, [[liberal democracies]] and their left and right parties in the middle, and Nazism and other forms of fascism on the right. [[Besançon]] concludes that the correct classification, one proposed by Hannah Arendt earlier, groups the two totalitarian regimes of Communism and Nazism at one end, places liberal regimes in the middle, and groups [[authoritarian regimes]] at the other extreme. [http://www.metronc.com/article/?id=1397]

*Communism redefined the political spectrum; first falsely attaching Nazism to [[capitalism]], and later to [[fascism]], to fit its [[propaganda]] needs, Communism always placed socialist Nazism on the [[far right]], opposite socialist Communism on the [[far left]].  This Communist classification has become fixed in Western thought, with Communism on the left, [[liberal democracies]] and their left and right parties in the middle, and Nazism and other forms of fascism on the right. Besançon concludes that the correct classification, one proposed by Hannah Arendt earlier, groups the two totalitarian regimes of Communism and Nazism at one end, places liberal regimes in the middle, and groups [[authoritarian]] regimes at the other extreme.<ref name=twinevils/>

==See also==

==See also==