Jerry Pournell has been advocating this plot for many years. BTW...6.5, 0.97 for me
Even though they never met each other personally, both men completely understood the other. National Socialism/Fascism was accepted by the international Socialist movement as a socialist entity. The main difference was the extreme nationalism of the Nazis/Fascists. On economics the main difference between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia was that the Nazis did not want the day-to-day details of managing businesses. Many of the economic policies of today's Euro-Socialists are a carbon copy of Nazi German economic policies. They forcibly merged all the small to medium industrial companies with larger firms controlled by their cronies, sat on the boards of directors and raked in a lot of taxes and a percentage of the profits. Like the Euro-Socialists of today, they did not want to kill the golden goose, only control it. The Soviets under Stalin completely took over the economy in all aspects by 1926.
That is one reason Stalin was so completely shocked by the German invasion in June 1941, even though he was also planning an invasion of Germany in the spring of 1942 or 1943. He thought Hitler would not stop in the West until he had subdued England.
