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There is another, better explanation: if the theory is pyramidal, so also the practice, the
policy machinery. The ultimate power should be in the hands of those licensed as
ultimate truth-holders. Those lower down have to learn the smaller, specific truths and
enact them.
That pattern identity, isomorphism, between theory and practice pyramids came from
the same source in Germany and Russia: Churches, of two opposed Christianities:
truth by revelations, articles of faith, commandments on top; enacted by pyramids
with popes-patriarchs on top.
Stalin was even trained as Orthodox priest, changing from Christ revealing the truth
about God the Father, to Marx revealing the truth about History. And Hitler? Martin
Luthers rabid anti-Semitism and axiomatic Christianity (catechism) played a major
role. Why Germans? Very gifted in axiomaticsdictatorship easily follows by
isomorphism.
Two genocidal secularisms poured into old Church bottles.
Being so deeply similar in form, why not alliesexcept for the Ribbentrop-Molotov
venture to divide neutral Poland, between Central and Eastern Europe[1]against the
West, against England and France?
Because they were deeply different in content. Hitler, national socialist, needed
national capitalists to finance rebuilding Germany after WWI-Versailles and colonizing
USSR; Stalin, national socialist, needed communists of all races-faiths-nations to
rebuild devastated USSR after WWI-Versailles (uninvited) and WWIIattacked by
Germany in search of colonies twice. Hitler used capitalismfor his Blitzkrieg, he
needed gasoline and trucks and got it from US capitalism, ESSO (Exxon), FordGeneral Motors in Germany, and from USSR!Stalin destroyed it.
For Hitler, England was Aryan like the Nordics; a possible ally? For Stalin, England
was doomed by the contradictions of capitalism.
So, 22 July 1941 Germany with Romania-Hungary-Croatia-Slovakia-Finland-Spain
invaded USSR; 4.5 million soldiers, 7.5 times the 600,000 by another psychopath,
Napoleon, in 1812 (only 10% came back). 90% of Hitlers losses were in the East. USSR
won the war (despite 26 million deaths); Normandy was a sideshow. Much of it was
over Ukraine, as agricultural colony for one, as surplus food extracted to feed
industrialization for the other[2].
Hitler wanted Germany as a collectivity, a national organism united as one bodyresponsive to Hitlers will[3], a Volk, with Volks-Geist, Wille, Krper; Stalin wanted
means of production collectivized. Both had short term successes with wars and 5-year
Put life-nature as high as democracy-human rights; treat others as equals; build peace
with cooperationfor a peaceful Europe. Coming.
Johan Galtung
23 March 2015
NOTES:
[1]. Invaded by the loser Germany 1 September 1939, used for the beginning of World
War II, not winner USSR invading 17 September.
[2]. Ukraines enormous suffering at the hands of two similar policies casts todays
Russia in the role of USSR and USA-EU in the role of Germany (todays Germany opts
for a third more peace-making role. USA-EU colonization comes as conquest of an
economy of debt to serve loans to finance serving loans.
[3]. canderson@libraryofsocialsciences.com 6 February 2015.
[4]. Richard A. Koenigsberg, Nations have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and
War, Library of Social Sciences.
[5]. See the excellent review of four books on these matters by Timothy Snyder, Stalin
& Hitler: Mass Murder by Starvation, The New York Review of Books, 2012.
[6]. and Dreze, Overview: Strugglig to Rebuild from 1947to 1979. Before British
colonization India was more prosperous and developed than Britain, but had
experienced over 100 million deaths & tens of millions more since. See Note [iii].
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