It's funny how perceptions change and I hadn't intended to mention Hitler but he seems to have become unavoidable. Stalin was a commie. Supposedly that means a creature of The Left but inheriting Lenin's mantle like the Tsarevich upon his father's being shot like a dog diminishes any anti-imperialist credentials. Of course you'd be shot too if you mentioned this. Like called to like across the deep and bonnie Adolph was happy to assume a very similar mantle himself.
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Stalin. | (not elected) | 1928 |
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Hitler | 1932 | 1934 |
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These were the so-called socialists who mimicked other command economies, not all of which called themselves "socialist" regardless of how their economies were arranged. So much for the creatures of The Left.
Hitler is not a name I'd planned bringing up again but it's unavoidable

because now he is often described as a right-winger by all and sundry. Criticism of The Right by other rightists may in fact have mutated into criticism of The Right by the (less) right, even to the extent of their becoming the (nuevo) left. Clearly such a group will cop flak from all quarters but my main concern here is whether they're still rightists or whether, like Hitler, they have become socialists?