Why do people assume a link between communism and the nazi regime?

[bocley]

Communist is far left-wing whilst the Nazi party is a prime example of an extreme-right wing party. The Soviets lead the battle against the Nazis in World War 2 and were the true reason for the survival of France. Communism is also the ideology that the people own the state, that is, property of the state is owned by all the people of the country. The Nazi ideology was 'follow the path of one man for success'. So why do people actually think they're almost the same?

[rumford]

BOTH use Big Government as a base of thought

[crom]

Capitalist propaganda. To 1) Conceal the link between capitalism and fascism and 2) Make communism look as evil as possible.

Edit: The biggest problem, as I see it, is that the great majority of the people don't actually know what communism is. All they know is what they are told by the schools and the media, so what are they supposed to believe? That's why I believe weapon #1 has to be education.

[chason62]

They don't. Only you do.

[jolie]

Because they are uneducated.:)

[caomh]

There is some small groups of people in America that are Nazi types, I only found out about them these past couple years. I don't know if they are far right or not? I know they are racists and I saw a video of them on youtube, they were only like 10 people or less living up in Chicago area. But when think about how Farrakhan has spread so much hate in Chicago and his gangs, it only grows other haters on the other side. Farrkhan has like 10,000 followers and I bet some his followers that hate white people started something up with them and thats why they turned into Nazi types. There isn't any KKK I know of left in America, there might be a few small groups of them, but nothing like the far leftists hate racist orgs are, not even close!

[hardin]

What's so "right wing" about the nazis? How do you define "right wing"?

"The Soviets lead the battle against the Nazis in World War 2". The Soviets signed Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and attacked Poland along with Germany in 1939. They were killing people and sending them to Siberia to work as slaves. Germans and Russians held common parades in Poland in 1939.

"i know what communism is". No you don't. You're really naive and believe theories on paper which have nothing to do with reality. Communism is theoretically good because in theoretical idealized communism everybody are happy and work for common wealth, blah, blah, blah. You have to be naive as a 5 year old to believe this.

[eadweald71]

Some people are brainwashed by stupidity combine it with ignorance and look you what you get.

These same people people compare the barbaric Chinese to the peaceful Japanese.without looking into the history of the two countries