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As some on this site and elsewhere have pointed out, 1920s Weimar Germany and 1990s Russia had numerous parallels-economic disaster, hyperinflation, a sense of national humiliation, popular extremnist movements of the right and the left, and violent internal conflict. One could even argue for some parallels between Hindenburg and Putin given both were conservatives and nationalists who nonetheless were hailed as stabilizers in a nominally democratic system. Of course, Hindenburg's age and the rise of the Nazi movement made the situation untenable there, but could it have been otherwise? How could we get a semi-authoritarian strongman in power who nonetheless refrains from totalitarianism and pursues a relatively cautious revanchist strategy? Would Kurt von Schleicher been a plausible candidate for such a scenario?
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