Nazi Germany, even after their "reforms", is still worse than the former USSR. I'd love a Nazi breakup rather than the Soviet breakup that occurred in our Great Cold War. It's amazing, anyway, how the Soviets managed to keep their European territory. I suppose that the Russian winter got Napoleon -- it might as well be able to take out Hitler's army.
I wonder how the average Nazi citizen feels about this octennial celebration. It would help it a lot in my view if the majority of the citizens were at least somewhat happy with the nationalized socialism that's still in force in Germany.
Break up? The intra-ethnic warfare in the Caucasus & name change in the 1990's wasnt that bad.
At least the SSC isnt spending 25% of it's GDP on re-painting rusty old tanks lunlike the Greater German Reich. The Nazi regime may not ne as nasty nowadays but it has no allies & and Hitler's enabling laws still remain in place.
As a German... I do not nessacarily support the Regime, but im a proud German, we've come far since the days of Weimar. back to being a premier power of Europe. where the Reich belongs, but the old Nazi farts,, not so cool.
Eh? Recent scholarship such as Tooze's ''Wages of Chaos'' shows Germany was already pulling out of the Great Depression just as Hitler took power. The Nazi's were very in about gaining credit for an organic econmic upsurge. One which their pathalogical commitment to arms spnding did much to undrmine in the long-term.
As for the German place in Europe, Weimar had gain great deal of sympathy & goodwill and could have made Germany the key-player in Europe using soft-power, rather than becoming a militarized pariah state.