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http://www.jstor.org.proxygsu-ogl1.galileo.usg.edu/stable/2009378?&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Left, on the other hand, developed the legend that the Tories feared Soviet Russian communism more than Nazism and saw in Hitler the man who stemmed the Red tide from spreading westward. The Communist version of this goes further; it asserts that Neville Chaimberlain, in true Machiavellian fashion, encouraged Hitler to expand towards the East in order to involve him in a serious conflict with Stalin. (Page 316-317)
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That the appeasers disliked Communism is, of course, true but none of them were fanatical anti-Communists. Nor were they, at that period, particularly concerned with Russia, let alone the danger of Communism. In their view, there was little to fear from a country that was executing so many of their political and military leaders and seemed to be in the throes of a permanent economic and political crisis. Although Hitler's assurances that he had "saved Germany from Communism" met with some credence among Conservatives, no close reading of documents or memoirs shows that this was really the center of their mind. They were more concerned with peace, with economic reconstruction, with a peaceful evolution of the Empire into a commonwealth, with social reconciliation at home. Hitler disturbed their view of the world, of society, and of humanity... (Page 325-326)