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During the 1930s, after the financial crash there was a great wave of extreme ideologies that swept throughout Europe. Principal among these were extreme far right nationalism and far left communism. In Germany as you almost certainly know, the far right triumphed under Hitler and the NSDAP. This was at least in part due to funding from the well off bourgeoise who feared communism and gave their support to Hitler as they believed they would do better under a nationalist government. They were probably wrong.

My question to you, is what would have happened if instead a communist government had Ben democratically elected. Would they, like hitler have abolished other parties and created a (albeit different) one party state? What would this mean for European politics of the time? (Particularly if Spain had also gone a similar route) and how could this have affected the world today?
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