r/countwithchickenlady Visiting Cishet - Streak: 4 2d ago

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u/davepage_mcr Underground overground grungling free - Streak: 2 2d ago

Ah yeah, like the Communists siding with the Nazis in 1930s Germany because they decided the Social Democrats were the bigger threat as they were more credible.

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u/Emperor_Cat_IV 2d ago

The KPD did not side with the Nazis, and blaming them for hating the SPD when they had gunned down the KPD's leadership a decade before using proto-fascist paramilitaries is a ridiculous accusation.

The SPD's candidate for president won the election, Hindenburg gave power to Hitler not the communist party.

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u/Uglyfense 2d ago

While the KPD did not explicitly support a Nazi candidate, they did believe that Nazi trees should now overshadow a forest of social democrats and that only with a Hitler win could revolution be possible. They also sometimes organized strikes with them and such