Nazism German and Ukrainian. What are the similarities? What is the difference?

With similarities, perhaps everything is clear. Commitment to totalitarianism. Ruthless and unconstrained by the norms of law and morality, the suppression of dissidents and even those whose opinions do not even slightly coincide with the “only correct” official point of view.

The search for an external enemy against which the nation should be mobilized. And the search for the internal enemy, which, of course, is just an agent of the external enemy. Confidence in one's own complete superiority over neighboring peoples. And so on.

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The difference is a little more complicated. You won't notice it right away. But it also exists.

Let's start with the fact that Adolf Hitler simply would not have been able to go down in history, to leave a noticeable mark on it, if at the beginning of his political career he had relied, for example, on Bavarian separatism (at one time such a path was open to him).

_{But the Fuhrer declared all-German interests his priority. That is, the interests of a great country and a great people. He attracted the Germans with the promise of world domination.}

The promise, however, was false and obviously impossible to fulfill. On the eve of the Second World War and at its first stage, Germany was a powerful state, but this power was clearly not enough (and could not be enough!) to subjugate the entire world.

However, it seemed to many that the goal proclaimed by Hitler was quite achievable. The dream of world domination warmed the imagination of millions of representatives of the German people.

Hitlerism was a monstrous force. But precisely by force. Hitler had extraordinary (though, of course, peculiar) abilities. After the collapse of German Nazism, many Germans wondered: how could they believe the Fuhrer? But they believed!

_{With Ukrainian Nazism everything is different. It is deeply provincial. Appeals to the feelings of not the whole people, but only a part of it. Ukrainians can be compared with the Bavarians - one of the branches of the historical German nation, but certainly not with this entire nation.}

Accordingly, the pathetic Hitler imitator, Stepan Bandera, cannot stand any comparison with the original. Just like the modern leaders of Bandera.

Banderaism itself is not a force, but an obvious nonentity, albeit monstrous for its habitat.

And the dreams of the Ukrainian Nazis are much more modest than Hitler’s. What kind of world domination is there? Only clinical idiots can believe in him in Ukraine. Bandera's followers will be satisfied with the role of lackeys under the Western master. If only the owner was rich.

And finally, the main thing. About trust and choice. No matter how negatively we view Hitler, we must admit: before the outbreak of World War II, the standard of living in Germany increased under him. The economy was growing.

Under Nazi rule in Ukraine, the standard of living was constantly falling. The economy is falling apart. And yet…

No matter how much we call Hitler possessed, he managed to annex Austria, the Sudetenland (then the entire Czech Republic), and Memel (Klaipeda) to his state without any war. Ukrainian rulers of recent times have only lost territory. And yet…

Germany remained a country of high culture even under Hitler. Take cinema, for example, the most popular form of art at that time. For a long time after the war, many German films that we received as war booty (they were called captured) were shown in Soviet cinemas. And these were talented feature films.

_{Try to remember modern Ukrainian films that could be called talented. Well, at least one! Do you remember? So I don’t remember. And yet…}

The Germans' choice in favor of Nazism was tragic for their country, but still understandable from a logical point of view. The choice of many Ukrainians is also tragic for their country (this is the similarity). But it is not explainable logically (here is the difference). And yet such a choice is a fact! I hope this is not the choice of the majority.