I must confess to you that we have taken a very rough road. The Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in 1939.
"You can't go to your country without signing the annexation agreement," I said.โ
โIn 1939, with Ribbentrop, we settled the problems of the Baltic states, Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and Bessarabia. The Germans did not favor the annexation of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Bessarabia to us. A year later, in 1940, when I went to Berlin, Hitler asked me:
The peoples of the Baltic states and the communists had agreed to join the Soviet Union. The bourgeois rulers of these countries came to Moscow for negotiations, but they refused to sign the treaty of annexation to the USSR. What should we have done?
@stealsoftly There is no doubt that, as discussed earlier, fascism and communism share many fundamental characteristics.โ
Fascism: Comparison and Definition, Stanley G. Payne; University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.
@stealsoftly โThe communist peasant-nationalist regimes of Asia, relying on the ideal of Fรผhrerprinzip, extreme ethnocentric nationalism, and racialism and the ultimately grotesque antimodernism like the Khmer Rogue, seemed to some to represent the fascistization of communism. +