Student: My question is if Nazism and
fascism in Germany were so similar to
Stalinism in the Soviet Union, why did
Hitler consider Stalin his greatest enemy
and consider that Lebensraum to the
East was the way to go, and sent
80 percent of his soldiers to fight the Soviets
if they were basically the same ideology?
D'Souza: Very good question, which is
if Nazism and communism are
both leftist, how come they went to war?
First of all, it's important to realize
that ideologies that are very close to
each other frequently do go to war.
The Catholics and the Protestants.
The Shia and the Sunni.
The Shia and the Sunni are both
in the house of Islam.
They actually agree on 99 percent
of theological beliefs, but they've
been fighting for centuries. Why?
Competitions over territory,
and power, and so on. Remember that
Hitler was a national socialist.
The reason that Hitler hated the
communists was not because they
were socialists. He liked that part
about it. What he didn't like was that
they were taking their orders from
Moscow. He saw them as traitors
to Germany. So Hitler's priority
was socialism in Germany.
Remember that Hitler, who went to
war with Stalin, was allied with Stalin.
So on the foreign policy domain,
Hitler was perfectly happy to sign
the Hitler-Stalin Pact and then violate
it for reasons of national interest.
So the bottom line of it is the fact
that Germany and the Soviet Union
went to war in no way refutes the idea
that progressivism, communism, and
fascism were all three sister movements
that developed in Germany, in Italy,
in America, and in Russia, all in
response to the crisis of Marxism.
D'Souza: Lincoln was elected to
unite a country and stop slavery.
Democrats smeared him, went to
war against him, assasinated him.
Now, their target is Trump.
[Protestors chanting]
D'Souza: They say he's a racist, a fascist.
But who are the real racists and fascists?
A nation dies when its
people are not free.
It's now up to us to save
America a second time.
