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TheLateHenry t1_j347vgk wrote

It also very much didn’t help that the SPD antagonised the far-left forces right from the get-go and used the military on them.

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PhD-Holder-Nordic t1_j36f188 wrote

Sure, everything would've been fine had Germany just allied with Stalin who were murdering millions way before Hitler got going.

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TheLateHenry t1_j36msm3 wrote

That’s not what I said at all. What I meant was that the SPD split up into two parties shortly before the Weimar Republic was created, the SPD and the USPD, who would later become the KPD. If the SPD would have at least managed to keep a working relationship with the USPD, the Reichstag could have continued to function and there would have been no need for the Notstandsgesetze.

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PhD-Holder-Nordic t1_j36nxlf wrote

>Under the leadership of Ernst Thälmann from 1925 the party became thoroughly Stalinist and loyal to the leadership of the Soviet Union, and from 1928 it was largely controlled and funded by the Comintern in Moscow. Under Thälmann's leadership the party directed most of its attacks against the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which it regarded as its main adversary and referred to as "social fascists"; the KPD considered all other parties in the Weimar Republic to be "fascists".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany

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TheLateHenry t1_j36swy3 wrote

Yes, but what I'm saying is that if the SPD would have acted differently in 1918/19, then the KPD might have either been an even smaller party because the SPD would have integrated more of their voters into itself, or not felt the need to simply become a Muscowian puppet party.

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PhD-Holder-Nordic t1_j36tdxc wrote

You can't act much differently than they did. It was an armed uprising attempting to overthrow the government and introduce a communist dictatorship in Germany.

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