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Question: How can socialism serve as a veil for implementing harsh…

- - - - Mainly in WWII-era regimes, and during the Cold War, we can see that socialist and communist regimes both committed war crimes which can be considered on par, if not worse, than those committed by the Axis (gulags, genocides, the Great Purge, the Great Leap Forward, etc.)
        
        https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao
    - - Venezuela, Cuba, China, and North Korea are the most notable examples, and they all have many controversies
        
        https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/socialist-countries
    - - Putin's nationalism and militarism and chinese oppression of its people (Taiwan, Hong Kong) besides their failed 'socialism'
        
        https://www.history.com/news/vladimir-putin-russia-power
        
        https://hbr.org/2021/05/americans-dont-know-how-capitalist-china-is
- - - - It has been seen before in history, and we'll most certainly see it again. It might even be a mistake to think it won't, and that this time it will be different
    - - As we can see in this poll from Axios, the popularity of socialism is increasing in the country, a trend that can be seen world-wide. Considering all of this: Can we say that the youth brainwashing is already occurring? Is this a bad omen, a sign of the coming times? Should we be worried, or is this the lesser evil, if even an evil at all?
    - - It can be said that the left is just as harmful, if not more, than the right, though the public tends to think otherwise
- - - - Lenin quote in attached reference (fist lines)
        
        https://www.jstor.org/stable/42867730
    - - There are many first-hand accounts of this happening. Some might be objective, and others subjective, but that is up for the reader to decide. Either way, there is an evident bias.
        
        https://nypost.com/2021/07/02/dont-let-the-left-keep-brainwashing-kids-to-fight-their-political-wars/
        
        https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/21/chinas-brainwashed-youth/
    - - There is a clear brainwashing into Nazi ideals through propaganda and routines
        
        https://echoesandreflections.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03-02-05-01_StudentHandout_Hitlerjugend.pdf
- - - - Hitler did it, Lenin did it
        
        https://www.jstor.org/stable/42867730
    - - Several sources show this trend (magazines, articles, etc.), but there is a survey
        
        https://www.axios.com/2021/06/25/americas-continued-move-toward-socialism
    - - China, USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Vietnam, Iron Curtain
        
        https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/totalitarian-regime