Why was fascism seen as a bigger threat in WWII than communism?

Question

Why was the US an ally with the Soviet Union/Communists?

Answer 1

allying the communists was the lesser of two evils. the faschists started ww2

Answer 2

Good question!!!

You might have to get into the brains of FDR & the US Congress to understand that one completely...

I think that the United States in the 30s & 40s was still largely unaware of what the communists were doing in the Soviet Union. I hope that we didn't really know the full extent of Stalin's totalitarian state, his murder of anyone who contradicted his ideals, the general state of scariness...
Also, lots of Americans (especially academia) were still curious to see what was happening in the USSR. They were curious how communism would pan out.

But mainly, the US had forged alliances with several countries that promised our support. When Poland was invaded, it was seen as an imminent problem for the rest of Europe. It was Hitler's confirmation that he was not going to live up to his promises of peace. All of the world knew that he was not going to stop with Poland; he was bent on taking over the world because he openly stated as much.
The USSR was not an imminent threat (it hadn't invaded militarily anywhere that the Western world cared about and wasn't threatening to do so) and the USSR disliked & feared fascism as much as we did for some of the same reasons we didn't like it and for other reasons, too (Hitler broke his promise with Stalin, they were fascism's #2 target and they wanted Poland, the Slavic countries, & Finland for themselves). The "big three" alliance was uneasy... throughout World War II, the US did not share information about the development of the Bomb because we feared Stalin would use it against us. Oh to be a fly on the wall at Potsdam, hmm? However, all three countries knew that in order to stop Hitler from taking over all of Europe they would need to work together.

Answer 3

The US was an ally of the Soviets but it wasn't right away.

President F. Roosevelt's plans for ending the depression in the US smacked of socialism for many people, including most major manufacturers (most companies were family-run or had solo owners) and they preferred the Fascist government being hand-in-hand with industry, rather than the Communist way of taking over industry and throwing out the owners. For example, Henry Ford was a big fan of Hitler. To this day I won't buy a Ford car (unto the 10th generation, Henry!).

Answer 4

Because the fascists had embarked on a policy of world domination by military power whereas the threat from communism was felt to be more political.

Answer 5

Because Japan attacked Pearl Habor, and then Germany declared war on the US. And by that time the USSR was already allied with England against Germany, so they had a common enemy.

Answer 6

"National socialism" is race-based; "international socialism" is class-based.

Jews, Gypsies, and imperfect Germans (e.g., those with ears that protruded) were deemed "subhuman" in the National Socialist ("Nazi") drive toward genetic engineering of the race.

In Soviet Russia, kulaks (peasants who owned small farms), priests, and others were murdered by the state, also by the millions.

In the U.S. and Europe, many were non-Germans; they were all to become slaves, if the Germans won. In Soviet Russia, those who were sons and daughters of working class people were regarded as good people, so long as they denied God, believed in the "class struggle," etc.

"Death by Government," Dr. R. J. Rummel, is a major work in the general field of why neither Nazi nor Communist governments have been anything but majorly murderous of their own citizens.

As with the issue of abortion, those who do not believe in God nor that human beings have souls, tend to view with more favor the Soviet/Communist notion that a person is a grown-up germ, a unit of the state-as-"god" and nothing more. Thus, in the name of "social justice" (as determined by Communist thinkers), murdering people (as J. Stalin said) is a "statistic."

Many people, desiring to be free of e.g. Christ's Sermon on the Mount, "thou shalt not kill," "thou shalt not commit adultery," etc., decided there was no God for them. Thus, the next best thing was Communism, in which man takes responsibility for his or her own actions, lives and dies, and that's it. If God Is, then even Communists must consider e.g. what the "red letters" in the New Testament say.

So, with many people deciding God wasn't, and feeling that "social justice" was a good thing, along with doing whatever they thought or felt was "right," the majority, not being Germans, hence likely slaves, preferred international social-ism.

"The Black Book of Communism," by Stephane Courtois, et al., is another good reference as to the many millions of innocent people murdered by Communist dictators. It was put together by a group of left-leaning French professors, yet it is honest in that it records the historical facts. Being anti-Communist or simply even-handed regarding God and atheistic Communism is a rare position for most university professors at this time, so the "Black Book" is worthwhile.

Would also note that "Washington: The Indispensible Man," by James Flexner, is a good introduction to a genuinely honest politician, who was principled and moral. Reading what some of these people wrote helps cut through the layers of interpretation and even distortion which many "scholars" tend to place between you and the original source documents.

Ironically, Communist scientists in the People's Republic of China, such as Jiin-Ju Chang ("Biophotons"--described on amazon.com), and those who are described in Paul Dong's wonderful book, "China's Super Psychics" and Lynne McTaggart's "The Field" (both these latter are general-reader friendly), are showing that even Communist scientists are finding what Western scientists (e.g., and others such as David Wilcock ) are discovering--that there are states of being which go beyond ordinary waking consciousness. So, while many Western people and teachers are yet accustomed, by being what the Bible terms "in sinful or mortal mindedness," to denying God is (a negative claim, which logically is impossible to "prove"--one has to take it on "faith"), some Communist scientists are finding more about the human being that indicates states beyond the physical exist. , , and are three additional Western, science-based web site urls which tend to dispute the materialist basis of 19th century Communism, which was the basis for the attraction of "materialist social justice" Communism over "National Socialism.".

With hopes at least some of this is helpful for you,

best regards,

j.