!tankiejerk@piefed.social moment

Explanation: In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the German Communist Party, taking its marching orders from the (foreign) Soviet dictator Stalin, operated on a principle of opposition to the German Social Democratic Party, out of a vague notion that they were “Social Fascists” despite being the only other leftist party of note in the Weimar Republic. Also despite the fact that the first half of the 1920s (before Stalin came to power in the Soviet Union, and his chief bootlicker, Thalmann, came to power in the German Communist Party) consisted largely of the Social Democrats and Communists cooperating and achieving significant success.

This notion of not working with fascists apparently did not apply to the literal fascist party of the country, the Nazis, as the German Communist Party openly collaborated with them in order to overthrow regional governments that were Social Democrat-dominated.

This earned them no brownie points with the Nazis. The Nazis would later ban the German Communist Party.

Kinda fucked to use Einstein here ngl

The GDR did happen. About two fifths of modern-day Germany (less by population count or pre-WW2 German area) isn’t nothing. Though it clearly wasn’t worth it.