Talk politics.

And I retract not one word of my statements on both. Things like the Komissarbefehl and encouraging soldiers with a free pass for war crimes are what one expects of the Thirty Years' War, and the Nazi state in fact was a revival of the Thirty Years' War concept of states fighting because it was all they were able to do. Stalinism, by contrast, was an evil mutation of established principles and concepts that had already existed but at the blacker end of the morality spectrum, within the same spectrum used by everyone else ll the same.