"Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight."
— Joseph Goebbels

January 1, 1970

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Note: according to Curt Riess, journalist, author, and Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany, Goebbels was “praising Lenin” and drawing “parallels between Bolshevists and the Nazis.” By April of 1926, Hitler told him to stop. (Joseph Goebbels: A Biography, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York (1948) p. 31