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No original: " Nazi Germany was still in some respects a kind of Rechtsstaat, strange as that may sound. It had laws. They might not be attractive laws, but so long as you were not a Jew or a communist or a dissenter or handicapped or otherwise socially undesirable you would not have to fall foul of them. The Soviet Union too had laws: but anyone could fall foul of them just by being recategorized into the class of enemies. So, from the perspective of the victim, the USSR was far more frightening—because less predictable—than Nazi Germany. (pt) |
