Without Lenin, No Hitler?

Extremists in Russia begat extremists in Germany and vice versa

Vladimir Lenin of the left and Adolph Hitler of the right were shadow images of each other. Without one, the other probably would not have risen to dictatorial power. And there was nothing inevitable about their conquests of their countries.

An etching depicting Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin playing chess at a coffee house in Vienna in 1909. In reali…