“To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.”

— Thomas Mann

Essays, ed. by H.Kurzke, Frankfurt 1986, vol. 2, p. 311

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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