>>8015976Yeah none of those things collapsed Germany, and conflict between factions has been common in pretty much every single empire ever including ones that lasted for centuries. All of the Communist countries also had their own factional battles. The Night of the Long Knives in particular is a classic example of a post-revolutionary purge where the various destabilising and unreliable disparate elements are removed now the new regime has established itself and wants to fill it's ranks with loyalists and the more stable 'normal' people that had too much to lose in throwing in with a revolution initially (like wealth, prestige, family, property which, along with your life are things failed revolutionaries usually lose). There is a reason the bulk of early extremist revolutionaries (vanguardism) and supporters usually have less to lose and far more to gain so are more likely to take the risk. These people are great for providing that early muscle but must be removed after success has been achieved. Hard to run your newly reformed Safavid Persian Empire with your Messianic Military Order of Qizilbash and other assorted tribesmen keep running around slaughtering people when you should be stabilising things.
As a Communist, you should fully understand and appreciate the mechanisms of revolution, vanguardism and purges. I mean come on, Russia's moustache man was the king of them, even though he may have gone a bit far in the perpetual nature of it.
Also the 1944 genocidal stuff was about conserving resources and attempting to cover up war crimes by just liquidating everyone that was a problematic group that otherwise had to be guarded and fed (manpower and resources that could be used in the war effort). If liberated they would provide fierce opponents of the regime (which they certainly didn't need more of) and evidence of their actions, or at least they would have if Stalin hadn't declared anyone who was captured a traitor and had them shot or Siberia-ed.
