A corollary to Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies states that once a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis is made in an online discussion, the thread ends and the person who mentioned Hitler automatically loses the argument.
In some cases, however, the rule doesn't apply — such as when the behavior of other totalitarian regimes is discussed. I never thought the day would come that I would say this, but it no longer applies to discussing my country, Russia. Here's a Nazi analogy.
"It is not only the same people but above all a long communal history and culture which bind together the Reich and Austria," Adolf Hitler said in February 1938.
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