Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism sprang from Fascism. Winston Churchill

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. … As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism sprang from Fascism.

Winston Churchill. The Gathering Storm

 

Both are totalitarian systems where the government controls everyone and everything “for the common good” – and the good of the masters.