Did the totalitarian government appeal to the masses? Why?
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Communism is a political doctrine as valid and worthy of contemplation as capitalism, and it isn't necessarily a totalitarian government, therefore it should not be grouped with fascism and Nazism, both of which were based on discrimination and prejudice.
Communism was destroyed and brutalized by Stalin, who DID NOT in any way represent the communist ideology. Pre-Stalin Soviet Russia encouraged religious freedom and women's rights, none of which were even contemplated by Hitler's Germany or Mussolini' Italy. But clearly you didn't know that, so I suggest you inform yourself properly before asking such questions.
As to Mussolini and Hitler...they were both master manipulators. Undoubtedly, they managed to transform the people's fears and needs of the time into complete psychosis through a complex yet simple system of propaganda and subliminal messages...plus, they were both crazy.
I think the effect of their regimes in the world today are pretty evident. The Germans have never fully recovered socially, after all some German still get spit on and called "Nazi" still today even though they're not to blame for what their ancestors did... Italians, however, didn't suffer this fate, because most of the massacre was concentrated in Germany.