Russia was not in existence anymore. It was the USSR, a fundamentally different regime.
Regime type doesn't matter, as any realist IR scholar will tell you. Germany was anti-Russia in 1914 when Russian was tsarist, it was anti-Russia in 1941 when it was communist, and it's anti-Russia now when it's Putinist.
maybe atheist bolsheviks had just slaughtered the Tsar and his family, and started wholesale extermination of the Russian people via the soviet state
Just so I understand your position: you're arguing that Hitler was upset that the communists killed the tsar and his family... who had brought Russia into war against Germany, and that the authors of General Plan Ost were upset about 'the wholesale extermination of the Russian people' that they were planning themselves?
No. Communism is the enemy of all nations, because they stated goals are worldwide overthrow of nations. That's the point. Germans were afraid of communists, especially since Antifa and Marxists were active and trying to control Germany. Read hitler.
You can even hate a foriegn people and yet still understand how communism could spill over from their country and destroy your own country. Communists literally advocate a worldwide revolution and they seek to export Marxism internationally. Read Lenin and Marx.
I don't have to love Mexico, i might even hate their regime, but if they were overthrown by atheist radical Marxists who began vocally planning and funding revolutions in my country I would do well to take heed and prepare to fight.
Regime type doesn't matter, as any realist IR scholar will tell you. Germany was anti-Russia in 1914 when Russian was tsarist, it was anti-Russia in 1941 when it was communist, and it's anti-Russia now when it's Putinist.
Just so I understand your position: you're arguing that Hitler was upset that the communists killed the tsar and his family... who had brought Russia into war against Germany, and that the authors of General Plan Ost were upset about 'the wholesale extermination of the Russian people' that they were planning themselves?
No. Communism is the enemy of all nations, because they stated goals are worldwide overthrow of nations. That's the point. Germans were afraid of communists, especially since Antifa and Marxists were active and trying to control Germany. Read hitler.
You can even hate a foriegn people and yet still understand how communism could spill over from their country and destroy your own country. Communists literally advocate a worldwide revolution and they seek to export Marxism internationally. Read Lenin and Marx.
I don't have to love Mexico, i might even hate their regime, but if they were overthrown by atheist radical Marxists who began vocally planning and funding revolutions in my country I would do well to take heed and prepare to fight.
What's the 'overthrow of nations'?
Correct, 'Germans' were afraid of communists, like most Europeans.
Which works? Also, have you heard of 'socialism in one country'?
And look at what Hitler did, he brought communism right into 1/4 of Germany.