Still Shape our world?
Let's see: last time I looked the Soviet Union had gone flooey and Stalinism was dead even before that. Mao's China has not only turned capitalist but done its best to undo the damage he inflicted and Hitler and his thousand year Reich have been dead and buried for nearly sixty years.
That these Bad men had tremendous and damaging impact on Human history is undeniable but it is the forces that were called up to oppose them that have lasted. It is the reaction *against* their evil that shaped the twentieth century.
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