Answer:
It is arguable that Europe and the world would have been better off had Germany been the victor in WWI. ...
Explanation:
A victorious Germany, after the war in the West ended, would have crushed the Bolsheviks in Russia, thus avoiding the pain and suffering Soviet rule imposed on the Russian people and, later, Eastern Europe.
The correct answer here would be Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution that brought communism to power in Russia and established the Soviet Union. Lenin's "New Economic Policy" serves as an example of central planning to bring everything under the central government's control.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the philosophical founders of communist ideas back in the 19th century.
Josef Stalin was the totalitarian leader that took over the communist leadership in the USSR after Lenin's death.
The Iranian hostage crisis
