The book of I. Fest with a great delay reaches the Russian reader, she had to lie down on the shelves of special stores for a long time, like most Western works on fascism. Then the recognition effect was dangerous. For all the peculiarities of brown and red totalitarianism, the similarity of structures and leaders was too obvious. These days, readers are more likely to be attracted by the striking analogies and parallels between Weimar Germany and modern Russia. Social? economic crisis, power vacuum, corruption, collective anger, politicization, loss of a sense of security - this is the breeding ground for fascism. We must not forget that fascism itself was a rebellion for the sake of order."