A Marxist-influenced party rising to power in Germany against a backdrop of exploding inflation and war in Europe. We saw this movie before… — “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism”, thus starts Karl Marx’s 1848 best-seller “Manifesto of the Communist Party”. Since then, “red” communism (1917 — 1989) swept Eastern Europe, leaving an unmistakable legacy of death, destruction, misery, and hopelessness in its wake.