244 HUMANITY MADE TO ORDER

for leadership and rule over its subjects was based
on the same assertions. It used to be a favorite
expression of the Romanoffs that "the Russian
peasant and worker need the whip." But the Rus-
sian people, who were the last in European coun-
tries to be freed from serfdom (about 1860), and
who, after being freed, were still kept in a state of
semi-slavery by low wages, who were abused, ruled,
exploited and ill-treated by the Czarist regime (and
are now also driven under Stalin's dictatorship),
were able to create and contribute to the world
some of the greatest productions in art, literature,
music and science.

There is little difference in origin between this
attitude toward the Russian people, Hitler's doc-
trine of Aryan superiority, and Mussolini's theory
of the supremacy of the Italian people due to
their Roman origin. The dictator's dogma of the
supremacy or inferiority of one group or race or
nation is in each case only a fantasy created be-
cause it is suitable to his own demagogic plans and
ambitions.

Just as the friends of Stalin neatly label the Rus-
sians as Slavic, lazy, slovenly, and given to inertia,
Hitler, in his book Mein Kampf, labels the Aryan
race, and specifically the German people, the salt of