New Germany/Russia same as old Germany/Russia.
Evil attracting evil.
During the Great Purge most foreign Communist who had taken refuge in the USSR were either shot or disappeared into the GULAG. What was left were to be totally subservient Staliniods such as Walter Ulbricht who would be simply Stalin's loyal puppets. Hardly surprising that Stalin would get rid of some of these ‘unreliable’ elements in this fashion. I'm sure he got a chuckle out of it.
Nazi Germany’s death camps were copied directly from the Soviet system of Gulags. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was a Russian fraud adopted by the Nazis to promulgate hatred of Jews. There are more than just parallels. There are direct links between the Nazis and the Soviets.
Let’s not be too eager to believe everything we read. That part of the world has been a hotbed of lies, distortion, and misinformation. Remember the Protocols of The Elders of Zion?
The Germans paid Lenin to overthrow the tsar and, later, the provisional government. Without German financial backing the bolsheviks were nothing
I believe they covered this in the documentary, ‘The Soviet Story’
I would provide a link but Youtube has scrubbed/censored it.
The Freikorps were working with Russia in the 20’s IIRC.
Stalin did not want a strong German Communist Party. He knew if the Communists took over Germany, they would inevitably rival Moscow for leadership in the world Communist movement. So Stalin was more than happy to let Hitler eliminate the KPD.
Judge Roland Freisler, who headed the Nazi “People’s Court”, started out as a Bolshevik, who got inspiration from Stalin’s 1930s show trials.
The big difference between the FBI and the Gestapo is that Hitler had some control over the Gestapo and they never attempted a coup d’etat.