Transcript: A Comparison of Russia and the Weimar Republic - Part 1

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June 23, 1994
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NEAL CONAN, Host: Analysts and historians are drawing parallels between today's Russia and the old Weimar Republic of Germany. Weimar is the term used to describe a tumultuous period in German history after World War I when Germany tried to transform itself into a democracy and ended up a fascist dictatorship. Similarities between Russia and Weimar are disturbing. After all, Weimar, Germany, produced Adolf Hitler. From Moscow, NPR's Mike Shuster has the first of two reports.

MIKE SHUSTER, Reporter: The Weimar Republic in Germany was named after the small town where, in 1919, Germany's first democratic constitution was written. And it is from that ...

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