Due to their leftist ideas, they were clearly not in Hitler's good book and as a result, Hitler's Nazi regime arrested thousands of communists during the Reichstag Fire. This was a result of the mounting dissatisfaction among the working class. By doing this, the Nazi regime was identifying and eliminating all potential challenges, and due to the decree, it was legal for the Nazi state to detain the people they thought were threats. This, for the most part, nullified the threat posed against the Nazi regime. .
In Mao's Communist China, the Hundred Flowers campaign was launched as a means of letting the intellectuals in China speak out. At first, Mao did this with the intent of finding ways to improve his regime by hearing out the concerns and criticisms of the intellectuals. However, things got out of hand as Mao's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) realized that their power was being undermined. This led to a purge of these intellectuals during the Anti-Rightist Campaign, where they were seen sent into the countryside to undergo labor reforms. Though it is hard to prove whether or not it was Mao's original intention to condemn the intellectuals through this campaign, it served to oppress the opposition anyway, which helped to get rid of the negative views regarding the Maoist regime, which in turn helped consolidate their power. .
Winning the hearts and minds of the masses was equally as important as repressing the opposition, in order to strengthen their power. One of Hitler's domestic policies which did just that was his economic policy. The highlight of the policy was that it reduced unemployment by millions. This was a major bonus for his regime, because the unemployment issue was one of the main problems Germany was facing when he took over, and during his campaigns, he promised to tackle the issue, and with those results, he carried out his promises. This helped him gain a lot of mileage on the path to winning over the masses, as millions of formerly unemployed people were finding jobs in the work programs implemented by the Nazis and more significantly, in the ever-expanding car industry.
