@LukeAlmighty In my humble opinion people of the past all had intact communities for the most part.
What the people wanted was work (to not starve to death) and a way out of the economic depression.
Where the real ruse cruise begins is that one could claim "they" reversed everything the nazis did and somehow the allied nations all went down with Germany. Looking at the state of the west (or POCCNR) now, it's hard to imagine those countries won a war while i.e. Japan lost WW2 too and is off way better.