It's all the same shit, power is what drives politicians ideology is just a good excuse. With the difference that socialist didn't publicly stand for ideas like eugenics. They wouldn't throw you out to die in the broad daylight like Nazis and Spartans did. When no one is watching, sure. But it wasn't officially endorsed practice.
Nationalist party that is carbon copy of Putins party but pushing for EU integration is in power where I'm from. Doesn't make sense? It doesn't have to as long they get rich and ordinary man poorer. Former prime minister is now a president, in both cases supported by huge majority (just like Putin). Elections were two days ago, I voted as a good citizen should (not for him of course). But I'm member of leading party, because my father is city clerk who could lose a job if I wasn't in the goddamn party. My father wasn't employed by any party which is why his job is at risk, close near retirement. On Sunday I was playing with my 15 month old nephew, party bots (that's how we call them), reminded us to vote many times before it was even noon. Good thing we voted around noon, so they called just twice before I informed them that we voted for our leader (lol nope)...
During presidential campaign every single television station was 24/7 spreading leading party propaganda, you could see other candidates once in a blue moon. Every single newspaper as well (I think now one foreign agency owns every major news in country, they just recycle same news that come from the source). Only place where you could hear different opinion is the Internet, of course. Kinda hard to moderate it.
But here's a catch, this nation is extraordinary old and extremely uneducated (due to wars). Old people don't browse Internet, they are glued to TV 24/7. With new party came new channel, some soft core porn reality shit that is owned by small time criminal who can't read or write (still a millionaire, so fuck me). Old people love it because actual cheap whores with venereal diseases and some random thugs and thieves are screaming at each other and fucking like rabbits. They like that shit, so it became second national television so to speak. Hosting our great leader every goddamn night in same stupid political show.
It's like 1984, only more primitive because it isn't happening in England but one of the 'stans (that's how Ottomans called their conquered lands). This would be Serbistan, with Erdogan like character in power, who both are controlled by papa Putin. It kinda sucks when your country is nothing but some shitty, insignificant copy of Russia. No wonder I'm not proud nationalist like Oberyn is. What I have to be proud of?