hen talking about History, some people are often bound to a specific way of thinking that is not appropriate for this kind of subject. In particular, they tend to think of it in terms of historic rivalries. As a consequence, Athens against Sparta becomes something similar to Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees. Besides being wrong, such reasoning is also misleading. In this story, I will address one of the main?—?alleged?—?rivalries in History, namely Nazi Germany against the Communist Soviet Union. The main reason why they are considered the opposite is that when we locate political parties in space,...