Nazism Embraced by American Progressives

Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, progressives in America quickly gave their support to the new revolutionary regime of Vladimir Lenin.  Actually support for that ideology continues to some extent on the progressive left today.  During the early 1930's we saw the rise of a similar political system in Germany---the rise of the National Socialism, the Nazis.  Those on the American left were quick to embrace that German Revolution, like they do most revolutionary movements.  The love affair with the Nazi's continued until the early 1940's when a vast German army began it's invasion of the USSR.  At that point those in the progressive movement had to chose between the Hitler's Nazi and Stalin's Communist---they chose the latter.  I will never understand why the American left always seems to embrace revolutions no matter what they represent.  We've been witness to this again and again from Russia to Germany to Cuba to Iran and then the Arab Spring in Cairo.  Of course, the most noticeable exception came just a few years ago when those on the left refused to support those Iranians that had finally had enough of the Mullahs.  For some unknown reason American Progressives are almost always on the wrong side of history!