Original sentence: Fascists also banned strikes and trade unions, and imprisoned or executed socialist leaders.Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy started a war against the Soviet Union with the aim of destroying communism.Some commentators who are opposed to capitalism alongside Nazism and fascism, argue that fascist economic policies were essentially capitalist - perhaps even more so than the policies of other nations in the same time period
Edited sentence: Fascists also banned strikes and trade unions, and imprisoned or executed socialist leaders nearly as much as did Stalin.Nazi Germany started a war against the Soviet Union with the aim of destroying communism, admittedly after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact created an alliance to divide Poland between them.Some commentators who are opposed to capitalism alongside Nazism and fascism argue that fascist economic policies were essentially capitalist - perhaps even more so than the policies of other nations in the same time period.This criticism would necessarily rely on a definition of capitalism nearly opposite that of laissez-faire capitalism or Manchesterism for which Hitler expressed disdain in Mein Kampf