Question

How was a socialist state established by Lenin? Explain.
Or
How were women perceived in Nazi Germany? Explain.

Answer 1

A socialist state was established by Lenin in the following ways:
(i) Centralized planning with a system of five years plan.
(ii) Private property were abolished and property was socially controlled.
(iii) An extended schooling system was developed.
Or
The ways women perceived in Nazi Germany were as follows:
(i) Children in Nazi Germany were told that women were radically different from men.
(ii) The fight for equal rights for men and women that had become part of democratic struggles everywhere was wrong and it would destroy society. While boys were taught to be aggressive, masculine and steel hearted, girls were told that they had to become good mothers and real pure-blooded Aryan children.
(iii) Girls had to maintain the purity of the race, distance themselves from Jews, look after the home, and teach their children Nazi values. They had to be the bearers of the Aryan culture and race.
(iv) In Nazi Germany, women who bore racially desirable children were rewarded with concession in shops, on theatre tickets and railway fares. They were also given favoured treatment in hospitals. Women those who produced racially undesirable children were punished.
(v) All 'Aryan' women who deviated from the prescribed code of conduct were publicly condemned and severely punished.