War functioned oppositely for the two regimes, perfecting versus suspending total rule

Evidence

In contrast to Germany, where Hitler used his war consciously to develop and, as it were, perfect totalitarian government, the war period in Russia was a time of temporary suspense of total domination. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to how crisis/war conditions are opportunistically metabolized by totalitarian movements — connects to the elements-of-total-domination framework developed in Parts I-II.