The ruler becomes the State . The State and, for that matter government becomes omniconmpetent. There is no sphere of life which the modern dictator’s State will not cover . For Hitler and Mussolini there was nothing above the State, nothing beyond it,and nothing beside it. The State embraced all activities of the individouls and subordinated them to national ends. It was an omnocompetent and infallible State Mussolini’s motto to the people of Italy was : “All within the State , none outside the State, none against the State.” This was tantamount to the worship of the State and this worship of the State was cultivated in Schools, on the playground, in clubs, associantions and in fact everywhere. The life of every individoul did not belong to him, but to the State and the State alone. Thus, narrow nationalism, chauvinism, aggressive wasfare and imperialistic expansion were some of the essential features of Facism and Naziism. Russian Communism had also become nationalistic and militaristic, although it was not yet aggressively imperialistic, despite what Russia had done to Finland, the small Baltic State and in Afghanistan.