2: People for whatever reason have this notion that the fascists were better for their countries economically than the communists, even though it was the communists who produced far greater developments.

It's wild how effective we let fascist Propaganda be. 9/10 WWII docs will just straight up show images of their tanks and rallies and so on without ever once commenting on how it was all just flash - Hitler's economic policy was borrowing a shitload of money, hiding his military spending with Disney Bucks, and then declaring war before the payments came do. Under Mussolini trains literally ran worse than they did before but everyone associates him with the "at least the trains ran on time" truism. We're slightly more honest when talking about the Japanese economy of the period, but only because understanding that the American embargo on oil was a deciding factor to their attacking Pearl Harbor is part of the narrative.