User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassins vs. Templars: Cold War./@comment-1902784-20110328025814

The Templars are not capitalists themselves as they mention, but rather use capitalism as a means of controlling people, whether by manipulating the greed of the wealthy or by using debt as a means of suppressing the working class and forcing them to work like drones for much of their lives, rather than questioning the natural order of things. In this regard, despite not being capitalists themselves, the Templars strongly endorse this system as a means of furthering their own ends and control over the populace. In turn communism, despite it's flaws when put into practise, is theoretically a system of equality where all people are equal. It also serves to disenfranchise the class system from which the Templars gain their power and majority support from. In this regard it would be closely supported by the Assassins, even if they are not communists themselves.

Historically it is rather blurry but this is the best analysis I can provide. Lenin's dream of the Soviet Union was one very different to Stalin's. His was a dream of a unified and equal society, free of the secret police, violation of human rights and totalitarianism that become a dominant factor behind the Iron Curtain. It is also interesting to note that upon his Lenin's deathbed, Stalin began an immediate power play to take over the USSR and Lenin, realising his former friend's ambition spent his last days cursing Stalin as a traitor and begging the Soviets not to put him in power. Immediately after this Stalin put into place the policies that would define the modern view of a communist nation as an isolationistic security state that takes the power away from the people rather than giving to them. From this we can derive that Stalin was a Templar infiltrator or a Assassin that later became a traitor, who performed these acts to turn the world against communism and retain the capitalist power base of the Templars.

A similar event also occured in China. Despite being a tyrant, and forced to make overzealous acts against his people, Chairman Mao was a deep idealist who believed in the fundamental ideals of communism. Is it not possible that he, being deceived by his closest "ally" Stalin, was so brutal because of the Cold War mentality that they were under attack every second by the capitalists. It is also important to note the changes over time in China. Despite being technically communist, China is much more capitalist in nature than any communist country before it and it is very strongly predicted that it will one day enter the free market system. This in turn stems from a similar occurence to the Lenin-Stalin succession. During Mao's leadership a man named Deng Xiaoping was a radical minister in Mao's court who made a number of proposals which bordered on capitalism. Being extremely popular (and also a probable Templar infiltrator like Stalin) Mao had him exiled twice but he was too powerful and was ultimately able to return after Mao died, and managed to attain leadership of the Communist Party.

The Templar strategy seemed to revolve around turning people away from communism, and using Stalin, the head of the most powerful communist state proved to be the ultimate tool. Under his leadership he was able to enact policies for not just Russia, but countless other communist allies that transformed the people's perception of the communists. Communism went from a state of equals to a security state, hidden behind an Iron Curtain so that the Templars could say whatever they liked without anyone being able to prove they were wrong.