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Otto Bauer, leader of the Austrian interwar Social Democratic Party, was also a prominent theoretician of nationalism whose impact on contemporaries, including especially European socialists & communists, was far-reaching. He altered his opinions on the Anschluss in a rapidly changing world, particularly due to the rise of the National Socialist revolution. A fervent champion of the Anschluss in the revolutionary postwar era (1918/19), he was compelled to abandon his pro-union views in 1933. But before his death in July 1938, he took a position on behalf of a gesamtdeutsch revolution in which Austrians, instead of restoring their independence, would participate if the outcome of the war made it possible. But Bauer did not entirely shed the concept of preserving, in some form, an independent Austrian socialist organization within German socialism & within the Reich.. Adapted from the source document.

During the interwar period, the leadership of the Soviet Union did a onehundred- eighty degree turn in its policy toward the political link-up between Austria and Germany. The Soviets first denounced the victorious Western powers' prohibition of the Anschluss. Later they showed outright opposition to the Nazi drive for German unification in Central Europe. The Austrian Communist Party and international communism promptly executed the same turnabout. In accordance with the new line, during and at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union joined the Allies in supporting the restoration of Austrian independence and sovereignty.