EN,  You are kind of bouncing all over the place with the above post.  Also, I think the Soviets did a pretty good job of controlling their youth.  If socialism wasn't a bankrupting economic system, they probably would still be doing it today.  My guess is if one looks around the world today one can find other nations doing a pretty good job of controlling their youth.

Hitler and the Nazi party held control over that nation's institutions, businesses, military, and people right up to complete and total defeat.  The American government was so concerned about Germany rising again that a real debate took place about ending the German nation once and for all (think what Rome did to Carthage but a little more humane) or an attempting reform again.  We chose correctly.