Wednesday was not the first time socialists grabbed for more power by what may have been a false-flag attack on a nation's legislature.
In Berlin, on Feb. 27, 1933, a fire broke out in Germany's legislature, the Reichstag. Four weeks earlier, National Socialist (i.e., Nazi) Adolf Hitler became chancellor.
Hitler's government blamed communist agitators for the arson, although many suspected that Nazis lit the fire. The Nazi Party accused rivals of committing this shocking crime to destroy Germany's democracy. The Reichstag Fire boosted support for Nazi Germany.
