Explain the governments of: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Communist Soviet Union.

All three of those governments exhibited totalitarian rule. This is when the government controls every aspect of your daily life. What made fascism different is that they considered communism and socialism sworn enemies. Therefore fascism isn't a set in stone political ideology, it is simply any form of government that is totalitarian but does not follow socialism or communism. Italy and Germany were Fascist governments. However, the Soviet Union was communist because they followed the ideals of Karl Marx.