How exactly did the removal of Hitler backfire?
It’s quite reductionist to compare this Maduro situation to WW2.
Genocide being the exception, perhaps.
Basically, "leave it to the population to sort out themselves, even if they've lost the democratic means to do so," up until a government has gone so insane it's massacring its people, or other people.
I think WW2 had a little bit more justification than whatever this is.