According to the Nazi government this goal was pursued by Germany to secure a fair rearrangement of territory for the common benefit of a new, economically integrated Europe,[6] which in Nazi terminology meant the continent of Europe with the exclusion of the "Asiatic" Soviet Union.[7] Nazi racial views regarded the "Judeo-Bolshevist" Soviet state both as a criminal institution which needed to be destroyed as well as a barbarian place as yet lacking any actual culture that would give it a "European" character.[8] Neuordnung was therefore hardly ever used in reference to Soviet Russia since theoretically there were no structures that could be re-organized along National Socialist designs.