Adolf Hitler And Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were notorious and brutal totalitarian dictators. Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, and Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, were both responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Although they had different ideologies and methods, Hitler and Stalin were accountable for some of the darkest chapters in human history. The comparison of these two figures is complex and multifaceted and continues to be the subject of debate and analysis by historians. Stalin’s and Hitler's rise to power was methodical and slow, however, what made them different were their tactics. Hitler found his way in from the unstable economy after World War 1. He believed that enlisting party members who had the same morals as him

In the beginning, it was easy for Hitler to gain everyone's trust and political opinion by suggesting hundreds of good ideas that he would achieve for Germany. But as he gained more and more power he resorted to terror. Like Hitler, Stalin also used terror to acquire support. A term created to describe his use of fear was “Stalinism”. Stalin sent many purges and The Great Terror toward people who did not support collectivization and industrialization. He sent Kulaks to the gulag and even used death to purge those who didn't support the same ideas he had. At the end of these purges, thousands of people were expelled from the communist party. A similar pattern is noticed between Hitler and the Nazis. If someone disobeyed or disrespected Hitler and the Nazis, they could be punished or even killed. The Nazis had a strict set of laws that were not to be broken. A factor that added to everyone's fears was Hitler's hatred for the Jews. He set up thousands of concentration camps that held Jews captive and tortured them. It was overall a very dark time for Germany but everyone was too scared to go against him. Some say that Hitler was more brutal than Stalin but they still had the same morals and wanted everyone to obey

The new tactic they used was propaganda. Propaganda is extremely biased information to promote one point of view from an individual. In this case, they used it to persuade society into only believing that what they were doing was good. As Hitler states in his book Mein Kampf, “The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form.” He chose information that the public would want to hear rather than what is actually happening. To enforce the people hearing the news, cheap at-home radios were made so people could hear Stalin‘s and Hitler's messages. If that wasn't enough, they placed giant speakers all around the cities to essentially brainwash the public. Many kids were affected by these tactics because that's all they had ever seen or known. He also wrote that “to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right it has set out to argue.”. His book truly gave a perfect perspective of what thought process Hitler went through. Stalin even went as far as changing photographs to change the appearance of what he wanted to come off as. Everything from television, pictures, and newspapers was published to glorify Stalin and Hitler as leaders. One idea that they thought differently about was the rights of women. Stalin encouraged women to not only take care of