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The Myth Of Stalin's Great Terror

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Another myth was busted, that Hitler took power over by fear and force. Anti-Jewish and anti-Bolshevik speechifying played the German public well for the benefit of Hitler. Germans felt humiliated by defeat and bankrupt by recession, and Hitler blamed “the Jews” for both. Unlike Stalin, Hitler did not make a habit of murdering his closest allies. Nazis party never experienced the purges of the Stalin’s. Hitler 's opposition were so demoralized by his party success resulting in almost no conflict. President Vladimir Putin, welcoming a new teacher’s history guide describing Stalin as the Soviet Union 's “most successful leader”, the guide compared Stalin 's Great Terror of 1937 with the allied bombing of Hiroshima which brought America under
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