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« on: June 13, 2009, 03:12:21 pm »
Stalin and Hitler we're both pretty bad, but in your opinion who was worse? The communist leader who would kill and torture his own for no reason whatsoever, or the fascist dictator who persecuted any in the way of the Aryan race?
It's hard to choose. On the one hand, Stalin forced starvation on farmers in the Ukraine by exporting 5 million tons of grain from the area to sell for weapons and thus committed an act of genocide, and Stalin's body count is higher than Hitler's (20-30million); Hitler, however, committed genocide and ushered in World War 2. Both had horrible ways of controlling their country. Stalin controlled using fear and force, killing or imprisoning anyone who would speak ill of him or his ways, and many people who we're completely innocent. Hitler controlled using fear and propaganda, blaming the Jews for everything and thus making them hated, not to mention the concentration camps that both countries had.
I expect Hitler to win the poll because he's focused on more because of World War 2, but personally I believe Stalin was worse.