Question

Compare and contrast Joseph Stalin’s authoritarian rule in the Soviet Union to one of the following:

Benito Mussolini in Fascist Italy
Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany

In your response consider the following information.
Similarities: how did they cultivate loyalty and alleviate problems faced by their countries?
Differences: what were their ideologies like and who found the ideologies appealing?

Answer 1

Hitler and Stalin were two very different people with very different ideas. Hitler was a horrible man that caused millions upon millions of deaths. Though Stalin was far from perfect, he was never even close to as bad as Hitler.