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the rise of authoritarian governments in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and analyze the policies and main ideas of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Francisco Franco

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1. Vladimir Ilich Lenin became the totalitarian dictator of Russia, after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The party emblem, comprises of hammer and sickle, which symbolizes physical labour in factory or field.

Joseph Stalin regime followed Lenin's regime, following the latter's death in 1924. However, both their regime is similar, and Stalin regime is considered as a continuation of Lenin's regime, because they operated with the same ideologies.

While the purpose of the revolution is pumping fund into the capitalist economic system, increasing public wealth, raising the material and cultural standard of working people. Their regime was however, characterized by tsarist domination, one-party state, heavy censorship, suppression of individual liberty, and the murder of challenging opponents.

It was considered that, it led to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

2. Benito Mussolini became a totalitarian leader of Italy in 1919, when he founded the FASCIST party in Italy. The party symbol or logo comprises the fasces: a bundle of rods with an axe in the centre, which depicts STATE POWER.

Mussolini leadership and regime which was partially started in 1924 was characterized by anticommunism bullyboys, castor-oil torture, murders and aggressive wars.

Based on political and socio-cultural reasons, it was considered to be less systematic and less brutal than some other European dictatorships.

3. Fransisco Franco's regime as a totalitarian dictator started in 1939 after the Spanish Civil war, which lasted for three years since 1936.

Though, his regime was considered to be Fascist, it was characterized by highly centralised government, authoritarianism, nationalism, national Catholicism, anti-freemasonry, and anti-communism.

Also, many considered his regime to be highly adaptable, which enabled wide-sweeping social and economic reform, but also, has brutal repression, with thousands killed, and economic prosperity greatly improved the quality of life in Spain.

4. Adolf Hitler's totalitarian dictator regime started, following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, which made Hitler proclaimed Führer, or leader of the German Reich.

With a party emblem of a black swastika in a white circle on a red background, Hitler's regime was characterized by his belief of the supremacy of "the Aryan master race."

This led to what he considered to be "Final Solution": a systematic slaughter of at least six million Jews and millions of others whom the Nazis referred to as inferior peoples during World War 2 and invasion of neighboring countries.

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