Yes Josef Stalin was as evil as Adolf Hitler. Though Stalin didn't cause a big war like Adolf did he did reign with a hand of terror in Russia. It was said that his advisors were so affraid to call a doctor for him when he was dying because they were affraid if he lived they would be sent to Serbia. Serbia was not a good place to live in lots of prisons there were prisoners of the state were work to death, froze to death, or strave to death.
People had to watch what they had to say or they were sent to jail and then on to Serbia for being traitors to the state.
Religion was unheard of in Russia though people did practise their faith unground. Any religion faith was frown upon.
The regular folks had to line up for everything while the people in authority got the best of everything.
Like Hitler he killed people he didn't like or disagreed with him. Lots of families were seperated as parents were sent to jail and children sent to ophanages to live.
Unlike Hitler, Stalin and his cohorts did reign over a large vast amount of Europe after World War 2 for over 40 years longer than Hitler had control over Europe during the second World War.
Also to get a head Stalin would strave his people to prove to the world that communisms works in the Ukarine hundreds of people starve to death due to hunger as Stalin exported food to other nations.
He didn't care if people lived or die along as he became a powerful man.
Like Hitler he weasled his way to become leader of his country.
2006-06-29 19:42:21
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answered by Gail M 4
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I'd say an equal amount of evil. Hitler blatantly set out to eliminate the Jews completely and to enslave/kill other so called inferiors such as Slavs. Stalin killed more people total than Hitler, but he didn't set out to eliminate one particular race. However, he killed any and all real or suspected dissidents without mercy so is he any better? What Stalin did in the long term was destroy the image of Communism. He was a totalitarian right wing dictator much like Hitler, far from a communist, but people will forever associate Communism with Stalin's reign so the damage has been permenantly done. Anyway, both men were horrible monsters.
2006-06-29 17:29:37
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answered by Blacksheep 2
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Josef Stalin killed many more people than Adolf Hitler if that is what determines ones status on an evil scale. Stalin ruled for a much longer time than Hitler. The thing that is most frightening about Stalin was his use of his secret police, which was actually about one in five Russians. He ordered a certain number of people to be killed in each city of Russia, so every city had to meet a quota of people to be turned in by the secret police; there is no doubt that some of these accusations were false. I was reading some other comments and for someone to say that the Russians "liked" Stalin is a very silly thing to say, and one who says it obviously has no conception or knowledge of Russian History. However, there were some good things to come out of Stalin's rule, such as the industrialization of Russia. The bloodshed of millions was not completely wasted to history, but actually helped Russia progress. However, no one likes to see their countrymen die and live in an opressed totalitarian government in complete fear of their neighbor. Obviously, Russians didn't think too highly of Stalin, since when he died they rose up to tear down his statues, icons, etc. And restored the names of the cities to their original names, i.e Stalingrad.
2006-06-29 18:36:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Stalin was a horrible person same as Hitler, but the world is focusing more on Hitler because of the jews. Nobody cares for other nations. There are a lot of evil dictators, but the american people don't even know about! Like in several African countries or the ex-communist block countries in Europe. Hitler was a bad man, but why in earth nobody talkes about the OTHER genocides that wiped out nations????? Hitler is well publicised. It is the interest of the jews. It is boring.
2006-06-29 20:54:59
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answered by Gabi H 1
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Close, but not quite. Hitler was More evil, although I'd have to rank both as a "perfect 10" on the evil scale. Even though Stalin murdered more than Hitler did, consider this:
Unlike Hitler, Stalin did Not assemble the latest, most modern "cutting-edge" industrial technology to systematically exterminate Jews & Gypsies. Also, unlike Hitler, Stalin did Not assemble the latest, most modern industrial technology to carry out grotesque so-called "medical" experiments on live human beings. Unlike Hitler, Stalin did Not make lampshades out of the skin of murdered Jews. Unlike Hitler, Stalin did Not plan to contruct a museum of stuffed Jews (like so much Taxidermy) as a "museum of an extinct race".
By the way, the greatest crime ever committed, according to Guiness Book of Records, is Mao Tse Tung's extermination (murder) of forty to sixty million human beings. By sheer numbers, Mao was a bigger butcher that Hitler & Stalin combined.
2006-06-29 17:49:03
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answered by Anonymous
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To say whos more 'evil' is a stupid question. Hitler was a mass murderer, theirs no question about that, the Holocaust and Death camp networks show us this. However, we tend to see him as worse then Stalin for other reasons. Hitler was German, obviously, and Germany was often seen by Europe to be the most civilised of European nations. To see Hitler act in such a monsterous way terrified the hearts of Europeans, how could one of 'us' be so monsterous?
Stalin, however, was Eastern European. Historically, Eastern Europe and Russia has been seen as more Barbaric then us in the West, so we kind of took it as granted that Stalin would be an insane megalomaniac. Stalin killed over 3 times the amount of people Hitler did, but because he was a Russian Communist, thus seen to Western Europeans as a Barbarian, it was almost ex[ected. Hitler was 'one of us' so his drive towards the mechanised slaughter of the jews disgusted us, simply for the fact he was meant to be a Civilised Western European.
2006-06-29 22:12:54
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answered by thomas p 5
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I consider them both pretty evil. Consider this, Stalin's mass killings were mostly before WW II (100,000 a year), and mostly from his purges and 'collectivization in early 30's with the latest estimate of around 20-30 million dead. His genocide wasn't a full time occupation to his death, unlike Hitler, but that's where the comparison stops. When comparing the two, both were evil, both put people in concentration camps, both committed genocide, both were dictators, both...well you get the picture. The one factor Hitler had over Stalin tho, Hitler was insane. Stalin was just angry and distrustful.
Other things to consider,Stalin killed more people, Hitler started WW II, Hitler killed the Jews and some people in his nation, but he started the war that resulted in many troops dying on both sides. Hitler may be considered the greater of both evils; tho Stalin killed more people it is said, Hitler's action ensured that those loses were as high as possible.
2006-06-29 19:07:35
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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He was actually much worse than Hitler. Yes Hitler started the war, however, he was complicitious with Stalin in dividing up Poland. Stalin essentially allowed Hitler to start doing what he did. Hitler took out his lunacy on the jews, gypsies, handicapped and the slavs, but Stalin took it a bit further and murdered more his own people -- to the tune of DOUBLE what Hitler murdered.
2006-06-30 02:30:30
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answered by melvinschmugmeier 6
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They were both evil. Someone above noted that Stalin was loved by his people which is difficult to determine in a totalitarian state where dissidents are murdered by the government with impunity.
2006-06-29 17:51:25
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answered by Rtaylor32 4
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It's funny in a strange sort of way, how we like to compare humans to humans characteristically speaking. I mean, isn't evil just plain evil no matter who it belongs to? I believe anyone who carries hatred in their hearts to be guilty of said evil. Anyone who believes themselves to be superior over another person or group carries evil with them. Hitler and Stalin-they were merely evil-with opportunity.
2006-06-29 18:54:03
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answered by Lania 1
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