hitler V stalin ? ?

Question

hitler nd stalin.
y is hitler said 2 b the most evil man when stalin is said to have killed over 20 000 000. my teacher at school said the total is closer to 60 mil. I read hitler killed 6 million.
Stalin was said 2b physically violent - hitler gentle to women nd animals.
So y is hitler usually used as da face of evil?
Interesting 2 note ...both had abuse from their fathers

Answer 1

Your question is all over the map - as are the answers.
Stalin killed his own people - for no apparent reason other than they opposed him (or he thought they did).
Hitler put into place a systematic plan for World domination years before he took his first step. I'll refer you to Mein Kampf for that - he spells it all out.
I think Hitler's systematic approach to world domination and State sanctioned murder puts him above (below?) Stalin.
Hitler had European Jewry eliminated. Of those who were murdered in the Camps, at least 6 million were Jews. He also encouraged all the grotesque experiments, forced his own people to die when the War could not be won...
And let's not forget - Hitler started the whole damn thing.

As to being kind to animals - Hitler poisoned his favorite German Shepherd, Blondie, right before he committed suicide, to make sure it worked. Yeah - he was kind to animals.
Re: Women. He couldn't handle them. The only true love of his life was his niece whom he locked up in an apartment and, allegedly physically abused and sexually abused. Yeah - a real gentleman. She ended up committing suicide. It was the only way she could see to escape him. Check it out.

Answer 2

Hitler wasn't overthrown, that's why he is called the more evil man; that and the whole beginning WW2 thing.

Anyway Stalin did kill over 20 million people, in his Gulags, in outright political mass murder, Purges and artificial famines intended to break resistance in the countryside. Hitler killed closer to 10 million, the 6 million is the number of Jews, but remember you didn't have to practicing or even Jewish to be classed as a Jew since a certain percentage of Jewish ancestry made you Jewish by default in accordance with Nazi law at the time, so the 6 million is misleading.

In short, I'll let God be the judge of this one.

Answer 3

Well in the U.S. the answer is simple. Stalin was on our side at the end of the war. The other answer is because History is written by the Victors. So since Hitler lost and Stalin was on the side that won, Stalin gets to paint the picture of Hitler and the picture of himself. Although others are right up there in killing people. I mean you could look up Mao in China for a good example. The thing with Hitler that really defines it though is how effective his killing machine was. How evil the idea was in a sense. Telling people they were going to showers and then having gas come out to kill them. Now that was faster then starving them to death(Stalin) but people don't thnk about the methods others used.

Answer 4

Of course, Stalin's own people did turn against him after his death. The famous Congress at which Khrushchev denounced Stalin's purges etc. come to mind. Also his henchman, Beria, was murdered very soon after his master died. And read The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The biggest distinction between Stalin and Hitler is that the former was just power mad and like all dictators did away with anyone who got in his way without thought for creed or colour. Hitler, on the other hand, turned mass extermination of the Jews and other peoples who didn't fit in with his world view into an efficient state-run machine.

Answer 5

Both are equally bad. Both are history's most terrible villains. Many people agree that Hitler is worst. He was sentenced to prison for his wrong doings or his role. Perhaps he wanted to take revenge instead of his father but to the innocent. It's difficult to say, as to history.

Hitler gained power during Germany's period of crisis following World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he appealed to the economic needs of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian regime, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum (living space). This triggered World War II when Germany annexed Austria and the Czech lands and invaded Poland, much of which was also annexed to form the Großdeutschland Reich ("Greater German Reich").

Under Stalin's rule, the Soviet Union moved from being a backward, predominantly agricultural country to one of the two superpowers on the globe. The living standards of many of its people rose significantly, as did literacy and education levels. Urbanization transformed the landscape. And the Soviet Union won the war against Hitler, something that would have been highly unlikely without high-level industrialization. But critics point to the costs: millions killed as a result of famine, terror, and collectivization; the massive wastage of resources; the establishment of an economic system that ultimately could not sustain itself; the development of a society which crushed individual initiative and free thinking. This was an ambiguous legacy, and one that therefore was difficult for the regime to handle.

Answer 6

Basically what it boils down to was that Stalin was allied with the west. So they couldn't exactly complain too loudly about his brutality if they wanted the people to accept them as allies. Also, a lot of the things Stalin did were done in secret in Russia and were not widely known until later. And by that time the war was over and nobody wanted to face the idea of another one, so they just ignored Stalin's past as much as possible and went on with their lives.

Answer 7

Stalin was a true monster but he was on the allies side during WW II so he is "good" and poor hitler got the label of bad guy because he was on the other side.

Answer 8

Hitler and Nazi Germany lost the war and the victors always write the history!

Answer 9

Stalin was known to kill his own people. We are okay with that. And he did not kill 60 million, that is a ridiculous number, made up.

Hitler killed his neighbors, in the open, everyone saw. That was his mistake.

Answer 10

The numbers don't matter. One would be enough