Exam 1.

Adilov Mukhtarpasha

Essay #2: Compare and Contrast TWO of the four major dictators that

arose during the 1920s and 1930s. Include at least FIVE lines of

examples. Which one do you feel was the most successful at

implementing their platform? Why? Give TWO reasons.

In the 20s and 30s, two influential personalities came to power, two

leaders of their peoples, two absolute dictators of their time, Adolf Hitler

and Joseph Stalin. There are a lot of movies, videos and stories about them,

some of them lie, some of then tell the truth. But if you ask random people

who is Hitler and who is Stalin, they probably would say that they are

murders and that's, even if they dont know what did for their people, they

would think bad about them, Let's talk about two of them.

Adolf Hitler was son of the government official-customs officer, which

allowed the family to live in decent conditions.(Paxton, 212)

Hitler spent his young years to get into art school in Vienna but he

failed.(Paxton, p. 212)

He beloved by his mother, why tried to keep him from real want. By the

1919 Hitler was ordered to make investigation over The German Worker's

party as a spy. He started dominating the party and dropped bjs army and
then change the name of the party to National Socialist German Worker's

Party. (Paxton, p. 212)

In 1930s, Hitler gained power over Germany, where a total Nazi regime

immediately began, the ideology of which was the only true one. Becoming

the ruler of Germany, the leader of the Nazis immediately revealed his true

identity and began major foreign policy actions. (Paxton, p. 347)

And Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili) was the party secretary

after Lenin's death. He was born in Georgia .He was a son of

shoemarker.(Paxton, 257).

By 1900 he dropped the school and joined Bolshevik(Communist)

movement and participate in different activities very often. He also was

arrested for revolutionary movements .(Paxton, 258)

In December 1927, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP

(Party Congress) elected Stalin as the General Secretary of the Central

Committee of the Party. In this position, he had a difficult and responsible

duty - to lead the political and economic leadership of the country during

the illness and after the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. (Paxton, 259)

In my opinion, if you look closely, you can find in them very much in

common. For example, Hitler ruled on behalf of the working class and his

party was called a workers' party. (Paxton, 212)

Stalin also ruled on behalf of the working class, his system of power was

officially called the dictatorship of the proletariat.(Paxton, 131)

Hitler hated democracy and fought against it. Stalin, too. Hitler was

building socialism, Stalin too. Hitler considered his way to socialism the

only true, and all the other ways a perversion. And Stalin considered his

way to socialism to be the only true, and all other ways a deviation from

the general line. Party comrades who deviated from the right path, such as

Röhm and his entourage, Hitler mercilessly killed.(Paxton,335)

Stalin also mercilessly killed all those who deviated from the right path.

But Hitler, unlike Stalin, was not a materialist. He was convinced that the

nationality is more important than the class. Stalin only at the time of the

military catastrophe clutched at nationalism, like a sinking behind the life

ring, and for Hitler jt was originally the basic idea of his political mentality

and political practice. Hitler put ethnic, racial nationalism in the basis of

his totalitarian regime. (Paxton, 213)

But who of them was more successful in the political arena? To say "bad"

or "good" is not the purpose and responsibility of the historian. But from

the moral and moral point of view, both our heroes have caused the death

of a huge mass of people. Someone more, someone less. Damn for Hitler

for the Nazi policies he led, for wars, for millions of deaths, for

concentration camps, for Auschwitz, for the genocide of entire peoples, for

chauvinism, for millions of ruined lives.(Paxton,429) But Stalin was also

shamed for dispossession, for repression, for terrorism, for the

deportation of entire peoples, for the camps, for millions of innocently

ruined souls, for socialism built on blood.(Paxton,456) Two usurpers.

But Stalin won. Djugashvili proved to be more successful and if you go to

Russia you will see his portraits are still hanging around the country with

the signature: "Thank you for the victory!".