Compare and contrast of rulers of two countries

     In 1933 and 1945 Russia and Germany was ruled by two of the most violent and insane leader’s history ever seen. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin ruled with iron fists. The way they ruled was different and similar

   The regimes established under Hitler and Stalin was incredibly similar with respect to the rise and control of the state. Both systems were based on entirely different ideology and goals. Hitler established the superiority of the German race and the need to expand as wanted by God. Hitler wanted the world. The government in Russia established a call to the proletariate to unite and rebel against their selfish employers. Some people may believe that Lenin had entirely good reasons for doing as he did, and felt he was helping the world as apposed to Adolf Hitler. Immediately after Lenin's death, a man very much the same in nature as Hitler, Stalin, came to control the Bolsheviks and throw Russia in a civil war in a quest for power. You now have two men of equal aspirations soon to be in control of two very similar governments.

      In any rise of power,these two men had very little history with which to work with which to model their revolutions. Times had been changing rapidly, technological improvements in the fields of manufacturing, transportation, and communication made this period of time very different from any other. Hitler spent his time imprison warping ideas of conquest and superiority of one race over another. Stalin planned his revolution while in exile in Switzerland. Then he made a deal with the German government; he was hid on a train and passed through enemy Germany to Russia. The conclusions with respect to methods of acquiring power and controlling it when they did get it were very much the same.

   Both rulers had full run of their respective governments. Stalin was already dictator of Russia with his power and loyalty of the people guaranteed by the secret police, the Cheka. This entity provided Stalin with an easy means of destroying the opposition and weeding out the undesirable to be sent to prison camps in Siberia, a virtual death sentence. For Hitler to ascend to that level of power he rammed the enabling Act through the German Congress which gave him the power to enact laws. Hitler decreed the only existing party shall be the NSDAP. He declared all association of, collaboration with, and support of other parties would result in imprisonment in camps similar to Russia's labor camps. With Hitler's Gestapo, secret police, he enforced

those rules and used existing policies to get rid of other unfit Germans. Political prisoners, homosexuals, Jews and other people sent to the concentration camps different colored symbols for easy identification.