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 | HistoryFan (98)
01/17/2008 | His whole M.O. was like that of the mafia; knock off people who seem like threats to power. Heck, he murdered MORE people than Hitler did....but Hitler gets all the publicity.
One example? Leon Trotsky got an icepick to the skull while in "exile" in Mexico.
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 | PlanetarumVagatio (0)
06/12/2007 | I would say that hitler is worst then stalin for the following five reasons
1. if you include war victims, a war hitler purposely started, hitler killed more than stalin
2. stalin did all the damage he intended to do, hitler failed miserably, so if he would have won he would have been even more destructive
3. stalin killed who ever was in his way, hitler went out of his way to kill people
4. unlike PzKp said, hitler also killed for personal growth, look up what he did to the original brown shirt in "the night of the long knives"
5. he started the world's bloodiest war
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 | Broodinghen (13)
06/03/2007 | Any leader who undertakes it to get a part of his fellow-citizens massacred just because he finds they should not live, is evil. It does not matter if he is the number one of a one-horse log or the mightiest man of the largest country on earth.
To find out whether one evil person is more evil than another their attitudes must be compared, not their results. Whose ego is more grotesquely overfed, whose blindness for the rights and needs of other human beings is deeper, whose perception of reality is more distorted, whose refusal to submit or obey to laws or a higher power is more indomitable, and so on.
But do we need to know who is more evil? The evil ones should be studied to prevent the rise of new ones, not to decide who of the old one's was the worst.
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 | Victor83 (36)
02/23/2007 | Stalin was worse than Hitler, if the raw number of victims factors into the evil equation.
UPDATE: The quote you posted is attributable to Kruscev, not Stalin. "Uncle Joe", as FDR called him, was, like Hitler cunning and manipulative, but not very bright. I think it may be a bit innane to get into a ****ing contest about who is "more evil" between the two- I rated them both 5. My point was that Stalin was responsible for more deaths than even the evil Adolf Hitler. During his reign of terror he massacred and worked/ starved to death more than 30 million of his own people in the USSR. This is not counting WW2, Korea, etc. No "hidden agenda"...just history and numbers.
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 | Loerke (49)
02/23/2007 |  I'm not about to defend Stalin for a second, but even to rank him with Hitler is wrong, in my opinion. There was simply no one like Hitler, and I often suspect that there is a hidden agenda in those who make the comparison, like some of the German relatives I grew up with, who would routinely attack Stalin in order to make Hitler's legacy seem less appalling. Stalin, unfortunately, drew some support from some pretty smart though deluded people in his early years, while no one who had half a brain saw anything positive in Hitler. To read Stalin's writings is to encounter a mind with a twisted literary brilliance, who understood the power of the mass media to "engineer the human soul," as he called it. You can't deny that he had a thing for writing zingers. "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope." Hitler had not even the slightest redeeming quality. He was truly nothing more than the overstuffed barber which Chaplin depicted as "The Great Dictator." Of course, in the historical scales, both of these deeply evil men will be judged by the horrors they brought into the world, not by their intelligence; but there is something about Stalin that is ever so slightly less repulsive.
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 | Ben999 (10)
02/23/2007 | I would say he’s the most underrated evil person in history (I there is such a thing). His evilness was overshadowed by Hitler, but Stalin was just as bad as Hitler.
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 | callitdowntheline75 (64)
11/02/2006 | Is there even any question as to whether this paranoid, demented monster was evil? Joseph Stalin routinely ordered the execution of any person who he felt was collaborating against him (much of the time with no iota of evidence). His list of evil deeds makes him a prime candidate for Devil Incarnate (competing with his shockingly demented equal and countryman in Ivan the Terrible, and the psycho, paper-hanging nutball with the bad mustache, Adolf Hitler, for the all-time title) as millions were purged simply because they disagreed with him or his policies. Literally, if you did not agree with Stalin on an issue, you were likely to be shipped off to Siberia to do slave labor. Stalin was also responsible for the wholesale disintegration of family cohesion during his era as his paranoia reached new levels: Stalin encouraged children to rat on their parents if they heard anything even remotely derrogatory against him. And as a father, he refused to acknowledge his P.O.W. son who later died trying to escape his captors, callously telling his oft-terrified generals that his son was a 'mental weakling' or that he simply had no son. Devil Incarnate? Most likely. A supreme egomaniac, paranoid jerk and uncaring father? Again, a no-brainer.
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 | twinmom101 (32)
10/21/2005 | Stalin, like Pinochet, Pol Pot, Amin and other small-time dictators with a taste for human blood are not quite in the same league as Hitler simply due to the fact that they kept their reigns of terror domestic. However, there is no denying that the Gulags were one of the greatest human rights atrocities of the 20th century, which is saying a lot.
In hindsight, I guess one could argue against the domestic issue with Stalin in respect to the situation in many Iron Curtain countries. However, in contrast to Hitler, Stalin committed his atrocities in the name of political power while Hitler premeditated his "final solution" simply for hatred of certain groups of people. To me there is something much more sinister about that, but enough nit-picking. Both men were Grade A sickos.
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 | GenghisTheHun (173)
10/18/2005 | I can add little to what is already written. I would think thirty to forty million souls shall be waiting on Judgment Day for their murderer's judgment.
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 | drbowler (14)
10/18/2005 | I noticed that all the people who rate him "Gentle as a lamb" aren't writing anything. How can this Commie be below Bush he killed more of his own people than Hitler, him a Hitler should be tied for Evilest Bastards in the entire history of the world.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (154)
10/17/2005 | Paranoid people can do alot of things. Most still don't have as many killed as Stalin did. UPDATE: Hey, more ones with no backing. (crack kills, people)
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 | PzKpfw VI E (28)
10/14/2005 | The most evil bastard of the 20th Century.
The reason why is his reason for the people he murdered.
Hitler's, in his sick, sadistic mind, felt that by killing certain races and religions off, he would save Europe and the world from Communism. By destroying the so called 'Judo-Bolsehvik' conspiracy to capture Europe and the world, he would save the world. In a nutshell, that is why the Holocaust occured.
On the contrary, Stalin killed for his own political growth. He killed because he was an egomaniac and completely paranoid. Stalin's murders were, in a way, selfish.
Hitler felt as if he was going to save the world.
As bad as an explanation that may seem, that's my opinion.
They are both a 6/5 stars, but Stalin is worse for that reasoning, which turns out to be his reasoning.
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 | Sundiszno (30)
10/13/2005 | The worst of the lot, hands down. He spared no one. Paranoid, evil incarnate, willing to do anything he had to (and in many cases, even what he didn't have to) to gain, solidify, or retain power. Friends, foes, family, peasants, generals, Russians, foreigners, Christians, Jews, atheists - it just didn't matter. Everyone was vulnerable.
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| edt4 (106)
10/13/2005 | Next to Hitler, he was probably the most profoundly evil man of the 20th century (although evaluating degrees of such monumental evil calls for a subjective value judgment that sometimes seems silly to me...Stalin's more evil because he killed a few million more than Hitler? Does that mean Pol Pot is less evil than Hitler? Are Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden and Papa Doc Duvalier less evil than the aforementioned men because they're responsible for taking less lives? You see how this can go...). As CanadaSucks mentions, it's hard to tell from this vantage point in time whether Communism would have worked in Russia or not as an ideology. Certainly, it was doomed to failure when Stalin took command. He was essentially a conniving, ruthless, paranoid, murderous peasant. Lenin, who was no slouch when it came to brutality, supposedly wanted to expell Stalin from the Communist Party, but died before he could accomplish this. There have even been rumors that Stalin had Lenin murdered when he learned his intentions. Where Hitler focused his hatred on a specific group of people, Stalin killed everyone with impunity...friends, enemies, traitors, peasants, intellectuals, farmers, etc. etc. Speaking as someone of a leftist bent, I find it embarrassing that so many leftists continued to embrace "Stalinism" up until the 1970's and beyond. Stalin is supposed to have said before he died, "I can't trust anyone; I can't even trust myself." If the Christians are right and there is a Hell, then assuredly Hitler and Stalin are holding hands in its deepest, hottest region.
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 | CanadaSucks (48)
10/13/2005 | Underrated evil bastard. . .learned the gulag/prison camp concept from Staling but really took it to a new level. Paranoid, vicious, and a bizarre ability to look past the suffering of thers were hallmarks of this insane zealot. Although I don't agree with communism as a concept, we will never know if Russia could have worked because Stalin certainly was more of a military despot than a Marxist-Socialist.
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