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Can you say how they are meaningfully similar?

Austin Peters 11mo ago

Both leaders forged centralized, autocratic regimes by:

Establishing one-party totalitarian states that suppressed all political opposition.

Creating pervasive cults of personality to legitimize their absolute authority.

Using widespread propaganda and strict censorship to control information and shape public opinion.

Employing secret police and state terror (NKVD in the USSR; Gestapo/SS in Nazi Germany) to eliminate dissent and rivals.

Manipulating political processes—purging party members, rigging elections, and staging show trials—to consolidate power.

Enforcing state ideology (Marxism–Leninism for Stalin; Nazism for Hitler) as the sole guiding principle of the nation.

Pursuing aggressive expansionist and militaristic policies to strengthen state power and influence.

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Race Aware 11mo ago

I thought you were going to talk about the ideologies or political philosophies of Stalin and Hitler, not the means to achieve the ends. But, I'm glad you made note that they had these differences. These ideologies/philosophies are fundamentally different and may use similar means to achieve these different ends.

We can see today that governments are trying to protect themselves, to retain the power they already have and to obtain more power. It is in the nature of all governments to use force. The question is using that force to what end?