Describe the similarities among the totalitarian dictatorships of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler.

Question

Please include some discussion on how each rose to power and what political party each leader was affiliated with.

Answer 1

These three names have a vast impact on the idea of dictatorship. These men established dictatorship and guided this type of rule throughout most of their lives. Dictatorship is a form of government in which absolute power is exercised and practiced by one person without hereditary right or the free consent of the citizens living in the country. It takes a person with a lot of courage and grit to become a dictator. These three proletariats possessed that exact power to become a dictator. Their childhoods had a massive impression on what they turned out to be.

Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were all dictators with very different principles. Hitler?s principle was the cultural and biological superiority of the Arian peoples. Mussolini?s was a more of a nationalism based on remembering Rome?s glory. Along with Stalin?s principle, which was a fundamental principle, Marxism-Leninism. They all started with very different first principles, but they all actually wound up running very similar totalitarian states.

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The USSR citizens fought with amazing courage against the n***s, and saved Europe from Hitler. The Germans themselves were amazed at the bravery and tenacity of the Red Army, the Partizans and the ordinary citizens - including women and children. The Western allies contribution was pathetic in comparison, so the Germans stripped the Western Front of the best troops to fight the real war in the East.

The above answers are all very strange they all seem to think that the biggest difference is what the Dictators believed in. However this was all part of the Cult of personality that they created in order to gain power. One may argue they used they Cult of personalities of which the Arian race or former glory was a part of in order to gain and maintain power. The biggest difference would surly have to be the extremism they managed to achieve, the extent of there totalitarian dictatorship. Of which Stalin was surly the greatest and Mussolini the weakest this is again backed by the amount of people they purged and the varying degrees of control.

The answers above are rather discouraging. Peasants, that had to be led at gunpoint? Where have you been? These "peasants" were THE reason the Wermacht was destroyed and Europe was freed form extermination.

They differed in principle only. All three were totalitarian states. All three used censorship and secret police to kill members of different political parties and undesirables. Mussolini was definetly the most lax in this attribute. hitler had his Holocost, Stalin had the great purge. but to my knoledge, Mussolini did nothing to the extent

Statlin was mostly concerned about improving Russia through Communism whereas Hitler and Mussolini were expansionist. Both Hitler and Mussolini wanted to gain territory and restore prestige to their countries. However Hitler was way more radical and influential than Mussolini and in the end Hitler is remember as a brutal tyrant while many people know very little about Mussolini because he never really did anything of signifigance as far as I know.

Mussolini was the first person to realy come up with a plan to dominate. Hitler and Stalin saw his geneous and copied him in different ways.