What did stalin do in ww2 that was soo bad, that people place him and hitler at equal levels of evil?

Question

if that makes sense.

i read wiki and aparently he killed some priests and burned churches.

Answer 1

1.  Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler killed civilians during the Holocaust.  I'm not arguing that Stalin was worse or that the Gulags were comparable to the Holocaust, just trying to answer your question--Stalin was an evil man.

2.  Just look at some of the things Stalin did:

--invaded Finland out of the blue

--invaded Poland

--formed an alliance with Hitler

--his troops were responsible for the Katyn Forest massacre (where about 21,000 Polish officers, all POWs, were taken into a forest, shot in the head and then buried--as a way of eliminating leadership and potential opposition to a communist regime)

--70% of German soldiers who ended up as POWs died in Russian hands.  To give you a comparison, about 45% of allied prisoners died in Japanese POW camps, about 2% of Allied POWs died in German camps.

--Best estimates are that Russian troops raped 200,000 German women when they occupied Germany at the end of the war.

--Stalin had his troops wait to occupy Warsaw when the revolt took place.  He wanted the Germans to crush the revolt first and only then did he order his forces to enter the city.

Answer 2

Wiped out whole nations of people one of them were the white Russians , and the Jewish peoples properties were confiscated and most had to leave Russia for good most went to America , also killed hundreds of thousands of his own people

Answer 3

It's not so much as what he did in WW2 it's more about what he did after. Yes he is comparable with Hitler in the amounts of people who died as a result of there ideal's, but that's where it ends. Hitler wanted a Pure arian race and total control. Stalin got rid of anyone who challenged Communist rule.

Could go on but that is the long and short of it.

Answer 4

He murdered and starved almost 13 million of his own countrymen to rebuild Russia after the War.

No joke.

Answer 5

1. They murdered lots of people in pursuit of they're own self interests.

2. They both had very offensive moustaches'.

Answer 6

yes it was millions of his own people, but it wasn't so much during WWII as after it.  He did a lot more than just kill a few preists and burn a few churches,  In one instance he sold much of Russias grain and let his people starve.  He was parinoid, even killing members of his own family, thinking they might be conspiring against him.  

Check this out if give a quick rundown of his life

As ruler of the U.S.S.R. from 1929 to 1953, Joseph Stalin was in charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, he adopted the name Stalin, which means "Man of Steel," while still a young revolutionary.

Stalin first rose to power in 1922 as secretary general of the Communist Party. Using administrative skills and ruthless maneuvering, Stalin rid himself of all potential rivals in the party, first by having many of them condemned as "deviationists," and later by ordering them executed.

To ensure his position and to push forward "socialism in one country," he put the Soviet Union on a course of crash collectivization and industrialization. An estimated 25 million farmers were forced onto state farms. Collectivization alone killed as many as 14.5 million people, and Soviet agricultural output was reduced by 25 percent, according to some estimates.

In the 1930s, Stalin launched his Great Purge, ridding the Communist Party of all the people who had brought him to power. Soviet nuclear physicist and academician Andrei Sakharov estimated that more than 1.2 million party members -- more than half the party -- were arrested between 1936 and 1939, of which 600,000 died by torture, execution or perished in the Gulag.

Stalin also purged the military leadership, executing a large percentage of the officer corps and leaving the U.S.S.R. unprepared when World War II broke out. In an effort to avoid war with Germany, Stalin agreed to a non-aggression pact with German leader Adolf Hitler in August 1939.

When Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R. on June 22, 1941, Stalin was not seen or heard from for two weeks. After addressing the nation two weeks later, Stalin took command of his troops.

With the Soviet Union initially carrying the burden of the fighting, Stalin met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945), and with Churchill and Roosevelt's successor, President Harry S. Truman, in Potsdam (1945), dividing the postwar world into "spheres of influence."

Though the U.S.S.R. only joined the war against Japan in August 1945, Stalin insisted on expanding Soviet influence into Asia, namely the Kurile Islands, the southern half of Sakhalin Island and the northern section of Korea. More important, Stalin wanted to secure a territorial buffer zone that had ideologically friendly regimes along the U.S.S.R.'s western borders.

In the wake of the German defeat, the U.S.S.R. occupied most of the countries in Eastern Europe and eventually ensured the installation of Stalinist regimes. Stalin said later to Milovan Djilas, a leading Yugoslav communist, "Whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system." He believed that the Americans and the British "imperialism" would clash and eventually "socialism" would triumph.

After initially approving the participation by Eastern European countries in the U.S.-sponsored Marshall Plan (1947), Stalin forbade it. Stalin also sought to gain influence in Germany, though his exact goals remain controversial. Denied access to the western German occupation zones, he agreed to the establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in October 1949.

Encouraged by Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949, Stalin gave the green light to North Korean leader Kim Il Sung to attack South Korea in June 1950.

His confrontational foreign policy and his domestic terror regime (the "Stalinist system") had an impact on Soviet society and politics well beyond the dictator's death of natural causes at age 73 on March 5, 1953.

Answer 7

he arranged for the death of millions of ukrainians in a holocaust that is now largely unrecognised as one of the most horrific events of the 20th centruy.  

he organised the dislocation of 10 million independent farmers in a bid to create a communist collective farm (google ukrainian collektivization).  when they would not cooperate he organised troops to kill them.  when bullets proved too expensive to do this he managed to remove almost all sources of food from the market and starve to death those that would not cooperate.  it resulted in the death of 7 million people.  there are reports of people eating their pets and even resorting to canibalism.

Answer 8

Stalin was a cold-blooded mass murderer, and yes he was responsible for millions dying.  He used Prussians, Ukraines and others not "pure Russian" as fodder during WW II, and yes he burned churches and killed most of the priests in the country.  His murders were against religion, against other racial groups, against those who rebelled against the Soviet state, and against many intelligensia.  He started the exodus of Russians to Siberia, where many died in makeshift cities.  We do tend to focus too much on Hitler, but those records have been opened for all to see.  We still don't know much about what Stalin did.

Answer 9

Take a look here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stal...

It's a pretty thorough account of old Uncle Joe.  A great man for purging his own people, perhaps 15 million or so, but of coure we'll never really know.  He led a long and busy life and died in bed.

Answer 10

He did more than killed priests and burned churches. He killed in the ballpark of 20 million people for various reasons. He executed political leaders in order to gain power and also executed military leaders who didn't agree w/ him. He also forced farmers onto collective farms (he was a communist leader so he liked the idea of gov't control of all aspects). Under him millions of people starved to death also. He also killed many people in his own political party (named the Great Purge).  

There are a ton of sites you can check. This one is pretty good (and more reliable than wikipedia):

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kba...

Answer 11

Prior to the war there was Great Terror of the 1930s, during which Stalin purged the party of 'enemies of the people', resulting in the execution of thousands and the exile of millions to the gulag system of slave labour camps, which weakened the Red Army and had consequences when the n**i attacked.

Prince h is referring to the Katyn massacres I think, the evidence of which came from the reliable source of n**i Germany.

Although Stalin certainly has blood on his hands the actual numbers was grossly exaggerated by n**i and later MI6 and CIA intelligence as apart of their anti communist agenda. 9an example of this in one of the answers the Ukraine Famine was initially estimated at 5 million (by the n**i) then 9 million (by Ronald Regan) and now we have people saying 13 million.

Answer 12

he murdered around 15000 polish officers from the army so he could subdue the country and put in power a puppet government