Who was more evil Hitler or Stalin?

Question

Who was more evil Hitler or Stalin?

Answer 1

Stalin killed 60 million people, way more than Hitler. He also had nuclear weapons at his disposal and was notoriously cruel. If you did something well, he would kill you for making him look bad, do something bad he would kill you for failing communism. And being invited to his dinner party was a death sentence. He would get you drunk and if you said something bad he would kill you.

Answer 2

Hitler - by far.  Hitler killed people on an industrial scale - Treblinka, Sobibor & the other death camps were murder factories, Stalin had nothing like this.

Stalin did not kill more than Hitler - The figures of 60million were based upon assumptions - not on facts.  Since the archives were opened the death toll has been going down and down.

The latest figures are around the 5 to 7 million mark.

The Ukrainian famine:  2- 3.5 million

see:

http://www.zn.ua/3000/3150/36833/

&

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#c...

For the purges

about 700,000

See:

Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison, Cambridge University Press 1997 - Ian Kershaw, & Moshe Lewin

For de-kulakisation:

about 3.5 milllion

See:

http://www.augb.co.uk/collectivisation.p...

Total deaths:

7.5million

Hitler - 6million Holocaust

& at least 40million others across Europe

see:

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hit...

So in this bizarre game of who is the more monsterous - Hitler is by a long way.

Answer 3

Hitler. even though Stalin killed almost twice as many people, it was from a much more populated people. Hitler killed over half the Jews in Europe, Stalin didn't kill half the Russians

Answer 4

Well if you are just putting a number on the number of lives lost then you could argue Stalin. But even then, you could argue that Hitler is largely responsible for starting the European WW2 and thus possibly much more higher in the cause of deaths. Someone stated that Hitler was worse because he industrialized death with the gas chambers but you can counter that by how Stalin enacted a complete and structured starvation of much of Ukraine during the 20's. Hitler had concentration camps, Stalin had Gulags. Hitler had the Gestapo, Stalin had the NKVD. Goes on and on ... They both were of the same vein.

Answer 5

This kind of depends on your preception of evil. Stalin did kill more people than Hilter. Hilter, on the other hand, wanted to elimnate an entire people. I believe if HIlter was able to conquer the lands he wanted, than he would have killed way more people than Stalin.

Answer 6

Definitely Hitler, but Stalin is definitely second worst in history, Mussolini being third.

Answer 7

Stalin killed more people, but since he was part of the Allies, he's not as much of a stock insult name as Hitler.

Answer 8

I don't know that one is less evil than the other. You can talk about the amount of deaths during their regimes, but they both killed millions. So what's the difference?

Answer 9

stalin killed way more ppl

but lets put it this way; i wouldn't invite either to a party

Answer 10

I say both.