Compare Lenin And Stalin

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Three of the most influential people during the first half of the 20th century were men that came from different backgrounds of life. Lenin grew up in a middle class family and revolution was no stranger to him, with his brother being killed for revolutionary activities. Hitler grew up in a town in upper Austria to a family in the middle class. His Dad was a civil servant and Hitler wanted to be an artist. Stalin was born of the lower class. He took pride in rising up from the wreckage. These three men all had somewhat similar beginnings but were all headed in different directions.

Politically Stalin and Lenin were closer together than Hitler. Hitler was a Fascist who believed anything and everything should be done to bring power to the German people. Lenin was a staunch follower of Marx and wanted to bring about revolution in Russia. When this was accomplished he set up his communist government for the working class, not for the …show more content…

Lenin did create the first Communist country and seize it through revolution, but revolutions have happened before. Stalin killed millions of people all in the name of the Soviet Union and was involved in a 30-year Cold War with America, but Hitler also killed millions, and waged a devastating assault on all of Europe. What makes Hitler so much more important—it was the lasting impact he had on the rest of the world. Countries changed, landscapes changed, beliefs changed, migrations changed, and a generation of men were lost due to his dream. He wanted to take over Europe and he was very close to doing so. He even was getting plans to bomb New York City. (I watched a special about it on the History Channel.) Hitler was headed toward world domination. If the largest alliance in history hadn’t stopped him, I might be writing an essay about his greatness in German right

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