Both of them were extremely dangerous and powerful and killed millions of people, tried to destroy world powers, and were engaged in experiments to destroy the West.

Hitler had an enormous control of his party and the German people as a whole. He was arguablly the most skilled orator in the history of the world and could get even the most sensible of people to do terrible things. He had an extremely powerful state police who he sent to intimidate political rivals. Of course, he ordered the Holocaust and killed around 10 million people. He tried to design the first Atomic Bomb (and probably could have managed it if it weren't for a US sabataugeing effort to destroy the Reich's supply of Hard Water).

History books tend to forget the 7 million peoples killed in the 30s by Stalin's secret police. Stalin was brutal, he didn't care if the Germans captured and killed his own son. He succedded in building the Atomic bomb. He was willing to sacrafice the lives of 27 million of his people to cast out the German armies from his lands.

Both were devoted to aquiring more territory for their nation. Hitler started World War 2 to gain territory, Stalin used the war to take over lands in Eastern Europe as well as in Asia. Stalin aided communist revolutionaries under Mao Xing Zong in China to engage in the second most deadly conflict in Human History, the Chinese Civil War.

In all, they were both ruthless and dangerous people. They had support from their citizens and were devoted to spreading their own government. I gave you the facts, you form your own opinion.

Josef Stalin was the Soviet dictator that added to Soviet-American tension. However, he died before the start of the Cold War itself.

Joseph Stalin was the one responsible for industrializing Russia. He did this by scrapping Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy in favor of his own Five Year Plans.

For murdering millions the Great Purge, his secret police, rewriting history to place him self as someone whose been everywhere, deportations, famines, and more

They were both responsible for the death of millions of innocent people.

Stalin didn't like Fascists and Mensheviks along with the Jews, Ukrainians, and many, many others as he became steadily more despotic, paranoid and psychotic. His death-toll greatly exceeded that of Adolf Hitler.

He violated the right for humans to be free, fairly tried and not to be killed for his paranoid reasons. He violated the right for people to be forgiven and not tried in the court of revenge: for example he retaliated against the Nazis for the deaths of 20 million people. He was a hypocrite on that note since he too killed 20 million of his own people for his own evil reasons.

He violated the Geneva Conventions. He violated the right of nations not to be invaded and overtaken and oppressed. He kept the Eastern European nations and ruled them with an iron fist.

Trotsky created his own fraction in the CPSU(B) (wich was not allowed) and broke with everything the party stood for so he was gotten rid of.

to fight facism the main opponent of comunism

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To pull Russia out of the war and concentrate on establishing a communist state.

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, set in motion events designed to cause a famine in the Ukraine to destroy the people there seeking independence from his rule. As a result, an estimated 7,000,000 persons perished in this farming area, known as the breadbasket of Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grown with their own hands.

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In some ways, Stalin was very beneficial to the Soviet Union. He industrialized the USSR and made them a world power in military and industry.

He also started their space program, which was innovational to the entire world.

However, in other ways, he was detrimental to the USSR. He helped instigate the Cold War, which ultimately led to the breakdown of the USSR. He murdered millions of people, and his style of winning wars, (widely known as throwing people at the battle until the enemy retreats) resulted in tens of millions of both soldier and civilian deaths in World War 2, and even today this is partially the reason there are less than 9 men for every 10 women in Russia.

No, he was a very strong part of the military, and at that time everybody respected him and knew him. He basically just assumed his power.

One of the reasons that the cold war started was nuclear weapons. When two countries both have that much destructive power, they begin to wonder if they trust that sort of power in the other country's hands.

Ideological differences were another big reason... the US hated Communism, and the USSR hated Capitalism. Both sides wanted to spread their form of government to other countries, so there was a lot of tension there.

I think there was also personal dislike between world leaders, and that is how it began.

he planned to defeat Germany after he had dealt with Japan. He thought it was important he dealt with Japan first though just in case they sided with Germany and attacked Russia. He was therefore very protective of Russia and made lots of promises which he kept.

Stalin never went to war with Japan. His plan involving Germany was to buy time until Germany would invade Russia and use the vast distance between Germany and Moscow to keep them from victory.

Stalin started the Cold War. He also was very important in the defeat of Germany during WW2. His importance during Russian progression is un-deniable. His Five Years Plan industrialized the USSR, and brought its economy to a very good point.

Some put the figure (including WWII) at over 45 million people.

What time periods specifically? Stalin was in power from 1924 till his death in 1953. Through forced agricultural reforms, military purges, control and subjugation of non-Russians in the Soviet Union, extermination of all political and ideological rivals, gulags of Siberia and WW2 sacrifices, you could say that between 25-40 million people died under Stalin's rule. No exact number is available.

Yes, he most certainly did use dictatorial methods in Russia.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

When Roosevelt died, Harry S Truman became president.