How is Sadam Husein like Stalin?
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They both had the cult of leadership, giant pictures of themselves everywhere. They both had centriised socialist economies. They both ruthlessly purged there dissidents and repressed ethinic minorities.
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I think that he has a mixed record. Although he has done a great deal to bring Russia out of the dark ages and into an energy giant in waiting, he has also done his fair share of things to quell internal discontent within Russia. The best example of this is his overt control of the media and his elimination of people who express popular discontent. Recently a Russian journalist named Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in very suspicious circumstances. He seems a good leader, but i think people should be suspicious of him even if only for his KGB past.
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He was from Georgia (not the state in the U.S.).  His real name is Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili but he adopted the name "Stalin" because that is the Russian word for "steel".
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Good question. Stalin changed his, too. I think in Lenin's case it was because he used Lenin as a pen-name when he was underground, & his writing and work were illegal. As he became more prominent, he kept the pseudonym.\n\nAnother factor that may play into this is the fact that Lenin's elder brother Alexander Ulyanov was executed for plotting to kill the czar. Alexander was only 17. He might have needed to distance himself from his brother to some extent, to keep the authorities' eyes off him. (That's pure speculation on my part.)\n\nFor Stalin, it's because he had a Georgian name.
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It depends what Stalin represents to you. Authority? Repression? Lack of choice?
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For 33 years he was the leader of the Sovier Union.  Stalin's rule was characterized by a cult of personality, a concentration of power, and little concern for the lives of individual people. Stalin battled his opposition through use of a security apparatus that resulted in numerous deaths of Soviet citizens. Many died in the Gulags and in deportations. Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's eventual successor, denounced this and the cult of personality in 1956, initiating the process of "de-Stalinization" which later became part of the Sino-Soviet Split.
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There's never an easy answer to questions like this. Except for rare examples (usually people with personality disorders, such as sociopaths), you cannot classify a person as good or evil.\n\nGengis Khan did lead his people in a brilliant campaign, militarily speaking. He also ordered the slaughter of thousands, the pilleage of hundreds of villages and settlements, and all sorts of actions that would be considered good by his own people and evil by his enemies.\n\nI'd say he's neither hero nor murderer. He was a great leader, and he took measures to rule with a strong fist, a necessity at his time to control his troops and to send a message to the other nations. \n\nGengis Khan had a project that can be read either as a wish to unite the world (under his rule) or as a desire to dominate it. It all depends on which side you're on.
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absolute power corrupts absolutely. if the labor camps are true, and i believe they are, this is a man who calculates the tyranny he inflicts. it is as if he sees himself as godlike. much like the stalins and hitlers of the world. they answer to no one and god forbid you disagree. there are several leaders around the world who feel they do not have to answer to the people. it is not corruption it is VANITY. this guy is a joke and should be taken out by his own people.
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Agree with answer number 2. His son lives in the USA and is very active in promoting Persia, passive resistance, and supports a democratic revolution in Iran.
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Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Mao or Pol Pot ??\n\nAll the above are tyrants .. dictators .. murderers\n\nthe first .. killed more than 20 millions .. mostly his own ppl.\n\nthe second .. killed more than 50 millions during his WW2 of 6 yrs .. he even ordered destruction of Germany itself on his last days in the Bunker\n\nthe third Mao .. maybe some 3-4 millions .. all were his enemies\n\nthe 4th .. PSYCHOTIC leader who killed his own ppl. about 4 millions .. and made a Pyramid of their skulls
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animal farm was a good book about Stalin's regime and commuism. as u probably already read, not all animals were created equally. the differences showed the ability of the animals to think and their intelligence. the pigs were the most articulate and therefore the obvious leader animals of the barn animals. they could get thier piont across  and could. none of the other animals could write or read as well as the pigs. the speech made by major showed that the animals were not al equal because the pigs sat in the first row, you could see from the begining that pigs thought they were better than the other aniamls.
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Unlike the treasonous previous answer.The DE-facto leader of Iran is the closest thing to Adolph Hitler that I have seen in my lifetime.If he continues with his antisemitic and anti American tirades Israel or the United States are going to not only turn Iran into a parking lot,But this man may set off WW111 in our lifetime.He should be relegated to the dustbin of history like all the tyrants before him.He is under estimating the international communities resolve to keep his radical regime without nuclear technology that will threaten their neighbors and the entire region.He is just a puppet of the Mullahs that actually run that country. We should have dealt with these people 27yrs. ago when they took our citizens hostage.The chickens are coming home to roost and we should deal with this rag head and the rest of his fanatical followers now.Diplomacy be damned!Show these savages where Americas nuts really hang.
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annan is a very corrupt UN leader.\n\nAnd General Musharraf is a dictator. What do you expect from a ruthless dictator?
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Based on how many killed and motivation for killing I say  Stalin.
251940
News Max is excellent, also "The weekly Standard" magazine. Are you serious or are you joking? I hope so much Iran gets rid of their President and gets a leader that lets Iranians be free. I went all thru high school in the 60's with an Iranian boy named Sam and that was his prayer back then. I sure liked that boy and his family.
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I dont know \nbut it is a big lie because hitler has killed many people but is Ahmadinejad kill anybody\nYou never can compare Hitler with ahmadinejad not only ahmadinejad of course u cant compare hitler with any body\ni dont like ahmadi nejad but i think he isnt very bad man \nbecause most of the iranain people love him but are the german people love Hitler \nIranian people have rote Ahmadinejad in the election and he has got more than 15000000 rate but what about hitler....\nthanks alot\ni hope u get ur answer
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I believe it was muslum fundamentalists, I was just a kid watching t.v. when they were having a military parade in egypt.Sadat was president at the time as they were parading by, all the sudden a few of the marchers broke off the parade, ran toward sadat firing automatic rifles,killing abunch of officers and sadat.Probably because he was making peace with Israel.