Stalin v. Hitler

Stalin and Hitler ruled over regimes considered totalitarian by the definition that they maintained extreme control on political, social, and economic aspects of life in their respective countries with the purpose of pursuing their own ideological ends. Although these two regimes are very similar in many respects they, like red apples and green apples, are clearly in-exchangeable. The Soviet Union, under Stalin, was ruled with an iron fist. Death was the punishment exacted for being …

…domestic problems in attaining his ideology. Stalin implemented economic controls as a way to further his ends, while Hitler implemented economic controls as a means to his end – to create war supplies in order to fight for a better Germany. A foremost difference that makes the regimes not interchangeable is the fact that Stalin traded his peoples’ well-being for the advancement of the ideology while Hitler traded opposing people for the advancement of his ideology.