Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), sole ruler of the Soviet Union from 1929 to his death, forced millions of peasants off their private land and into large, inefficient, state-run farms in order to rapidly industrialize the giant Russian state. This "Great Leap Forward" in the early 1930s resulted in famine that took five million lives in the Ukraine alone. All told, a minimum of 50 million people died between 1930 and 1950 as a result of the beliefs and actions of these two men.

Adolf Hitler's strong will was evident in his youth. He was a bright but moody and an erratic student who barely finished secondary school. Both his parents died by 1907. When World War I broke out in 1914, Hitler eagerly volunteered for service in the German army and spent four years in the Western Front, earning an Iron Cross First Class in 1918 as a result of his heroism in battle, an unusually high honor for a corporal. He was asked to speak to retu

World War II began in 1939. While the war was going on, Hitler did not forget his plan to eliminate the Jews. Millions of Jews were shot, gassed or worked to death. The fact that millions of ordinary (non-Nazi) Germans were willing, even eager, to help him, says something about Hitler's power over his nation and about the deeply rooted nature of antisemitism in Germany at that time. Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945.

Between 1900 and 1917, Stalin organized frequently bloody demonstrations of workers in his native Caucasus, hid from the Tsarist police, and was connected with a dramatic bank robbery to secure funds for the party. Like Hitler, Stalin was able to use his political skills to manipulate and play on the fears of other party leaders.

In later years, Hitler claimed that he formed his antisemitic [anti-Jewish] views. He describes how he sees the Jews in his famous political autobiography, Mein Kampf [ My Struggle]. He was also a great actor who could convince himself that he really believed what he was saying; this skill also helped him captivate and persuade an audience of thousands as easily as a single person. This made Hitler a leader to be reckoned with when the depression hit Germany in 1930.

Joseph Stalin did not create the idea of socialism the way Hitler created Nazi

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