Talk:Rasputin vs Stalin/Rap Meanings/@comment-8730513-20130430201449/@comment-1708748-20130519045101

By any modern definition, the two dictators were crazy. There can be no contest.


 * Hitler, like many Germans of his day, suffered much when the world's economies sank in the Great Depression.  But instead of pursuing the Depression's root causes head-on and working with the government he was part of to fix them, he himself seized power and used his charisma to convince the public that it had another cause; where the average German wasn't doing well, other subgroups seemed to thrive, and so Hitler began to target these minorities, beleving that a pure Germany would be stronger, especially if minorities were out of the overall picture,  Jews were, of course, the largest minority on a predominantly Protestant nation, thus easy to single out.  But there were people of other races that didn't fit Hitler's mold, as well as those with disabilities, for whom Hitler felt disdain.  Try telling the scarce thousands who still survive, with numbers on their arms, that he wasn't nuts.


 * Stalin was just plain insane.  He turned on his commander during the October Revolution, then seized power for himself in the creation of a dictatorship.  Anyone whose ideas opposed his own was met with jail time,  a firing squad, or a scripted assassination.  And he exacted his misdirected rage upon victims irrespective of the usual boundaries of race, faith, etc.  It has been said that even Stalin's family wasn't immune.  Not only did he continue the Pogroms against Jews, but he briefly courted Hitler for a non-aggression treaty.  However, Stalin sank the alliance when Hitler moved against him.  And you're telling us that isn't wacked?  Sheez!