| Why is it that Germany's fascism lasted a | | | | colored symbols for easy identification. At |
| relatively short time compared to Russia's | | | | this point, no one dared speak against their |
| communism? The regimes established under | | | | country even in the privacy of one's home |
| Hitler and Stalin were incredibly similar | | | | lest their children let something slip at |
| with respect to the rise and control of the | | | | school.If you control people's thoughts, you |
| state. Both systems were based on entirely | | | | control them. Propaganda was an important |
| different ideology and goals. Hitler's Mein | | | | tool used by both Germany and Russia. Hitler |
| Kampf established the superiority of the | | | | appointed a man by the name of Joseph |
| German race and the need to expand as wanted | | | | Goebbles to head the Ministry of Public |
| by God. Hitler wanted the world. The | | | | Enlightenment in Germany. This man used |
| government in Russia established by Lenin was | | | | newspapers, magazines, and radio to spread |
| based on a book called Communist Manifesto by | | | | Nazism. Even if a man bathed in thoughts of |
| Karl Marx, a call to the proletariate to | | | | discontent at home, he was bombarded with |
| unite and rebel against their selfish | | | | propaganda in public, and at the workplace. |
| employers. It is my belief that Lenin had | | | | Banners hung from building, posters on almost |
| entirely good reasons for doing as he did, | | | | every sign or lamppost. Anyone with a |
| and felt he was helping the world as apposed | | | | suspicious look on their face was first |
| to Adolf Hitler. Immediately after Lenin's | | | | detained, and the sent to a prison camp. It |
| death, a man very much the same in nature as | | | | was no longer just desirable to be a Nazi |
| Hitler, Stalin, came to control the | | | | considering the benefits like government |
| Bolsheviks and throw Russia in a civil war in | | | | contracts or being able to stand first in |
| a quest for power. You now have two men of | | | | line, but necessary for employment. Russia |
| equal aspirations soon to be in control of | | | | employed much the same tactics with much more |
| two very similar governments.In any rise of | | | | emphasis on fear.Education was virtually |
| power, there needs to be a period of careful | | | | unheard of in the early years of Russia, but |
| planning requiring much thought. These two | | | | by 1933 children were guaranteed primary |
| men had very little history with which to | | | | education. Huge problems resulted form the |
| work with which to model their revolutions. | | | | ignorance and illiteracy, workers usually did |
| Times had been changing rapidly, | | | | not intentionally break machines but did not |
| technological improvements in the fields of | | | | know how to use them. In official reports the |
| manufacturing, transportation, and | | | | reason for failure was terrorism by the |
| communication made this period of time very | | | | Kulaks, rich peasants persecuted in the same |
| different from any other. Hitler spent his | | | | way Germany's Jews. German education was |
| time imprison writing his book, Mein Kampf, | | | | geared toward physical aspects and the |
| filling it full of warped ideas of conquest | | | | fathering of children. Membership to the |
| and superiority of one race over another. I | | | | German Youth for boys was compulsory by 1936. |
| think it is strange that such works would go | | | | Emphasis was placed on physical fitness and |
| unnoticed with nobody left to watch a man | | | | team sports in these youth groups. |
| with such dangerous ideas. Lenin planned his | | | | Outstanding youths went to Adolf Hitler |
| revolution while in exile in Switzerland. | | | | schools for secondary education, and Order |
| Then he made a deal with the German | | | | Castles for future party leaders.Control of |
| government whereby he was hid on a train and | | | | the economy and war time planning was a must |
| passed through enemy Germany to Russia. The | | | | for both nations. A story likened to the fact |
| conclusions with respect to methods of | | | | that with Communism you must give your cows |
| acquiring power and controlling it when they | | | | to the government and they give you milk |
| did get it were very much the same.Both | | | | back. With fascism, you got to keep your cows |
| rulers had full run of their respective | | | | and gave the milk to the government. Both |
| governments. Stalin was already dictator of | | | | systems were command economies and state |
| Russia with his power and loyalty of the | | | | controlled. Contingency plans were constantly |
| people guaranteed by the secret police, the | | | | drawn up and updated to fit new |
| Cheka. This entity provided Stalin with an | | | | circumstances. Both nations were preparing |
| easy means of destroying the opposition and | | | | for war. Germany was going to rule the world, |
| weeding out the undesirable to be sent to | | | | Russia only wanted to defend herself from |
| prison camps in Siberia, a virtual death | | | | Capitalism.The resulting governments evolving |
| sentence. For Hitler to ascend to that level | | | | from the two different systems of thought |
| of power he rammed the Enabling Act through | | | | were very similar. But as one can see, the |
| the German Congress which gave him the power | | | | aspirations were radically different. Hitler |
| to enact laws. Under Article 1 of his new | | | | was a threat to everyone and needed to be |
| power, Hitler decreed the only existing party | | | | dealt with. Russia kept to themselves and |
| shall be the NSDAP. With Article 2 he | | | | bothered no one. A Cold War ensued with |
| declared all association of, collaboration | | | | Russia complete with the irrational fear of |
| with, and support of other parties would | | | | Communism, McCarthyism, and a peace time |
| result in imprisonment in camps similar to | | | | build up of weapons followed. Germany was |
| Russia's labor camps. With Hitler's Gestapo, | | | | crushed in battle and Russia's Iron Curtain |
| secret police, he enforced those rules and | | | | is being pulled down as I write.You may visit |
| used existing policies to get rid of other | | | | and for instant access to thousands of term |
| unfit Germans. Political prisoners, | | | | papers. Several thousand free papers are |
| homosexuals, Jews and other people sent to | | | | also offered. |
| the concentration camps were given different | | | | |