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Have to live Adolf Hitler's Life

Have to live Joseph Stalin's Life

You would not be able to fundamentally change what happened.

Evil Men

Jan 20, 2012

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Have to live Adolf Hitler's Life

Stalin's reign caused far more total deaths than Hitler's, making Hitler's life the lesser of two evils by scale of harm
Hitler's regime was ultimately defeated and dismantled; Stalin's system endured for decades, prolonging its effects
Germany's climate and proximity to Western Europe makes daily living conditions more bearable than Russia's brutal winters

Have to live Joseph Stalin's Life

Communism, at least in principle, aimed at economic equality rather than racial extermination, making it easier to inhabit morally
Stalin died in power with a perception of victory; Hitler ended in a bunker facing total military and personal collapse
Stalin's legacy includes industrializing a vast empire and emerging as a World War II victor, a more defensible historical position

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Would you rather...

Have to live Adolf Hitler's Life

Have to live Joseph Stalin's Life

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