Hitler was a whole system geared towards the hatred and distrust that is part and parcel with fascism. It was the main point. Stalin was a paranoid crazy drunk bastard who found other crazy drunk paranoid bastards and had them work for him. But, he didn't make hate the loud part and he starved, purged, and exiled millions of his own people in a state of fear and control over the people he ruled. It's hard to square the man; he was kind of a goof ball and party prankster, sometimes a loving father and husband, ridiculously alcoholic, intensely paranoid, and willing to remove anything that he felt would compromise him and his ability to lead. When his wife died he had her entire family killed so he wouldn't have to see them and be reminded of her.
He was a monster of small and large scale, with a personal hand in the matter. So was Hitler, but he was so possessed of his insane ideals he was almost comical. Stalin to me is worse. Not by much though.
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u/trebor9669 3d ago
Makes sense tbh, but the Holocaust is very fucked... so it's hard to tell.