I can't see how this thread could possibly go wrong.

I figured the the op was from a country that collaborated with Nazis. I figured right

I'd say sponge)

nice...one more zombiefied idiot that didnt read any historical documents/books ever, only CNN-FOX channels

yes because "historical" books are all about unbiased look on facts which, to be honest, noone really knows.

thats why i put DOCUMENTS on the first place but ofc u pay attention on books...really smart

Islamists take the cake. They've killed hundreds of millions. And Mohammad, ironically, is the most popular name.

Stay frosty.

They were both kinda sad but merely empowered by a weak minded populace

Its interesting considering how popular stalin is in russia compared to hitler in germany

stalin wasnt as bad as lenin who started the communist revolution which caused so much misery for the russian people, stalin came after lenin and prevented total destruction of the country by the radical communists lead by trotsky, stalin was a brutal dictator, but he wasnt the original evil guy so to speak. hitler on the other hand was the main mastermind behind the evil that was done by nazi germany and is the one responsible for the war crimes and mass genocide.

How is Nicholas II viewed in Russia?

mostly positive, but much lesser known by the masses due to very strong anti-church propaganda of the soviet era, many older generation people are still scared of the church, monarchy and capitalism.

I understand it's about the history of your own country, but - and forgive me - I still question the level of your knowledge about Stalin. If he wasn't evil, I really don't know who was.
I wouldn't say he was a sociopath, but sure he was definitely paranoid, evil and ruthless to the bone. The life of other human beings (including the people of Russia) meant literally nothing to him, it was all about politics (power) and "Stalinism", the only things he cared about.

Stalin take agricultural weak country (civil war 1917-1922) and after his death USSR have nuclear weapon, army, heavy industries, science etc etc. All western propaganda books/media only mention bad sides, but in terms of country-management efficiency Stalin was one of the best.

He just rearranged the country's resources (and the resources of other countries he controlled) to meet his needs/vision, so he could fight his war/cold war. Perhaps you don't know but, after ww2, the USSR packed complete factories in the central/eastern part of Europe and transferred them into the motherland (and you need to read that literally, because they took the machines, the engineers, the scientist (sometimes even the desks and the chairs), so really everything, and they also received compensations in industrial goods for decades).

Wars always heavily boosted progression everywhere in history (just think about the Great Wall of China or the space programs of the 20th century), that's not unique to the Soviet Union. When he died the majority of the USSR were structurally pretty similar compared to the times before him. Yes it had heavy industries what the rest of the modern world already had decades earlier, so it was inevitable that one of the winners of the ww2 would finally catch up to the world, regardless of its leader and ways.
And let's not forget that he was pretty far from being efficient in his "war" too; he basically brute forced the enemy out of the country, it was one of the most inefficient victory ever.

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hitler, coze he wanted world domination, stalin not. and hitler plus heavy racism,,ui ui

Pick which ever pope.
Pick which ever USA president post-WW2

hitler@nazism = one master-race, all other are slaves/must be killed

stalin@communizm = society based on common ownership of property

Now choose whos better

Stalin is far from an angel. in fact he did terrible crimes mostly against his own people, but this comparison is totally retarded and can only come from someone indoctrinated with crap or an idiot

why u mention ONLY terrible crimes? Life is not black and white. And Stalin wasnt pure devil with red hornes as u think. Are u sure Obama/Bush didnt do the same? Guantanamo Bay ?? iraq??? Ugoslaviya??? stalinism victims for 30years: ~2mln, iraq war CIVIL victims for 8 years: ~1.5mln ( Opinion Research Business )

Communism = what's yours is mine, and if ya don't like that, off to the gulag you go.

Did you know Hitler took the idea of concentration camps from communism's gulags?

Communism has always been only a way for the elites to rob and control the masses.

USSR, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambogia, China, all countries that had the sweet experience of being ruled by blood thirsty dictators and see their people run into shit.

Your oversimplification of things leads me to believe you either know very little on the subject, are stupid or even both

Stalin was absolute ruler. Until his death, everything was his. There was no common ownership.

Stalin murdered more people than Hitler.

Mao murdered more people thant Stalin and Hitler combined

The holy trinity of mass murderers

Ahh but each of us has murdered even more millions of sperm.

Lol sperm aren't people dude

otherwise rubs your hands together and you've murdered thousands of skin cells

Perception is key. To a murderous leader, people aren't people at all.

Stalin lived and ruled long enough to kill more people than Hitler. Hitler killed most of his victims in mere 5 years. Adolf is tha real mvp

Both were atheists )))

Which is a positive aspect, had they been religious the death count would have been n+1 times bigger.