To first think of who was worse then the other we must first know and understand that history in many case's is not black and white as most people would believe, history is full of color that is mostly overlooked. so lets look at the facts so that we can see who is better or worse then other if we can at all.
So lets start with Nazi Germany and their ideals and what they did and how in fact they did it. First of all we all dread and fear the word Nazi. to most of us the word Nazi means hate, death, suffering, murder and some would even go as far as pure evil. but lets ignore those and see the good and bad about them. So lets go with the pro's for Nazi Germany or i would like to say the Third Reich. Nazi Germany or the Third Reich had a good sense of national pride and a good sense of community support for each other (
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=681859 ), something we all would fight to achieve in many ways as a community, and this was a good step for Germany at the time. to understand this statement you must know that before Nazism Germany was under a horrible economy and was dirt poor as a result of the depression that had grasped the world in the 1930's and not only just that but also the treaty that signed after world war one that was called the war guilt cause. and in this treaty they had to pay 6,600,000 pounds to the allies or in U.S dollars 33 billion dollars and this was a huge amount to pay for that era in time. so national pride and community support was a huge step for Germany under the Iron hand.
Another good thing about Nazi Germany or the Third Reich is they had a good productive economy that in turn made the Third Reich a massive super power in Europe (
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=681859 ), They did this by ignoring the treaty and by ignoring it Adolf Hitler stopped paying the allies and used the money to help Nazi Germany back on her feet and moving again. This in turn helped the unemployed and poverty regions of Germany. By this Germany in less then a few years tripled in employment rate and yes you can say he made the trains run on time and again he was called a hero around the world for achieving this.
So again another good thing about the Third Reich was in a few years of its rule it had grown a massive military force for Germany (
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=681859) . The military was disciplined and well trained and by doing this broke the treaty that said they where to only have an army of 100,000 soldiers and a Navy of 15,000 sailors (
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/In_the_Treaty_of_Versailles_how_many_soldiers_were_Germany_allowed_to_keep). he broke this by tripling the soldier and Navy count and creating a Air force that was denied to them in the signing of the treaty. by doing this he again showed to the world that Nazi Germany would not be some lap dog pleading for food and water in the back wash of the modern world but a strong economic military and proud country with some say in the world around them.
Now my next good point I'm going to say about Nazi Germany is what we as a Canadian people and our American friends and the rest of the world is starting to see in other country's. the point is that Nazi Germany was very Environmentally friendly to the world they owned (
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=681859). cleaning up garbage and filth that filled their streets and cleaning filth that plagued their life's. Under Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler opened up Parks and animal sanctions within German controlled areas. And because of this the world today is starting to do this under the United Nations that was formed after World War 2, and before World War 2 it was called the League of Nations. So this is one good point to make for those who love and respect nature.
Another good thing Hitler did was he and the Nazi's started the Olympic torch rally that we today see in these events that help gather the world under these famous games (
http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/196-olympics/15780-olympic-myth-the-olympic-torch). And it was under Hitler and the Nazi's that smoking was linked to cancer when Hitler and the Nazi's opened up cancer research and which in turn lead to some no smoking areas in Nazi Germany (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany).
It was also under him that Woman in Nazi Germany began to experience rights that they thought was impossible (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Nazi_Germany). the right to work was put upon the heads on the females and also they where not allowed to work if they where pregnant and would be sent financial aid from the state if pregnancy was achieved. Under his Nazi power organised crime was thrown down to a 0% (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriminalpolizei) in most areas of the nation and started a law that made it impossible to sell smokes to youth under 18 years of age. The first highway was also constructed under the Nazi's in a manner to get to places quicker and more productively if things needed to be put from place to place (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriminalpolizei). And most people do not know this but he came up with the idea of the black box for aircraft's to make air travel seem more save for civilians who used them. and youth protection laws where set in place to keep children in school and not used as slaves for workers like we see in 3rd world country's today. And also Hitler wanted to avoid war with Britain and France at all costs but they declared war on him as a result of invading Poland (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/newsid_3493000/3493279.stm). Not to mention that most of the rocket technology and stealth technology was first invented by the Nazi's as well (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Inventions_of_the_Third_Reich) , now this could be a bad thing or a good thing depending on how you look at it.
Now we need to look at the bad things that happened under Nazi Germany and Hitlers rule under it.
He viewed humanity as being cut down in many races, his own race named the Arians as he called them was on top of the whole thing and the Jews where considered dirty and nasty people and where placed on the dirt bottom of this social pyramid as he put it (
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007679). Also during his reign over Germany he formed the S.S the secret service of Germany that was in many cases similar to the K.G.B of the Soviet Russia (
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007679). The S.S where the top of the Nazi's and had the ability to march into ones home and take all those who posed a threat or challenged the Nazi ideal that he created for Germany.
He used propaganda to help him create a Nazi empire in Europe and to influence the weak minded and also the brown shirts (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda) . Before he was put in power the brown shirts beat up anybody who did not share in his ideals at all. He used this to force his idea on others through threats and ignoring the rules of elections and the freedom people have when elections have been put in place. In Canada before she became a nation people beating up other people was common in elections and the rules where put in place to prevent this from happening again.
He had Jew's as well as his own people who did not share in his ideas driven from their home and put into camps. And not just the Jew's but also, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Communists, Blacks and all those who apposed him (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps). Most Jews where put into work camps or forced to work in factories and used as a slave race in Germany. Before gassing of the Jews where put in place shooting them in the head where considered the best means of getting ride of the dirt he put it. But this was a wast of bullets to him and the Nazi's so the gassing of them where put into effect so they could be killed in Larger numbers.
In his reign the number of dead Jews where 6 million in total (
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_Jews_died_during_World_War_2). One by one Nations around him fell and was being controlled by the Nazi's and the invasion of France and the deaths of Jews that lived in France. After invading France all troops in the French army where to now fight for the Nazi's in the war that was now befalling Europe under the threat of the Iron curtain. Also Adolf Hitler aloud his Mysticism and believe of the pure blond haired blued eyed race of Arians get to his head and in turn became insane in that idea (
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_Jews_died_during_World_War_2).
Also under Nazi scientists those who where put in camps where subjected to torture and experimentation in horrible kinds from high level radiation to experiencing high altitude and lack of air quality in a room, to even injecting chemicals into a human body. many experiments where put upon mostly Jewish twins, these included to see if they could be manipulated unnaturally to even sewing the twins together to make conjoined twins possible and to injecting dyes into their eyes to see what would happen, most ended up blind in these attempts. And the worst of these experiments was bone, muscle and nerve transplant from one person to another and these where carried out with no form of anesthetic, most where subjected to pain, mutilation and even permanent disability. many experiments where taken place such as, head injury tests, high altitude texts, fusion of the human body tests, freezing tests, malaria tests, mustard gas tests, sterilization tests, sea water tests, mind control experiments and ext. these tests lead to countless deaths and untold horror stories that we would see in horror books (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation).
One of the most noted of Hitler power was Hitler Youth and the children who where raised to hate and kill Jews and subject themselves to serve Hitler and the Nazi's in every level that they where told to. their motto was blood and honor and where regarded as the future SS of Germany.
School also played an important role for Germany at the time of the Nazi's. boys where trained to be the perfect soldier in the future and also had been trained to believe the there was a social and racial status for everything to make them believe that they where the top race of all races of mankind. Girls under this Nazi influence where trained to be the perfect wife and mother for her children that she was expected to have in the future, (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth). The Nazi's believed that School played an important role for Nazi Germany and tried their best to twist the reality for children to be more supportive to Hitler and his reign of terror over Europe. He rule also lead Berlin being split in half by the Berlin wall at the end of the War and which made tensions all the more high in the cold war.
Now that we have looked and the good and the bad aspects of Hitlers Germany or the Third Reich as some people call it, it is now time to look at the good and bad aspects of the United Soviet Socialist Republics or in short the U.S.S.R that was under the leadership of Joesph Stalin at the time surrounding World War 2.
To understand Stalin we must first know that he was not under communism but Stalinism. to understand this Stalinism was like communism but with force of death if you did not believe in his ideals. And the idea has some Capitalism in it and under a permanent dictatorship when true communism is when there is no leader at all and the people lead themselves in a peaceful way. So lets look at the good aspects of Stalin.
Stalin came up with an idea of the five year plan which turned the Soviet Union Around and became a super power in just under five years. This lead to a massive boom in the economy and goods produced in the U.S.S.R. And this helped with the unemployment rate greatly and everyone was forced to help the nation that they lived in at the time.
Also Under the U.S.S.R control security was on good terms with the people of Russia. Local crime was down also to a 0% and it was viewed it was save to walk around at night as security was stationed at every location within towns and city's as well as train stations and bus stops (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union) The only known killer within the Soviet Union was Citizen Zero, his real name was Andrei Chikatilo who was drafted in the army during World War 2. He sexually assaulted and mutilated woman from 1978 to 1990. he was found by sperm samples that where later traced to him in 1990 and was captured by the K.G.B and sentenced to death after trail. In his killing spree from 1978 to 1990 he was found guilty of killing and mutilating 56 woman all over the Soviet Union. He in considered the only Soviet mass murder (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo) .
Influence of religion was kept down to prevent and problems around religion from rising (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1928%E2%80%931941))
Also under the Soviet Union Woman had the right to vote and had an influence in political issues and concerns. Soviet Russia was the first nation to allow woman to have the social status equal to man. Under them also woman had the right to fight in the army and where considered good fighters also. So in short the Russians where the first ones to recognize woman rights in there nation (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_women_in_World_War_II).
Another good thing is that people shared with each other in the Soviet Union, most people worked two jobs and would exchange things for other things to benefit each other In a greater way and looked after each other. This helped to build a strong and proud community. And in this Soviet Russia the doctor was just as important as the garbage man. they thought that one could not survive with out the other.
Education was mandatory for everyone and where encouraged to pass their grades for a better chance of living in the Soviet union. Education was also free and money was given to the School systems from the state. No parent had to spend money on their sons and daughter education, this is similar to Canada's education plan where it is free and in a university level funding is put in place for those who need it (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Soviet_Union).
In this nation in Stalin's time there was no such thing as privately owned business's, this help by keeping business's from getting too rich to influence the government and to keep inflation down at the lowest possible level. Everything under the Soviet Union was government owned and in the case of it not being owned by the government it was then taxed by the government in turn (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union) .
Things such as food, water, clothing and other things needed to live where cheaper to get in stores in the Soviet Union and could get them at a very cheep price. Things that where not needed where put on price at a very expensive price (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_goods_in_the_Soviet_Union).
Also during the time of the U.S.S.R financial aid and help was given to 43 nations by the Soviets. Soviets also believed in World peace and joined the United Nations and got a seat. Free health care was put in place also to help with the medical demand of the nation under the Soviet Union, also the United Soviet Socialist Republics single handly saved Europe from the Nazi hold ruled under Hitler. Which is where the term "we won the war by the price of Russian blood"
This is why in Russia today the male count is extremely lower then the female count do to the 2nd World War.
Now that we have looked at the good aspects of the United Soviet Socialist Republics we need to look at the bad aspects of the Soviet Union to see if we can determine once and for all who was really the bad person in this argument. so lets take a look.
So one of the things most noted of the Soviet Union to many Americans and even the Russian people where the world known K.G.B. The K.G.B where a evil version of the C.I.A. Well not evil but more intense When a Person needed to be silenced they would seek this person out and kill him in front of his family and leave the body for the family to take of him. If this so called person had no family he would just simply disappear from the world. they where the most terrifying thing about the Government back then and most lived in in fear of them and forced to shut up as well (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB)
Isolation of the people living in this nation was a great one, nobody was able to enter the Soviet Union who could bring in capitalist ideas or believes with them and no communist people could go to the Nations that had capitalist ideas in fear of contamination and strike laws where put in place and the government told its people on what country's it should visit and what ones to avoid. vacations to other nations where almost impossible under the Soviet Union and many died trying to escape the soviets as well (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_Union) .
Under Stalin's five year plan many people starved to death or where even killed during this time that out numbered the number of dead that Hitler inflicted on his people. 7,000,000 human lives where starved in farms by these plans some even forest to starve. Lands where taken away and given to factory's and Collective farming Stalin forest upon his people. This he thought would help grow Soviet Russia be equal to the Nations around him (
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSfive.htm) .
The purges where also bad for Soviet Union. The purges where when Stalin had his military generals and citizens killed because of a plan to over throw Stalin. Even the innocent where found guilty in this blood shed. Some even pleaded guilty to charges laid against them to save their family from the K.G.B. This almost lead him to losing World War 2 when Nazi Germany invaded all the way to Stalingrad (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge).
Stalin put a atmosphere of fear in his people by using a permanent dictatorship over Russia and killing all those who challenged or did not believe in the communist ideal (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag) . Most people where killed or sent to camps in Siberia for the rest of their life's. The Berlin wall was also known for the Evil Russia Put on others by killing those who attempted to cross it or even spoke of doing so. most tension was put on checkpoint Charley which almost caused World War 3 and a focus point in the Cold War. And to also note that Soviet soldiers also killed Jews in poland after invading and taking half with the treaty they had with Hitler (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall).
So Stalin and Hitler both have done good things and bad things within their reign over their nations. And both have done things that overwhelm each other in many ways. So to say who was worse and who was better is a impossible question with an impossible answer. This question can only be answered by opinion only and not by facts. They both showed the world on how a civilized world can go into dictatorship and how hate can destroy even the best of us and twist us around, and they both changed the world forever. So again this is an impossible question that can only be answered by opinion only.
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