Joseph Stalin Villain

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What makes someone a hero? Or a Villain by definition a hero is someone who shows ambition, someone who Is remarkable in their own right, someone who is seen by many to be heroic and admired. sometimes they challenge society and individual’s views, ideas and actions. They act in such a way that they believe would benefit others, society and the greater population. A villain on the other hand is thought to be cunning conniving and evil. They are selfish and often bring despair and pain upon others, they are powerful, intelligent and often immoral the are seen as wicked and dangerous maniacs who will do anything to achieve thee means and are in it for there own personal gain. Villains and Hero’s are everywhere, whether it be in literature, media …show more content…

He is viewed by many as a villain and a tyrant ruler who forced labour, despair and immense fear upon his people. He ruled with a totalitarian grip and by terror in order to eliminate any who opposed him or he saw as a threat and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Stalin came into power after Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin passed, Stalin performed a variety of carefully planned and executed moves and outmanoeuvred his colleges and rivals within the communist party in order to gain complete control. By the late 1920s Stalin had become the dictator of the Soviet Union. Early into his reign Stalin launched a series of five year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower to be feared and worshiped. Although Stalin was responsible for many a horrid act, the killings of thousands of his people, exile of the kulaks and the purges in the late 1930s he was regard a hero in Russia to many and he is in his own right, Stalin represented the leadership and figure head Russia needed under the circumstances. He knew and planed on modernising and industrialising Russia quickly and at all cost The need for Russia industrialize was spurred on by the fear that capitalist countries would try to destroy communism, the need to become a powerful military and industrial …show more content…

Hitler was an ‘uneducated’ yet magnetic man, who was gifted in the art of public speaking, he was an ‘orator whose voice could reach and sway millions’ lead many including the vast majority of Germans to trust him to lead them out of despair and that his ‘great hypnotic power would ultimately “save them from the great depression and the after effects of ww1 many believed in Hitler and his vision and that under Hitler’s reign Germany would once again become a thriving nation. After the war Germany was suffering socially, economically and politically, Treaty of Versailles certainly didn’t help in terms of the ‘war guilt’ clause and reparations. Germany was crumbling and the German people needed a leader to lead them out of the constant pessimism that was slowly sweeping over over Germany and her people. Germany were so desperate for help that they ignored many of Hitler’s indiscretions and ideologies. He was capable of swaying the disillusioned, angry crowds experiencing economic hardship, offering them a sense of hope and strong leadership. Hitler can also be seen as a villain as He

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