Four historical totalitarian leaders

Mao Zedong was communist leader. He led People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1976.

Political campaigns led by Mao as the Cultural Revolution are blamed for millions of deaths, causing severe famine and damage to the culture, society and economy of China. Mao’s rule is widely belived to have caused deaths of 40 to 70 million of people. Mao also ordered that each company must have a party branch office with a commissioner as its leader, why will give political instructions. He had absolute power over military force. The Communist Party assumed control of all media in the country and used to promote image of Mao. People were killed selectively because they had wrong class background, because they spoke out or simple because they were not liked.

Vladimir IIyich Lenin was communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed Soviet State from 1917 to 1924, he work to create a socialist economic system.

Lenin has shown haw small group of people the Bolsheviks can achive victory over majority. He demonstrated haw human rights might be subordinated to the needs of a single leader and single party. Everything is subject to control, the economy, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, science, history and sport.

Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of Nazi Party and served as head of state from 1934 to 1945.

Hitler had became lieder of a small but growing political party that he took over because he needed a party on his own. They used propaganda, they ware special badges and uniforms they rendered their special solute. Nazi also made appeal to GERMAN YOUTH. He moved quickly to establish a dictatorship. He used terror to given power while maintaining on air legality throughout. In the economy sphere all strikes were made illegal and unions were abolished. The press was fell under total state control. Books were burned, modern art prohibited. The Nazi tolerated privilege and wealth but only when is served the Party.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 to 1953.

Stalin issued the “general party line “anyone why deviated from that line was condemned to either exile or execution – in most cases execution. People went to work one day and simply did not return –they were either killed immediately or send to the Gulag. By 1938 at least one million people were in prison, some 8.5 million been arrested and sent to the Gulag and nearly 800.000 has been executed. Stalin trained officers filled all top-level posts and terror become one of the principal features of the government itself. He saw threats everywhere. He used constant propaganda indoctrination. Party members lectured to workers in factories and present in the filed. Newspapers, films and radio broadcast endless social achievements and capitalist evil. Stalin rely appeared in public but his presence was everywhere portraits, statues, books, films and quotations from his books. Black bread and shabby clothes come to represent the Russia masses. They were constant shortage of food but vodka was always available. Housing was poor and short supply.