Mussolini And Stalin Similarities

Throughout history, there have been many powerful leaders who controlled their people in various different ways. Two of these leaders are Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini; they were leaders who ruled different countries during different times, so they were very different in most of their ways, but they were also similar in a few of their ways. In this essay, these two leaders will be compared and contrasted by their political ideologies, the way they treated their citizens, and their goals while they were leading. Stalin and Mussolini had majorly differing political views, and hardly had anything in common in general when it came to politics.. Stalin was always a hardcore communist and his views mostly never changed, and he also followed …show more content…
Unlike Mussolini, Stalin even controlled the country’s agriculture by collective farming. They both controlled the way people thought or tried to alter how they thought, but Stalin did this through the use of propaganda (Esler 545) and Mussolini did it through their education system and used young fascists to persuade others (Esler 539-540). Stalin used his people’s terror against them, but they both killed protestors and critics, or anyone who tried speaking out against them (Esler 544-545). They both believed in a totalitarian state, and they tried controlling everything about the countries. Mussolini had little care for religion in the country, but Stalin was always a hardcore atheist. Violence was strongly encouraged in both countries, but Mussolini highly encouraged it whenever dealing with opposing parties (www.biography.com). Stalin and Mussolini both treated their citizens very similarly and went about how they ruled their country very similarly, although there were a few things they did …show more content…
One of two plans Stalin came up with to improve Germany was the Comintern. The main goal of the Comintern was to overthrow all of the Capitalist governments and establish completely Communist governments throughout the country (Esler 549). The second plan Stalin came up with was the “five-year plan,” which were a series of nationalized plans for the economic development of the Soviet Union. Stalin’s main goals was to increase the output of industrial goods, and he placed emphasis on electrical power, capital goods, and agriculture. Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union’s economy self-sufficient, as he feared that his nation was falling behind and needed to catch up with the rest of the industrialized world (Esler 542-544). Mussolini's ultimate goal was to bring Italy back to the glory days of the roman empire. Unlike Stalin, he did not care for global domination, he just wanted Italy to be a great country, as it was back in the Roman Empire days (www.history.com). Both leaders, however, did have goals to have complete control over their country and for it to be a totalitarian state; both leaders wanted their country to thrive. Both leaders did have goals to meet for their country, though they were not all similar, and they both worked to accomplish those goals, even though they may have went about it all