Stalin's Work Camps: The Similarities Between Hitler And Stalin

For Hitler, it was very important for people to be in work camps, which would prepare the Germen people for was. Stalin’s work camps were much different, focusing on building factories, where he forced peasants to become workers in these factories. The conditions of the workers under Stalin’s reign were terrible, and he mad the conditions for peasants even worse than previous. He changes the entire lifestyle of the peasants by forcing them to participate in collectivization, the policy in which people had to consolidate individual land and labor into collective farms. On both sides, people were forced to work in the horrible labor conditions, for extremely low pay, and sometimes were killed for not fulfilling their sometimes impossible duties. …show more content…
These malicious leaders killed millions of people to satisfy their paranoia, resolve their hatred, and stress their political views. Both Hitler and Stalin killed millions of their own people because of their immoral political views. Hitler’s “opponents”, meaning all non-Aryans and Jews were killed because of Hitler’s hope to create the perfect country. Meanwhile, Stalin let his “opponents”, including millions of peasants and kulaks (land owning peasants), die of starvation and even had thousands killed or arrested for political opposition. Yes, Hitler and Stalin’s reasoning behind the deaths of millions were different, there were still millions of deaths caused by these two. The work camps both men had, had terrible conditions, causing death, some intentional , others unintentional. Hitler’s ruthless concentrations camps were aimed specifically to kill millions of people for not being a certain race, or having opposing beliefs. Stalin did not necessarily want to kill millions, and that was his true intention, but he did not care if his citizens died, because of course, they were of little importance to the sustainability of the Soviet