Joseph Stalin was a more ruthless dictator than Adolf Hitler

In Round 1, I said I was the proposition, but this was a typo, as I am the opposition. This is to avoid future confusion with the judges. In Round 2, the opposition side will bring forward three contentions that will support why Hitler was really worse than Stalin. Opposition’s first contention will describe the difference of reasons why Hitler and Stalin killed people. Now, let us first take a look at what Stalin has done, and for what reasons. When Stalin rose to power, he didn’t come unopposed. Stalin, knew that they were people who would love to remove him as leader of the USSR, even the ones within his own government. Stalin killed people who he thought could mean him harm. And some of them did indeed mean him harm. There were two major events that took place during Stalin’s leadership before the Second World War, the Great Purge [1], and the Great Famine [2], but both of these were to put to attempt an end to resistance to those who stood against him. Unlike Hitler, he AT LEAST had a somewhat decent reason for killing people. Now, let’s take a look at our German dictator, Adolf Hitler. And who were the victims of his evil dictatorship? Jews. The disabled. Homosexuals. Gypsies. Communists. He slaughtered them all, and why? Just because he didn't like them. He believed that he and his Nazis were superior to his victims. He thought that they didn’t belong in Germany. [4]. And when he came into power, he choose the most cruel fate for these Jews. Hitler ordered his Nazis to take them away, and torture them for every minute of their lives. We will elaborate more on the persecution in my second contention. Unlike Stalin, Hitler’s victims weren’t threats at all, since he already brainwashed his people into thinking his ways, that every single one of Hitler’s victims were guilty of harming the economy. It was unfortunate that the majority believed Hitler’s lies. The opposition’s second contention is the way of how both Hitler and Stalin killed people, and how Hitler was more cruel. How did Stalin kill his people? He simply gave them a quick execution, or he starved them. But as again, he did this because it was an easier way to eliminate them. Stalin’s ways may look cruel to you, but we should first take a look what Hitler did, and see if Stalin is really the “lesser of two evils”. “I was stubborn. I didn’t want to stay in Auschwitz [a Polish concentration camp]. I didn’t want to go to the gas chambers. I didn’t want to be cremated. I didn’t want to die there, and I kept pushing back. ” ~ Felix Opatowski, a Polish Jew sentenced to a concentration camp who survived during the Second World War [5] This was a direct quote about how Mr. Opatowski felt when the Nazis were choosing the Jews who would be sentenced to the gas chamber, a horrifying death. He was only 15 years old. The case here is, Hitler didn’t suddenly get rid of Jews right away. He captured them, tortured them, and the Nazis forced them to do hauling work everyday, and barely gave them anything to eat. And randomly, the SS would come to take people and suffocate them alive in the gas chambers. Hitler didn’t care who choked and wheezed every bit of breath, children, women, families, brother, son, daughter. And he allowed the Nazis to murder them on some of the most unreasonable circumstances. You could even be killed for talking too late at night! This whole paragraph is information where Opatowski stated in this book (Gatehouse to Hell) [5]. This is a direct source, from a real Jewish prisoner, and can be considered 100% accurate. Did the opposition not mention that Hitler allowed Josef Mengele to test on Jews? Mengele pretended to be a nice guy to this test subjects, which consisted of mostly children and twins. But when the time came, he did terrible tests on them. He froze them, he incinerated them, he suffocated them, he poisoned them, he removed their testicles, put them in pressure chambers, bled them to death, and many more inhumane countless ways. Most of these children never got to see the shine of the daylight ever again. And the survivors, scarred for life. Having to put up with a disability for the rest of their lives just because Hitler didn’t like him/her. Here is a quote from a boy who had unfortunately lost his twin brother due to a test Mengele performed. [6] "Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why - perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left my brother paralyzed. He could not walk anymore. Then they took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They [Nazis] had taken away my father, my mother, my two older brothers - and now, my twin . .. " [6] Stalin killed people quickly or simply starved them, but this was nowhere near the torture, darkness, and cruel fate that Hitler give to these poor and innocent people. Clearly, the cruelty and brutalness of Adolf Hitler nowhere matches Stalin. The opposition’s third contention is that Hitler is responsible for the deaths of many more people. That’s right, Hitler killed more people. Many sources state that Stalin killed more people than Hitler, but if we see it this way, that is not true. Hitler killed 11 million people during the Holocaust [11], but also remember that Hitler was responsible for starting the Second World War in Europe. 50 million civilians were killed because Hitler started the war, and the military casualties are from 20 to 25 million. Of course, if we cancel the Asian (mainly China and Japan) casualties, Hitler is still responsible for about 50-55 million deaths. [7] Many sources exaggerate the amount of people Stalin killed. Stalin is actually only responsible for 10 to 20 million. Six to ten million deaths during the famine, about 3 million in the purge, and 100 000 per year during the Second World War [8]. Hitler had killed more people. Also consider the fact that Stalin was in power for 28 years (late 1924 to early 1953) [9], whilst Hitler was for only 12 (1933-1945). [10] Had Hitler been in power for as long as Stalin, then without doubt, everybody would see Hitler as the worst dictator the world has ever seen, with the deaths caused by Hitler being tremendously larger than Stalin. The obvious states that Hitler killed people at a much greater pace than Stalin. What has been covered: In Round 2, the opposition have cleared three strong contentions. We have cleared that obviously, Hitler was more unreasonable when coming to kill people rather than Stalin, and that Hitler had given a more cruel fate to his victims than Stalin. Finally, we have covered that Hitler was responsible for the deaths of more people, and is responsible for causing murder of his victims at a much faster pace than Stalin. These three contentions are strongly supported with sources. For these reasons, the opposition without doubt believes that the German dictator, Adolf Hitler is truly more ruthless than the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin. Main Sources [1] (. https://en.wikipedia.org...) [2] (. https://en.wikipedia.org...) [3] (. https://en.wikipedia.org...) [4] (. http://www.auschwitz.dk...) [5] (Opatowski, Felix. Gatehouse to Hell. Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2012. Print. ) [6] (. http://auschwitz.dk...) [7] (. https://www.ushmm.org...) [8] (. http://www.cyberussr.com...) [9] (. https://en.wikipedia.org...Rise_of_Joseph_Stalin) (This citation is broken. Search "Rise of Joseph Stalin" on Wikipedia) [10] (. https://en.wikipedia.org...Adolf_Hitler) (This citation is broken. 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