Pipes argues that both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini used the Soviet Union as a model for their own regimes and that Hitler privately considered Stalin a "genius".
派普斯分析阿道夫·希特勒和贝尼托·墨索里尼都以苏联作为实现他们的政治体制的范本，而且希特勒私下认为斯大林是个“天才”。