Adolf Hitler v. Joseph Stalin, 1952

[© tweed]

Suppose Hitler conquers the free world in WWII, but the Soviet Union remains intact.

Rather than fight a war or draw lots, the two men agree for a free election to be held to determine who gets to be world leader for life.

Who would you vote for?

EDIT: No idea why I chose 1952.

[M]

I end up dead either way.

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I end up dead either way.

Stalin wasn't as methodical in his killing.

[John Dibble]

I end up dead either way.

Stalin wasn't as methodical in his killing.

Yet he still managed to kill a lot of people who spoke out against him.


Me, I'd be voting with a sniper rifle from the rooftops.

Now, provided I had to choose and I'd be able to keep my mouth shut long enough to survive, Hitler - at least facists can create working economies and I'd have food in my belly. Both would kill a lot of people anyways, be they Jews, capitalists, political dissidents, ect they'd be equally dead for bad reasons, so I might as well just admit I should look after my own interests at that point.

[DanielX]

While my Jewishn descent would force me to very nominally un-support Stalin less, my extreme distaste for both would force me to vote to machine-gun both.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Who is Stalin's running mate? Khrushchev? I would vote Stalin then, because he would be dead in a few months anyway.

[Akno21]

I might actually just get it over with and run in front of a train.

[Speed of Sound]

I vote for "Pack your bags, kids, we're going to Canada, assuming we dont get shot on the way there!"

[True Democrat]

2 months before the election, Mao announces his candidacy!

[John Dibble]

I end up dead either way.

Stalin wasn't as methodical in his killing.

Hmmm, pretty much backs up my opinion that  their is a communist conspiracy when foolish quotables like this are generated. Stalin killed milions more than Hitler.

He's talking about efficiency, not raw numbers. Stalin ruled for a longer period of time than Hitler, so he had more time for his killing. I'm at work so I don't have time to look up the rates, but IIRC Hitler killed off people faster than Stalin did, though Stalid did have the disadvantage of his targets only being political dissidents who didn't capitulate rather than certain ethnic groups, so finding those he wanted killed would likely take longer. Given equally findable groups they might have had near equal efficiency.

[Bacon King]

I end up dead either way.

Stalin wasn't as methodical in his killing.

Hmmm, pretty much backs up my opinion that  their is a communist conspiracy when foolish quotables like this are generated. Stalin killed milions more than Hitler.

He's talking about efficiency, not raw numbers. Stalin ruled for a longer period of time than Hitler, so he had more time for his killing. I'm at work so I don't have time to look up the rates, but IIRC Hitler killed off people faster than Stalin did, though Stalid did have the disadvantage of his targets only being political dissidents who didn't capitulate rather than certain ethnic groups, so finding those he wanted killed would likely take longer. Given equally findable groups they might have had near equal efficiency.

Not true. Stalin didn't just target political dissidents, Stalin killed everybody. For each region of the Soviet Union, Stalin gave the KGB a quota of 'dissidents' to find and either ship to Siberia or kill. If the regional KGB groups didn't find enough people speaking out against the regime, then they just had to fabricate it. And if Stalin was in an especially grumpy mood, he would write a note to one of the regional KGB heads instructing them to find dissidents above and beyond the quotas. For example, he would write "find 10k extra class I dissidents in Ukraine". Class I were those who were executed.

[kashifsakhan]

I end up dead either way.

Stalin wasn't as methodical in his killing.

Hmmm, pretty much backs up my opinion that  their is a communist conspiracy when foolish quotables like this are generated. Stalin killed milions more than Hitler.

He's talking about efficiency, not raw numbers. Stalin ruled for a longer period of time than Hitler, so he had more time for his killing. I'm at work so I don't have time to look up the rates, but IIRC Hitler killed off people faster than Stalin did, though Stalid did have the disadvantage of his targets only being political dissidents who didn't capitulate rather than certain ethnic groups, so finding those he wanted killed would likely take longer. Given equally findable groups they might have had near equal efficiency.

Not true. Stalin didn't just target political dissidents, Stalin killed everybody. For each region of the Soviet Union, Stalin gave the KGB a quota of 'dissidents' to find and either ship to Siberia or kill. If the regional KGB groups didn't find enough people speaking out against the regime, then they just had to fabricate it. And if Stalin was in an especially grumpy mood, he would write a note to one of the regional KGB heads instructing them to find dissidents above and beyond the quotas. For example, he would write "find 10k extra class I dissidents in Ukraine". Class I were those who were executed.

that seems a bit "iffy" to me, do u have anything to back that claim up with?

[WiseGuy]

Start a resistance.

[Speed of Sound]

I vote for "Pack your bags, kids, we're going to Canada, assuming we dont get shot on the way there!"

In this what-if this is a world wide election and Canada belongs to Hitler. So good luck with that.

It doesnt matter, cause its still Canada! Canada just plain rules, even under Hitler (although less so than usual. )