The Similarities Between Mussolini And Stalin

groups successfully molded young Russians, assuming progressively more political and propagandistic functions as the children aged.
Stalin, just as Mussolini, was also instrumental in directing the role of women. Although initially aiming to liberate women from child rearing duties, Russia reversed this trend. Stalin took measures to strengthen social relationships and increase population at the expense of individual choice; abortions were outlawed, contraception was banned, sex education was forbidden, and divorce was harder to obtain.
Finally, like Mussolini’s targeting of Jews, Stalin purged those persons whom he felt posed a threat to the state. Through widespread arrests, exile, torture, and execution; Stalin eliminated intellectuals
Copying from the Italian model, the Nazis were instrumental in forging a youth culture reflective of party aspirations. Like the Italian ONB and OND, the “Hitler Youth” were comprised of young men and women associated by the adoption of Nazi ideology, uniforms, and a military atmosphere.
Added to their control of young Germans, the Nazi Party also sought to control every aspect of cultural life just as Mussolini and Stalin had done. Under a centralized Reich Chamber of Culture, the Nazi Party effectively assumed control of all forms of entertainment, the press, and radio broadcasts. Furthermore, the Nazi Party was also successful in assuming control of artists, writers, filmmakers, professors, and scientists.
In terms of a woman’s role in society, the Nazi Party also shared similarities with their Italian and Russian counterparts. While women served in important auxiliary capacities, their main functions were in the home. Just as Mussolini and Stalin advocated large families, the Nazi Party determined that a woman’s place was in the home with the main duty of producing
Citing the need to purify Aryan blood, Hitler and the Nazi Party established a hierarchy of races and persons for elimination from society. As in Italy and Russia, Hitler utilized the political and police arms of the state to wage a campaign of genocide in order to purify Aryan peoples. Utilizing the Nuremburg Laws, the Nazi Party targeted not only their political enemies but also their Jewish populations. Headed by the Schutzstaffel (SS), Sturmabteilung (SA), and the Gestapo, the Nazi Party attacked Jewish interests by excluding them from certain businesses, education, and civil service as well as eventual outright extermination. As for socially undesirable groups, “Nazis believed that the national community had to be free of political undesirables, asocial elements, and persons with other genetic handicaps” (Discala, 331). Those identified with one of these groups would then be arrested and imprisoned, executed, or