Stalin Like Hitler Niekrasz

Dwoj Jezdzcy Apokalipsy: Stalin I Hitlera, Biografia Porownawcza, by Lech Niekrasz.

Hitler and Stalin: Twins in Brown and Red. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939-1941) Had Been Real, and Not Just a Time-Stalling Maneuver

THE TWO HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE is the title of this Polish-language book. This scholarly work requires a good deal of historical knowledge in order to appreciate fully. The research behind this book is supported by an extensive bibliography for further study. There are also photos that show the two dictators, including relatively uncommon ones of their childhoods.

In the West, it is fashionable among academics to treat Hitler as the very epitome of evil, and to reckon Stalin as not so bad. This work juxtaposes the two dictators and mass murderers side-by-side. Owing to the breadth of the information presented, I can only mention a few issues.

Author Lech Niekrasz discusses those who suggest that Hitler may have been one-quarter Jewish. (p. 29). Both future dictators had been doted on as children (p. 38) and, later as powerful adults, loved photo-opportunities with children. (p. 160). Both Hitler and Stalin appeared to have lacked a sense of humor. (p. 53). Both had wives that committed suicide. (p. 171). Stalin and his colleagues found seminary boring. (p. 48, 53).

Where did Hitler’s bottomless anti-Semitism come from? Niekrasz thinks that his mother’s agonizing death at the hands of the Jewish doctor, Edward Bloch, possibly caused by a mistake, triggered it. (pp. 56-57).

The author touches on the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War. He adds to those who suggest that the Katyn massacre had been a long-delayed revenge by Stalin against the Poles.

Hitler and Stalin cooperated in the destruction of Poland in 1939. Niekrasz shows that the Hitler-Stalin pact had been a substantive one, and not merely a time-stalling tactic by Stalin. For instance, it was the Soviets who supplied the petroleum that became the fuel for the German planes used against England in 1940. (p. 241).