Question

What were social conditions like under Hitler's and Stalin's rule?

Answer 1

hmm, I don't want to be mean to the Germans(not naztzis, that's like saying negro to African American) and the U.S.S.R(not Russia, it became Russia after Ussr fell apart) but both Hitler and staling were pretty crazy, so the social conditions got to be not great, and at the end of t he U.S.S.R the Russians mood felt rebellious if that's even a word and I am using it correctly, I hoped I kind of helped since I am usually good at Asia's and Europe's history but this question got me a bit in a surprise that I couldn't answer straight and simple

Answer 2

^^ probably your best answer so please medal(fan is optinal :D)

Answer 3

Let's just say "really, really bad" and leave it at that.

Answer 4

In one word: oppressive.

Both regimes exercised their power to influence and control people's lives and mold their societies to the benefit of their specific causes. In Nazi Germany's case, it was to support the Nazis and their fascist ideals and racial policies directly and/or indirectly. Anyone even suspected of saying something that disagreed with the state was considered an enemy and usually disappeared. The Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany, relied on a huge number of informants to monitor enemies and find new ones. It wasn't unusual for people who didn't like their neighbors or whatnot to start spreading lies and rumors to get them into trouble, especially when the authorities often considered people guilty before proven innocent. Laws were passed to legally gloss over what were racially charged and oppressive measures.

In Stalin's case, he initiated a Great Purge to weed out "undesirables" and politically questionable individuals from all ranks of society from military leaders to pheasants using things like the NKVD (state security, aka the secret police). The purge wasn't the "firing" kind where people had to find new jobs -- they were more like the ones where people were set up in front of firing squads or sent into permanent exile. Being denounced as being "anti revolutionary" was often a death sentence. Through these purges and secret executions, Stalin killed hundreds of thousands of his own people before WW2 had even started.