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Stalin... or Hitler?

Try to guess whether each statement applies to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, or both.
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Last updated: July 22, 2022
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First submittedJuly 22, 2022
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1. Had a moustache
Stalin ✓
Hitler ✓
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2. Earned money as a painter during his youth
Stalin ✓
Hitler ✓
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3. Was born with a different name
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Stalin was born as "Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili"
4. Had children
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Stalin had 3 children. His daughter Svetlana defected to the U.S. in 1967 and died in 2011.
5. Was a decorated soldier in World War One
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Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross, second class. Stalin was ruled unfit for service due to a crippled arm.
6. Was a vegetarian
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7. Survived to the age of 70
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Stalin died at age 74. Hitler died at 56.
8. Spent time in prison
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9. Hosted the Olympic Games during his leadership
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10. Had a city named after him at one point
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Volgograd was named Stalingrad from 1925–1961
11. Led a country which invaded Poland in 1939
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Germany and the Soviet Union both invaded Poland in September 1939
12. Committed suicide
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13. Studied to be a priest
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14. Was featured as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year"
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15. Was born in Austria
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42 Comments
Djilas
+13
Level 83
Jul 22, 2022
Many other cities were named after Stalin, including Donetsk, Dushanbe, Katowice, ...
mwernerk
+27
Level 83
Jul 22, 2022
Which still doesn't make that question or answer wrong.
WillemLAif
+14
Level 76
Jul 22, 2022
Great. Lenin or Mao next. Then Franco or Pinochet. Then Mussolini or Ceaușescu. Then Amin or Pot.
Jacktheguy
+11
Level 91
Aug 23, 2022
Lenin or Mao sounds like a good idea (for a quiz, of course).
MErika
+1
Level 35
Oct 21, 2023
origami perhaps
sumguy
+2
Level 85
Jul 23, 2022
Hitler also had a son. Jean-Marie Loret
Quizmaster
+13
Level ∞
Jul 24, 2022
Probably not. From the article you linked:

"However, the dominant view represented by historians such as Anton Joachimsthaler,[2] Timothy Ryback, Sir Ian Kershaw,[3] and Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulders,[4] is that Hitler's paternity of Loret is unlikely or impossible to prove. "

sumguy
+3
Level 85
Aug 1, 2022
Probably, but not definitely. It's not certain enough to say with confidence that Hitler didn't have a child. The question is uncontroversial if you make it "Had a daughter".
overtired
+2
Level 85
Jul 23, 2022
Hitler had many streets named after him at one point though, including Adolf Hitler Street in a new community built on the site of a Nazi summer camp in Yaphank, New York. Other streets there included Goering Street and Goebbels Street. After 1941 they were renamed, though the neighborhood is still called German Gardens. (From Wikipedia’s “List of streets named after Adolf Hitler”.)
mammix
+2
Level 57
Jul 25, 2022
In conquered Poland, every city had something named after Hitler - usually main square or main street.
MErika
+2
Level 35
Oct 21, 2023
mean street
AVB
+7
Level 71
Jul 23, 2022
Was Hitler not originally known as Schicklgruber?
Freestatebear
+7
Level 85
Jul 23, 2022
Hitler's father, who was illegitimate, originally had his mother's surname, Schicklgruber. When he was about 5, his mother married a man named Hiedler, and the child's baptism certificate was annotated to shown the stepfather as the boy's father; however, the name was entered as "Hitler."
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Jul 24, 2022
And just to reiterate @freestatebear is talking about Adolf Hitler's father. The question is correct.
Enderboi
+3
Level 37
Jul 23, 2022
Wow, Great Quiz! I never would have guessed (Well I guess I did) that Hitler was vegetarian! I thought that with Stalin's ideas of "Communism" that he would have been an atheist, not a trainee priest.
IrisIris
+4
Level 60
Jul 28, 2022
not every communist is an atheist, by far
Enderboi
+3
Level 37
Jul 29, 2022
@IrisIris Yeah, I was surprised by the amount of Christian Communist communities I found in my digging after doing this quiz.
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Jul 11, 2024
That is surprising, as Communism opposes God in all forms. Then again, there are many Communists who only subscribe to some of the tenets of Communism. But, in its truest form, Communism and the belief in God are not compatible. Also, I am sure there are communities located in Communist countries whose residents by-in-large don't agree with Communism.
cmr0
+4
Level 72
Aug 23, 2022
Stalin became atheist after reading communist books. So he is not christian
Findlay
+5
Level 82
Aug 25, 2022
Though Stalin did significantly rehabilitate the Orthodox Church after the Bolsheviks' earlier attacks on it. In general, while an atheist, he was far less hostile to religion than many of the other Bolsheviks, such as Lenin.
cmr0
+2
Level 72
Aug 23, 2022
Communists can't be religious because they need to read some books about communism and its ideas. And there's no place for religion at all. Religious communists only pretend to be communists
TheForsakenFurby
+8
Level 74
Aug 25, 2022
cmr0, I fail to see how believing in a deity or an afterlife is incompatible with believing the workers should control the means of production. Obviously all modern religions involve power structures and most devout believers endorse those power structures, but there's still a good number of religious folks who detach themselves from religious institutions while keeping their belief in god, etc., and I'm curious how that would be incompatible with a communist ideology.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Aug 23, 2022
It was at seminary where he became an atheist. And he joked with the other students that this happened frequently. It had nothing to do with Communism.
Feech
+4
Level 49
Aug 23, 2022
Hitler wasn't a vegetarian; it's a myth
elcampeador
+2
Level 79
Aug 23, 2022
If nothing else, it's historical fact that he held himself out as a vegetarian. And it's never actually been disproven.
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Oct 29, 2023
The quiz is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

"Sometime in the 1930s, Hitler adopted a mainly vegetarian diet,[409][410] avoiding all meat and fish from 1942 onwards. At social events, he sometimes gave graphic accounts of the slaughter of animals in an effort to make his guests shun meat.[411]"

jpg20369
+4
Level 56
Jul 11, 2024
Seems a tad hypocritical, eh?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Aug 23, 2022
I got 100%. Is that something to be proud of or does it make me suspect?
PrincessLeppard
+1
Level 56
Aug 24, 2022
Same. Let me know.

In my defense, I teach about both the Holocaust and the Soviet Union.

Enderboi
+1
Level 37
Oct 22, 2022
Me personally, I'm just suspect.
realewanmoran
+1
Level 51
Aug 23, 2022
I don't think Russia invaded Poland in 1939...
KabouterPlop
+18
Level 72
Aug 23, 2022
Russia didn't. But the Soviet Union did.
Finnisme
+7
Level 58
Aug 23, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact#Secret_protocol

jf15
+2
Level 63
Aug 23, 2022
Wow...was not expecting to get all but one. Had no idea Stalin got Man of the Year.
ponnuki
+2
Level 58
Aug 24, 2022
He even was so twice - in 1939 and 1942.
Findlay
+5
Level 82
Aug 25, 2022
Time has a long history of naming autocrats and dictators as Man (more recently Person) of the Year. They include Haile Selassie (1935), Chiang Kai-shek (1937), Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942), Nikita Khrushchev (1957), Faisal bin Abdulazziz Al Saud (1974), Anwar Sadat (1977), Deng Xiaoping (1978, 1985), Ruhollah Khomeini (1979), Yuri Andropov (1983), and Mikhail Gorbachev (1987, 1989).

The magazine argues it is about the significance of the figure in question, not any sort of moral judgement. Nonetheless, only democratically elected national leaders have been chosen since the 1980s, so there does seem to have been some sort of rethink of the process since then.

Azerk
+1
Level 65
Aug 26, 2022
Man of the Year can really be anyone
MErika
+1
Level 35
Oct 21, 2023
exept me

or should that be

i

MindWax
+2
Level 84
Jul 11, 2024
Actually, MErika, you won Time Person of the Year in 2006! Have you forgotten?
GuerillaGorilla
+1
Level 58
May 17, 2024
Both had children.
RuthlessCosmo
+5
Level 74
Jul 11, 2024
From the Wikipedia page on Russian political jokes:

Stalin's administrative assistant Poskrebyshev is standing outside the Kremlin as Marshal Zhukov leaves a meeting with Stalin, and he hears him muttering under his breath, "Murderous moustache!" He runs in to see Stalin and breathlessly reports, "I just heard Zhukov say 'Murderous moustache'!" Stalin dismisses Poskrebyshev and sends for Zhukov, who comes back in. "Who did you have in mind with 'Murderous moustache'?" asks Stalin. "Why, Josef Vissarionovich, Hitler, of course!" Stalin thanks him, dismisses him, and calls Poskrebyshev back. "And who did you think he was talking about?"

KiloNova
+1
Level 52
Jul 11, 2024
I was jumpscared by the skull on the front page...
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