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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
You're right that Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot etc. held massive rallies for themselves, although I don't agree that people always attended out of fear. Hitler did many good things economically for the German people in his earlier years. One thing those dictators did not do however, is hand out AK-47 rifles and RPG's to their population for the purpose of defending themselves, like Ghadafi did.
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Well except for Hitler handing out rifles and anti tank weapons to preteen boys to defend Berlin in the waning days of WW2.
And Stalin not only had civilians used as fodder during the defense of Stalingrad but also had them taught them how to make their own anti tank explosives at a hideous cost.
Mao when he was in power never really had a war where he had to arm civilians.
Hitler might have done some things economically that worked, however for the most part the economic turnaround came when he decided that he wasn't going to pay millions of dollars a day in War reparations anymore.
My Grandmother went to see Hitler speak at one of his rallies and she said he was frighteningly hypnotic, but that he also knew that the lever of power was based around the simple message that the French and the Jews had stabbed an honorable Germany in the back.