Hitler and Stalin: Roots of Evil/Kremlin Pill

Hitler and Stalin: The Roots of Evil was recently aired on H2 (I assume an off shoot of the History Channel). It was quite interesting to view them as human beings. Evil human beings but nevertheless human beings.

Monsters in actions of course, but not mythical like the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot. There's an entire television show devoted to finding Big Foot.


But this documentary about Hitler and Stalin was fascinating.
Both men suffered from extreme physical abuse at the hands of their fathers. Stalin (not his original last name) was beaten so savagely at one time that he had blood in his urine. Hitler was also beaten into a coma and nearly died.


Hitler like Stalin had loving mothers who sent them to religious schools and they sang in choirs, but their egotistical and controlling ways became apparently early on. Right off the bat these two were headed for trouble.

Fathers who were godlike figures had beaten them and in a religion that taught that god was a father who slaughtered his own son supposedly for the sake of humanity. This Christian god of cruelty in the name of salvation was the god/father they were taught to adore.


Hitler and Stalin had body image issues that led to inferiority complexes: Stalin has only 5-ft.4. His face was pox covered and one arm was shorter than the other. Hitler didn’t like his nose, small eyes, forehead and a number of things about his face.


A few things stood out in the documentary. Stalin was diagnosed with paranoia while he was alive. Clinically diagnosed, not after the fact psycho history.

RT had a program called The Soviet Files: Leaders and Healers. It was about Russian leaders, their illnesses and their medical treatments. Stalin was singled out as paranoid in this show as well. In fact, many of the things his staff had to do to counter his paranoia are the same practices I learned in nursing school in treating people undergoing alcohol withdrawal such as avoiding shadows. Stalin’s staff had to cut the length of the drapes in his residence because he was afraid an enemy could be hiding behind the drapes.


As a brief aside, at my college student nurses were not allowed to wear red nail polish because apparently some psych patients associate the color red with blood and freak out. Besides, who wants to see “blood” on the pure white nurse’s uniform? I’m sure Stalin’s nurses didn’t wear red nail polish. Still, that didn’t keep him from becoming paranoid about physicians or stop him from sending groups of physicians to his Gulags because he thought they were out to get him.

It’s baffling how Hitler and Stalin could suffer from inferiority complexes, enemy complexes, and superiority god complexes all at the same time.

Hitler was a mediocre artist, and the reason he couldn’t get accepted into a prestigious art school floored me--all of his paintings were of landscapes. He wasn't accepted, according to the documentary, because his failure or inability to paint humans meant he didn’t have an aptitude for painting.

His vision of the world was one devoid of humans.
Women.

Hitler and Stalin supposedly adored their mother’ and other women yet Stalin’s second wife died mysteriously--shot in the heart shortly after she wrote a letter to him blasting him as a person and a leader. You can’t blame her. It was true and besides, what woman wouldn’t  be furious if her “adoring” husband went out of his way to humiliate her in public and then throws cigarette butts at her?


I could be getting this mixed up but  the love of Hitler's life was supposedly his niece. She also died after he discovered that she got pregnant and the baby’s father was a Jewish man.


Jumping back to Stalin--a young guy adored him. He was young, very popular with the public and died as they say “under mysterious circumstances.”

Hitler could only paint landscapes and couldn’t or wouldn’t paint people. Stalin on the other hand, not only killed his enemies but had his staff destroy their pictures ala 1984. He killed them twice. The underlying purpose of government censorship--to a kill person’s memory, identity, thoughts, essence, religion etc.

 Sorry for spending so much time so to speak on the Soviet Union. I was never really interested in history and now it seems like I have a craving for it.


This is a video clip from The Soviet Files: Leaders and Healers and the dangers Soviet physicians faced. The "Kremlin pill" thing is downright scary. What's even more scary is that average people believed the government could create pills (metal pills) with magical, regenerative powers.