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Ethan Listenberger
Y103
Extra Credit
04/29/2002

Saddam vs. Stalin
Since the beginning of the world, there has been an ongoing cycle of tyrannical leaders that have ruled their lands with an evil hand. Since the beginning of the twentieth century we have seen perhaps the deadliest dictators of them all. Stalin's regime in the 1930's and 1940's in the Soviet Union and Saddam's regime in the present day Iraq share an exceptionally strong similarity.
In order to understand the similarities between Stalin and Saddam, we must go back to the childhoods of the two men. Stalin grew up in poverty with only his Mother to raise him. Saddam Hussein grew up in Al Awja which was a small village near Tikrit. Just like Stalin, Saddam was born into poverty. His family could not afford to eat, so he stole the food in order to feed his family.
An important similarity between Stalin and Saddam was how they both started out politically under the wing of dictator -like leaders. For......

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