1. Adolf Hitler
All Of Hitler’s Plans For Religion Had He not been defeated


Hitler was a cruel dictator, a proponent of genocide, and a mass murderer. He also liked to plan ahead - when Hitler committed suicide in his bunker under Berlin, he left detailed plans for Germany's future, including the role religion would play in the Third Reich. Hitler's plans for post-war Germany contained shocking details about his religious views.

Similar to how the Nazis removed Christ from Christmas, Hitler intended to tear down Christianity to establish his reputation as "Germany's Jesus Christ." He would start with replacing crucifixes with portraits of himself, followed by throwing religious dissidents in concentration camps. Hitler's plot also included the staged assassination of the pope and an alliance with Middle Eastern Muslims against Jewish people and the British.

To Hitler, religion was a thorn in his side threatening to pull people's loyalty from the state.According To Hitler's Foreign Policy, The Nazis Would Continue Depopulating To The East After They Won The War

Though raised as a Catholic, attended Catholic school, and served as a choirboy, Hitler held profound beliefs rejecting much of Christianity. Privately, Hitler made alleged financial contributions to the Catholic Church, despite refusing to attend mass or receive the sacraments. However, he complained about how Christianity was "a Jewish plot to undermine the heroic ideals of the Aryan-dominated Roman Empire." According to this logic, Jesus Christ was a known Jew.

Hitler's antisemitism - which drove his "Final Solution" to destroy Europe's Jewish population - meant he would have continued the Holocaust if he had won the war. As part of the Generalplan Ost, Hitler's foreign policy plan, Nazi Germany intended to depopulate the conquered territories to Germany's east, slaughtering religious "enemies," such as Jewish people, via mass murder.

Developed in 1941 and based on Hitler's Mein Kampf, the plan involved shutting out religious and ethnic undesirables by constructing a fortified border, which would have stretched from the Arctic to the Caucasus mountains
As An Initial Step, Hitler Replaced Crucifixes In Catholic Schools With His Portrait
Hitler demanded loyalty from religious organizations. When the Jehovah's Witnesses refused to perform the Nazi salute, Hitler sent most of them to concentration camps. He also used the threat of public disgrace to stop Catholic opposition. He ordered Catholic schools to take down their crucifixes and replace them with portraits of himself. One Catholic vicar declared, "Every attack on the crucifix, the symbol of our salvation, is an attack on Christianity."

Hitler rebuffed any dissent from organized religions - he considered an attack on his plan a sign of treason. Consequently, when Catholics in Oldenburg and East Prussia protested in 1936 and 1937, Hitler declared all schools were to become "German community schools," destroying religious education. The dictator demanded that they replace images of German hero and Reformation leader Martin Luther with portraits of himself With these enforcements, Protestants practically had to worship Hitler.Hitler's Actions Split The Faithful Into Two Categories: Followers And Enemies

To avoid harsh punishments, religious officials had to accept Hitler's goals. The Nazis arrested priests who prayed for Jewish people and sent them to concentration camps. When Hitler signed a concordat with the Catholic Church in 1933, he demanded a pledge of loyalty.

Hitler's actions split the religious faithful into followers and enemies. Some chose to support Hitler; for example, the so-called "brown priests" who acted as arms of the Nazi propaganda machine. Those who resisted ended up in the "priest block" at Dachau concentration camp.

In 1941 Hitler's private secretary Martin Bormann issued a secret decree to destroy the churches. He wrote:

More and more the people must be separated from the churches and their organs the pastors... Just as the deleterious influences of astrologers, seers, and other fakers are eliminated and suppressed by the state, so must the possibility of church influence also be totally removed.

To the Nazis, the Church threatened state power. Thus, the Nazis had to either control or eliminate organized religion.According To Testimony, Hitler Plotted To Kidnap And Kill The Pope
In 1944, the Allied forces pushed Nazi troops out of Rome. According to testimony published in 2005, with defeat on the horizon, Hitler ordered the SS to carry out a devious plot: kidnapping the pope. Despite the criticism toward Pope Pius XII for not doing more to oppose the Holocaust, Hitler regarded the pontiff as a threat.

Hitler ordered Karl Wolff, head of the SS in Italy, to occupy the Vatican and "secure the archives and the art treasures, which have a unique value, and transfer the pope... so that they cannot fall into the hands of the allies and exert a political influence."

Hitler also considered a plan where Nazi kidnappers would stage an escape attempt by the pope; in response, the Nazis would shoot the pontiff to make his death seem like a justified execution. Wolff managed to dissuade Hitler from this plan, arguing it wasn't worth the backlash. Author Robert Katz speculates the consequences would "make the Ten Plagues that rained down on the pharaoh of Jewish slavery in Egypt look like confetti."
In The End, Hitler Lamented The Failure Of 'A Bold Policy Of Friendship Toward Islam'

As Hitler spent his last days locked in a bunker in 1945, he reflected on his mistakes. How had the Third Reich crumbled? Hitler argued one of his biggest mistakes was his failed plan to partner with the Muslim world. After all, Hitler and Middle Eastern Muslims shared two enemies: Jewish people and the British, who controlled the Middle East.

Hitler railed, "All Islam vibrated at the news of our victories," convinced Muslims would soon revolt. "Just think what we could have done to help them, even to incite them, as would have been both our duty and our interest!"

Had the Nazis won the world and created a European New Order, Hitler would have likely pursued "a bold policy of friendship toward Islam."

2.joseph stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[b] (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili;18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are known as Stalinism.Despite abolishing the office of General Secretary in 1952, Stalin continued to exercise its powers as the Secretariat's highest-ranking member.
The historian Robert Conquest stated that Stalin, "perhaps [...] determined the course of the twentieth century" more than any other individual. Biographers like Service and Volkogonov have considered him an outstanding and exceptional politician; Montefiore labelled Stalin as "that rare combination: both 'intellectual' and killer", a man who was "the ultimate politician" and "the most elusive and fascinating of the twentieth-century titans". According to historian Kevin McDermott, interpretations of Stalin range from "the sycophantic and adulatory to the vitriolic and condemnatory". For most Westerners and anti-communist Russians, he is viewed overwhelmingly negatively as a mass murderer; for significant numbers of Russians and Georgians, he is regarded as a great statesman and state-builder.

Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union; Service suggested that without him the country might have collapsed long before 1991.In under three decades, Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a major industrial world power, one which could "claim impressive achievements" in terms of urbanisation, military strength, education, and Soviet pride. Under his rule, the average Soviet life expectancy grew due to improved living conditions, nutrition, and medical care; mortality rates also declined. Although millions of Soviet citizens despised him, support for Stalin was nevertheless widespread throughout Soviet society.Yet Stalin's necessity for Soviet Union's economic development has been questioned, with it being argued that Stalin's policies from 1928 on may have only been a limiting factor.
Stalin's Soviet Union has been characterised as a totalitarian state,with Stalin its authoritarian leader.Various biographers have described him as a dictator, an autocrat, or accused him of practicing Caesarism. Montefiore argued that while Stalin initially ruled as part of a Communist Party oligarchy, in 1934 the Soviet government transformed from this oligarchy into a personal dictatorship, with Stalin only becoming "absolute dictator" between March and June 1937, when senior military and NKVD figures were eliminated. According to Kotkin, Stalin "built a personal dictatorship within the Bolshevik dictatorship". In both the Soviet Union and elsewhere he came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot". The biographer Dmitri Volkogonov characterised him as "one of the most powerful figures in human history", while McDermott stated that Stalin had "concentrated unprecedented political authority in his hands",and Service noted that by the late 1930s, Stalin "had come closer to personal despotism than almost any monarch in history".

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2.joseph stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[b] (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili;18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are known as Stalinism.Despite abolishing the office of General Secretary in 1952, Stalin continued to exercise its powers as the Secretariat's highest-ranking member.
The historian Robert Conquest stated that Stalin, "perhaps [...] determined the course of the twentieth century" more than any other individual. Biographers like Service and Volkogonov have considered him an outstanding and exceptional politician; Montefiore labelled Stalin as "that rare combination: both 'intellectual' and killer", a man who was "the ultimate politician" and "the most elusive and fascinating of the twentieth-century titans". According to historian Kevin McDermott, interpretations of Stalin range from "the sycophantic and adulatory to the vitriolic and condemnatory". For most Westerners and anti-communist Russians, he is viewed overwhelmingly negatively as a mass murderer; for significant numbers of Russians and Georgians, he is regarded as a great statesman and state-builder.

Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union; Service suggested that without him the country might have collapsed long before 1991.In under three decades, Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a major industrial world power, one which could "claim impressive achievements" in terms of urbanisation, military strength, education, and Soviet pride. Under his rule, the average Soviet life expectancy grew due to improved living conditions, nutrition, and medical care; mortality rates also declined. Although millions of Soviet citizens despised him, support for Stalin was nevertheless widespread throughout Soviet society.Yet Stalin's necessity for Soviet Union's economic development has been questioned, with it being argued that Stalin's policies from 1928 on may have only been a limiting factor.
Stalin's Soviet Union has been characterised as a totalitarian state,with Stalin its authoritarian leader.Various biographers have described him as a dictator, an autocrat, or accused him of practicing Caesarism. Montefiore argued that while Stalin initially ruled as part of a Communist Party oligarchy, in 1934 the Soviet government transformed from this oligarchy into a personal dictatorship, with Stalin only becoming "absolute dictator" between March and June 1937, when senior military and NKVD figures were eliminated. According to Kotkin, Stalin "built a personal dictatorship within the Bolshevik dictatorship". In both the Soviet Union and elsewhere he came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot". The biographer Dmitri Volkogonov characterised him as "one of the most powerful figures in human history", while McDermott stated that Stalin had "concentrated unprecedented political authority in his hands",and Service noted that by the late 1930s, Stalin "had come closer to personal despotism than almost any monarch in history".

A contingent from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) carrying a banner of Stalin at a May Day march through London in 2008.