Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 12

Dictators
Wouldn't Voldemort be more comparable to Joseph Stalin than to Adolf Hitler? --Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty 00:42, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know enough about the Great Purge to be certain, though my limited understanding seems to indicate that both Hitler and Stalin shared the same "To improve the race, kill off all the people we don't like" idea. I do know that many aspects of the Death Eaters' rise to power were consciously modeled after the Nazi pattern, and in fact the author has said that events in OotP were based on England in the time of Chamberlain, and has remarked on unexpected and unplanned similarities between what she wrote and what happened in Germany. Perhaps the appropriate comparison is Stalin as the head of the National Socialist party... Chazz (talk) 00:07, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I was wondering because Voldemort, like Stalin, seems to be killing off his inner circle. (Could be wrong though...) --Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty 19:25, 13 May 2011 (UTC)