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Originally Posted by Trax
some of those points you mentioned are not entirely true and can be proven wrong
the massive approval thing is bullshit for example... in one of the last polls (if not the last one - unsure) you could either vote for hitler or not vote for hitler in which case the vote was invalid
thats the easy way to get a good poll result (on a side note: someone should have told berlusconi about that lol)
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I don't think you can consider the last polls a good measures when you consider what Matt is talking about (i.e. before he invaded Russia, etc). At the point in time when he secured the Sudetenland after unifying with Austria his popularity in Germany was indeed far beyond any other political leader in the West and the world really. But towards the end of the war of course you are right his popularity had fallen, but regardless he still enjoyed huge support, as is evidence by the feirce fight put up by the Germans until the very end of the war.
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Originally Posted by Matiz
By definition, there is no such thing as a good dictatorship. |
It's called a benevolent dictatorship. I don't think Hitler applies for this category considering in the end his policies didn't work out for the good of the German people, but no doubt if you read his writtings you will find he was much more concerned about making Germany great than making himself more powerful, or living a life of material extravagance (he personally hated profiteers more than anything else) which certainly differs from alot of dictators (i.e. Saddam Hussein for example).
That said, I think you could consider Putin a good dictator (and lets face it that is what he is) for many reasons.