Everyone is happy to support the tyrants when its all good and they're doing well out of it. Tyrants need a pretty sizable support. Plenty of Russians and Germans were very happy to go along with the Nazis until it 'soured' on them.

Stalin was unusal in his brutality, as it seems to have been an escaltion of the tyranny of Lenin and Trotsky to an almost pathological level that compromised his own self interest.

I think you'll find that he didn't, actually. There were certainly plebiscites after he became Chancellor (one to vote on merging the roles of Chancellor and President, another on Anschluss with Austria) which returned laughably loaded results in his favour but the Nazis never got more than 44% of the popular vote in any election they contested.

He came to power in a coalition and took power due to the weakness of the opposition.

The Nazis were very popular but they never had a free vote that gave them a majority.

Edited by Stirlingsays (23 May 2013 4.27pm)

Serial, why are you going for most provocative poster this early in the campaign? The new season hasn't even started yet!

Or perhaps yer starting with some low level stuff before coming out with the big guns (why Mullery was our greatest manager ever FACT)next April.

Why the Hmm?

Wembley. Block 140. Row 31. Seat 182. Come and tell me Churchill was a pr*ck to my face.

It's a shame he helped save people like you.