How to become a dictator manual

This method goes against the liberal values of Individual Rights and Freedoms. Individual rights allow you to pursue your life and happiness without interference from other individuals or the government. Terror and force does the opposite of this. Terror and force does not allow you to be happy and pursue your life accordingly to how you would like without interference, unless all your views and beliefs line up with those of the dictator.

Hitler used terror and force during his dictatorship through intimidation and brutality. This made it so the people of Germany were too afraid to disobey any laws made by the Nazi’s. The people of Germany saw what happened to the Jewish people and heard leaked reports of what it was like at the concentration camps. This caused the German people to be more loyal and obey Hitler more due to fear.

Stalin installed fear into his people by threatening to send those who disobeyed and went against his command to prison camps. People who ended up disobeying Stalin and his ideas were indeed sent to prison camps or killed. This was terrifying for the population to see, and it created a sense of loyalty and obedience towards Stalin out of fear.

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Purging rejects the values of Individual Rights and Freedoms and Rule of law. Rule of law is the value that believes that no person is above the law, including the government. However, when Stalin and Hitler ordered purges, they were not held accountable for these actions. Individual Rights and Freedoms give you the ability to have your own opinions and thoughts without repercussions, even if they differ from someone else. Purging goes against this value since it does not let anyone have a differing opinion from the dictator without consequences.

Hitler used this technique in June-July of 1934, to get rid of many high-ranking SA officers. Hitler had become paranoid and believed that the SA officers had become too powerful. The purging of many SA officers by Hitler is known as the Night of the Long Knives.

Stalin used this technique in the years 1936 - 1939, to eliminate all political opponents. Stalin ordered the deaths and exiles of many party leaders. This political campaign led by Stalin, known as the Great Purge, not only eliminated party leaders. Stalin also eliminated any dissenting members of the Communist Party, and whoever else he saw as a threat.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Night-of-the-Long-Knives

The value of liberalism that scapegoating mainly rejects, is the value of individual rights/responsibilities. This value focuses on the idea that every individual is responsible for their own well-being. Whereas, scapegoating puts the responsibility of their members on a certain person or a group of people. Therefore the technique of scapegoating rejects the value of individual rights and freedoms!

During Hitler’s rule in Germany, he used many different people and groups as his scapegoats, such as, The Weimar Republic, Roma people (Gypsies), Homosexuals, and many more. However the group he mainly used and is most famously known for using as his scapegoats, were the Jewish people. Though the Jewish people only represented less than 1% of Germany, Hitler still managed to place the blame for everything that was wrong with the country onto them. He singled them out by passing a number of laws that applied only to them, and restricted their rights and freedoms. Many Jewish people had their homes and shops vandalized and burnt down, many were beaten, killed, and sent off to concentration camps.

While Stalin was the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, one of his main scapegoats was the Kulaks. The Kulaks were the wealthier peasant farmers who resisted Stalin’s plan of collectivization. Since they refused and disagreed with Stalin, they were blamed for society's problems. To get rid of the Kulaks, Stalin ordered for them to be killed, or exiled to the Gulag camps in Siberia.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Peasants-marching-beneath-a-banner-denouncing-kulaks-Source-State-Museum-of-the_fig2_332421174

https://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/work.php.html

Controlled participation rejects the values of individual rights and freedoms. This is because people under dictatorship are often deceived and make a decision they think line up according to their beliefs. However, if a person is being manipulated into making a certain decision, then that decision loses credibility, since they got manipulated to make the choice.

With the help of propaganda and terror, Hitler made the German population believe that the decisions they were making were out of free will. This is not true because Hitler heavily manipulated and scared people into thinking his ruling was good. Therefore people believed that their decision to stand with Germany and be loyal to Hitler was their own decision, when in reality they have just been very heavily influenced.

Stalin as well used propaganda to his advantage and brain washed the population. He advertised himself and his leadership everywhere from posters, to radio, to the education system. By doing this, people believed they needed industrialization and that Stalin would be the only one capable of doing it.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/books/review/hitlers-first-hundred-days-peter-fritzsche.html

Propaganda goes against the values of liberalism, due to the fact that it rejects self-interest and individual rights and freedoms. Self interest is one's personal focus on their personal interests and needs. Propaganda, however, is a technique used to psychologically manipulate somebody's mind into thinking that this is the best option not only for themselves, but mostly for their state as a whole. Due to this, they start to make decisions according to what they are made to believe is best for the collective. It rejects the ideas of individual rights and freedoms since people are manipulated into believing a certain opinion, which removes their ability to form their own beliefs and opinions.

Propaganda was helped in the rise of the Nazi Party. Hitler’s manipulation of the German people’s minds was on a mass scale. The Nazi party would coordinate celebratory events known as the Nuremberg rallies. These rallies were annual and conveyed a unified and stronger Germany under the Nazi control. Once Hitler was in power, the rallies would be filmed for national and international audiences.

Stalin used the technique of propaganda by rewriting history to conform to political demands and make his rules and laws seem necessary. Education in the USSR glorified Stalin’s leadership and taught the benefits and principles of communism. Stalin also used any type of media, newspaper, radio, history books, posters, and more to help promote his ideas.

https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2129/html/ch03.xhtml