Except the genocide piece, he is pretty much Hitler though: - no opposition parties at home - few leaders that oppose him get killed - all protests are quick

Except the genocide piece, he is pretty much Hitler though: - no opposition parties at home - few leaders that oppose him get killed - all protests are quickly ended by the police (brown shirts) - uses fascism to expand his country: outside threat, we must defend ourselves, focus is on the nation, not the individuals - uses rich private businessmen to further his goals, when this fails he just nationalizes what he needs - boosts military spending and might - keep expanding territory and keeps expanding control He is different than from the previous, communist dictators in that he is alone at the levers. The high ranking commies were able to remove insane autocrats (Khrushchev), nobody in Russia can remove Putin now.