They held the state above the individual .
Were often responsible for some of the worst acts in history , such as the Holocaust Adolf Hitler perpetrated on European Jews , or the Great Purge Stalin perpetrated in the Soviet Union in the 1930s .
They held the state above the individual , and were often responsible for some of the worst acts in history , such as the Holocaust Adolf Hitler perpetrated on European Jews , or the Great Purge Stalin perpetrated in the Soviet Union in the 1930s .