Secret police (terror; imprisonment of people suspected of subversiveness)

No other parties

No free exchange of ideas (censorship, repression)

Stalin, Hitler, Vargas – got power legally

Stalin, Hitler, Castro – purges

Stalin, Vargas, Castro – agrarian reforms; labor reforms

Stalin, Hitler – state owns all industry; limited private property

Castro – financial dependency; Vargas – attempts to be financially independent

Castro – no private property

Vargas – private property