{"id":135057,"date":"2023-12-06T07:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=135057"},"modified":"2023-12-06T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:16:38","slug":"times-most-disputed-person-of-the-year-winners-from-adolf-hitler-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/celebrities\/times-most-disputed-person-of-the-year-winners-from-adolf-hitler-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"TIMEs most disputed person of the year winners – from Adolf Hitler to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump to Barbie and Taylor Swift, TIME Magazine has certainly had a colorful past of nominees and winners of its annual Person Of The Year.<\/p>\n

The past winners have often been controversial and, in some cases, sparked widespread public outcry.<\/p>\n

This year’s nominees include the likes of Taylor Swift, Barbie, King Charles III to Hollywood Strikers, Vladimir Putin and Trump prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The winner announcement for 2023’s honour is lurking around the corner so with that in mind The Daily Express has decided to look back at some of the magazine’s most controversial winners.<\/p>\n

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Adolf Hitler<\/h2>\n

In 1938 Adolf Hitler landed himself TIME’s Person Of The Year – despite his prolific World War II history.<\/p>\n

Arguably the most shocking winner, the magazine justified their choice, explaining: “Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today.”<\/p>\n

The Nazi leader’s aggression in Europe in the late 1930s shocked the region and the wider world, which was still weary from World War I.<\/p>\n

In 1938, European leaders sought to appease Hitler as he pushed the region toward another major conflict by allowing him to annex the Sudetenland, a region in what was then Czechoslovakia – he had already annexed Austria earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

The efforts to quell Hitler’s imperialistic ambitions ultimately failed, and he launched World War II with Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939.<\/p>\n

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Joseph Stalin<\/h2>\n

Another controversial winner was the brutal Joseph Stalin, who was honoured as Time’s Person of the Year in both 1939 and 1942.<\/p>\n

The Soviet leader is often remembered as one of the most ruthless authoritarians in history.<\/p>\n

Stalin was an influential figure of the era between his brutal, bloody rise to power in Russia as well as his central role in defeating the Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n

“The year 1942 was a year of blood and strength,” Time said of Stalin in early 1943, further adding: “The man whose name means steel in Russian, whose few words of English include the American expression ‘tough guy’ was the man of 1942.”<\/p>\n

The latter half of 1942 and the early part of 1943 was a major turning point in the war due to the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad.<\/p>\n

Many historians consider it to be the greatest battle of infamous World War II, as it stopped the German advance on the Eastern front and changed the entire outlook of the war for the Allies.<\/p>\n