Stalin's victims!

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I always wonder! What about all of Stalin's victims? Indeed, if it were so very wrong and evil of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis to exterminate all the millions they did, why--pray tell-- was it not also wrong and evil for Joseph Stalin and his Commies to exterminate all the millions they did? I never quite understood that.

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It is interesting how so many people gloss over this historical fact...
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was it not also wrong and evil for Joseph Stalin and his Commies to exterminate all the millions they did?

The impression you have that there is a implicit acceptance of Stalin in contrast to the condemnation of Hitler is correct. However, your impression is not formed by an accurate reflection of what people generally think. It is formed by the various media channels we are all exposed to.

Media bias in nothing new. The reason WWII was a “good” war but Korea and Viet Nam were “bad” wars was because in WWII we were helping communism (the Soviet Union) and in Korea and Viet Nam we were fighting against communism.

To understand this pervasive and widespread favorable view of communism (in all its forms), it can help to see the influence of universities from the progressive era through the present time. They have served to shift the established religion in the United States from Christianity to the religion of secularism (the worship of man in general and self in particular).

One can understand the anxiety created by surrendering a view of the world that has God providentially taking care of us to a view that everything in the universe is random and chaotic. In essence the person who has lost a faith in God sees in a potentially dangerous universe the need for one. And seeing himself as the only one available for the job, seeks to collectivize his neighbors so that an illusion of control can be achieved to alleviate his anxiety.

Communism, socialism, or collectivism of any kind is essential to creating and sustaining a view that man is in control of his environment. It is rather ironic that National “Socialism” was targeted as the great evil when other collectivist enterprises (like Mao and Stalin) have equally or greater crimes.

However reputations are establish by those who control the channels of information. These channels do not serve truth. Truth is an absolute that eventually points to God. Relativism is essential to sustain the construct that man is capable of and presently running the universe.

The reason that you have the impression that people are favorably inclined to Stalin while dis-favorably inclined to Hitler is that it reflects the desires and perspectives of those who have rejected the construct of God in favor of the construct of man. Things like truth, consistency, and accuracy are all considered variable (relative) to the larger purpose of advancing collectivism.

Here is another interesting subject for consideration. Many conservatives are wedded to the idea that capitalism is the opposite of communism. They see capitalism as equal to the concept of the free market. One might ask if capitalism (the formation of an economic collective) might not be better seen as a collective enterprise whose interests are hindered by a free market and eventually will grow in size to manipulate, control, and achieve merger with other collective enterprises such as government.

Godammit—Stalin and Hitler were the same animal—genocidal maniacs.

No reputable historian would dispute that.

Hitler was placed in the forefront because we needed the USSR as an ally during the Second World War. Stalin’s atrocities were placed in the background. A most unfortunate mistake.

But to make Hitler “less” of a genocidal maniac because he killed 20 million people, rather than 30 million people,is a notion which is ridiculous beyond words.

That's the ideal of Communism: Egalitarianism. Sort of the "end-stage" of a Marxist-like process.

Alas, "pure" Communism can never happen.

The nature of all living creatures, not just man, is for there to be "somebody above somebody else.'

America never won against any Communist country. They defeated the Nazis, and other Fascists, but they never defeated Communism. Mind you, The Soviet Union fell apart on its own. More interestingly, The People's Republic of China, supposedly Communist, is supplying America, and the rest of the West, with cheap goods.

Once one realizes just how much the Soviet Union, of Stalin, resembled the Third Reich, of Hitler, one comes to the firm realization that the nostalgia, for The Second World War, exhibited by "Americans" is more than a bit of a sick joke. They only destroyed one of Europe's most infamous tyrannies, namely Nazi Germany, to make life easier for the other of Europe's most infamous tyrannies, namely Commie Russia.

"History is bunk." [henry ford]