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Well, both are dictators responsible for the death of millions of people for political and ethnic reasons. They are perfectly comparable. http://www.nybooks.c

by palunon 10y ago

Well, both are dictators responsible for the death of millions of people for political and ethnic reasons. They are perfectly comparable. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/hitler-vs-stalin-who-killed-more/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/hitler-vs-stalin-... http://historyofrussia.org/stalin-killed-how-many-people/ http://historyofrussia.org/stalin-killed-how-many-people/

usaphp 10y ago
The second link that you posting is complete nonsense, it gives an estimate from 1.2 million to 20 million... that's ridiculous estimate, like poking into sky. And then they use the higher end of scale to compare it to other dictators. Stalin was in power for around 25 years, saying that he killed 20 million people during that time, it means he was killing about a million every year, or 3000 people every day, how is it even possible for a single person to order killing of so many people on daily basis?
- GauntletWizard 10y ago
  The same way Hitler did it - Massive bureaucracy, declaring large swaths as non-persons. Much of it was done indirectly - The upper bounds of those numbers attribute certain large famines as being politically motivated or blame Stalin for deaths caused by mismanagement, but even conservatively, he ordered millions of people forcibly resettled into areas that were not productive, and then failed to feed them. He sent hundreds of thousands to prisons in Siberia for political crimes - Not personally, but by setting up the system so that those were crimes and the whims of his secret police were followed. Hitler never killed anyone - If you're talking about holding the gun. Hilter still had blood on his hands, and Stalin had more.
- lostlogin 10y ago
  Through devastating policy causing starvation which was part of a broader picture of genocide. By running gulags which basically worked inmates to death and through assassinations and murder. The information isn't hard to find, but the book reviewed below is a great history. www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/20/biography.features
sangnoir 10y ago
> Well, both are dictators responsible for the death of millions of people for political and ethnic reasons. I guess that's Hitler, Stalin and Churchill[1] then. 1. The Bengal famine claimed between 1.5-4m lives

by palunon 10y ago

usaphp 10y ago

The second link that you posting is complete nonsense, it gives an estimate from 1.2 million to 20 million... that's ridiculous estimate, like poking into sky. And then they use the higher end of scale to compare it to other dictators. Stalin was in power for around 25 years, saying that he killed 20 million people during that time, it means he was killing about a million every year, or 3000 people every day, how is it even possible for a single person to order killing of so many people on daily basis?

GauntletWizard 10y ago
The same way Hitler did it - Massive bureaucracy, declaring large swaths as non-persons. Much of it was done indirectly - The upper bounds of those numbers attribute certain large famines as being politically motivated or blame Stalin for deaths caused by mismanagement, but even conservatively, he ordered millions of people forcibly resettled into areas that were not productive, and then failed to feed them. He sent hundreds of thousands to prisons in Siberia for political crimes - Not personally, but by setting up the system so that those were crimes and the whims of his secret police were followed. Hitler never killed anyone - If you're talking about holding the gun. Hilter still had blood on his hands, and Stalin had more.
lostlogin 10y ago
Through devastating policy causing starvation which was part of a broader picture of genocide. By running gulags which basically worked inmates to death and through assassinations and murder. The information isn't hard to find, but the book reviewed below is a great history. www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/20/biography.features

sangnoir 10y ago

> Well, both are dictators responsible for the death of millions of people for political and ethnic reasons. I guess that's Hitler, Stalin and Churchill[1] then. 1. The Bengal famine claimed between 1.5-4m lives