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I too am always baffled about how much more accepted communist imagery is than Nazi imagery. Mao and Stalins death counts far outstrip Hitlers. Also anyone advo
by lacampbell 10y ago
I too am always baffled about how much more accepted communist imagery is than Nazi imagery. Mao and Stalins death counts far outstrip Hitlers. Also anyone advocating nazism in public would be rightly shouted down but you get heavily upvoted posts here advocating all sorts of nonsense proven to kill millions.
- giggles_giggles 10y agoEverybody read Elie Weisel's Night in school but almost nobody's heard of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, for one thing..
- vidarh 10y agoI have never seen anyone here advocating "all sorts of nonsense proven to kill millions" without getting shouted down for it. I would love to see examples (well, not love, but you get the point). I have seen people here advocating anti-authoritarian socialist ideologies of the types that would get you executed by regimes like those of Mao and Stalin.
- namlem 10y agoCommunist death tolls are mostly due to economic mismanagement, whereas the Nazis were intentionally exterminating people. Obviously many people were killed in the gulags, but that number is far smaller than the numbers killed in Nazi death camps or in the famines which resulted from the aforementioned mismanagement.
- bonzini 10y agoSome of the mismanagement however was intentional (for example in Ukraine) and/or enforced to a criminal extent (thinking of China here). People died of starvation because their harvest was taken away in its entirety.
- lacampbell 10y agoDown-voted for talking truth about the largest mass murders of the 20th century. Kind of makes you not want to be here, doesn't it?
- bonzini 10y agoOh well. And I am myself European socialdemocratic, which should be just a little bit short of bolshevik for the American POV. :)
- kofejnik 10y agothis is simply not true, please read up on Holodomor, forced Chechen relocation, etc. Stalin was pretty much as evil as Hitler.
- lacampbell 10y agoFYI Holocaust revisionists make similar arguments.