I'm right in the middle of reading Martin Amis' "Koba the Dread." He raises the interesting point that most people feel a viscerally different reaction to the c

I'm right in the middle of reading Martin Amis' "Koba the Dread." He raises the interesting point that most people feel a viscerally different reaction to the crimes of Hitler ("Little Moustache") than they do to those of Stalin ("Big Moustache"), even though even by conservative reckoning Josif gave Adolf a run for the money in terms of numbers killed. As someone who is politically more lefty than righty this hit home. (Amis himself acknowledges the same cognitive dissonance.)