Red washing

[d000hg]

Killing people is killing people.

Killing people is killing people, but nothing is as bad as mild racism in your teens.

[xoggoth]

Killing people is killing people.

[OwlHoot]

Always think it's rather odd that Hitler is rightly reviled but people are still allowed to idolise Stalin and Mao Zedong who were responsible for far more deaths.

The main difference I can see is the Hitler killed more people solely because of who they were (besides the millions of German servicemen killed in WW2), whereas the other two mostly killed those who they thought might hamper their political and economic objectives.

Seems to me the various non-political groups Hitler had a problem with, Jews, Gays, Gypsies, Freemasons mostly had one thing in common, or were perceived to at the time: They were all in varying degrees somewhat closed to outsiders, and Adolph evidently had a pathological aversion to being an outsider, and thus hated groups of people who made him feel so.

The same even accounts for his invasions of other countries: Germany, and him as its leader, was an outsider to them and he wanted to be in them running the show!

[vetran]

Always think it's rather odd that Hitler is rightly reviled but people are still allowed to idolise Stalin and Mao Zedong who were responsible for far more deaths.

Odd indeed - you have Alexander the great and Genghis Khan both captured vast swathes of the world but Khan was infinitely nastier about it. I don't see them as equivalent to each other.

Hitler, Stalin & Mao were horrific dictators who revelled in creating suffering.

[xoggoth]

Always think it's rather odd that Hitler is rightly reviled but people are still allowed to idolise Stalin and Mao Zedong who were responsible for far more deaths.

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ets-Nazis.html

hah ha the nerve of the man!

Putin makes it illegal to compare the Soviets to the Nazis: Russia's 'humanitarian mission' in liberating Europe must be recognised - despite Stalin's bloody tyranny that saw millions killed

• Putin signed the bill last night which bans the publication of material which draws parallels between the 'aims and decisions' of Stalin and Hitler
• The Kremlin has used World War Two as a pillar to unite a society that Putin has said lost its moral bearings following the 1991 Soviet collapse
• Putin's uncompromising view whitewashes Stalin's tyranny, his early alliance with Hitler in the carving up of Poland and genocidal terror of the Great Purge