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I was referring more to barring civilians from leaving the city, and shooting at children.
There's a long and terrible tradition of western media refusing to expose Stalin's crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
There's a long and terrible tradition of western media regarding Stalin as literally worse than Hitler.
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There's a long and terrible tradition of western media refusing to expose Stalin's crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
?????? There's a long and terrible tradition of western media regarding Stalin as literally worse than Hitler.
"For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that, when a Hitler comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law."
Recently I've been reading Vasily Grossman's A Writer At War , which is a collection of his journals from the Eastern Front, and the depths of Stalin's brutality are staggering. In the Battle of Stalingrad he forbade that any citizens flee the city since he thought it would motivate the troops, and special battalions were set up behind the front line to shoot any who retreated. In the battle itself Soviet snipers tar…
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I was referring more to barring civilians from leaving the city, and shooting at children.
There's a long and terrible tradition of western media refusing to expose Stalin's crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
If you read carefull the trial in Nuernberg, Germany was not punished at all and they were worse.
For me he showd disrespect for his comrades. The battle of Kursk had much more casualties that it needed to be. The same happens for the war in total. He was completely incapable to be a leader. Useless and he did not care for his country. He also demonized communism and was in reality a dictator that pulled the right strings to become leader of a party (exactly what happens with leaders usually). He was also a racist and mass exterminated people. If he was different may the bloodshed of WWII would be prevented.
But the same was Pinochet and the western media covered all his crimes.
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I was referring more to barring civilians from leaving the city, and shooting at children.
There's a long and terrible tradition of western media refusing to expose Stalin's crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
Earlier quoted context omitted.
?????? There's a long and terrible tradition of western media regarding Stalin as literally worse than Hitler.
FYI: "For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that, when a Hitler comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Godwin's Law applies to ad hominem attacks, not to historical commentary.
Don't you feel silly now?
I had no idea the forced Ukrainian Famines killed more than the holocaust...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
10's of millions starved to death.