Posted on 04/28/2015 10:31:29 AM PDT by Starman417
During an undergraduate Political Science class a few decades ago one of my professors discussed the difference between Stalin and Hitler. While both were indeed power hungry and responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, they were distinctly different in motivation.
Stalin, he suggested, was completely focused on power. He didn’t care how he got it or who he had to work with or betray in order to get it or keep it. If you were in his way, he would crush you and not think twice about it. If however you got out of his way and ceased to be a threat, he likely would not care.
Hitler, my professor opined, was another animal all together. While he too was focused on power, power was not his animating influence. The superiority of the Aryan race was. Like Stalin, he would work with those he didn’t respect, and he too would crush anyone who was in his way both enemies and erstwhile friends. But with Hitler there was something more. He wanted to eliminate or exterminate the “Untermensch” or those deemed subhuman. This group included Jews, gypsies and slavs among others. Some could be “Germanized” such as the slavs, while others, like the Jews, had to be exterminated. And in the case of the Jews, had Hitler been given the chance it’s likely he would have sought to exterminate them from every corner of the earth.
And that, according to my professor, was the difference between the two. Stalin wanted power for power’s sake, and so long as someone wasn’t a threat to him, he largely didn’t care. Hitler on the other hand wanted power because he felt it rightfully belonged to him and his race and because those he considered defective sullied the human race, and had to be eliminated, wherever they were. He was a fanatic to the cause.
All of this came back to me when I read a piece on RedState.com titled “Gaystapo Takes No Prisoners: GoFundMe Torpedoes Sweet Cakes” about the torpedoing of a GoFundMe account set up to support an Oregon couple persecuted by the state for not baking cakes for a gay wedding. Gaystapo is a term I’d never heard, but it immediately seemed to fit. Like Hitler’s Gestapo, the secret police who were above the law and responsible for eliminating threats to the Reich, the Gaystapo seems to believe their role is to eliminate what they consider threats to the gay agenda, wherever they may be.
Just as my professor suggested that Hitler would have sent his troops to the far corners of the earth to eliminate the Untermensch Jews, apparently the Gaystapo seek to eliminate the religious freedoms of any who disagree with them. Whether it’s bakers or photographers or pizza makers or chapels, those whose religious convictions compel them to decline to participate in gay marriage activities must be driven from the public square – even if the issue is purely hypothetical. They should be sued or harassed or prosecuted into oblivion, First Amendment be damned.
And we’re not even talking about people who refuse to serve gay customers, which most of the offending proprietors happily do, but rather, we are talking about people who simply decline to participate in gay marriage activities.
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Hillary is hoping that she will be selected to be the leader of the Gaystapo.
And then there were Mao and Po Pot.
You can't make friends with a cancer.
Historian H.R. Knickerbocker writes, "Roehm, as the head of 2,500,000 Storm Troops, had surrounded himself with a staff of perverts. His chiefs were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."
It’s true that, especially Hitler, few of the top Nazis were family men, with the possible exception of Goebbels.
The worst crime you could commit in the Soviet Union was to be more popular than Stalin.
The difference? Designer uniforms and what those bring with them.
If World War II was a fashion show, the Germans would have won.
Most of the SA Stormtroopers started out as Communist street brawlers, to them there really wasn’t much difference, it was more like a Bloods vs Crips thing. But the Nazis had the snappier uniforms and the better beer at their rallies.
The rest of my post also applies: “and what those bring with them,” That ‘what’ is force.
You didn't have to be more popular; even next most popular was a death sentence.
He was also suspicious of anyone from Leningrad, it was too big, and too far away from Moscow. He had many of the leaders of the defense of Leningrad executed after the war.
There actually was one big difference between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In the latter, if you were an apolitical non-jewish german, you could generally speaking go on with your life unmolested by the gestapo or SS. Not so in the USSR, where they routinely murdered their own citizens largely for kicks and paranoia. In fact in the USSR people refrained from carrying address books, because if you got arrested by the NKVD, anyone in that book was too.
IIRC, Stalin had potential rivals edited out of photographs to deny that they even existed. So not only would they kill you, they would edit you out of photographs and kill the person who doctored the photos if the edits didn’t look convincing enough.
Gaystopo and maybe GayKK best describes these new totalitarians.
Dude, Holodomor
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