[golux]

I am a Jew, and I maintain evil sprouts the moment one deprives a man of open, public due process. No communist or fascist regime has ever been able to survive without a secret police: there is the key similarity.

[Kalamata]

I agree, even though I don’t know what “maintain evil sprouts” actually means.

[dfwgator]

And of course Stalin was no fan of Jews neither. I still think he let Hitler go into the areas of the Soviet Union where most of the Jews lived, knowing Hitler would take care of his ‘Jewish Problem’ for him.

[Gay State Conservative]

No communist or fascist regime has ever been able to survive without a secret police: there is the key similarity.

One thing I learned fairly recently...much to my surprise...is that Simon Weisental (the famous Nazi hunter and camp survivor) was once quoted as saying that the Stasi was worse than the Gestapo.

Pretty strong stuff,IMO...even if the Stasi was only equally psychopathic.

[familyop]

"...I maintain evil sprouts the moment one deprives a man of open, public due process. No communist or fascist regime has ever been able to survive without a secret police: there is the key similarity."

Great point and very much agreed! That should be much more widely known.