Posted on 05/07/2005 3:20:28 PM PDT by neverdem
I am not a big defender of FDR, but I know of no better way to defeat Nazi Germany than to keep the Soviets in the game, just as keeping the Nationalist Chinese fighting was important to the defeat of Japan.
Of the Mass Murderers of all time:
1. Stalin: 50 million
2. Hitler: 30 million
3. Mao tse-Tung: 20 Million
4. Chang kai-Chek: 15 Million
Poor China, having 2 of the top 4.
The 50 million to be killed by Stalin would be sooo relieved to know that their dead bodies would not be turned into lamp shades and -- soap.
Too bad he continues to move us toward communism with steps closer toward socialized medicalcare, nationalized education and a national ID...
A large number of the Polish who made it to the West were hired as "Labor Service Battalions". Several generations of them served as guards for US munitions, depots, and barracks. They were amazingly cheerful and delightful people, though their songs were largely in minor keys.
The Poles were designated for near extinction and to be turned into human cattle for their Nazi masters. Your neo-nazi revisionism does not hold water.
And yes - the Nazis killed hundreds of thousands of "officer-intelectual class" peoples in the nations they ruled.
Well, I will concur with you that neither Hitler nor Stalin is worth defending.
Now, Bush throws a mud pie at Putin and it lands squarely in his face.
From: Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
The Black Book of Communism (in my opinion the best scholarly work on the subject) seems to vote for Hitler as the answer to the question of who's worse, Hitler (25M) or Stalin (20M).
Also, remember Hitler ruled for a shorter period of time thus making the Hitler directed death toll much worse.
From: Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
The Black Book of Communism (in my opinion the best scholarly work on the subject) seems to vote for Hitler as the answer to the question of who's worse, Hitler (25M) or Stalin (20M).
Also, remember Hitler ruled for a shorter period of time thus making the Hitler directed death toll much worse.
The thesis of the book is about the wholesale blackout on Communist Crimes. And so the title.
Why such a deafening silence from the academic world regarding the Communist catastrophe, which touched the lives of about one-third of humanity on four continents during a period spanning eighty years? Why is there usch widespread reluctance to make such a crucial factor as crime--mass crime, systematic crime, and crime against humanity-- a central factor of analysis of Communism?The fact of the matter is that with this statement Bush has denied the pretense of journalism that this intellectual warfare is past.Is this really something that is beyond human understanding? Or are we talking about a refusal to scrutinize the subject too closely for fear of learning the truth about it? [such as, "Time and again the focus of terror was less on targeted individuals than on groups of people."]
The reasons for this reticence are many and various. First, there is the dictator's understandable urge to erase their crimes and to justify the actions they cannot hide . . .
. . . Not satisified with the concealment of their misdeeds, the tyrants systematically attacked all who dared to expose their crimes and victims grew reluctant to speak out . . .
As is usually the case, a lie is not, strictly speaking, the opposite of the truth, and a lie will generally contain an element of truth. Perverted words are situated in a twisted vision that distorts the landscape . . . Like martial artists, thanks to their incomparable propaganda strength grounded in the subversion of language, successfully turned the tables on the criticism leveled against their terrorist tactics . . . Thus they held fast to their fundamental principle of ideological belief, as formulated by Tertullian for his own era: "I believe, because it is absurd."
Like prostitutes, intellectuals found themselves inveigled into counterpropaganda operations . . . confronted with this onslaught of Communist propaganda, the West has long labored under an extraordinary self-deception, simultaneously fueled by naivete in the face of a particularly devious system, by the fear of Soviet power, and by the cynicism of politicians . . . this self-deception was a source of comfort . . .
there are three more specific reasons for the cover-up of the criminal aspects of Communism. The first is the fascination with the whole notion of revolution itself . . . Openly revolutionary groups are active and enjoy every legal right to state their views . . .
The second reason is the participation of the Soviet Union in the victory over Nazism . . .
The final reason . . . the Communists soon grasped the benefits involved in immortalizing the Holocaust.
--Stephaen Courtois, "Introduction" The Black Book of Communism
I agree, we should stop the war in Iraq, lets kill all the insurgents and come home.
President Reagan had it right when he decribed the USSR as the Evil Empire, and President Bush is right to remind the world that the USSR was evil. Brutal dictatorships such as the Soviet Union, Nazi (National SOCIALIST) Germany, Communist China, and Saddam Hussein's (Baathist Socialist) Iraq have many things in common. To give one example, they all would not allow their people to keep and bear arms, since then the people could resist tyranny. But the liberals in the U.S. would like the Second Amendment to be repealed, showing once again their total ignorance of history (or perhaps their hidden agenda?).
A major blow to the usual suspects.
I was never more proud of our President.
I wish more people would read it and be more accurate with their facts.
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