Posted on 09/26/2017 9:05:33 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
When people describe particularly evil individuals or regimes, why is it that they use the terms “Nazi” or “fascist,” but almost never “communist?” Given the unparalleled amount of human suffering communists have caused, why is “communist” so much less a term of revulsion than “Nazi?”
Communists killed 70 million people in China, more than 20 million people in the Soviet Union (not including about 5 million Ukrainians) and almost one out of every three Cambodians. They enslaved entire nations in Russia, Vietnam, China, Eastern Europe, North Korea, Cuba and much of Central Asia. They took or ruined the lives of well over a billion people. So why doesn’t communism have the same terrible reputation as Nazism?
Reason Number 1: There is, simply put, widespread ignorance of the communist record. Whereas both right and left loathe Nazism and teach its evil history, the left – and I’m talking about the left, not traditional liberals like Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy – has never loathed communism. And since the left dominates academia, almost no one teaches communism’s evil history.
Reason Number 2: Nazis carried out the Holocaust. Nothing matches the Holocaust for pure evil. The rounding up of virtually every Jewish man, woman, child and baby on the European continent and sending them to die is unprecedented and unparalleled. Communists killed far more people than the Nazis, but never matched the Holocaust in the systemization of genocide. The uniqueness of the Holocaust and the enormous attention rightly paid to it has helped ensure that Nazism has a worse name than communism.
Reason Number 3: Communism is based on nice sounding theories; Nazism isn’t. It’s based on heinous sounding theories. Intellectuals in general – including, of course, the intellectuals who write history...
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I suspect ignorance elevated to stupidity is the reason.
Because people who lived under Soviet communism are unhappy, while Europeans who lived under pre-war fascism were not.
It is no accident that “fascism” is the Left’s greatest worry. Liberal democracy is no threat to their long-term goals.
How interesting. I heard of that just last week in actual office discussion.
I like Grabthar’s Hammer better, RIP Alan Rickman.
Better PR.
Start with Ukraine for graphics....
There was indeed something extra heinous about Hitler’s obsession with the Jews.
Still how often do we get movies about the Georgian mass starvation? One reason is liberals, like the NYT, were lying about what was going on in Georgia. These lies, like all other leftist lies (DDT, global warming, McCarthy) are virtually unbreakable. We even have Verona papers now that confirm so many things about Russian and American communists, but the old narratives still stands.
Liberals don't oppose Nazis for being totalitarian mass murderers. They oppose Nazis for being racist. Murder doesn't figure as a crime in Leftist ideology, racism does.
Maoists, the Viet Cong, and the Khmer Rouge are acceptable to the American Left because their mass murders were not racially motivated. American liberals used to feel the same way about Stalin, but he's fallen out of the favor with the American Left because some of his acts of genocide were ethnically rather than just ideologically motivated.
Essentially, the Left forgives mass murder as long as it's driven by ideological class hatred rather than by "racism" (at least when that racism is practiced by whites against non-whites, when it's the reverse, Leftists are all in favor or racially motivated mass murder).
Franco was not a saint, but a hell of lot better alternative than the leftists, who were essentially anti-traditionalists, who hated the Church.
But there’s WAY more out there on Nazism
Larry Grathwohl: Bill Ayers Planned to Kill 25 Million Americans in Re-Education Camps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4EHISQ6Uw
“Liberalism is Communism served by the drink.” — P.J. O’Rourke
More importantly, we don’t see how death was in the gulags.
Anti-Fascist, Trump protesters applaud speech comprised entirely of Hitler quotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=qNMAp8kXWrc
There are so many WWII movies I lose track of them, but there was one recently which revolved around the Soviet massacre of Ukrainian officers. The theme is how the Allies helped hide that atrocity since Russian was their ally. So maybe things are changing?
NYT liked the Nazis until Operation Barbarossa.
And what about the Russian pogroms. They were not saints, and part of the first wave of Jews to Palestine.
Generally true but I have seen documentaries and spoken to some Germans and it is rather spooky this trend now to moral relativism. There still are sons for instance who say their Nazis fathers had no choice in what they did. A few Germans I have known even morally equate Dresden to whatever the Nazis did to the Allies. As though they are building up an argument that both sides were in the wrong.
The Nazis murdered people because they were Jews and many other 'untermenschen' types. If you knew you were going to be targeted, you at least had a fighting chance to escape.
The communists (in the USSR per Solzhenitsyn) murdered people to fill quotas.
“Because commies have better PR.”
They own the media by and large.
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