Sorta like justifying the interning 0f 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps. While not to the level of Soviet brutality, the basic principal is the same
Yes it was bad.
There were reparations and acknowledgment...sometimes property was returned. I know a descendant of Japanese internment victims, and he is one of the most patriotic Americans I know...maybe because he too has spent time in the former Soviet Union. (For an art project.)
Regardless, it was evil.
I think what you do is a bit tasteless.
See how it goes.
Soviet regime murdered over ten million innocents and sent many more to Siberian slave camps - but we must not forget the Japanese internment
Chinese government slaughtered 10,000 people in Tiananmen Square - but we must not forget that National Guard killed 4 in Kent State riots
Holocaust was a terrible thing - but we must not forget that a baker refused to bake a cake for some lesbians
It concerns me when a FReeper conflates the WW2 internment of Japanese and Japanese citizens with foreign death camps where folks were sent explicitly to die, or meant to die en rote.
There is no comparison between the two, except for the fence.