You can’t buy a Confederate flag shirt on Amazon. But you can buy a Stalin shirt. Funny thing, that.
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I know from 14 years ago, but the modern American left will never give up stalin as a hero.
“One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic”
That’s how out of touch with reality the left is.
Genocide Olympics.
Gold: Mao Zedong
Silver: Josef Stalin
Bronze: tie - Adolf Hitler, Showa (aka Hirohito)
Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. That’s not what Stalin did. He was simply murdering everyone & anyone that was a problem to him & his gov’t.
“Mass murder” doesn’t seem up to describing what Stalin did. But “genocide” isn’t really appropriate, either.
Stalin killed many more than Hitler.
But the greatest modern-day murderer is Chairman Mao. I’ve heard hundreds of thousands died at his hand.
You can’t buy a Confederate flag shirt on Amazon. But you can buy a Stalin shirt. Funny thing, that.
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Some folks here need to get their history straight Stalin killed more than Hitler and Chairman Mao killed more than both Stalin and Hitler combined.
I get the impression some people want you to believe that Vladimir Putin is some evil guy who killed billions.
Take away the value of man as God made them, and mass death becomes equal to buying a loaf of bread.
The intelligencia in the 40s/50s, before he kicked the bucket, referred to him lovingly as “Uncle Joe” and wouldn’t believe all the stories coming out of the Soviet Union about how he was mass murdering those within their borders.
Don’t forget Pol Pot. He murdered a couple million folks.
Just the Ukranians and the Kazhaks. Everyone else was a freebie.
Compared to Stalin and Mao (and for percentage, Pol Pot), Hitler was small-time. But he was a National Socialist not a communist, so communists in Big Media, Big Entertainment, and Big Education vilify Hitler, while covering and making excuses for various communists.
What a wonderful article!
A skeptic might believe it was written by Historian Norman Naimark so that he, and the astute Stanford University, could make all the Rules about, and control the discussion of, Murder and the suggested punishment (or reward) for it.
Screw Stanford, and the Virtue Signal for more Donations and DEI Payola.
That's the problem with the question. Part or all? Does genocide mean exterminating or intending to exterminate a whole people, or does it mean killing people based on race, religion or ethnicity?
To the extent that Stalin's killings were directed against specific groups or affected specific groups more than others, they were genocidal, but for some people they weren't truly genocide, because groups weren't entirely or substantially eliminated. Another question is whether genocide is worse than other forms of mass murder.
Some of it, yep. Historically Russia killed off a lot of indigenous peoples during its expansions.
It reads like both the author od the book and the review believe Stalin was at least Hitler’s equal. There is no iota of forgiveness here. There’s no Walter Duranty.
“Professor” definition:
Many modern professors fulfill the definition of “What are clueless individuals?”
Another Standford professor of greater renown - Robert Conquest - wrote the definitive book on Stalin’s genocide.
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