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"Stalin was an Atheist, but he did not kill anyone. His followers did. To me, that makes him a religious leader. Atheists are just as religious as any other belief system. They just refuse to recognize that."

Legally there is not much difference between the actual killing and ordering it done. In "murder for hire" the one who origionates the kill order is prosecuted just as aggressively. Stalin ordered the starvation of millions in the Ukraine. Technically there is no homicide involved in starvation but by depriving an individual of food he is just as murdered passively as if you put a bullet into his head. The bullet is actually a kinder method of extermination...

Legally there is not much difference between the actual killing and ordering it done.

True, but we are still left with the people who carried out the desires of a madman.

Why will the people of a nation follow an obviously insane leader? It actually looks like world history is really the history of insanity!